By Wayne Cole SYDNEY (Reuters) – The head of Australia’s central bank suffered an early end to his 43-year career on Friday as past missteps in pandemic policy so tested public trust in the institution that the government felt compelled to drop him. If there’s a moral to the tale of Reserve Bank of Australia…
By Jonathan Spicer and Huseyin Hayatsever ANKARA (Reuters) -Canada has unfrozen talks with Turkey on lifting export controls on drone parts after Ankara gave its nod for Sweden to join NATO, a person familiar with the talks said, a move seen as one of several concessions won in exchange for the Turkish blessing. President Tayyip…
By Wayne Cole SYDNEY (Reuters) – The head of Australia’s central bank will not be reappointed for a second term as the Labor government seeks a new pair of hands for an institution scarred by criticism over sharply rising interest rates, several media outlets reported on Friday. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Treasurer Jim…
By Sofia Menchu GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – Guatemala’s top court on Thursday suspended an order barring the party of anti-graft candidate Bernardo Arevalo from running for the presidency, after a flood of international criticism that the country’s democracy was in jeopardy. The Constitutional Court said it had granted a provisional injunction filed by the Semilla…
(Reuters) – A New York appeals court on Thursday ordered a redrawing of the state’s congressional map, handing a victory to Democrats hoping to retake control of the closely divided U.S. House of Representatives in the 2024 election. The 3-2 decision by Appellate Division in the state capital of Albany reversed a lower court ruling,…
By Nandita Bose and David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democratic U.S. Senator Joe Manchin said on Thursday he would oppose the nomination of Julie Su as labor secretary, arguing her “progressive background” would prevent her from forging compromises between labor and industry representatives. Manchin said in a statement the labor secretary “should have the experience to…
By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers on Thursday pushed to include a provision allowing medical research of psychedelic drugs as part of a sweeping annual defense policy bill, saying it could help treat post-traumatic stress disorder and other ailments despite possible concerns. “These are powerful substances, I don’t want…
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States has banned former Panamanian President Juan Carlos Varela Rodriguez from entering the U.S. for his “involvement in significant corruption,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday. “Today, I am announcing the designation of former Panamanian President, Juan Carlos Varela Rodriguez as generally ineligible for entry…
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner was among several witnesses to testify before a grand jury in recent weeks about the former president’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, the New York Times reported on Thursday, citing sources. Testifying at a federal courthouse in Washington last month, Kushner, a former White…
By David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The foreign minister of the Marshall Islands called on Thursday for more U.S. money to deal with the legacy of massive U.S. nuclear testing to enable the renewal of a strategic agreement governing bilateral relations. Marshall Islanders are still plagued by health and environmental effects of 67 U.S. nuclear bomb…
