(Reuters) – Montana’s governor on Friday enacted a Republican-backed ban on gender-affirming medical care for transgender children, days after a transgender lawmaker protesting the bill was barred from the floor of the state legislature, sparking a national furor. The Republican House majority voted to censure Zooey Zephyr, a Democrat, on Wednesday, excluding her from the…
By Steve Holland, Jarrett Renshaw and Heather Timmons WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden launched his re-election bid on Tuesday with a promise to protect American liberties from “extremists” linked to former President Donald Trump, who he beat in 2020 and might face again in 2024. Biden made his announcement in a video released by his…
By Philip Pullella and Krisztina Than BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Pope Francis met Ukrainian refugees on the second day of his visit to Hungary on Saturday, telling them a different future was possible as they described the hardships they have faced since the war began. Francis met about 600 refugees, poor and homeless people in a visit…
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Armenia and Azerbaijan will hold a new round of talks in Washington on Sunday to try to normalise relations, Yerevan said on Saturday, after weeks of rising tensions over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region. Armed forces from the two Caucasus neighbours have frequently exchanged fire amid disputes over the mountain enclave, which is internationally…
(Reuters) – Fitch cut France’s sovereign credit rating on Friday by one notch to ‘AA-‘, saying a potential political deadlock and social unrest posed risks to President Emmanuel Macron’s reform agenda. Responding to the decision, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said Fitch was underestimating the positive impacts of the government’s plans to reform and…
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish defence firm Baykar aims to begin production of its new unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) next year which is already attracting international interest, its chairman Selcuk Bayraktar said. Baykar has come to prominence internationally in recent years because of the company’s light drone TB-2, which has been used in Ukraine, Azerbaijan…
By Khalid Abdelaziz KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Strikes by air, tanks and artillery rocked Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, and the adjacent city of Bahri on Friday, witnesses said, mocking a 72-hour truce extension announced by the army and a rival paramilitary force. Hundreds have been killed and tens of thousands have fled for their lives in a…
By Michel Rose and Elizabeth Pineau PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron has thrown himself into what he calls a “catharsis” operation by confronting angry voters in a series of walkabouts, an attempt to regain control of the narrative that could also expose how distant he has become. After weeks of protests against his decision…
By Douglas Gillison (Reuters) -The Federal Reserve on Friday blamed the deregulatory zeal that occurred during the Trump era for contributing to the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history, appearing to take a clear stand on an acrimonious policy divide in Washington. Amid the turmoil that Silicon Valley Bank’s implosion unleashed on the financial system…
By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden made his pitch for re-election on Friday night to a small group that may prove essential to his candidacy: the wealthy. Biden, who launched his bid for the 2024 presidential election in a video posted online on Tuesday, gathered fewer than 200 of the top…
