BUDAPEST, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Hungary's Paks nuclear plant restarted its reactor 3 late on Saturday and the facility could be operating at full capacity by Wednesday, a day or two sooner than expected, Prime Minister Peter Magyar said on Sunday.
The 2-gigawatt plant, which produces nearly half of Hungary's electricity, was forced to cut output to just over 10% earlier this month, barely escaping a full shutdown due to a historic drought and... (continue reading...)
OSLO, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Norway plans to give another 85 billion Norwegian crowns ($9.2 billion) in financial support to Ukraine in the 2027 fiscal year, in line with the amount given in 2026, the Nordic country's government said in a statement on Sunday.
($1 = 9.2875 Norwegian crowns)
(Reporting by Terje Solsvik; Editing by Emelia Sithole-Matarise)
ALMATY, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Kazakhs began voting on Sunday, in a snap parliamentary election that looked set to strengthen President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev's power over the Central Asian country, a major energy and minerals exporter.
The election was triggered by the adoption of a new constitution earlier this year, which streamlines parliament from two chambers into one. Kazakhstan's supreme court said last month that the new constitution allowed... (continue reading...)
KYIV, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Ukraine believes Russia is planning to mobilise an additional 300,000 troops for its war effort after parliamentary elections in September, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said.
In comments to reporters released on Sunday, Zelenskiy added that Russia could draft hundreds of thousands more in 2027 for its key goal of capturing the rest of Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region.
(Reporting by... (continue reading...)
ZURICH, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Christine Lagarde, chief of the European Central Bank, could take over the presidency of the World Economic Forum at some point in 2027, Swiss newspaper NZZ reported on Sunday.
At a board meeting near Geneva this week, Lagarde was reportedly described as a "putative candidate" to lead the organisation behind the annual Davos gathering of political and business leaders. According to sources cited by the newspaper, she also... (continue reading...)
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