HANOI, Oct 14 (Reuters) – The European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and Vietnam are set to sign a free trade deal on Sunday, officials said this week, after long-stalled talks were relaunched last year amid global tensions over US tariffs. Vietnam and the EFTA bloc, which…
By Giuseppe Fonte ROME, Oct 14 (Reuters) – The deal between the United States and Russia over diesel supply is a “very risky choice” that runs counter to efforts to force Vladimir Putin to sit at a negotiating table with Ukraine, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia…
WARSAW, Oct 14 (Reuters) – Polish military police are investigating an object likely to be a Polish drone found on a Baltic Sea beach on Tuesday, authorities said. Private radio station RMF FM reported that a passerby discovered what resembled a drone and reported it…
By Mahmoud Issa and Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA/CAIRO, Oct 14 (Reuters) – Haidar Abu Middain, 60, lifts a desiccated bough of a fallen olive tree and tosses it aside in the barren dirt of what was once one of the most prosperous groves in central Gaza.…
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS, Oct 14 (Reuters) – French pharmaceutical company Sanofi has staved off a potential hefty fine after EU antitrust regulators on Wednesday accepted its offer to stop disparaging a rival flu vaccine. The company found itself in the European Commission’s crosshairs…
VIENNA, Oct 14 (Reuters) – A court in the western Austrian city of Innsbruck has granted former property tycoon Rene Benko’s request to be released from prison to house arrest with an ankle monitor, Austrian media reported on Wednesday. Benko has served about 21 months…
BRUSSELS, Oct 14 (Reuters) – Adult content platform Stripchat, a subsidiary of Cyprus’s Technius, on Thursday lost its legal challenge against EU tech regulators’ decision to include it in a list of companies subject to stringent requirements under landmark online content rules after Europe’s second-highest court rejected…
MOSCOW, Oct 14 (Reuters) – Ukrainian drones hit Russia’s biggest data centre, owned by the country’s largest bank and technology company, Sberbank, but did not disrupt its operations, a senior company executive said on Wednesday. The strike in the Saratov region on the Volga River…
SINGAPORE/DILI/JAKARTA, Oct 14 (Reuters) – Pollution readings in Singapore reached their highest level this year on Wednesday while East Timor shut its schools for three days in response to intensifying smoke and haze from Indonesia’s wildfires. Singapore’s 1-hour PM2.5 reading hit a high of 284…
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 14 (Reuters) – A Malaysian court on Wednesday denied former premier Najib Razak’s request to suspend a 15-year jail term in connection with the 1MDB scandal, despite expectations he could soon be transferred to house arrest following a pardon in a separate…
