By Reuters Staff KUWAIT (Reuters) – Kuwait’s new ruler on Wednesday named veteran security chief Sheikh Meshal al-Ahmad as crown prince, retaining power firmly within the ruling family’s oldest ranks and signalling the OPEC member state is unlikely to pursue disruptive change. The selection of the octogenarian Sheikh Meshal, deputy head of the country’s National […]
By Rupam Jain (Reuters) – Taliban and Afghan peace negotiators have agreed on a code of conduct to safeguard against the risk of any breakdown in talks that began last month in Qatar to bring an end to decades of war, three official sources told Reuters on Tuesday. The breakthrough was achieved with the help […]
By Reuters Staff KABUL (Reuters) – Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani is travelling to Qatar for a bilateral meeting with Qatari leaders but will not hold a meeting with Taliban officials even as peace talks are underway in the country’s capital city Doha, officials said on Monday. Negotiations between the Afghan government and Afghan Taliban that started […]
A Russian news editor has died after setting herself on fire in front of an interior ministry office in the city of Nizhniy Novgorod. Irina Slavina earlier wrote on Facebook: “I ask you to blame the Russian Federation for my death.” Authorities confirmed her body had been found with severe burns. Slavina said on Thursday […]
By Ahmed Hagagy KUWAIT (Reuters) – Kuwait’s new emir was sworn in at parliament on Wednesday as the country prepared to lay to rest late ruler Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, a Gulf Arab elder statesman who helped steer his people through some of the Middle East’s most turbulent decades. The cabinet named designated successor Crown Prince […]
All seven members of South Korean K-pop group BTS are set to become multi-millionaires, when their label Big Hit Entertainment goes public in October. Soaring demand for shares in Big Hit has given it a market valuation of £3.2bn ($4.1bn), with shares priced at the top of the expected price range. Big Hit boss Bang […]
WORLD Several people were injured after water cannons were fired and more than ten people had been taken into custody. Reuters WORLD Minsk: Belarusian security forces began detaining people and fired water cannon to disperse crowds as thousands took to the streets of Minsk in protest against the abrupt inauguration of veteran President Alexander Lukashenko on Wednesday. Ignoring calls for an end […]
ANALYSIS COMMUNALISM Claim of January 8 plot to time riots with Trump’s visit dropped, Delhi Police now says entire anti-CAA protest was part of ‘terrorist’ plot to engineer large-scale riots ‘at suitable time’, with the ‘conspirators’ seeking to ‘reclaiming… turf’ lost as a result of BJP’s victory in 2019 elections. Siddharth Varadarajan COMMUNALISM New Delhi: The […]
By Andrei Makhovsky MINSK (Reuters) – Ignoring calls for an end to his 26-year grip on power, President Alexander Lukashenko of Belarus was sworn in for a sixth term on Wednesday after an election that the opposition and several foreign governments say was rigged. The ceremony would normally have been publicised as a major state occasion […]
By Riham Alkousaa, Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber BERLIN/MOSCOW (Reuters) – Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny made his first public appearance on Wednesday after being discharged from a Berlin hospital where Germany said he was being treated for poisoning by a potentially deadly nerve agent. Navalny was flown from Russia to Berlin last month after falling ill on a domestic flight […]
