ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Diplomats are calling on Ethiopia ’s federal authorities and their rivals in the northern region of Tigray to agree to a cease-fire as heavy fighting raises growing humanitarian fears. African Union Commission Chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat expressed “grave concern” in a statement Sunday over the fighting and called for an…
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s Economy Minister Sergio Massa said on Sunday the government will give workers tax relief from November by raising the threshold at which income tax is charged, as the country battles with soaring inflation. “It will take effect from Nov. 1, it will be above 330,000 pesos ($2,176),” Massa said in…
ROME (AP) — Italy’s far-right political leadership marked the 79th anniversary of the World War II roundup of Rome’s Jews on Sunday with calls for such horror to never occur again, messages that took on greater significance following a national election won by a party with neo-fascist roots. Giorgia Meloni, who is expected to head…
AMASRA, Turkey (AP) — “My one and only, where are you,” a mother cried at a cemetery beside a freshly-laid mound of earth. She couldn’t process the death of her 33-year-old son who was killed in a coal mine explosion in northern Turkey. Selcuk Ayvaz was among the first to be buried, following a funeral…
PARIS (AP) — Thousands of protesters, including France’s newly crowned Nobel literature laureate, piled into the streets of Paris on Sunday, in a show of anger against the bite of rising prices and cranking up pressure on the government of President Emmanuel Macron. The march for wage increases and other demands was organized by left-wing…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – White House economic adviser Cecilia Rouse said on Sunday that Federal Reserve interest rate hikes were starting to cool the “red-hot” U.S. economy, especially labor and housing markets, but inflation was still too high. Rouse, who chairs the White House Council of Economic Advisers, told CNN that the Biden administration would work…
VALLETTA, Malta (AP) — Malta on Sunday marked the fifth anniversary of the car bomb slaying of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia with calls for justice, just two days after two key suspects reversed course and pleaded guilty to murder on the first day of their trial. Caruana Galizia’s relatives, Maltese activists and the Maltese…
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Pro-Kremlin officials on Sunday blamed Ukraine for a rocket attack that struck the mayor’s office in Donetsk, a city controlled by the separatists, while Ukrainian officials said Russian rocket strikes hit a town across from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, among other targets. The attacks came as Russia’s war in Ukraine…
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Lufthansa’s budget division Eurowings said on Sunday that more than half of its passengers will reach their planned destinations despite a pilots strike planned for this week. For Monday, the first day of the three-day strike, more than 230 of the some 400 planned Eurowings flights will take place, the airline said….
By Kirstin Ridley and Carolyn Cohn LONDON (Reuters) – Hargreaves Lansdown, a top British investment platform, has been hit by a multi-million pound lawsuit over the failure of fallen star manager Neil Woodford’s equity income fund, which left hundreds of thousands of investors nursing losses. Claims management firm RGL said it had filed the claim…
