FILE PHOTO: Former Senate majority leader Bob Dole (R-KS) attends a welcome ceremony in honor of new Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Army General Mark Milley at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, Virginia, U.S., September 30, 2019. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File PhotoWASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden visited former Senator Bob Dole on Saturday, the White House said, two days after the […]

FILE PHOTO: A woman wearing a protective face mask walks past a shuttered city centre pub as the government announced they were moving the country to its highest level of restrictions, Level 5, for six weeks as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak continues, in Galway, Ireland, October 20, 2020. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne/File PhotoDUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland will not consider re-opening its […]

FILE PHOTO: Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks during a conversation with legendary game designer Todd Howard (not pictured) at the E3 gaming convention in Los Angeles, California, U.S., June 13, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo(Reuters) – Billionaire CEO Elon Musk said on Saturday the price of bitcoin and ethereum seemed high, at a time when the cryptocurrencies have hit record highs, […]

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny lost his appeal on Saturday against what he said was a politically motivated decision to jail him for nearly three years, but said his faith in God and belief in the rightness of his cause was sustaining him.Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny attends a hearing to consider an appeal against an earlier court […]

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny returned to court on Saturday to hear his lawyers appeal against what they say was a politically-motivated decision to jail him for nearly three years.Slideshow ( 5 images )Navalny, President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent critic, was jailed earlier this month for parole violations he said were trumped up. The West has condemned the […]

(Reuters) – Opponents of Myanmar’s coup took to the streets again on Saturday with members of ethnic minorities, writers and poets and transport workers among those coming out to demand an end to military rule and the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and others.People take part in a protest against the military coup in Yangon, Myanmar, February 20, 2021. […]

(Reuters) – Euro zone shares rose on Friday, marking a third week of gains, as data showed factory activity in February jumped to a three-year high, while upbeat quarterly earnings boosted confidence in a broader economic recovery.FILE PHOTO: The German share price index DAX graph is pictured at the stock exchange in Frankfurt, Germany, February 18, 2021. REUTERS/Staff/File PhotoThe euro […]

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen gives a press conference at the European Commission Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium February 17, 2021. Aris Oikonomou/Pool via REUTERSBERLIN (Reuters) – Europe and the United States should join together in the fight against climate change and also agree a new framework for the digital market, limiting the power of big tech companies, European […]