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By Gloria Dickie LONDON (Reuters) – For the first time ever, global temperatures are now more likely than not to breach 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7F) of warming within the next five years, the World Meteorological Organization said on Wednesday. But that did not necessarily mean the world would cross the long-term warming threshold of 1.5C above preindustrial levels set out in the 2015 Paris Agreement. With a 66% chance of […]

ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey’s main opposition party said on Wednesday it had filed complaints over suspected irregularities at thousands of ballot boxes in Sunday’s landmark election, in which President Tayyip Erdogan performed better than expected. Muharrem Erkek, a deputy chairman of the secularist Republican People’s Party (CHP), said the irregularities at each ballot box ranged from one single wrongly counted vote to hundreds of such votes. He said the CHP […]

ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey’s main opposition party said on Wednesday it had filed complaints over suspected irregularities at thousands of ballot boxes in Sunday’s landmark election, in which President Tayyip Erdogan performed better than expected. Muharrem Erkek, a deputy chairman of the secularist Republican People’s Party (CHP), said the irregularities at each ballot box ranged from one single wrongly counted vote to hundreds of such votes. He said the CHP […]

(Reuters) -Hundreds of people, including Rohingya Muslims, were feared dead after a cyclone struck Myanmar at the weekend, residents and aid groups said on Tuesday, with rescue efforts hampered by damage to infrastructure. Myanmar’s impoverished Rakhine State bore the brunt of Cyclone Mocha, during which winds of up to 210 kph (130 mph) ripped roofs off homes and brought a storm surge that inundated the state capital Sittwe. The region […]

KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine denied on Wednesday that a Russian hypersonic missile had destroyed a U.S.-made Patriot missile defence system during an air strike on Kyiv. Russia’s defence ministry made the assertion on Tuesday after an overnight air attack on the Ukrainian capital. Two U.S. officials later said a Patriot system had probably suffered damage but that it did not appear to have been destroyed. “I want to say: do […]

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Euro zone inflation accelerated last month, Eurostat said on Wednesday, confirming preliminary data pointing to increasingly stubborn price growth among the 20 nations sharing the euro. Overall price growth accelerated to 7.0% in April from 6.9% a month earlier, as rising services and energy costs offset a slowdown in food price growth. Although underlying price growth, the key focus of European Central Bank policymakers in recent months, […]

PARIS (Reuters) – French former president Nicolas Sarkozy lost his appeal against a 2021 conviction for corruption and influence peddling at the Paris Court of Appeals on Wednesday, a decision his legal team said he would challenge. Known in France as the “wiretapping affair”, the courts found that Sarkozy had conspired to secure a plum job in Monaco for a judge in return for inside information about an inquiry into […]

By Trixie Yap and Florence Tan SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Finnish refiner Neste expects renewable fuels from its new facilities in Singapore and the U.S. to drive its growth this year despite expectations of lower oil product margins in the second quarter, its chief executive said on Wednesday. “The macroeconomic situation is something that is affecting many businesses,” Matti Lehmus said in an interview. “We, for example, also highlighted that in […]

PARIS (Reuters) – French former president Nicolas Sarkozy lost his appeal against a 2021 conviction for corruption and influence peddling at the Paris Court of Appeals on Wednesday, a decision his legal team said he would challenge. Known in France as the “wiretapping affair”, the courts found that Sarkozy had conspired to secure a plum job in Monaco for a judge in return for inside information about an inquiry into […]