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By Reuters Staff 2 Min Read SOFIA (Reuters) - Bulgaria’s incoming interim government on Wednesday ruled out any change in the country’s veto on the launch of European Union accession talks with North Macedonia. Last November Bulgaria blocked the official start of the accession talks with its smaller Balkan neighbour due to disputes over history and language. Sofia has also accused Skopje of hate speech and failure to implement a 2017 bilateral friendship treaty. “Bulgaria’s framework po...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet approved on Wednesday draft legislation for more ambitious CO2 reduction targets after a landmark ruling last month from the country's top court, a government source said.

By Reuters Staff 2 Min Read BUDAPEST, May 12 (Reuters) - The Hungarian Bank Association is in talks with the government about the future of a loan repayment moratorium which expires at the end of June, the General Secretary of the body told the national news agency MTI on Wednesday. Levente Kovacs said banks welcomed some form of moratorium targeting the most vulnerable borrowers continuing, although there was no decision yet on how to transition from the current mass scheme, which covers both ...

5 Min Read WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican leaders told President Joe Biden on Wednesday they oppose any tax hikes to fund an economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic, in a blow to the Democrat’s plans to spend trillions of dollars on U.S. infrastructure, education and childcare. In their first White House meeting since Biden took office in January, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and House of Representatives Republican leader Kevin McCarthy signaled a willingness to work wit...

Germany's biggest power producer RWE expects meaningful discussions about tighter climate targets and faster coal plant closures not before early 2022, chief finance officer Michael Mueller said on Wednesday.

6 Min Read (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Growing up in a conservative Christian home and school, Kyle Meyaard-Schaap learned a lot about scripture and its values but “almost nothing about climate change”, he remembers. The U.S. evangelical movement he belongs to has long stood out in public opinion polls both for its backing of conservative Republican politicians and its doubts about climate change, in a nation where views on the issue remain deeply partisan. But in Meyaard-Schaap’s reli...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet approved on Wednesday draft legislation for more ambitious CO2 reduction targets, including being carbon neutral by 2045, after a landmark court ruling last month forced the government to act.

Nearly 40% of all global deaths from COVID-19 reported last week happened in the Americas, and nearly 80% of the region's intensive care units are filled with COVID-19 patients, the Pan American Health Organization said on Wednesday.

By Reuters Staff 1 Min Read U.S. Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY) arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., May 12, 2021. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein (Reuters) - U.S. Representative Liz Cheney will seek re-election in 2022 despite being ousted from the Republican leadership in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, a source said. The House Republican caucus voted to remove Cheney from their No. 3 leadership spot after she persistently criticized former President Donald Trump’s false claim...

By Reuters Staff 3 Min Read LONDON (Reuters) -British and Scottish politicians on Sunday played down the risk of a legal battle over whether Scotland can hold an independence referendum, but provided little clarity as to how London and Edinburgh would resolve their differences on the issue. Slideshow ( 2 images ) Pro-independence parties won a majority in the Scottish parliament in elections held on Thursday, and First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said this gave her a mandate to push ahead with pla...