By Guy Faulconbridge (Reuters) – A huge Soviet-era dam on the Dnipro River that separates Russian and Ukrainian forces in southern Ukraine was breached on Tuesday, unleashing floodwaters across the war zone. Ukraine said Russia had destroyed it, while Russia said Ukraine sabotaged it to cut off water supplies to Crimea and distract attention from…
By Duncan Miriri NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya’s economy is expected to grow at a slightly faster pace this year, the World Bank said on Wednesday, underpinned by a recovery in the key agriculture sector. The East African nation’s economy will expand by 5.0% in 2023, the bank said in its latest biannual Kenya Economic Update…
By Ismail Shakil OTTAWA (Reuters) -Authorities in New York, Toronto and Ottawa on Tuesday warned residents about the health risks from air polluted by smoke from unprecedented early summer wildfires in eastern Canada. An unusually early and intense start to wildfire season has set Canada on track for its worst-ever year as warm and dry…
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said investigators plan to conclude its on-scene investigative work Wednesday from the southwest Virginia crash site of the light plane that caused a security scare on Sunday when it flew over heavily restricted airspace near Washington. Four people including the pilot of the…
By Richard Cowan and Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A small group of Republicans in the House of Representatives on Tuesday stopped their leaders’ drive to protect gas-fueled stoves from regulation, raising questions about the party’s ability to advance other legislation this year. The revolt had nothing to do with the kitchen appliances, stemming instead from…
By Viktoriia Lakezina KHERSON, Ukraine (Reuters) – A torrent of water burst through a massive dam on the Dnipro River that separates Russian and Ukrainian forces in southern Ukraine on Tuesday, flooding a swathe of the war zone, forcing villagers to flee and prompting finger-pointing from both sides. Ukraine said Russia had committed a deliberate…
By Matthias Williams, Mark Trevelyan and Gloria Dickie LONDON (Reuters) – The breach of a huge dam on the front-line Dnipro river has muddied the picture for a much-awaited Ukrainian counteroffensive against Russian invaders and threatens an environmental disaster for civilians living in the war zone. Kyiv and Moscow have blamed each other for the…
By Jarrett Renshaw and Stephanie Kelly NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Biden administration will abandon a proposal to include the electric vehicle industry in the U.S. biofuel blending program and withdraw potentially billions of dollars worth of tradable credits that had been attributed to the scheme, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. Reuters…
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Justice secured a settlement in its environmental justice investigation into Houston’s response to illegal dumping in Black and Latino neighborhoods, the department and the city of Houston said separately on Tuesday. The agreement builds on a plan to develop improved waste management services for residents…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A group of about a dozen Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday staged a revolt against their leadership by blocking consideration of a bill related to the regulation of gas-fueled stoves. The move was in retaliation for Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s deal with Democratic President Joe Biden on raising the…
