By Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States on Wednesday adjourned Sudan talks because the format was not succeeding in the way they wanted, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Molly Phee said on Thursday. Saudi Arabia and the U.S. have brokered ceasefires between Sudan’s army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF)…
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – Former Guatemalan first lady Sandra Torres leads her competitors in the Central American country’s presidential race, according to a poll published Thursday by newspaper Prensa Libre, the last before Sunday’s election. Torres, a third-time presidential contender whose late husband President Alvaro Colom governed from 2008 to 2012, drew 21.3% of voter…
(Reuters) – The U.S. Coast Guard on Thursday said a debris field was discovered within the search area by a remotely operated vehicle near the Titanic. Experts within the unified command were evaluating the information, the Coast Guard said. (Reporting by Gursimran Kaur in Bengaluru; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -JPMorgan Chase has been fined $4 million by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission after about 47 million emails belonging to its retail banking group were mistakenly and permanently deleted. The emails dated from Jan. 1 to April 23, 2018, and were deleted in June 2019 from about 8,700…
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s top electoral court on Thursday decided to adjourn a trial that could leave former President Jair Bolsonaro in the political wilderness for nearly a decade, with the session set to be resumed on Tuesday of next week. Bolsonaro, a far-right nationalist who in October narrowly lost Brazil’s most fraught election in…
By David Milliken and Suban Abdulla LONDON (Reuters) -The Bank of England surprised many investors by raising interest rates half a percentage point on Thursday, saying there had been “significant” news suggesting Britain’s persistently high inflation would take even longer to fall. The BoE’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) voted 7-2 to raise its main interest…
By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Half of Americans believe U.S. President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, received preferential treatment from prosecutors who reached a deal that would allow the younger Biden to plead guilty to tax charges but avoid a gun-related conviction, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found. The two-day poll that closed on Wednesday showed…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China’s ambassador to Washington has protested remarks President Joe Biden made about Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Wednesday, and its embassy said the United States should act immediately to undo the negative impact or bear all the consequences. China was enraged after Biden referred to Xi Jinping as a “dictator” at a…
By Karol Badohal and Supantha Mukherjee WROCLAW, Poland/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Poland’s third-largest city Wroclaw beat rivals last week to be home to the next multi-billion dollar Intel chip factory in Europe, with a two-year campaign promising subsidies, infrastructure, talent and a slice of American life. In the face of an unprecedented semiconductor shortage, Europe is…
(Corrects acronym of project to ‘ELMED’ in paragraph 3) TUNIS (Reuters) – The World Bank Group has lent Tunisia $268.4 million to finance an electrical interconnection project with Italy that will link energy networks between Tunisia and Europe, TAP state news agency said on Thursday. The agreement ends a temporary pause in the bank’s work…
