WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden said a report on Friday showing continued, but slowing, job growth is “Bidenomics in action” and a sign of a sustainable economic expansion. “We are seeing stable and steady growth,” Biden said in a statement. “That’s Bidenomics – growing the economy by creating jobs, lowering costs for hardworking…
(Reuters) – The conflict between military factions in Sudan has caused a surge in cases of rape and the abduction of women and girls, some as young as 12, aid agencies and officials said. Teenage girls are being sexually assaulted and raped by armed combatants in “alarming numbers”, Save the Children said in a statement…
(Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visited Slovakia on Friday and met his Slovak counterpart Zuzana Caputova, who urged NATO allies to give Ukraine a clearer view on its bid to become a part of the military alliance. Zelenskiy was on the third stop of a tour of several NATO states to drum up support for…
THE HAGUE (Reuters) – The World Court on July 19 and 20 will hear a request by the Netherlands and Canada that it order Syria to cease all acts of torture and arbitrary detention, as part of a case alleging the country has breached a U.N. anti-torture treaty. The hearing at the Peace Palace, the…
By Charlie Devereux MADRID (Reuters) -Alberto Nunez Feijoo likes to cultivate a reputation for dullness – and it’s a personality trait that could help give him the upper hand this month in a tight contest to become Spain’s next leader. “What for some may be boring, I think for the majority of citizens are qualities…
By Belén Carreño, Andrei Khalip MADRID (Reuters) -Pedro Sanchez’s reputation as a risk-taker precedes him, but a snap national election he has called for this month represents the Spanish prime minister’s biggest political gamble yet. The bold move, made in late May after his Socialist Party (PSOE) did badly in local ballots, took senior members…
By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine would welcome receiving cluster munitions from the United States because they would have an “extraordinary psycho-emotional impact” on Russian forces, a senior Ukrainian official said on Friday. Three U.S officials speaking on condition of anonymity this week said a weapons aid package that includes cluster munitions fired by…
KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine said on Friday its troops had advanced by more than a kilometre near the eastern city of Bakhmut in the past day of fighting against Russian forces. The comments were the latest by Kyiv signalling that the counteroffensive it launched in early June is gradually making progress although Russian accounts of fighting…
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan The seeming serenity of June markets has finally been broken by summer storms as a blistering selloff in bonds snowballed following news of buoyant U.S. job creation last month that stiffens expectations for more interest rate rises. A trio of U.S….
By David Alire Garcia MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The police showed up two days after a Catholic clergyman at a church near the Nicaraguan capital Managua delivered a Sunday sermon in May that included a prayer “for our priests.” The officers played an audio clip of the prayer and warned: These kinds of things are…
