By Jorge Otaola BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -The Argentine government will send a delegation next week to Washington in a bid to finalize the renegotiation of its $44 billion loan with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), a source involved in the talks told Reuters on Friday. The delegation had initially planned to travel as early as…
By Daniel Trotta and Brad Brooks (Reuters) – A federal judge on Friday sentenced a white supremacist to 90 consecutive life terms in prison for a 2019 shooting in which he killed 23 people and wounded 22 others at a Texas Walmart while targeting Hispanics, according to court records and prosecutors. The sentencing by U.S….
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Eighteen people were taken to hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries after a double-decker tour bus collided with a New York City commuter bus on Thursday evening in Manhattan, according to the city’s fire department. The front windows of a double-decker TopView tour bus were shattered in the collision with the rear of…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. has destroyed the last of its declared chemical weapons stockpile, President Joe Biden said on Friday, bringing to an end a decades-long effort to eliminate the deadly weapons first used on a large scale in World War One. As part of the Chemical Weapons Convention, which was ratified by the…
By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -Robots presented at an AI forum said on Friday they expected to increase in number and help solve global problems, and would not steal humans’ jobs or rebel against us. But, in the world’s first human-robot press conference, they gave mixed responses on whether they should submit to stricter regulation….
By David Carnevali NEW YORK (Reuters) – Barclays Plc has hired Jim Birchenough from Wells Fargo & Co as its chairman of global healthcare investment banking, a spokesperson for the British bank confirmed, after Reuters reported on the appointment on Friday. Birchenough last served as vice chairman of biopharma investment banking at Wells Fargo. A…
By Bart H. Meijer and Anthony Deutsch AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -The Dutch government collapsed on Friday after failing to reach a deal on restricting immigration, which will trigger new elections in the fall. The crisis was triggered by a push by Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s conservative VVD party to limit the flow of asylum seekers to…
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A senior U.S. diplomat will travel to India in the coming days and engage with its civil society over free speech and marginalization of minorities, after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent U.S. visit when he denied that abuse of religious minorities existed in his country. Uzra Zeya, U.S….
By Sinéad Carew NEW YORK (Reuters) – MSCI’s global equity index ended Friday’s session virtually unchanged while the dollar was lower as government data showed that U.S. jobs growth slowed more than expected in June, easing worries about the outlook for Federal Reserve rate hikes. But while investors appeared to hold out hope for a…
(Reuters) – Bank credit for U.S. commercial banks expanded slightly in the last week of June, even as commercial and industrial lending ticked down, Federal Reserve data released on Friday showed. Bank credit rose to $17.31 trillion in the week ending June 28, from $17.29 trillion a week earlier, on a non-seasonally adjusted basis. On…
