KHARTOUM (Reuters) -Sudanese are pinning their hopes on talks in Saudi Arabia between envoys of warring factions to end bloodshed that has killed hundreds and triggered a mass exodus, but there is no sign lasting relief will come anytime soon. There has been no word on the progress of the talks which began on Saturday…
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilian Finance Minister Fernando Haddad ended months of uncertainty on Monday as he revealed that Gabriel Galipolo, his second-in-command at the ministry, will be nominated for a top position at the central bank, which the government has heavily criticized for its high borrowing costs. Haddad said that Galipolo, the former CEO…
By Brendan Pierson and Jacqueline Thomsen (Reuters) – A case brought by anti-abortion groups seeking to ban the abortion pill mifepristone nationwide will be heard next week by a panel of three deeply conservative judges hostile to abortion rights, a federal appeals court revealed on Monday. The Biden administration is expected to urge the 5th…
By Gabriella Borter and Maria Caspani (Reuters) – Texas police on Sunday were investigating what motivated a 33-year-old gunman to kill at least eight people at a mall over the weekend, as President Joe Biden called for stricter gun laws. The Texas Department of Public Safety on Sunday confirmed the identity of the assailant in…
By Helen Coster (Reuters) – Former Fox News producer Abby Grossberg has dismissed one lawsuit accusing the cable network, parent company Fox Corp and Fox News lawyers of defamation and pressuring her to make false statements in the now-settled Dominion Voting Systems case, a court filing on Friday showed. The Delaware lawsuit was dismissed “without…
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador gave the U.S. dollar a vote on confidence on Monday after he was asked if a weakening greenback might spur a move to diversify Mexico’s foreign currency reserves. “We are going to continue considering the dollar as the world’s principal currency,” Lopez Obrador told a…
By Rupam Jain NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Thousands of people who fled deadly rioting and ethnic clashes in northeast India last week are returning home, escorted by security personnel, officials said on Monday. Fierce fighting broke out in the state of Manipur bordering Myanmar when members of about 30 tribal groups clashed with a non-tribal…
By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) – Police blocked roads in the centre of Nigeria’s capital on Monday as judges started hearing opposition petitions disputing president-elect Bola Tinubu’s victory in February’s presidential election. Yards away from the Court of Appeal in Abuja, around 100 protesters stood quietly holding up pre-printed banners saying Tinubu should not be…
(Reuters) – Euro zone inflation will slow sharply this year but price growth momentum remains high for now, including for underlying goods and services, European Central Bank chief economist Philip Lane said on Monday. The ECB has lifted rates at its past seven meetings but slowed the pace of hikes last week, arguing that plenty…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Newton Minow’s first speech as chair of the Federal Communications Commission was his most memorable. In addressing leading U.S. broadcast executives on May 9, 1961, in Washington, he said television programming was a “vast wasteland” and something need to be done about it. Here are excerpts from that speech: * “Your industry…
