FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on tackling climate change prior to signing executive actions in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., January 27, 2021. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File PhotoWASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden on Sunday welcomed a settlement between South Korean battery makers LG Energy Solution and…
FILE PHOTO: French Junior Minister for European Affairs Clement Beaune speaks during a press conference to outline France’s strategy for the deployment of future COVID-19 vaccines, in Paris as the coronavirus disease outbreak continues in France, December 3, 2020. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier/Pool/File PhotoPARIS (Reuters) – The European Union must shoot for a more ambitious COVID-19 recovery…
Team Liquid defeated TSM to win the lower-bracket final of LCS 2021 Mid-Season Showdown on Saturday, earning a rematch with Cloud 9 in Sunday’s grand final.Team Liquid beat TSM by a 3-1 map count on Saturday, winning the first map in 37 minutes, and followed up with a 34-minute victory. TSM claimed the third map…
A representation of virtual currency Bitcoin is seen in front of a stock graph in this illustration taken March 15, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration(Reuters) – Bitcoin rose 1.32% to a record $60,555.97 on Saturday, breaking above $60,000 for a second time in 10 days.The world’s biggest and best-known cryptocurrency is up 118.3% from the year’s low…
(Reuters) – Venezuela has paid $64 million, half of the required amount, for doses it is set to receive through the global COVAX program, Vice President Delcy Rodriguez announced Saturday on state television.“You know that the COVAX mechanism requires an advance – Venezuela has even doubled the required advance,” said Rodriguez, adding that the government…
NAIROBI (Reuters) -Djibouti’s President Ismail Omar Guelleh won a fifth five-year term on Saturday after an election boycotted by most of the opposition, securing over 97% of the votes cast, official data from the Interior Ministry on Saturday showed.Friday’s vote pitted only one challenger against the incumbent – relative newcomer Zakaria Ismail Farah. The Interior…
LONDON, April 10 (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will not attend next Saturday’s funeral of Prince Philip to make space for as many family members as possible under pandemic rules, his Downing Street office said in a statement.“As a result of the Coronavirus regulations, only 30 people can attend the funeral of HRH…
DUBAI (Reuters) – The United Arab Emirates named new members of the board of its central bank including two vice chairmen in a decree issued on Saturday, state news agency WAM reported.Abdulrahman Saleh Al Saleh and Jassem Mohammad Buatabah Al Zaabi have been appointed as vice chairmen.Younis Haji Al Khoori, Sami Dhaen Al Qamzi, and…
FILE PHOTO: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani attends a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of a session of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council In Yerevan, Armenia October 1, 2019. Sputnik/Alexei Druzhinin/Kremlin via REUTERS/File Photo(Reuters) – President Hassan Rouhani reiterated Iran’s commitment to nuclear non-proliferation on Saturday while overseeing the launch of advanced…
ANKARA (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will hold talks with his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul on Saturday, amid tensions between Kyiv and Moscow over a long-running conflict in Ukraine’s eastern Donbass region.Kyiv has raised the alarm over a buildup of Russian forces near the border between Ukraine and Russia, and over a…