LONDON (Reuters) – Britain hopes to permit outdoor and socially distanced performances at cultural venues, minister Oliver Dowden said on Monday, after announcing a nearly $2 billion investment in the arts. “I want all our cultural institutions to return to no... More »
BERLIN (Reuters) – Regulators worked hard and did their job in the case of payments firm Wirecard, which on Monday said that 1.9 billion euros ($2.13 billion) missing from its accounts was likely never there, Finance Minister Olaf Scholz said on Monday. “I thi... More »
READING, England (Reuters) – The man who went on a stabbing spree in the British town of Reading was acting alone, interior minister Priti Patel said on Monday. “This is a tragic, tragic event,” Patel said. She did not comment on whether the arrested man was L... More »
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin is back at work after being diagnosed with the new coronavirus, the Kremlin said on Tuesday. The Kremlin said Russian President Vladimir Putin had signed a decree cancelling a temporary transfer of Mi... More »
MILAN (Reuters) – The head of Italy’s ruling 5-Star Movement said on Saturday the government should not sign off on a reform of the euro zone’s bailout fund until plans for a wider banking union became clearer. The comments by foreign minister Luigi Di Maio co... More »
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s Arturo Herrera looks grim in a viral video in which President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador names him finance minister, a job Herrera’s predecessor left in a huff at a time when Latin America’s second largest economy is signaling... More »
GENEVA (Reuters) – Britain’s seizing of an Iranian oil tanker last week was a threatening act that will not be tolerated, Iran’s Defence Minister Amir Hatami said on Monday in a speech broadcast live on state television. Royal Marines impounded the tanker in G... More »
(Corrects minister’s time in parliament in second paragraph of this Nov. 14 story.) TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s recently appointed cybersecurity and Olympics minister has told parliament he has never used a computer in his life, though he is responsible for over... More »
ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s new Economy Minister Giovanni Tria said on Friday that none of the country’s parties wanted to leave the euro zone and neither did he. “There is no political force in Italy that wants to leave the euro,” Tria told Reuters shortly after... More »
MILAN (Reuters) – Vivendi has been an “awful” investor in Telecom Italia (TIM), Italy’s outgoing Industry Minister Carlo Calenda told daily la Repubblica on Monday, as the French media company fights to keep its grip on Italy’s biggest phone group. “I am in fa... More »
FILE PHOTO – Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias speaks during an interview with Reuters at the Foreign Ministry in Athens, Greece, January 31, 2018. REUTERS/Costas Baltas ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece has launched an investigation after its foreign minister rece... More »
FILE PHOTO: Turkey’s Economy Minister Nihat Zeybekci makes a speech in Cologne, Germany, March 5, 2017. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay/File Photo ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey’s cabinet is likely to announce an incentive scheme this month to boost investment in 20 projec... More »
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey’s Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag said on Monday that the United States wanted to use the trial in New York of a Turkish gold trader to impose sanctions on Ankara. In an interview with broadcaster Kanal24, Bozdag also said that t... More »
FILE PHOTO: Finance Minister Ignatius Chombo speaks at a rally of the ruling ZANU PF party in Harare, Zimbabwe November 8, 2017. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo/File Photo JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Former Zimbabwean finance minister Ignatius Chombo was admitted to ho... More »
The Harvey Weinstein scandal is forcing a rethink of attitudes toward sexual harassment in France, a country that cherishes its self-image as the land of seduction and romance, said the minister tasked with cracking down on violence against women. More »
Japanese Transport Minister Keiichi Ishii said on Friday that unauthorized technicians had been found certifying vehicles at five Nissan Motor Co (7201.T) plants that the ministry has been inspecting. More »
French counter-terrorism investigators questioned five people on Tuesday after police over the weekend found what appeared to be a ready-to-detonate bomb at an apartment building in one of Paris's poshest neighborhoods. More »
South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha said on Monday North Korea is on a "reckless path" with its continued nuclear and missile provocations in defiance of international condemnation. More »
FILE PHOTO: A man holds a laptop computer as cyber code is projected on him in this illustration picture taken on May 13, 2017. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Illustration/File Photo Ukrainian cyber police have blocked the second cyber attack against Ukraine, Ukrainian... More »
Turkey’s defense minister said on Friday his country had no plans to review its military base in Qatar and that any demand for its closure would represent interference in Ankara’s relations with the Gulf state. More »
Syria’s Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad speaks during an interview with Reuters in Damascus June 11, 2015. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki The Syrian government will not allow its enemies to benefit from the creation of de-escalation zones in western Syria, the Sy... More »
Nirmala Sitharaman, Minister of State for Commerce and Industry of India attends the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland January 19, 2017. REUTERS/Ruben Sprich – India has stepped up its lobbying effort against moves in the U. S. Co... More »
South Africa’s government still plans to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC), Justice Minister Michael Masutha said on Wednesday, after a court ruled that it was unconstitutional to do so. More »
FILE PHOTO – South Korea’s new finance minister Yoo Il-ho (C) gets a briefing in front of a car carrier during his visits to a port in Pyeongtaek, South Korea, January 15, 2016. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji South Korea’s prime minister is expected to keep incumbent Fin... More »
BERLIN A 27-year-old Syrian man who had been denied asylum in Germany a year ago died on Sunday when a bomb he was carrying exploded outside a music festival in Ansbach, Germany, a Bavarian state official told a news conference, according to a website. Interio... More »
LISBON Portuguese Culture Minister Joao Soares resigned on Friday, a day after threatening to slap critics who had called him incompetent and rude. A post on his Facebook page saying he wanted to slap two newspaper columnists, followed by what was seen as a ha... More »
