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MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s market regulator proposed measures to contain extreme price movements in shares on which futures and options trade, including longer trading suspensions and restricting price movements. The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) proposed in a consultation paper late on Sunday that if a share in the futures and options segment falls or rises by 10% a day, trading would be suspended for an hour, up […]

HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) -Ukraine said on Sunday that it was still fighting for control of the eastern city of Bakhmut, after President Volodymyr Zelenskiy had said earlier that the city remained “only in our hearts.” Asked before a meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden in Japan if the city was still in Ukraine’s hands after the Russians said they had seized it in its entirety, Zelenskiy told reporters, “I think […]

HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) -Ukraine said on Sunday that it was still fighting for control of the eastern city of Bakhmut, after President Volodymyr Zelenskiy had said earlier that the city remained “only in our hearts.” Asked before a meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden in Japan if the city was still in Ukraine’s hands after the Russians said they had seized it in its entirety, Zelenskiy told reporters, “I think […]

By Amanda Ferguson BELFAST (Reuters) -Irish nationalists Sinn Fein followed up last year’s historic Northern Ireland Assembly victory by overtaking their unionist rivals by a wide margin in council elections on Saturday to become the biggest party at local level for the first time. It is the latest political milestone for the former political wing of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) who want to leave the United Kingdom and form […]

HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) – President Joe Biden announced a new package of military aid of up to $375 million to Ukraine on Sunday and told President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that the United States was doing all it could to strengthen Ukraine’s defense for the war with Russia. Biden, meeting with the Ukrainian leader on the sidelines of the G7 summit of world leaders in Japan, said the military aid package included […]

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday congratulated the Wagner mercenary force and the Russian army for what he called the “liberation” of the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, which Russia calls by its Soviet-era name of Artyomovsk. In a statement published on the Kremlin website, Putin said that the battle – the longest and bloodiest of the 15-month war – had ended in a Russian victory, and […]

By Sybille de La Hamaide PARIS (Reuters) – Governments should consider vaccinating birds against bird flu to avoid the virus – which has already killed hundreds of millions of birds and infected mammals worldwide – turning into a new pandemic, the head of the World Animal Health Organisation (WOAH) said. The severity of the current outbreak of avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, and the economic and personal damage it […]

TOKYO (Reuters) – Canada will support Ukraine for as long and as much as necessary in its conflict with Russia, including the training of Ukrainian soldiers and possibly pilots, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Sunday. Trudeau, who said he conveyed his backing to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy during the Group of Seven (G7) leaders’ summit taking place in Hiroshima, told reporters at a news conference “we’re always looking to […]

HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) – President Joe Biden announced a new package of military aid of up to $375 million to Ukraine on Sunday and told President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that the United States was doing all it could to strengthen Ukraine’s defense for the war with Russia. Biden, meeting with the Ukrainian leader on the sidelines of the G7 summit of world leaders in Japan, said the military aid package included […]