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BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s President Xi Jinping inspected his country’s Southern Theatre Command navy on Tuesday and stressed the need to deepen military training and preparation, state media reported. During his visit, Xi said it was necessary to speed up the transformation and construction of the armed forces and comprehensively raise their level of modernization, CCTV news reported on Wednesday. Xi also said there was a need to improve the […]

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain on Wednesday sanctioned individuals and companies who it accused of acting as “financial fixers” for Russian oligarchs Roman Abramovich and Alisher Usmanov. Britain’s Foreign Office said in a statement the new measures targeted those helping the two prominent businessmen to avoid the full cost of sanctions that were imposed following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “We are closing the net on the Russian elite and those who […]

KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine compared Russia on Wednesday to Islamic State and called on the International Criminal Court to investigate after a video emerged online showing apparent Russian soldiers filming themselves beheading a Ukrainian captive with a knife. Reuters could not immediately verify the authenticity or provenance of the video on social media, which showed a man in uniform beheading a man who wears the yellow arm band used by […]

MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Somalia is suffering from the impact of a climate crisis it has done almost nothing to create, United Nations chief Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday, as a full-blown famine threatens to follow a drought that killed 43,000 people last year. Some 8.3 million Somalis, almost half the population, require urgent humanitarian assistance, Guterres said, adding that only 15% of the country’s $2.6 billion aid requirement for this […]

BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s Vice President Han Zheng told Intel’s CEO on Wednesday to take root in China to help maintain the stability of the global industrial supply chain, state radio reported on Wednesday. In a meeting in Beijing, Han told Intel CEO Patrick Paul Gelsinger that multinational companies need to “overcome difficulties and challenges” to promote better global cooperation, according to the report. (Reporting by Albee Zhang and Ryan […]

KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine compared Russia on Wednesday to Islamic State and called on the International Criminal Court to investigate after a video emerged online showing apparent Russian soldiers filming themselves beheading a Ukrainian captive with a knife. Reuters could not immediately verify the authenticity or provenance of the video on social media, which showed a man in uniform beheading a man who wears the yellow arm band used by Ukrainian […]

By Djaffar Al Katanty KIHISI, Democratic Republic Of Congo (Reuters) – Thomas Tumusifu Buregeya wishes he were studying for his final school exams. Instead, he scrapes a living doing odd jobs in a displaced people’s camp in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after a wave of rebel violence upended his life yet again. Buregeya fled the town of Kibumba with his family in October amid a renewed offensive by the […]

By Idrees Ali, Jonathan Landay and Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A probe into the leak of secret U.S. documents likely will require investigators to examine those who had access and scrutinize details like objects captured in photos of the materials, former U.S. officials told Reuters, as pressure grows to find the person or group responsible. The Department of Justice opened a formal criminal probe last week after the […]

By Howard Schneider, William Schomberg and Balazs Koranyi WASHINGTON/LONDON/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Despite broad warnings about the economic risks posed by recent stress in the banking sector, global monetary policymakers are keeping their focus squarely on inflation and the need to continue raising interest rates to tame it. The call for caution has come from top officials at the International Monetary Fund who are worried about a global crack-up, from bond […]