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(Reuters) -Russia’s Defence Ministry said on Sunday that two of its military commanders were killed in eastern Ukraine, as Kyiv’s forces renewed efforts to break through Russian defences in the embattled city of Bakhmut. In a daily briefing, the ministry said that Commander Vyacheslav Makarov of the 4th Motorized Rifle Brigade and Deputy Commander Yevgeny Brovko from a separate unit were killed trying to repel Ukrainian attacks. It said that […]

By Panarat Thepgumpanat and Panu Wongcha-um BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thailand’s progressive opposition made early headway in a preliminary election vote count on Sunday, with a big lead opening up over conservative parties allied with a military at the heart of government for nearly a decade. The election commission’s running count showed the populist Pheu Thai Party, which together with its previous incarnations has won every election since 2001, out in front […]

(Reuters) -Russia’s Defence Ministry said on Sunday that two of its military commanders were killed in eastern Ukraine, as Kyiv’s forces renewed efforts to break through Russian defences in the embattled city of Bakhmut. In a daily briefing, the ministry said that Commander Vyacheslav Makarov of the 4th Motorized Rifle Brigade and Deputy Commander Yevgeny Brovko from a separate unit were killed trying to repel Ukrainian attacks. It said that […]

By Jorge Otaola and Maximilian Heath BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -Argentina’s government announced a package of measures to rein in soaring inflation and support the wobbly peso currency on Sunday, including rate adjustments, more interventions in the exchange market and expedited deals with creditors.     The measures include an interest rate hike by the central bank, the economy ministry said in a statement. The ministry did not elaborate, but an official […]

By Jorge Otaola and Maximilian Heath BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s government announced a package of measures to rein in soaring inflation and support the wobbly peso currency on Sunday, including rate adjustments, more interventions in the exchange market and expedited deals with creditors.     The measures include an interest rate hike from the country’s central bank, the economy ministry said in a statement. The ministry did not elaborate, but […]

WARSAW (Reuters) – The Polish government will increase monthly child benefit payments to 800 zlotys ($193.13) per child from 500 zlotys, taking effect from the start of 2024, the leader of the ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS), Jaroslaw Kaczynski, said on Sunday. The family support program called “Family 500 plus” is a flagship project of the ruling Law and Justice party, which was introduced in 2016. “… from the […]

By Amina Ismail ERBIL (Reuters) -One of the dominant Kurdish parties in northern Iraq on Sunday ended a more than half-year boycott of regional government cabinet meetings with its main coalition partner, easing tensions between factions that fought a civil war in the 1990s. The rifts had been a source of alarm to Western countries, and especially the United States, which has backed both parties, most recently in the fight […]

TORONTO (Reuters) – There may be more “Chinese police stations” operating in Canada, the Public Safety Minister told a Canadian TV station on Sunday, months after police said they were investigating whether two community centers in Montreal were being used to intimidate or harass Canadians of Chinese origin. “I am confident that the [Royal Canadian Mounted Police] have taken concrete action to disrupt any foreign interference in relationship to those […]

By Orhan Coskun and Can Sezer ANKARA (Reuters) -Turks voted on Sunday in one of the most consequential elections in the country’s 100-year history, a contest that could end President Tayyip Erdogan’s imperious 20-year rule and reverberate well beyond Turkey’s borders. The presidential vote will decide not only who leads Turkey, a NATO-member country of 85 million, but also how it is governed, where its economy is headed amid a […]