By Fatos Bytyci PRISTINA (Reuters) -Kosovo’s prime minister on Tuesday presented a plan to defuse tensions in its Serb-majority north that would include fresh local elections and cuts in special police, bowing to pressure from key Western supporters of its independence. But the arrest the same day of a Serb identified by the Kosovo Albanian…
NAIROBI (Reuters) – The death toll from a Kenyan starvation cult crossed 300 on Tuesday after authorities exhumed more bodies in a forest, in one of the worst cult-related tragedies in recent history. Authorities say the dead were members of the Good News International Church, led by Paul Mackenzie, who is accused of ordering his…
By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Federal Reserve officials for months have been counting on slower-rising U.S. housing prices to help in their efforts to control inflation, and there are good reasons to think that may happen soon. An oft-cited index of real-time leases prepared by real estate firm Zillow, for example, shows rental inflation…
By Phil Noble and Sachin Ravikumar NOTTINGHAM (Reuters) -British police said a man had been arrested on suspicion of murder after three people were found dead on the street in the central English city of Nottingham on Tuesday and three were injured after an attempt to run them over with a van. Detectives said they…
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – A group of U.S. lawmakers is calling for a U.S.-Africa trade summit planned for later this year to be moved from South Africa in response to what they said was the country’s “deepening military relationship” with Russia. In a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other senior officials, they…
By Brendan O’Brien CHICAGO (Reuters) – Illinois has become the first state to legislate against the banning of books in public libraries, a practice that has been on the rise across the United States as conservatives look to suppress some books dealing with race, history and LGBTQ topics. Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, a Democrat, signed…
By Granth Vanaik, Shankar Ramakrishnan and Matt Tracy (Reuters) -The pain is getting deeper for San Francisco as the owners of one of the biggest shopping centers in the city decided to walk away after 20 years, in the face of declining sales, occupancy and foot traffic. Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield said late on Monday it will transfer…
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss NEW YORK (Reuters) – Hedge fund Arex Capital Management is urging Enhabit to put itself up for sale and wants the home health and hospice provider to begin a strategic review to help reverse a 50% slide in its share price, according to a letter seen by Reuters. Enhabit is already interviewing…
By Aida Pelaez-Fernandez MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Latin America is increasingly seen as an attractive market for mergers and acquisitions (M&A), with the ongoing U.S.-China trade spat helping to whet investor appetite for opportunities in the region, a KPMG survey of executives showed on Monday. The survey of nearly 400 executives across 14 countries globally…
By Sarah Marsh, Supantha Mukherjee and Andreas Rinke BERLIN/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – The European Union is set to urge Germany to do more to reduce its use of Huawei gear in its 5G network when Brussels publishes a progress report in coming days, ahead of talks between Berlin and Beijing, two sources familiar with the matter…
