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…
TEL AVIV (Reuters) -Tens of thousands of flag-waving Israelis renewed their protests nationwide after sundown on Saturday, capping a week of turmoil in which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pushed through a highly contested law that limited some Supreme Court power. From a remote intersection among the lush hills of the northern Galilee to the avenues…
(Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that an African initiative could be a basis for peace in Ukraine but that Ukrainian attacks made it hard to realise. He was speaking at a press conference after meeting African leaders in St Petersburg on Friday and hearing their calls for Moscow to move ahead…
(Reuters) – Social media platform X reinstated account of Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, on Saturday, after it was suspended nearly eight months ago because the rapper had violated the platform’s rules prohibiting incitement to violence. Ye’s account now shows his last post from Dec. 1, a day prior to when his…
(Reuters) – The Moroccan economy registered growth of 1.3% in 2022, slowing down from the 8% growth registered in 2021, the central bank said late on Saturday. Abdellatif Jouahri, Governor of Bank Al-Maghrib presented the figures to King Mohammed VI during a reception at the Royal Palace of Tetouan, according to a bank press release….
By Ludwig Burger and Maggie Fick FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Novo Nordisk has launched blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy in Germany, its first big European market, hoping Germans will pay hundreds of euros out of pocket for a drug that public health insurance plans are so far barred from covering. The drug, shown to help patients reduce…
(This July 28 story has been refiled to remove the garbling in paragraph 2) By Michael S. Derby (Reuters) – Less tight financial conditions as exhibited by the red-hot stock market may increase the chances that the Federal Reserve hikes rates again before the end of the year, some economists reckon, even as financial markets…
(Reuters) – Canadian Labor Minister Seamus O’Regan said on Saturday he could impose a new collective agreement or a final binding agreement on striking dock workers following their rejection of a proposed labor contract. O’Regan said he had directed the Canada Industrial Relations Board to determine whether the rejection of the tentative agreement by the…
MAGDEBURG, Germany (Reuters) – Thousands took to the streets to protest against the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) on Friday and Saturday as the party held a convention to choose its candidates for European parliamentary elections next year. Protesters outside the conference venue in the city of Magdeburg waved banners with messages like “stand together…
