By Amanda Ferguson BELFAST (Reuters) -Sinn Fein, the former political wing of the IRA, looked set to claim top spot in elections in British-controlled Northern Ireland for the first time on Friday, a historic shift that could bring the once-remote pros…
Germany to send seven howitzers to Ukraine in further policy reversal
SLIAC, Slovakia (Reuters) – Germany will deliver seven self-propelled howitzers to Ukraine, Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht said on Friday, in a further reversal of a longtime policy not to send heavy weapons to war zones due to the country’s Nazi…
Exclusive-Biden expected to sign new $100 million weapons package for Ukraine, officials say
By Idrees Ali, Patricia Zengerle and Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden is expected to sign a new weapons package worth at least $100 million for Ukraine as soon as later on Friday, four U.S. officials told Reuters, the latest in a s…
Rosatom’s unit seeks compensation from Finland’s Fennovoima
(Reuters) – Russia’s state-owned Rosatom’s unit said on Friday it will demand compensation from Finnish consortium Fennovoima for “unlawful termination” of contract for the delivery of a planned nuclear power plant in Finland. “We are extremely disappo…
DUP says won’t back new N.Ireland government without protocol progress
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party on Friday said it would not join a power-sharing government led by a Sinn Fein First Minister if the British government and European Union have not secured a breakthrough in post-Brexit tr…
UK’s Johnson urges caution over Russia in call to France’s Macron
LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Boris Johnson spoke to French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday, agreeing to work more closely on security while urging against any negotiations with Russia that played into its “false narrative” on the confli…
Wild swing roil markets as hawkish Fed unleashes volatility
By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK (Reuters) – Volatility has been the watchword for markets in the last several months, as worries over a hawkish Fed, sky-high commodity prices and geopolitical tensions stemming from the war in Ukraine roil asset prices. T…
Putin to send ‘doomsday’ warning to West at Russia’s WW2 victory parade
By Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin will send a “doomsday” warning to the West when he leads celebrations on Monday marking the 77th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany, brandishing Russia’s vast fir…
WTO meeting on COVID vaccine rights waiver went ‘very well’ -chair
By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -The first World Trade Organization meeting to discuss a draft agreement to temporarily waive intellectual property rights for COVID-19 vaccines went “very well”, its chair said on Friday, although some members voiced res…
Russia’s Sberbank building domestic cloud solutions as sanctions hamper smart devices
(Reuters) – Russia’s top lender Sberbank is developing fully domestic cloud infrastructure, it said on Friday, after reporting issues with some ‘smart home’ device functionality due to problems with its foreign cloud partner. The state-owned lender, wh…