By Ali Kucukgocmen ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan held his last election rallies in Istanbul on Saturday, accusing the opposition of working with U.S. President Joe Biden to topple him while making a final appeal ahead of the biggest challenge to his 20-year rule. Polls show Erdogan trailing the main opposition candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu…
By Philip Pullella and Gavin Jones VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy asked Pope Francis on Saturday to back Kyiv’s peace plan, and the pope indicated the Vatican would help in the repatriation of Ukrainian children taken by Russians. “It is a great honour,” Zelenskiy told Francis, putting his hand to his heart and…
GAZA/CAIRO (Reuters) – Israel and Gaza militant groups have agreed to an Egyptian-mediated ceasefire that will start at 2200 local (1900 GMT), two Palestinian officials told Reuters. There was no immediate comment from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu or other officials. Cairo called on all sides to adhere to the agreement, Egypt’s Al-Qahera News television…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden said on Saturday that talks with Congress on raising the U.S. government’s debt limit were moving along and more will be known about their progress in the next two days. “I think they are moving along, hard to tell. We have not reached the crunch point yet,” Biden told…
(Reuters) -Amazon.com Inc said it has optimized its delivery network coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, allowing it to increase delivery speeds and lower costs, while also reducing the ecommerce giant’s carbon emissions. The online retailer on Saturday said it has reduced delivery times, reshaped its inventory management system as well as search capabilities to…
(Reuters) -Amazon.com Inc said it has optimized its delivery network coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, allowing it to increase delivery speeds and lower costs, while also reducing the ecommerce giant’s carbon emissions. The online retailer on Saturday said it has reduced delivery times, reshaped its inventory management system as well as search capabilities to…
By Daniel Trotta TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) – Lupita, a 36-year-old Mexican woman from the state of Michoacan, has spent three months in a shelter, waiting to apply for asylum in the United States. She wears some of the evidence for her case: bullet wounds about her arms, shoulder and abdomen. Since March 2020, when broad…
(Reuters) – BlackRock Inc Chief Executive Officer Larry Fink has been preparing five key leaders to take his role whenever he decides to step down in the future, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday. Though Fink has no imminent plans to retire, he along with President Robert Kapito has been training these candidates for…
(Reuters) – BlackRock Inc Chief Executive Officer Larry Fink has been preparing five key leaders to take his role whenever he decides to step down in the future, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday. Though Fink has no imminent plans to retire, he along with President Robert Kapito has been training these candidates for…
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s flagship airline Avianca is backing down from a merger with Viva Air, blaming conditions set by the country’s aviation regulator, the company announced Saturday. In a statement, Avianca said conditions set by the regulator “would not allow Viva to be a financially and operationally viable airline,” and also put Avianca’s stability…
