DAKAR (Reuters) – European election observers in Sierra Leone said there were “statistical inconsistencies” in the presidential results published by the electoral commission, which declared President Julius Maada Bio the winner of Saturday’s vote. The European Union Election Observation Mission called on the commission on Wednesday to promptly publish disaggregated results data per polling station…
BERLIN (Reuters) -German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Wednesday the failed mutiny in Russia last weekend had weakened President Vladimir Putin but the implications for his invasion of Ukraine remained unclear. Speaking in a wide-ranging, hour-long interview with ARD broadcaster, Scholz echoed U.S. President Joe Biden in saying the insurrection by Wagner mercenaries was part…
By Max Hunder KRAMATORSK, Ukraine (Reuters) -Two 14-year-old twin sisters were among at least 11 people killed in a Russian missile strike on a crowded restaurant in Ukraine’s eastern city of Kramatorsk, officials said on Wednesday. Emergency services said the bodies of 11 people had been recovered from the rubble by early Wednesday evening, nearly…
(Reuters) – White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan has been in touch with Moscow to discuss the respective Russian and U.S. embassies, and the two sides are in talks on the subject, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday. The two countries’ embassies have been severely and reciprocally scaled down in recent years as…
By Andrew Chung and John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In December, during a heated U.S. Supreme Court oral argument involving a collision between free speech protections for business owners and LGBT rights, liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, who had joined the bench only about two months before, raised the most memorable question of the day….
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum leads the contest to be a candidate for Mexico’s ruling party in the 2024 presidential election, a survey published on Wednesday showed, while another poll put her in a virtual dead heat but advancing. A survey by polling firm Buendia & Marquez for newspaper El Universal…
By Michael Martina and Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) -China criticized U.S. presidential contender Nikki Haley over her threats to drastically limit Sino-U.S. trade relations, saying those who blamed Beijing for problems would end up on the “ash heap of history.” Haley, a U.N. ambassador during the Trump administration, staked out one of the most hawkish…
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States and China agreed to consider expanding commercial flights between the two countries to improve people-to-people contact, the top U.S. diplomat for East Asia, Daniel Kritenbrink, said on Wednesday. He told a Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank event in Washington that the countries agreed…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. public debt burden will reach 181% of economic output in 2053, the Congressional Budget Office said on Wednesday, a slight improvement over recent long-term projections due to discretionary spending caps enacted as part of the recent deal to raise the federal debt ceiling. The nonpartisan CBO said that U.S. budget…
ZURICH (Reuters) -Swiss inflation is proving broader-based and more persistent than initially thought, Swiss National Bank Governing Board member Andrea Maechler said on Wednesday, reiterating the central bank’s commitment to fighting price rises. Inflation had originally been triggered by oil price rises, supply chain disruptions and tight labour markets after the COVID pandemic, but had…
