(Reuters) – Russian energy giant Gazprom said on Tuesday it has fully cut off gas supplies to Dutch gas trader GasTerra after it had failed to make payments for gas delivered in April, making good on its promise to shut down deliveries over payment iss…
Ukraine’s ‘unicorn’ LGBTQ soldiers head for war
By Horaci Garcia KYIV (Reuters) – As volunteer fighters Oleksandr Zhuhan and Antonina Romanova pack for a return to active duty, they contemplate the unicorn insignia that gives their uniform a rare distinction – a symbol of their status as an LGBTQ co…
Bitcoin surges nearly 8% to $31,780
(Reuters) – Bitcoin rose 7.93 % to $31,780.51 at 2200 GMT on Monday, up $2,334.8 from its previous close. The world’s biggest and best-known cryptocurrency is up 25.1% from the year’s low of $25,401.05 on May 12. Ether, the coin linked to the ethereum …
Canada introduces law to freeze handgun sales, ban look-alike toys
By Ismail Shakil and Anna Mehler Paperny OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canada’s government introduced legislation Monday to implement a “national freeze” on the sale and purchase of handguns as part of a gun control package that would also limit magazine capacitie…
NATO’s support for Ukraine is unbreakable, Spanish PM Sanchez says
MADRID (Reuters) -NATO’s support for Ukraine is unbreakable and Russian President Vladimir Putin will not achieve his objectives in the country his forces invaded on Feb. 24, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Monday. The war in Ukraine and t…
Bavarian Nordic raises 2022 annual guidance again after monkeypox vaccine deals
(Reuters) – Danish biotechnology company Bavarian Nordic revised its annual guidance on Monday for a second time after signing supply contracts with several undisclosed countries for its Imvanex monkeypox vaccine. Bavarian Nordic said vaccine deliverie…
Exclusive: Credit Suisse weighs options to strengthen capital – sources
By Oliver Hirt ZURICH (Reuters) – Credit Suisse is in the early stages of weighing options to bolster its capital after a string of losses have eroded its financial buffers, two people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters. The size of the increase…
Erdogan tells Zelenskiy he values project to create sea route for agriculture exports
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskiy in a call on Monday that he placed value on a project to create a safe sea route for exporting Ukrainian agricultural goods, his office said. “Erdoga…
Turkey tells U.S. it wants ‘concrete steps’ from Finland, Sweden for NATO bids
ANKARA (Reuters) – A chief adviser to Turkey’s president told his U.S. counterpart that Turkey wanted “concrete steps” on the existence of what it calls “terrorist organisations” in Finland and Sweden before it would consider their NATO bids, the Turki…
Yeltsin’s son-in-law quits as Putin advisor: sources
LONDON (Reuters) – Valentin Yumashev, the son-in-law of former Russian leader Boris Yeltsin who helped Vladimir Putin come to power, has quit his role as a Kremlin advisor, two people familiar with Yumashev’s thinking told Reuters. Yumashev was an unpa…