By Ayenat Mersie and Mukelwa Hlatshwayo NAIROBI (Reuters) -Mohamed Ali doesn’t believe gay Africans exist. He says homosexuality is a Western invention imposed on the continent. Openly gay Africans are liars seeking visas to the West or money from rights groups, he adds. Ali is a member of Kenya’s parliament. He is desperate to follow…
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan Flagging world markets got a lift on Tuesday as China moved to shore up the falling yuan from the year’s lows and nodded to more government stimulus to underpin its spluttering economic recovery instead. With falling Chinese interest rates diverging markedly…
By Kevin Yao TIANJIN, China (Reuters) -Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Tuesday said China will take steps to boost demand, invigorate markets, promote development while accelerating the green transition and opening “high level” parts of its economy to the outside world. Addressing a World Economic Forum summit in Tianjin, Li did not elaborate on China’s…
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Honduras’ military began taking control of the country’s violent prisons on Monday, following a gang dispute that left 46 inmates dead at a women’s detention center last week, officials said. Leftist President Xiomara Castro announced last week she would hand the military police control of the prison system, a departure from a…
By Carolina Pulice MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – An index evaluating Latin American countries’ ability to root out corruption showed most countries moving backward, according to the ranking released on Tuesday. The 2023 Capacity to Combat Corruption (CCC) Index, published jointly by Americas Society/Council of the Americas and Control Risks, points to a decline in the…
By Greg Torode and Yew Lun Tian HONG KONG (Reuters) – Amid intensifying military deployments across East Asia, high-level defence dialogue between China and the United States remains frozen. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken did not secure any progress on the issue during his visit to Beijing last week. U.S. Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin…
By Sofia Menchu GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) -Guatemalans fed up with persistent graft scandals on Sunday catapulted an unheralded anti-corruption candidate into a run-off for the presidency, raising hopes of a renewed drive to clean up the government after years of frustration. Bernardo Arevalo, an ex-diplomat and son of former president Juan Jose Arevalo, defied poll…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden spoke on Monday with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni about the brief uprising by Russian mercenaries against the Kremlin and also invited her to visit the White House in July, the White House said in a statement. Biden has spoken with key allies about the events in Russia…
(Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday he let Saturday’s aborted mutiny go on as long as it did to avoid bloodshed, while the Wagner mercenary group boss who led the uprising said he never intended to overthrow the government. Putin’s televised address was his first public comment since Saturday, when he had said…
(Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin on Monday paid tribute to pilots who were killed during the failed weekend mutiny, confirming earlier reports by military bloggers that several planes were shot down by Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner militia. Wagner fighters on Saturday took control of the southern city of Rostov-on-Don and its military command centre steering the…
