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Click here to see the summaryHELSINKI, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Russia must stop sending asylum seekers across its frontier into Finland in what amounts to a āhybrid attackā, Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said on Friday, after the Nordic nation temporarily shut all border passenger crossings bar one. More than 800 migrants from nations including Afghanistan, Kenya, Morocco, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria and Yemen have entered Finland via Russia in recent weeks, an increase from less than one per day previously, according to the Finnish Border Guard. Finland infuriated Russia earlier this year when it joined NATO, ending decades of military non-alignment, due to the war in Ukraine. Having shut four border stations last week, Finland closed three more overnight for a month, leaving open only its northernmost one, Raja-Jooseppi, located in the Arctic region. The government also decided at an extraordinary session on Friday that people arriving from Russia without the required travel documents must stay in supervised centres until their identities have been established. Norway has experienced āno irregularitiesā so far on its border with Russia, which runs to the north of Finlandās, Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere said on Friday during a visit to the Estonian capital Tallinn. ā Saved 65% of original text.
New Delhi had targeted 510 billion rupees from divestment proceeds for the current fiscal year that ends March, 2024.
The companyās main plant is in the mineral rich state of Chhattisgarh, where it is a major employer and unions have protested the sale.
Prime Minister Narendra Modiās government has not been able to follow through with plans to sell companies in a slew of sectors including steel, fertiliser and oil and gas since 2019, hampered by issues such as land ownership and union opposition.
āNo privatisation will take place in this tenure of the government,ā said Subhash Chandra Garg, former federal finance secretary.
Some of the shortfall in the current yearās target would be offset by higher dividends paid by state-run firms to the government, the first source said.
The government has only managed to sell minority stakes in five of its companies through so-called offer for sales via stock exchanges, despite Indian markets hitting record highs this year.
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JERUSALEM, Nov 24 (Reuters) - The first group of Israelis freed from captivity in Gaza on Friday returned to Israel on the first day of a planned four-day truce during which further exchanges of hostages for Palestinian detainees are due to take place.
As well as the Israeli hostages, 10 Thais and one Filipino, who were taken captive at the same time, were also freed under a separate agreement, Qatari mediators said.
Roni Haviv, a relative of Ohad Munder, said she was looking forward to giving the nine-year-old his favourite toy.
In exchange, 39 Palestinian women and minors detained by Israel were released on Friday, the first of a group of 150 who are due to be freed from Israeli detention under the agreement.
Thatās a human thing," said Yoni Katz Asher, whose wife Doron and children Raz and Aviv were freed on Friday.
For the moment, the hostages are being kept away from the media while their condition is assessed and for those whose relatives have not come home, the wait continues in a conflicting swirl of feelings.
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MANILA, Nov 24 (Reuters) - The Philippinesā joint patrols with the United States in the South China Sea are within Manilaās rights, and it will continue to support a free and open Indo-Pacific, its national security adviser said on Friday.
The Southeast Asian nation rejects Chinaās assertion that the Philippines enlisted āforeign forcesā to patrol the South China Sea, National Security Adviser Eduardo AƱo said in a statement, responding to Beijingās remarks.
āThe Philippines is not stirring up trouble,ā Defence Secretary Gilberto Teodoro told reporters.
The treaty allies conducted joint patrols from Tuesday to Thursday in waters near Taiwan and the South China Sea within Manilaās exclusive economic zone (EEZ), fanning further tensions with China.
China claims most of the South China Sea on the basis of a ānine-dash lineā that stretches as far as 1,500 km (900 miles) south of its mainland, cutting into the EEZs of rival claimants Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam.
A 2016 arbitral ruling invalidated the claim of China, which does not acknowledge the courtās decision.
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KATHMANDU, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Police in Nepal on Thursday used rattan sticks, tear gas and water cannon to scatter thousands of protesters demanding the restoration of the monarchy abolished 15 years ago.
The āCitizensā Campaignā protesters say governments in place since the monarchy was scrapped, as part of a deal ending a Maoist insurgency, have failed to live up to commitments to develop one of the worldās poorest countries.
āWe want the republican system abolished and the monarchy to be restored,ā he said, vowing to continue agitating for that objective and calling for a general strike in Kathmandu, home to about four million people, on Friday.
A specially elected assembly abolished the 239-year-old monarchy in 2008 under terms of an accord that ended a Maoist insurgency, which killed 17,000 people between 1996 and 2006, and established a federal republic.
But political instability has afflicted Nepal since the end of the monarchy with over 10 changes of government, hobbling economic development and forcing millions of young people to seek work mainly in Malaysia, South Korea and the Middle East.
Former Maoist rebel chief Pushpa Kamal Dahal, who still goes by his nom de guerre of Prachanda (āFierceā), is now Nepalās prime minister heading a coalition with the centrist Nepali Congress party.
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BEIJING/MANILA, Nov 23 (Reuters) - The Philippines has enlisted āforeign forcesā to patrol the South China Sea and has been stirring up trouble, Chinaās military said on Thursday, referring to joint patrols this week by Philippine and U.S. forces.
The Chinese military will maintain high vigilance, resolutely defend sovereignty and maritime rights and interests, and resolutely safeguard peace and stability in the South China Sea, Chinaās military said.
A Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said on Wednesday China had warned the U.S. and the Philippines in connection with their patrols.
The incident occurred at around 10:15 a.m. near the platform of a natural gas field 27 nautical miles off Palawan province, Brawner said.
The Philippines achieved its goal of closely operating with its ally, the United States, and there was no untoward incident, Brawner added.
