By Khalid Abdelaziz KHARTOUM (Reuters) -Fighting flared anew in Sudan late on Tuesday despite a ceasefire declaration by the warring factions, as a U.N. envoy said the truce was partially holding even though there was no sign that the two sides were ready for serious talks. The Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and paramilitary Rapid Support…
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The Bank of Mexico’s governing board may consider keeping its benchmark interest rate steady at its next monetary policy meeting, in what would be its first rate hold after 15 straight hikes, Central Bank Governor Victoria Rodriguez said on Tuesday. Banxico, as the Mexican central bank is known, hiked its key…
By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts will not testify at an upcoming Senate Judiciary Committee hearing expected to focus on judicial ethics, he said in a letter on Tuesday to the committee chair. The committee’s Democratic chairman, Dick Durbin, had asked the chief justice to appear before the panel…
By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Rapid aging of both wealthy and middle-income countries will make their economies increasingly dependent on migration from poorer countries, and the process needs to be better managed, the World Bank said on Tuesday. The bank’s latest World Development Report said that about 184 million people across the world now…
By Ross Kerber (Reuters) -Top U.S. bank investors gave only slim support on Tuesday to shareholder resolutions calling for the lenders to wind down new fossil fuel financing, setbacks for climate activists who had hoped for new constraints on the oil and gas industries. The resolutions won only about 10% support of votes cast at…
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Chile’s state development office Corfo said on Tuesday it met with U.S.-based miner Albemarle to discuss the South American country’s plan to nationalize the lithium industry. Chile’s leftist President Gabriel Boric last week announced that control of the country’s vast lithium operations would over time be transferred from Albemarle and SQM to…
By Gram Slattery ARLINGTON, Virginia (Reuters) -Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley said on Tuesday she was personally against abortion rights but bore no ill will for those who felt differently, in a rare foray by a Republican White House hopeful into one of the more sensitive issues of the 2024 U.S. election campaign. In…
By Bianca Flowers and Kevin Mohatt (Reuters) – Colorado’s governor signed the nation’s first right to repair legislation into law on Tuesday, giving the state’s farmers and ranchers the autonomy to fix their own equipment. The bill, which requires manufacturers such as Deere & Co to provide manuals for diagnostic software and other aids, garnered…
By Rami Amichay and Emily Rose BEERSHEBA, Israel (Reuters) -Tensions ran high as ceremonies commemorating slain Israeli soldiers and victims of attacks turned into protests on Tuesday, far from the decades-old tradition of Memorial Day unity. Despite calls from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and opposition leaders to put disagreements aside over plans by the far-right…
By Leah Douglas (Reuters) – Nearly one million Americans could find it harder to access federal food aid under a Republican proposal to expand the program’s work requirements, according to the Biden administration, which has promised to veto the plan if it passes Congress. The expanded work requirements for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)…
