By Luc Cohen (Reuters) – Here are five takeaways from Friday’s indictment accusing former U.S. President Donald Trump of illegally retaining classified government documents after leaving the White House and then conspiring to obstruct a federal probe of the matter. TRUMP KEPT DOCUMENTS ON MILITARY, NUCLEAR PROGRAMS Documents kept at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida…
BELGRADE (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Serbians joined an anti-government protest in Belgrade on Friday for the sixth time since May 3, blaming a culture of violence for the deaths of 18 people in two mass shootings and calling on the interior minister to resign. Chanting “(Serbian President Aleksandar) Vucic out!” and holding a…
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – Indicted U.S. Representative George Santos on Friday appealed a ruling requiring that the identities of two people who guaranteed his $500,000 bail be disclosed, saying that releasing their names could threaten their safety. In a letter to U.S. District Judge Joanna Seybert, Santos’ lawyer Joseph Murray said the…
LONDON (Reuters) – Goldman Sachs said on Friday the appointments of Mehmet Simsek as Turkish finance minister and Hafize Gaye Erkan as central bank governor suggested a widespread understanding in the new administration that monetary and fiscal adjustments were needed. The Wall Street bank, in an overhaul to a number of its forecasts for Turkey,…
By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The indictment of former President Donald Trump on multiple charges related to his handling of classified documents on Thursday has thrust the Justice Department back into the center of the Republican presidential primary campaign. Several candidates have called for major reforms at the department, and most have accused the…
(Reuters) – A U.S. federal court unsealed an indictment against Donald Trump on Friday detailing 37 charges against the former president for retaining classified government documents after he left office in 2021. (Reporting by Sarah N. Lynch)
MOSCOW (Reuters) – VTB, Russia’s second largest bank, will sell its stake in one of Russia’s biggest grain traders, Demetra-Holding, and is in negotiations with both Russian and foreign buyers, CEO Andrei Kostin told Reuters in an interview. Demetra has a network of grain elevators, major deep sea grain terminals and its own logistics. It…
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian state-owned lender VTB will see profit of “not less” than 400 billion roubles ($4.9 billion) in 2023 after a bumper first five months of the year and a record loss last year, CEO Andrei Kostin told Reuters in an interview. Profit in the first five months of this year totalled 239…
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. House committee will take up a aviation bill next week that would bar airlines from charging family seating fees but would not set minimum seat size requirements or impose new rules to compensate delays. The leaders of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee unveiled a nearly 800-page proposal…
By Michel Rose PARIS (Reuters) – The knife attack on toddlers in a French Alpine town, suspected to have been carried out by a Syrian refugee, has thrown a spotlight on President Emmanuel Macron’s struggles to find support for a new immigration bill in a fragmented parliament. France was still in shock a day after…