The Philippine foreign ministry and the national security adviserās office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Click here to see the summaryBRUSSELS, Nov 22 (Reuters) - The European Parliament on Wednesday rejected a plan to cut back reliance on pesticides in agriculture in another setback in Europe-wide efforts to protect the environment. With 299 votes against the Sustainable Use of Plant Protection Products Regulation (SUR), 207 in favor, and 121 abstentions, MEPs rejected a package of draft legislation that had been negotiated intensely for months. āBeyond adopting meaningless reduction targets, they also removed the protection for kindergartens, schools, hospitals, and old people homesā¦ and deleted binding rules for integrated pest management, which would have been an important tool to implement sustainable practices in agriculture,ā it said. āToday, the European Parliament rejected the extremist approach of the Greens and Socialists to impose more and more bans and excessive regulations that would reduce food production in Europe,ā EPP said in a statement. The failed pesticides plan is the latest in a series of setbacks for green legislation across Europe, which is facing a growing āgreenlashā pushback against policies to address climate change and protect the environment. The latest major setback was the European Commissionās decision last week to renew approval for the controversial weedkiller glyphosate for another decade. ā Saved 38% of original text.
Nov 22 (Reuters) - Senior Cuban officials have over several weeks provided an increasingly dire snapshot of a deepening economic crisis in a series of televised prime-time appearances, revealing the extent of the downturn in unprecedented detail.
Food production, the supply of phamaceuticals and transportation are down by at least 50% since 2018, the top officials said, and continued to decline this year in large part due to chronic fuel shortages and power outages.
Cuba imports most of the food and fuel it consumes, but revenues have plunged following the pandemic, hampered by stiff U.S. sanctions and floundering tourism, once a mainstay of the Caribbean island economy.
Production of pork, rice and beans - all staples on the Cuban dinner plate - are down by more than 80% this year over pre-crisis levels and eggs 50%, Agriculture Minister Ydael Jesus Perez said.
Hospitals, short on basic supplies such as sutures, cotton and gauze, have done 30% fewer surgical procedures compared with 2019, according to data shared on state-run TV during a presentation by First Deputy Health Minister Tania Margarita Cruz.
Local authorities, increasingly under pressure as the problems and tension ratchet up, have launched programs to contain hunger, build homes and improve the flow of transportation, but remain hamstrung by a lack of funds, they have said.
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Among the concrete steps stemming from the move, Prime Minister Han Duck-soo said South Korea would immediately resume reconnaissance of the Northās forces in border areas.
The so-called Comprehensive Military Agreement (CMA) signed between the two Koreas in 2018 was the most substantive deal to result from months of historic meetings between leader Kim Jong Un and then-South Korean President Moon Jae-in.
On the ground, both sides agreed to completely cease artillery drills and field training within 5 kilometres (3 miles) of the Military Demarcation Line (MDL) between the countries.
With inter-Korean and denuclearisation talks long stalled, recent drills and shows of force along the fortified border between the Koreas have cast doubts on the future of the measures, which were meant to reduce tensions.
South Koreaās national security council said on Tuesday it planned to āsuspend the effect of Article 1, Clause 3ā of the 2018 military agreement, enabling Seoul to restore reconnaissance and surveillance activities along the border.
South Koreaās military will restart aerial surveillance in border areas, which had been conducted before the agreement was signed, the defence ministry said.
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I donāt per se have an issue with this, but one side effect is going to be that one-off costs of things like decoder boxes are gonna probably be a single lump sum up-front fee rather than amortized over the contract.
Itās also not clear to me why, if such a restriction is a good idea, it would be specific to cable service. Cell phone providers, for example, do similar things.
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Click here to see the summaryKYIV, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Protests and blockades by Polish lorry drivers at border crossings to Ukraine have curbed imports of motor vehicle gas (LPG) into Ukraine, causing a 30% rise in domestic prices, an analyst said on Tuesday. Serhiy Kuyun, the head of Ukraineās leading A-95 fuel consultancy, told an online briefing that about a third of all LPG supplies were imported through the border with Poland. Polish truckers earlier this month blocked roads to three border crossings with Ukraine to protest against what they see as government inaction over a loss of business to foreign competitors since Russiaās invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Ukraine consumed about 1.5 million metric tons of LPG in 2021 while the consumption fell to about 1.1 million tons in 2022 due to the Russian invasion. Kuyun said traders were trying to move as much product as possible on the railways and redirect LPG supplies to Slovakian and Romanian crossings. Ukrainian officials have previously said that LPG supplies could be most affected by the border blockade while petrol and diesel were not in danger. ā Saved 24% of original text.
SEOUL, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Both South and North Korea aim to launch their first spy satellites into orbit by the end of the month, entering a race for military capabilities in space.
South Korea, meanwhile, plans to send its first domestically developed military reconnaissance satellite into space on Nov. 30 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from Californiaās Vandenberg Air Force Base.
āBoth Koreas stand to benefit to different degrees from the acquisition of independent space-based reconnaissance capabilities,ā said Ankit Panda of the U.S.-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
In September Russian President Vladimir Putin gave Kim Jong Un a tour of Russiaās modern space launch facility and promised to help Pyongyang build satellites.
And on Tuesday, a researcher at North Koreaās National Aerospace Development Administration said the militarisation of space by the United States and its allies demanded that Pyongyang step up its spy satellite programme.
The two Koreas could use such satellites for increased early warning capabilities, military targeting and damage assessments in the event of a war, and communications, among other uses, said Chun In-bum, a retired South Korean army general.
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