WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Thailand is in a “delicate phase” after its election last month and the U.S. goal is to support an “effective, stable, democratic government” there, the top U.S. official for the Indo-Pacific region said on Tuesday. “We’ve watched carefully the election,” White House Indo-Pacific Coordinator Kurt Campbell told the Hudson Institute think tank….
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 Susan Heavey and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Texas billionaire Harlan Crow’s lawyer has offered to meet with Senate Judiciary Committee staff to discuss the businessman’s ties to conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, but Democratic senators on Tuesday said the Republican donor was refusing to cooperate with legitimate requests for information. Revelations in…
DAKAR (Reuters) -Senegal has temporarily closed its consulates abroad following attacks on diplomatic missions in Bordeaux, Milan, Paris and New York among others, the foreign affairs ministry said on Tuesday. The closures were announced in the wake of deadly unrest that broke out after a leading opposition figure, Ousmane Sonko, was handed a two-year jail…
By Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States imposed sanctions on Tuesday on more than a dozen people and entities in China, Hong Kong and Iran, including Iran’s defense attache in Beijing, over accusations they helped procure parts and technology for key actors in Iran’s ballistic missile development. Earlier on Tuesday, the official IRNA news…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie will seek the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, according to a filing made on Tuesday with U.S. Federal Election Commission. Reuters was not able to immediately confirm the authenticity of the filing. (Reporting by Eric Beech; Editing by Tim Ahmann)
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…
By Brad Brooks (Reuters) – Atlanta’s city council on Tuesday approved funding for a new law enforcement training center that protesters have fought for years due to concerns about heavy-handed policing and the environment, at times engaging in deadly clashes with police. The city council approved building the $90 million Atlanta Public Safety Training Center…
By Viktoriia Lakezina KHERSON, Ukraine (Reuters) – Hundreds of people were evacuated from settlements along the southern stretch of Ukraine’s Dnipro river on Tuesday after water burst through the breached Nova Kakhovka dam, submerging streets, homes and town squares further downstream. The collapse of the barrier at the southern tip of the vast Kakhovka reservoir…
By Sarah Meyssonnier and Layli Foroudi PARIS (Reuters) -French anti-pension reform protesters stormed the headquarters of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on Tuesday as trade unions made a last-gasp attempt to pressure lawmakers into reversing President Emmanuel Macron’s raising of the retirement age. BFM TV broadcast images of several dozen hard-left CGT trade union militants…
