MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian government has softened requirements for mandatory sales of foreign currency for exporters if more than half of the value of their contracts is paid in roubles, according to changes to a government decree.
President Vladimir Putin signed the decree in October mandating the reintroduction of capital controls, affecting dozens of companies in the fuel, energy, metal, chemical, timber and grain industries in order to prop up... (continue reading...)
SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Indonesia's president-elect, Prabowo Subianto, said on Saturday that his country was willing to send peacekeeping troops to enforce a ceasefire in Gaza if required.
Speaking at the Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia's premier security conference, Prabowo said U.S. President Joe Biden's three-phase proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza was a step in the right direction.
"When needed and when requested by the U.N., we are prepared to... (continue reading...)
(Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo's central bank decided at a meeting of its monetary policy committee on Friday to keep its policy rate unchanged at 25%, the bank said in a statement.
(Reporting by Bate Felix; Writing by Alessandra Prentice; Editing by Mark Potter)
TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa cancelled his "dearMoon" mission, which the project said would have been the first private flight around the moon, the mission announced on Saturday.
The team had originally aimed to make the circumlunar flight with celebrities on board by the end of last year but that became "unfeasible", the mission said in a statement on its website.
"Without clear schedule certainty in the near-term, it... (continue reading...)
KYIV (Reuters) - Russia launched a barrage of missiles and drones on Saturday, damaging energy facilities in five regions across Ukraine, officials said.
Ukraine's national grid operator Ukrenergo said the attack damaged energy facilities in the eastern Donetsk, southeastern Zaporizhzhia, and Dnipropetrovsk regions, central Kyrovohrad region, and Ivano-Frankivsk region in the west.
"Today morning the Russians launched another strike on... (continue reading...)
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