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By Stefanno Sulaiman NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) – Central bank governors and finance ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meeting in Bali have agreed to strengthen cooperation between them to better withstand future global crises, chair Indonesia said on Friday. The gathering of finance leaders of ASEAN, a region of about 650 million people, comes amid a backdrop of recent global banking turmoil after the collapse of […]

(Reuters) – Moscow’s envoy to the United Nations in New York has denied that Russia has deliberately taken children out of Ukraine or allowed them to be adopted in Russia, rejecting charges brought against President Vladimir Putin by the International Criminal Court. The ICC two weeks ago accused Putin and his children’s commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova of the war crime of unlawful deportation of people, in particular children, and their transfer […]

By Ivan Lyubysh-Kirdey and Gleb Garanich BUCHA, Ukraine (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday Ukraine would never forgive Russian troops responsible for alleged atrocities in Bucha as the town near Kyiv marked the anniversary of its recapture after 33 days of occupation. Ukrainian forces took back control of the small towns of Bucha and Irpin to the northwest of Kyiv in late March last year as Russian invasion […]

(Reuters) – March 31 (Reuters) – Russia has charged an American journalist with spying while Finland moved closer to becoming a NATO member, deepening tensions between Moscow and the West as the war in Ukraine reached its 400th day on Friday. DIPLOMACY, WEAPONRY * Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Russia faced “existential threats” to its security and development from “unfriendly states” as he presented President Vladimir Putin with an […]

By Karen Freifeld, Luc Cohen and Tyler Clifford NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump, the ex-president and frontrunner to be Republican nominee in 2024, is set to face a mug shot, finger-printing and court appearance next week after being indicted over a probe into hush money paid to a porn star in a historic U.S. first. The possible spectacle of Trump’s appearance in Manhattan on Tuesday before a judge as the […]

(Reuters) – Futures tracking Canada’s main stock index were muted on Friday as investors remained cautious ahead of domestic economic growth data and key U.S. inflation numbers. Contracts tied to gold prices were also little changed and precious and base metal prices remained subdued as markets awaited U.S. personal consumption expenditures (PCE) data, due at 8:30 a.m. ET. The PCE data will offer clues on the outlook for interest rate […]

By Saurabh Sharma LUCKNOW, India (Reuters) -Rescuers used cranes and ropes to look for survivors a day after the roof of a well collapsed in a temple complex in central India killing 36 people and injuring 16, a government official said on Friday. The incident occurred in the Indian city of Indore when a concrete slab covering the roof of a stepwell in a temple complex gave way, crushing devotees […]

By Elizabeth Pineau PARIS (Reuters) – France’s hard-left CGT union elected Sophie Binet as its first woman leader on Friday and she vowed to continue her organisation’s fight with the government over pension reform. Binet, 41, is the first woman to run France’s second-largest union since its foundation in 1895. A former school supervisor and head of a division in the union representing engineers, managers and technical staff, she takes […]

By Phil Noble HAMBURG, Germany (Reuters) – King Charles laid a wreath in memory of the victims of the allied bombing in World War Two during a visit to Hamburg’s St Nikolai memorial, the remains of a church in Germany’s northern port city severely damaged by the air raids. The gesture comes on the last day of Charles’ three-day tour of Germany, his first overseas state trip since ascending the […]