DAKAR (Reuters) – Senegal’s President Macky Sall on Wednesday said his government would ensure peaceful, free and transparent elections next year following weeks of fresh opposition unrest over fears he might run for a third term and sideline a key rival. Sporadic violent protests have broken out across Senegal since opposition leader Ousmane Sonko was…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden expects to have the debt ceiling bill on his desk by June 5, before the U.S. runs out of money to pay its bills, White House spokesperson Karine Jean Pierre said on Wednesday. (Reporting By Trevor Hunnicutt and Jarrett Renshaw; Editing by Chris Reese)
By Ana Isabel Martinez MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s president took office in late 2018 pledging to boost local output of gasoline while phasing out imports, but so far state refineries have instead set a different course: bumper production of highly-contaminating fuel oil. To make Mexico self-sufficient, leftist resource nationalist President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador…
By Anne Kauranen ROVAJARVI, Finland (Reuters) – NATO countries are in the middle of Arctic military manoeuvres, vowing on Tuesday to defend their newest member, Finland, which is hosting its first joint NATO exercise in the region since becoming the 31st member of the Western alliance in April. The addition of Finland doubles the length…
By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House on Wednesday announced the latest in a series of aid packages for Ukraine that includes up to $300 million worth of air defense systems, ammunition and other defense equipment. The security assistance package represents the 39th drawdown of equipment from the Department of Defense inventories, the…
By Hyonhee Shin and Chang-Ran Kim SEOUL/TOKYO (Reuters) – A North Korean satellite launch on Wednesday ended in failure, sending the booster and payload plunging into the sea, North Korean state media said, and the South’s military said it had recovered parts of the launch vehicle. The new “Chollima-1” satellite launch rocket failed because of…
By Tyler Clifford NEW YORK (Reuters) – Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Tuesday moved to block former President Donald Trump’s attempt to persuade a federal court to take over a state criminal case in which he is charged with falsifying business records connected to a hush money payment allegedly made prior to the 2016…
By Guy Faulconbridge and Pavel Polityuk MOSCOW/KYIV (Reuters) – Ukrainian drones struck wealthy districts of Moscow on Tuesday, Russia said in what one politician called the most dangerous attack on the capital since World War Two, while Kyiv was also hit from the air for the third time in 24 hours. Since Russia sent tens…
By Philip Blenkinsop LULEA, Sweden (Reuters) – EU tech chief Margrethe Vestager said on Wednesday she believed a draft code of conduct on artificial intelligence (AI) could be drawn up within weeks, allowing industry to commit to a final proposal “very, very soon”. Policymakers and many in the industry have expressed concern about AI, particularly…
(Adds dropped word in second paragraph to clarify Krebs was interviewed) WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. special counsel investigating former President Donald Trump and efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss are examining his firing of a cybersecurity official whose office said the vote was secure, the New York Times said on Wednesday. Special Counsel…
