PRAGUE (Reuters) - The Czech Republic will at some point ask countries for further contributions to its initiative to source ammunition supplies for Ukraine from around the world, Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky said on Friday.
The country said this week that it had contributions of more than 1.6 billion euros and that could cover half a million shells this year.
(Reporting by Jason Hovet; Editing by David Goodman)
By Mike Dolan
LONDON (Reuters) - The optics of sterling hitting its highest since 2016's Brexit referendum after a surprise UK election announcement is hard to ignore - and may suggest hope at margin for a healing of Brexit-related economic damage.
What Washington's Peterson Institute for International Economics described this week as a "self-inflicted wound", Britain's messy exit from the European Union has dogged inward investment, the... (continue reading...)
BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud where the two exchanged views on various subjects including the Ukraine crisis, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Friday.
The two agreed that holding a Ukraine peace conference should have equal participation of all parties, and fair discussion of various proposals. Reuters reported China will not attend a Ukraine peace conference to... (continue reading...)
By Bate Felix and Alexander Winning
MIDRAND, South Africa (Reuters) - South African political parties geared up for coalition talks on Friday as the governing African National Congress (ANC) looked set to fall well short of a majority in this week's election, the first time this has happened in 30 years of democracy.
While the party of the late Nelson Mandela looked likely to remain the largest political force, voters appear to have... (continue reading...)
MIDRAND (Reuters) - An apparent glitch on the website of South Africa's electoral commission on Friday morning meant that the results page stopped updating and went blank.
As of 0612 GMT, the results page showed the vote count as 0% complete after it had previously been showing results from more than 50% of polling stations. The election took place on Wednesday.
Technicians at the results centre in Midrand, north of Johannesburg, said... (continue reading...)
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