The Hong Kong stock exchange is drawing a growing number of foreign companies from across Asia and North America that are seeking international capital, as the bourse marks progress in its ambition to be a global magnet for fundraising. The latest firm seeking to join the cohort is Kazakhstan Temir Zholy, the Central Asian nation’s…
WASHINGTON, July 9 (Reuters) – Russian strikes killed at least 265 civilians in Ukraine and injured 1,816 in June, the highest combined casualty count since the first months after Moscow’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, a top U.N. official told the Security Council on Thursday. U.N. political affairs chief Rosemary DiCarlo said the number of…
KYIV, July 9 (Reuters) – Authorities in Ukraine launched inquiries on Thursday into violent clashes in the western city of Lviv a day earlier over the country’s military draft, the latest sign of wartime tensions over the call-up in the fifth year of the war with Russia. Prosecutors said a group of people blocked on-duty…
MOSCOW, July 9 (Reuters) – Former U.S. Marine Robert Gilman, who is serving a long prison sentence in Russia, has been admitted to hospital, Kommersant newspaper reported on Thursday. The business daily quoted Gilman’s lawyer as saying he was receiving treatment but that it was too early to talk about a diagnosis. Reuters requested a…
July 7 (Reuters) – The leader of a pro-Russian Armenian opposition party was placed in pre-trial detention for two months on Tuesday after being detained on suspicion of large-scale fraud and money laundering, the Armenpress news agency reported, citing a court ruling. Gagik Tsarukyan, a billionaire businessman, was arrested on Monday along with an associate…
BEIJING, July 5 (Reuters) – The Chinese and Russian navies will hold joint exercises in the waters and airspace off the Chinese city of Qingdao next week, China’s defence ministry and Russian state media said on Sunday. “Following the exercises, some of the forces from both sides will proceed to relevant areas of the Pacific…
July 5 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump, speaking to Russian leader Vladimir Putin by telephone for nearly 90 minutes, offered to help find a solution to the Ukraine war, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said in comments made public early on Sunday. Ushakov said Trump made the offer during the call on Saturday, U.S. Independence…
July 3 (Reuters) – Four people were killed and another 10 injured in Russian overnight attacks on Ukraine, officials said on Telegram in the early hours of Friday. In the bordering Sumy region, two women, an elderly man and a girl younger than two years old were killed and three others injured after a Russian…
July 2 (Reuters) – In Russia’s grain belt, farmers fret they will not be able to harvest their crops as a fuel crisis sparked by Ukraine’s drone attacks on oil refineries and depots disrupts daily life. As Kyiv tries to pressure Moscow into making peace with strikes on the country’s energy infrastructure, the resulting damage…
July 1 (Reuters) – China’s covert military training of Russian forces last year was personally approved by President Vladimir Putin’s defense minister and directly involved at least four Russian and Chinese generals, according to two European officials and documents seen by Reuters. The officials said the involvement of such high-ranking individuals in training linked to…