WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen called on Monday for declassifying a government report on the death of Al Jazeera’s Shireen Abu Akleh, a Palestinian-American journalist who was shot and killed while covering an Israeli army raid last year. One of the most recognizable journalists covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for two decades, Abu…
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s central bank chief Roberto Campos Neto said on Monday that long-term inflation expectations, which have long concerned policymakers, would start to decline and pointed to a clearer economic environment. “We still have a problem with long-term inflation expectations, which are high. We understand that they should start to fall too,” Campos…
By Edward McAllister and Diadie Ba DAKAR (Reuters) -Elhaji Cisse was busy on Friday, the day he was killed, tweeting hundreds of times as riots erupted beyond the walls of his compound in a busy suburb of Senegal’s capital Dakar. In one post, the 26-year-old student warned his 1,700 followers about security forces firing live…
By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) – Moscow said on Monday it had thwarted a major offensive against its forces in eastern Ukraine, although it was unclear whether the attack formed the beginning of Ukraine’s long-anticipated counteroffensive. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was enigmatic in his nightly video, hailing “the news we have been waiting for” in…
By Ryan Woo and Michael Martina BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A senior U.S. diplomat held candid and productive talks on Monday with Chinese officials, the State Department said, despite some criticism that his visit to China coincided with the anniversary of Beijing’s 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. The visit to Beijing by Daniel Kritenbrink, assistant secretary of state…
By Khalid Abdelaziz and Mohamed Nureldin KHARTOUM (Reuters) -Shelling and heavy clashes hit areas of Sudan’s capital on Monday, residents said, with reports of spreading lawlessness in Khartoum and in the western region of Darfur after more than seven weeks of conflict between rival military factions. Fighting between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support…
By Nandita Bose and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Elon Musk on Monday hosted Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the anti-vaccine activist and long-shot Democratic presidential hopeful, in his second Twitter Spaces event for a 2024 White House candidate. But unlike Republican Ron DeSantis’s glitch-plagued campaign launch on Twitter in May, the live audio chat with…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said on Monday she is not vying for NATO’s top job, after an Oval Office sit-down with U.S. President Joe Biden and a separate meeting with CIA Director William Burns. “I’ve have said before that I am not a candidate for any other job than the one…
By Max Hunder KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine has enough weapons to begin its counter-offensive against Russia, and the operation will give the country the victory it needs to join NATO, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told Reuters on Monday. Membership of the military alliance would “probably” only be possible for Ukraine after the end of active…
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Republican head of a U.S. House of Representatives panel said he will seek to hold FBI Director Christopher Wray in contempt of Congress over what he said was a failure to hand over information on President Joe Biden’s family dealings. “We will now initiate contempt of Congress…
