By Steven Scheer JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel’s finance minister on Sunday said Moody’s decision to cut the outlook for Israel’s sovereign credit rating was “not a big drama” and reiterated his stance that the government’s plan to overhaul the judiciary would help the economy. But the head of Israel’s securities agency, who weighed in on the…
By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis on Sunday rejected as offensive and unfounded what he called insinuations by the brother of a Vatican schoolgirl who went missing 40 years ago about one of his predecessors as pontiff, Saint John Paul II. Emanuela Orlandi, the daughter of a Vatican usher, failed to return…
By David Ljunggren (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin met Chinese Defence Minister Li Shangfu in Moscow on Sunday and both men hailed military cooperation between the two nations, which have declared a “no limits” partnership. Chinese President Xi Jinping met Putin in Moscow last month. Russia and China have moved to further strengthen their economic,…
(Reuters) -Amazon.com Inc said its cloud computing division Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its voice assistant service Alexa were back online after a brief outage on Sunday. Alexa was down for thousands of users in the United States, according to Downdetector, while hundreds of users reported issues with accessing AWS. Users also reported issues accessing…
(Changes headline, first paragraph to show vaccine was jointly developed) By Julie Steenhuysen and Michael Erman (Reuters) -An experimental mRNA cancer vaccine developed by Moderna Inc and Merck & Co cut the risk of death or recurrence of the most deadly skin cancer by 44% compared with Merck’s immunotherapy Keytruda alone, U.S. researchers reported at…
By Katharine Jackson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A fundraising group supporting Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s potential run for U.S. president on Sunday launched its first attacks on leading rival Donald Trump, questioning the former president’s allegiance to his fellow Republicans. “Trump should fight Democrats, not lie about Governor DeSantis,” the ad stated. “What happened to Donald…
(Reuters) -Amazon.com’s cloud service division Amazon Web Services (AWS) said on Sunday it was investigating an issue where users attempting to access AWS signup were receiving error messages. Hundreds of users reported issues with accessing Amazon Web Services on Sunday, according to outage-tracking website Downdetector.com. Amazon’s voice assistant Alexa was also down for thousands of…
ABU DHABI (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Sunday again proposed establishing a group of countries not involved with the Russia-Ukraine war to broker peace, saying he had discussed the matter with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping earlier this week. “I think we need to sit on a table and say, ‘that’s…
By Humeyra Pamuk and Sakura Murakami KARUIZAWA, Japan (Reuters) -The relationship between China and Europe will be determined by Beijing’s behaviour, including what happens with Taiwan, the European Union’s foreign policy chief said on Sunday. The comments from EU High Representative Josep Borrell, in a remote address at the start of the meeting of the…
By Saurabh Sharma LUCKNOW, India (Reuters) -A former lawmaker in India’s parliament, convicted of kidnapping, was shot dead along with his brother while police were escorting them for a medical check-up in a slaying caught on live television on Saturday. The dramatic footage of the men being killed was shared across broadcast channels and social…
