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Indonesia reaffirms it has no plan to impose tolls in Malacca Strait
By Stefanno Sulaiman JAKARTA, April 24 (Reuters) - Indonesia has no plan to impose tolls on ships passing through the Malacca Strait, its finance minister said on Friday, after his comments about mone...
Apr 24, 2026
France, Germany continue to work on fighter jet project, Macron says
NICOSIA, April 24 (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Friday tasked their defence ministries with continuing to work on the contentious Franco-German F...
Apr 24, 2026
Hapag-Lloyd says one ship has crossed Strait of Hormuz
FRANKFURT, April 24 (Reuters) - Container shipping group Hapag-Lloyd said on Friday that one of its ships has crossed the Strait of Hormuz but did not have any information on the circumstances or timi...
Apr 24, 2026
Giant ice tower delays opening of Everest climbing route
By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU, April 24 (Reuters) - Hundreds of mountaineers are stranded at the Himalayan base camp for Mount Everest as a crevasse strewn with chunks of ice, including one towering block...
Apr 24, 2026
Factbox-From Australia to Europe, countries move to curb children's social media access
April 24 (Reuters) - Australia in December became the world's first country to ban social media for children under 16, blocking them from platforms including TikTok, Alphabet's YouTube and Meta's Inst...
Apr 24, 2026
EU to prepare blueprint for mutual assistance pact, amid NATO doubts
By Michele Kambas and Ingrid Melander NICOSIA, April 24 (Reuters) - EU leaders have asked officials to prepare a blueprint for how the bloc's previously obscure mutual assistance clause would work, ho...
Apr 24, 2026
China rejects Trump accusation that intercepted Iran ship was 'gift from China'
BEIJING, April 24 (Reuters) - China's foreign ministry on Friday rejected an accusation by U.S. President Donald Trump that an Iranian-flagged cargo ship intercepted by U.S. forces was a "gift from Ch...
Apr 24, 2026
Polish PM questions US loyalty in case of Russian attack, FT reports
WARSAW, April 24 (Reuters) - Europe's "biggest, most important question" is whether the United States is ready to be a loyal NATO partner in case of a Russian attack, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk...
Apr 24, 2026
Dozens of Thai opposition figures to go on trial over bid to amend royal insult law
(Corrects formatting error in hyperlink in last paragraph) By Panarat Thepgumpanat and Panu Wongcha-um BANGKOK, April 24 (Reuters) - Thailand's Supreme Court said on Friday that 44 current and former ...
Apr 24, 2026
Myanmar's military-backed government imposes martial law in 60 townships
April 24 (Reuters) - Myanmar's junta leader-turned-president Min Aung Hlaing has issued new emergency ordinances to impose military control in 60 townships, a move aimed at tightening security in regi...
Apr 24, 2026
