By Philip Pullella ROME (Reuters) -Pope Francis spent a restful first day after abdominal surgery and his post-operative recovery was proceeding as expected, with bloodwork and respiratory levels stable, the Vatican said on Thursday. The 86-year-old pope is on a liquid diet and was well enough to receive communion and make a telephone call, said…
By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The World Bank Group’s new president, Ajay Banga, will visit Peru and Jamaica next week, kicking off a months-long global tour aimed at accelerating the global lender’s evolution to tackle the climate crisis and reinvigorate its development mission, the World Bank said on Thursday. Banga, a former Mastercard CEO…
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – The former JPMorgan Chase & Co executive accused of shepherding the bank’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein formally denied involvement in the disgraced financier’s sex trafficking, and blamed JPMorgan for keeping him as a client. In Wednesday night filings in Manhattan federal court, Jes Staley said his dealings with…
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s annual inflation rate slowed in May for a fourth consecutive month to 5.84%, data from statistics agency INEGI showed on Thursday, beating forecasts and continuing a downward trend spurred by a long cycle of rate hikes. Headline inflation came in below a forecast of 5.90% and is now at its…
By Belén Carreño, Anthony Boadle and Michel Rose MADRID/BRASILIA/PARIS (Reuters) – Spain will appeal to President Emmanuel Macron’s ambition to make the European Union a “third pole” in world affairs in its bid to secure vital French backing for a stalled EU trade deal with South America, according to three senior government and diplomatic sources….
By Gabriel Burin BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – An expected fall in Mexico’s peso will likely be cushioned by its favorable interest rate spread, although there is a wide range of views on the currency’s prospects over the coming year, a Reuters poll of foreign exchange strategists showed. This week the peso extended a winning run…
(Reuters) – Meta Platforms on Thursday introduced WhatsApp Channels, a feature that the social media giant said would help make the app a “private broadcast messaging product.” Users in Colombia and Singapore will be the first to receive access to Channels. Over the coming months, Meta will expand the availability of the tool for users…
BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) -China’s largest commercial property developer Dalian Wanda Group on Thursday said it is appealing a court decision to freeze 1.9 billion yuan ($266.23 million) worth of shares it owns in a subsidiary. The group in a statement said it “is confident it will defend its legitimate rights”. Two Shanghai court notices dated…
By Nelson Renteria SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) -El Salvador’s president signed into law an electoral reform on Wednesday that reduces the size of Congress by nearly a third, a move the ruling party says will reduce spending and critics say consolidates power ahead of elections. The reform, announced last week by President Nayib Bukele in an…
LIMA (Reuters) – A group of indigenous protesters in Peru’s remote Amazon region attacked two oil tankers with gasoline bombs apparently because they are angry about changes by the government to social oil funds, the operator of the vessels said on Wednesday. A dozen crew members from both tankers, one of which contained 40,000 barrels…
