BRUSSELS, June 18 (Reuters) – NATO agreed on Thursday to modernise its nuclear capabilities and strengthen its nuclear planning capacity, the alliance’s senior body for nuclear deterrence said in a statement. All NATO allies except France are members of the Nuclear Planning Group, which serves as a forum for consultation and decision-making on nuclear deterrence. …
Nairobi, KENYA (AP) — Billions of dollars have been pledged for Africa’s clean energy transition, yet many renewable energy projects across the continent are still failing to get off the ground as countries struggle with soaring financing costs driven by a financial rule known as the “sovereign ceiling,” experts say. Analysts and development finance specialists…
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine government said Friday that China’s imposition of sanctions, including an entry ban, against Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. was “an unfriendly act” that could further strain relations, while he vowed to continue defending Manila’s interest against Beijing’s aggression. The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing announced Thursday that…
By Giulia Paravicini, Clement Bonnerot and Fiston Mahamba June 11 (Reuters) – By the time the truck pulled away from the morgue in Bunia, the morning heat hung heavily over the road to Mongbwalu. The body of a 44-year-old Congolese pastor lay inside a wooden coffin strapped into the back of an aging Nissan SUV…
BENI, Congo (AP) — The memories come flooding back whenever Vianney Kambale Kombi hears the word Ebola. He remembers the pain and fear in his community in the eastern Congo city of Beni during the 2018-2020 Ebola outbreak, history’s second-biggest with more than 3,400 reported cases and over 2,200 deaths. It was stopped with the…
While Luckin Coffee’s Manhattan debut in June 2025 drew wide coverage, signaling the arrival of a Chinese model for discount specialty coffee in the United States, another rapidly growing Chinese chain with an intertwined backstory had already been spreading throughout the country for more than a year, with less media fanfare. Cotti Coffee, which claims…
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A spearfisher was killed on Saturday in Australia’s third fatal shark attack in four weeks, police said. The 35-year-old man was spearfishing with family off Michaelmas Island near the port city of Albany in Western Australia state when he was attacked before noon, a police statement said. The man was brought…
STOCKHOLM, June 4 (Reuters) – Brazil has expressed an interest in potentially buying 20 additional Gripen model E and F fighter jets from Sweden’s Saab, Swedish Defence Minister Pal Jonson said on Thursday. The aircraft would be manufactured in Brazil, Jonson told a joint press conference in Stockholm with his Brazilian counterpart, Defense Minister Jose…
TOKYO (AP) — The Japanese economy grew at an annualized rate of 2.1% in the January-March quarter, the government said Tuesday, showing its resilience despite rising energy prices because of the war in Iran. Japan’s real gross domestic product, or GDP, the sum value of a nation’s goods and services, grew at a seasonally adjusted…
MADRID (AP) — A Spanish court acquitted Shakira in a tax fraud case, ordering the government to return more than 55 million euros ($64 million) in wrongly imposed fines and interest, a court document seen Monday by The Associated Press said. The decision follows years of tax troubles in Spain for the Colombian superstar. The…