ABUJA (Reuters) – West Africa’s regional bloc ECOWAS on Sunday gave Niger coup leaders one week to reinstate ousted President Mohammed Bazoum or face sanctions and the possible use of force. The regional leaders meeting in Nigeria’s capital Abuja said punitive measures against Niger’s new military leaders could include financial and travel sanctions and a…
By David Randall NEW YORK (Reuters) -A resilient U.S. economy and expectations of a nearing peak in the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy tightening cycle are emboldening stock investors, even as worries persist over rising valuations and the potential for inflation to rebound. The S&P 500 is up nearly 19% this year after gaining around 1%…
By Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) – Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who has sometimes raised the spectre of a nuclear conflict over Ukraine, said on Sunday that Moscow would have to use a nuclear weapon if Kyiv’s ongoing counter-offensive was a success. Medvedev, who is deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, a body chaired by…
By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A top Israeli lawmaker said on Sunday that any forging of relations with Saudi Arabia did not appear imminent, citing what he described as sticking points in negotiations currently being held between Riyadh and U.S. mediators. U.S. President Joe Biden, having dispatched his national security adviser to Saudi Arabia…
BEIJING (Reuters) -Northern China on Sunday braced for potential floods from the Doksuri storm that caused havoc in southern areas, with residents in Beijing warned not to go outside due to expected record rains. Doksuri, though downgraded from a typhoon earlier in the day, is one of the strongest storms to hit China in years…
By Tommy Wilkes LONDON (Reuters) – Banks working to develop global standards on accounting for carbon emissions in bond or stock sale underwriting have voted to exclude most of these emissions from their own carbon footprint, three people familiar with the matter said. The majority of banks comprising an industry working group backed a plan…
(Corrects to remove erroneous Refinitiv Instrument Code) (Reuters) -Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken said on Sunday that issues with cryptocurrency Ethereum’s funding gateway have been resolved. “All systems operational,” Kraken said on its status page, without giving details on what caused the issue. Kraken had said early on Sunday that it was investigating an issue with the…
By Jarrett Renshaw BOSTON (Reuters) – Vice President Kamala Harris has shown a punchy side during a tour of nearly a dozen U.S. states in recent weeks, attacking Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for backing “revisionist history” about slavery, telling Iowa healthcare workers to rebel against the state’s new restrictive abortion laws and rallying Latinos in…
DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi Arabian Mining Company, known as Ma’aden, has agreed to acquire a 10% stake in Brazil’s base metals company Vale, it said in a bourse statement on Sunday, as part of a strategy to invest in global mining assets. Ma’aden, through Manara, its joint venture established with the Public Investment Fund, on…
