By Erwin Seba HOUSTON (Reuters) -A fire at Shell Plc’s Deer Park, Texas chemical plant appeared to be contained by 6 p.m. CDT (2300 GMT), said Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez at a news conference. Five people were taken for evaluation of possible injuries due to exposure to chemicals burned in the fire on an…
By Luc Cohen, Jack Queen and Padraic Halpin NEW YORK/DOONBEG, Ireland (Reuters) -Jurors in Donald Trump’s civil rape trial on Thursday saw a video deposition in which the former U.S. president defended private comments he made in 2005 about grabbing women sexually without asking. Trump was asked by a lawyer for his accuser, the writer…
By Sinéad Carew and Naomi Rovnick NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) – A global gauge of stocks rallied and U.S. Treasuries and gold sold off on Friday as strong U.S. jobs data brightened the economic outlook and traders pared expectations of Federal Reserve easing after a long spate of rate hikes. The non-farms payroll report showed U.S….
By Tilman Blasshofer COLOGNE, Germany (Reuters) – A German artist who is preparing to lay the 100,000th cobblestone commemorating a person who was deported and killed by the Nazis has no intention of giving up making the brass-capped blocks, saying demand is higher than ever. By placing Stolpersteine (“stumble stones”) outside the victims’ last known…
By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) -King Charles greeted excited crowds gathering for his coronation before hosting a reception for world leaders at Buckingham Palace on Friday ahead of what will be the biggest ceremonial event in Britain for 70 years. Charles, 74, and his wife Camilla will be crowned at London’s Westminster Abbey in a…
By Karen Brettell NEW YORK (Reuters) – The dollar gave back earlier gains against the euro but stayed stronger against the yen on Friday after jobs gains and wage growth for April beat economists’ forecasts but showed downward jobs revisions for March. Employers added 253,000 jobs, beating economists’ forecasts for a 180,000 gain. U.S. average…
By Felix Light and Caleb Davis (Reuters) -Russia’s main mercenary group announced plans on Friday to withdraw from the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, but Ukraine said the fighters were reinforcing positions to try to seize it before Russia marks World War Two Victory Day next week. Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin said his men…
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A prominent Russian theatre director was remanded in custody for two months on Friday after being accused of justifying terrorism with an award-winning play about Russian women who married Islamic State fighters, the state news agency TASS reported. Investigators opened a case this week against Yevgenia (Zhenya) Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk,…
By Arpan Chaturvedi and Siddhi Nayak NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian airline Go First’s effort to start insolvency proceedings has become ensnared in a tussle with aircraft lessors after they asked the aviation regulator to deregister some of its planes as a step towards taking them back. India’s first major airline collapse since 2019 underlines…
By Mark Trevelyan, Andrew Osborn and Jonathan Landay LONDON (Reuters) – An extraordinary announcement by Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin that his fighters will abandon the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut looks like an exercise in blame avoidance and disinformation, Russia specialists and military analysts say. But it takes his conflict with defence chiefs to a…
