WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democrats in the Republican-led House of Representatives on Wednesday plan to file a discharge petition – a way to bypass regular procedures in the chamber – as a means to raise the U.S. debt limit in case it becomes necessary, the top House Democrat said. House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said he is…
DUBAI (Reuters) – Arab League Secretary General Ahmed Aboul Gheit welcomed Syria back into the bloc on Wednesday, as Arab foreign ministers gathered for a preparatory meeting ahead of the full summit. Earlier this month, the Arab world’s top diplomats agreed to fully reinstate Syria’s membership after a 12-year suspension over the Syrian government’s crackdown…
By Aziz El Yaakoubi RIYADH(Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a pariah for more than a decade, is expected to steal the spotlight at Friday’s Arab League summit in Saudi Arabia, where he will rub shoulders with regional leaders who once backed his war foes. Ostracised by most Arab states following his crackdown on protests…
By Brendan Pierson and Jacqueline Thomsen (Reuters) -All three of the judges on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel that will hear the Biden administration’s appeal to keep the abortion pill mifepristone on the market are staunchly conservative, with a record of opposing abortion rights. Here is a look at their records. Jennifer…
By Julia Harte (Reuters) -North Carolina Republican lawmakers overrode a veto by the state’s Democratic governor to enact a law on Tuesday that cuts the window for most abortions in the southern state from 20 to 12 weeks. The law bans elective abortions after the first trimester, except in cases of rape, incest, life-limiting fetal…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund’s no. 2 official said on Wednesday she sees sizeable risks that inflation will remain high or accelerate in many emerging markets and urged central banks to keep monetary policies tight. IMF First Deputy Managing Director Gita Gopinath told a conference hosted by the Central Bank of Brazil that…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -House Speaker Kevin McCarthy on Wednesday said he believed the United States will not default on its debt now that congressional leaders and President Joe Biden’s administration are sitting down and negotiating. “I think at the end of the day, we do not have a debt default,” McCarthy said in an interview with…
By Andrew Hayley XIAN, China (Reuters) -China wants to further deepen relations with Kazakhstan in times of both “prosperity and adversity”, President Xi Jinping told his visiting Kazakh counterpart on Wednesday. This week, China will for the first time host an in-person summit of Central Asian leaders, building ties in Russia’s backyard as Beijing’s relations…
By Tassilo Hummel PARIS (Reuters) -Former president Nicolas Sarkozy lost his appeal against a 2021 conviction for corruption and influence peddling at the Paris Court of Appeals on Wednesday, prompting his legal team to promise a challenge at France’s highest court. The appeals court upheld a three-year prison sentence. In line with the initial ruling,…
By Khalid Abdelaziz DUBAI (Reuters) – Air strikes and artillery fire intensified sharply across Sudan’s capital on Tuesday, residents said, as the army sought to defend its bases from paramilitary rivals it has been fighting for more than a month. The air strikes, explosions and clashes could be heard in the south of Khartoum, and…
