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LONDON, April 30 (Reuters) – Canada is set to host a proposed mulitlateral defence bank designed to help fund the rearmament of nations facing heightened geopolitical risks, the country’s finance ministry said in a statement late on Wednesday. The statement said Canada had been working in Montreal with allies to agree a founding charter for the planned Defence, Security and Resilience Bank (DSRB). The other countries were not identified. The DSRB […]

TAIPEI, April 30 (Reuters) – The CEO of MediaTek, Taiwan’s top chip design company, on Thursday said he has no doubts about the strength of the artificial intelligence wave, adding that demand for data centres is accelerating. Taiwanese tech companies like MediaTek and TSMC, the world’s largest contract chipmaker, have reported surging business thanks to the AI boom, despite recent worries among market participants that tech firms’ breakneck spending would […]

TEL AVIV, April 30 (Reuters) – A vessel carrying grain that Ukraine says was stolen by Russia will not unload in Israel, Israeli media reported on Thursday, after Kyiv requested Israel to seize the cargo. The Jerusalem Post and other outlets cited a statement from Israel’s Grain Importers Association saying that the company importing the grain had been forced to turn away the vessel. Zenziper, the company reportedly importing the […]

DHAKA, April 30 (Reuters) – Bangladesh is set to sign a deal on Thursday to buy 14 aircraft from U.S. planemaker Boeing, officials said, a move that marks a shift away from Europe’s Airbus amid trade pressure from Washington. Officials did not disclose the value of the deal, which will provide a mix of narrow-body and wide-body aircraft to Biman Bangladesh Airlines as the national carrier looks to modernise its […]

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A French teen is facing mischief and public nuisance charges in Singapore after posting a video on social media of himself licking a straw from an orange juice vending machine and then putting it back. Didier Gaspard Owen Maximilien, 18, was charged April 24 and hasn’t entered a plea, the city-state’s largest English-language newspaper, The Straits Times, said. He allegedly committed the offense at a […]

By Emma Rumney LONDON, April 30 (Reuters) – Remy Cointreau reported positive annual sales on Thursday for the first time since 2023 but still fell short of forecasts, undermining CEO Franck Marilly’s promise to start a “new era” for the French spirits maker this year. The maker of Remy Martin cognac and Cointreau liqueur reported 0.2% organic growth in annual sales, narrowly avoiding a third consecutive annual decline but slightly […]

BEIJING, April 30 (Reuters) – China’s military said on Thursday its naval and air forces conducted combat readiness patrols in the Scarborough Shoal and surrounding areas in the disputed South China Sea. “Such patrols serve as an effective countermeasure to cope with all sorts of rights-violation and provocative acts. They are meant to resolutely safeguard China’s territorial sovereignty and uphold peace and stability in the South China Sea,” Chinese military’s […]

By Christine Chen and Alasdair Pal SYDNEY, April 30 (Reuters) – Australian police said on Thursday they have found a body believed to be that of a missing five-year-old Indigenous girl and were searching for the man who allegedly murdered her. The girl, now referred to by her family as Kumanjayi Little Baby in line with Indigenous customs, was reported missing from her home in a remote community in central […]

By Dan Peleschuk KYIV, April 30 (Reuters) – Ukraine’s top general on Thursday ordered a mandatory two-month time limit for front-line troops serving in forward positions, aiming to address a key challenge for Kyiv’s outmanned military in the fifth year of war with Moscow. Oleksandr Syrskyi’s decree comes amid frequent and often harrowing reports of Ukrainian soldiers serving for months at a time under fire as they struggle to hold […]