By Jason Lange and Nathan Layne WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A group allied with Donald Trump’s bid for the 2024 Republican nomination is setting records for outside political spending early in a U.S. presidential campaign as he looks to box out his nearest rival Ron DeSantis before the Florida governor even launches a campaign. The Trump-aligned…
By Aleksandar Vasovic BELGRADE (Reuters) -Shocked Serbians mourned the nine victims of their nation’s first mass school shooting on Thursday while teachers demanded better security and two wounded pupils fought for their lives. The suspected shooter, a 13-year-old boy, surrendered on Wednesday, police said, after taking two of his father’s handguns to kill eight pupils…
By Susan Heavey and Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States dismissed Russia’s allegation on Thursday that Washington was behind what it said was a drone attack on the Kremlin, saying Moscow’s assertion was a lie. “Obviously it’s a ludicrous claim,” White House national security spokesman John Kirby said hours after Russia blamed the…
By Toby Sterling, Christoph Steitz and Markus Wacket AMSTERDAM/BERLIN (Reuters) – Talks on a planned sale of Dutch state-owned electricity grid operator TenneT’s German unit to Berlin have hit a hitch over price, the company’s outstanding bonds and offshore infrastructure, people familiar with the matter said. The sale would be one of Europe’s biggest deals…
By Lewis Jackson SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia has lowered its forecast for the cost of servicing government debt over the next three years, though the government still sees annual repayments rising to a peak in fiscal 2025/26 before declining slightly. Interest payments on Australian government securities are forecast to total A$85.8 billion ($57.18 billion) between…
By MacDonald Dzirutwe LAGOS (Reuters) – Nigerian law student Umar Yusuf Yaru was relaxing in his apartment when he first heard gunfire last month in his Khartoum neighbourhood. For the next nine days, Yaru hunkered down alone as the Sudanese armed forces clashed with the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), hoping the fighting would end….
By Manuel Ausloos ON THE FRONTLINE IN DONETSK REGION, Ukraine (Reuters) – After months of living in trenches and bunkers near Ukraine’s southeastern frontlines, Artem and his fellow soldiers have lost the fear they once felt. The war ebbs and flows for the 30-year-old volunteer from a small town near Chernihiv, in the north of…
By Zeba Siddiqui and Christopher Bing SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Miami-based digital marketing firm was behind a series of covert political influence operations in Latin America over the last year, Facebook-owner Meta said this week, a rare exposé of an apparent U.S.-based misinformation-for-hire outfit. Predictvia, which is registered as a business in Florida, says…
By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, asked on Wednesday about what the Fed would do in the event of a U.S. debt default, repeated the mantra of Fed leaders on that issue: A default is unthinkable, the U.S. government needs to pay its bills, and there was little the central…
(Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Thursday that it knew Pope Francis was thinking about ways to end the conflict in Ukraine, but that it was not aware of any detailed peace plans from the Vatican. Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Francis has offered to act as a broker between Moscow and Kyiv…
