By Aziz El Yaakoubi and Samia Nakhoul JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was given a warm welcome at an Arab summit on Friday, winning a hug from Saudi Arabia’s crown prince at a meeting of leaders who had shunned him for years, in a policy shift opposed by the U.S. and…
By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Biden administration has supported for the second time in a week the Mountain Valley natural gas pipeline, a project a key Democratic senator has pushed in legislation to speed permitting of fossil fuel and power transmission projects. Equitrans Midstream Corp’s $6.6 billion Mountain Valley Pipeline has been opposed…
By Leah Douglas (Reuters) -Three employees of the largest agricultural research facility in the U.S. have filed federal whistleblower complaints alleging that the facility’s conditions are hazardous to workers and undermine their research, even as farmers are facing pressing issues like climate change, according to documents reviewed by Reuters and interviews with staff. The Beltsville…
By Ivan Lyubysh-Kirdey NEAR BAKHMUT, Ukraine (Reuters) -Ukraine said on Friday it had repelled attacks by Russian forces trying to recapture land they had lost around the devastated eastern city of Bakhmut, where Kyiv says it has inflicted heavy Russian casualties. Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Russian Wagner private army that is leading the…
By Ernest Scheyder (Reuters) – The U.S. Forest Service has told a federal court it is not sure when it could approve a land swap allowing Rio Tinto Plc to develop the Resolution Copper mine in Arizona, a surprising reversal that boosts several Native American groups opposed to the project. The complex case involves a…
By Noe Torres MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The Mexican peso could remain the top performer among major global currencies in the coming weeks, despite Mexico’s central bank choosing to halt a nearly two-year rate-hike cycle, analysts said. The currency traded at 17.40 per dollar this week, its strongest in seven years, and experts believe the…
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilian Finance Minister Fernando Haddad said on Friday that a change in the timeline for meeting the inflation target will be discussed with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, countering the current calendar-year target model, which he deemed unnecessarily restrictive. Speaking on the sidelines of a seminar hosted by the central…
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Ghana’s Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta said on Friday that the first $600 million tranche of a $3 billion, three-year extended credit facility has been received. The funds will be used for budget support and help bring down inflation, Ofori-Atta said on Twitter. The International Monetary Fund’s executive board on Wednesday approved the…
By Tim McLaughlin WORCESTER, Massachusetts (Reuters) – Superiors of the U.S. Air National Guardsman accused of leaking military secrets offered him intelligence-related training even after they admonished him twice for his handling of classified information, according to a memo disclosed this week by U.S. Justice Department attorneys. Before his arrest in April on espionage charges, Jack…
KHARTOUM (Reuters) -Sudan’s capital Khartoum and sister city Bahri came under renewed air attack on Friday as the war between the army and paramilitary forces entered its fifth week, deepening a humanitarian crisis for trapped and displaced civilians. Mass looting by armed men and civilians alike is making life an even greater misery for Khartoum…
