MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico will present a program this week to give Central Americans temporary visas to work on public infrastructure projects, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Monday. Such projects require more people such as welders, iron-workers and engineers, Lopez Obrador told his regular daily news conference. “We need a workforce for these…
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden on Monday said he plans to nominate attorney Anna Gomez for a key fifth seat on the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC), after Democrats had been stymied since 2021 from gaining a majority on the five-member telecommunications regulator. Gomez, a Democratic telecommunications attorney, currently serves as…
By Martin Coulter and Supantha Mukherjee LONDON/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – As the race to develop more powerful artificial intelligence services like ChatGPT accelerates, some regulators are relying on old laws to control a technology that could upend the way societies and businesses operate. The European Union is at the forefront of drafting new AI rules that…
By Angeliki Koutantou and Karolina Tagaris ATHENS (Reuters) – Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis declined to seek a coalition on Monday following this weekend’s inconclusive election, paving the way for a second vote in June that he hopes his conservative party will win outright. New Democracy won 40.8% of the vote versus 20.1% for the…
By Michael S. Derby NEW YORK (Reuters) – Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President Mary Daly on Monday said it would be quite surprising for the central bank to get inflation under control without causing some amount of job loss. “It would be a historical anomaly and quite a feat” to get inflation back…
(Reuters) -The inflation wave that crested at a 40-year high last year and remains elevated has eroded U.S. households’ sense of financial security, the Federal Reserve reported Monday, with many saying they had reduced their savings to make ends meet, felt less secure about retirement, and had delayed purchases or swapped into cheaper products as…
By Padraic Halpin DUBLIN (Reuters) -Meta was hit with a record 1.2 billion euro ($1.3 billion) fine by its lead European Union privacy regulator over its handling of user information and given five months to stop transferring users’ data to the United States. The fine, imposed by Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner (DPC), came after Meta…
By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s government on Monday suspended a national ceasefire with the Estado Mayor Central (EMC) armed group in some provinces, following the murder of four Indigenous teenagers. The move to reactivate military offensives against the EMC in the country’s southeast is the latest hiccup in leftist President Gustavo Petro’s…
By Timothy Gardner (Reuters) – A transgender Mississippi girl declined to participate in high school graduation on Saturday after a U.S. District Judge said the school district could bar her unless she dressed in clothes required for boys, a lawyer for the girl said. U.S. District Judge Taylor McNeel, an appointee of former Republican President…
By Aleksandar Vasovic BELGRADE (Reuters) – After Serbia was rocked by two mass shootings in two days earlier in May, Branko, 54, surrendered his unlicensed arms under a government amnesty: four assault rifles, nine handguns, eight grenades and many boxes of ammunition. The huge cache of weapons handed over by just one veteran of the…
