PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Violence by armed gangs has fallen “drastically” since the emergence of a vigilante justice movement that has seen at least 160 suspected criminals killed in the last month, a report by local human rights research group CARDH said on Sunday. The situation in the Caribbean country remains extremely volatile as heavily armed…
By Laura Matthews and Chibuike Oguh (Reuters) – Global investors are gaming out how a tentative deal to raise the United States debt ceiling could ripple through markets, as lawmakers face a difficult path to pass the agreement through Congress before the June 5 deadline. A deal to lift the $31.4 trillion debt limit announced…
By Khalid Abdelaziz DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia and the United States called on Sunday for the extension of a ceasefire deal that has brought some let-up in a six-week war between military factions, but said both sides had impeded aid efforts and were posturing for further escalation. Clashes could be heard overnight and on…
By Shrivathsa Sridhar and Julien Pretot PARIS (Reuters) -The famously fickle Paris crowd made themselves heard on the opening day of the French Open, booing when Ukraine’s Marta Kostyuk refused to shake hands after her first-round defeat by Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus on Sunday. Stefanos Tsitsipas, the runner-up in Paris in 2021, was later dragged…
By Andrew Hay TAOS, New Mexico (Reuters) -A biker was charged with murder after a shootout between rival motorbike gangs at a motorcycle rally in Red River, northern New Mexico, on Saturday in which three gang members were killed and five wounded, police said. Members of the Bandidos and Waterdogs groups traded gunfire around 5:00…
By Moira Warburton, Diane Bartz and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy predicted on Sunday that a majority of his fellow Republicans would support the deal to suspend the $31.4 trillion debt ceiling that he negotiated at the weekend with President Joe Biden. Hours later, the Democratic president said he was…
By Steve Holland and Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden and Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Saturday reached an agreement in principle to lift the debt ceiling that would trim some U.S. federal spending. While the bill is still being written, the general contours of the deal have been described by…
By Sabine Siebold BRUSSELS (Reuters) -NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg called on Kosovo to tone down tensions with Serbia on Sunday, two days after clashes between Kosovan police and protesters who are opposed to Albanian mayors taking office in ethnic Serbian areas. Stoltenberg, the transatlantic military alliance’s Norwegian secretary-general, said he had spoken to European Union…
By Miranda Murray CANNES (Reuters) -French director Justine Triet became the third female director to win the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or on Saturday, beating out 20 other films in competition for the top prize. Triet called being only the third woman to win “surprising” and said the decision was encouraging for the future. “We’re…
By Ann Saphir (Reuters) -Chicago Federal Reserve Bank President Austan Goolsbee on Sunday welcomed news of a deal to suspend the U.S. debt ceiling, saying failure to forge an agreement would be “extremely negative” for the financial system and broader economy. Interviewed on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” he declined to say whether he would support…
