By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Two U.S. senators wrote seven major automakers on Friday urging them not to remove AM radio from new vehicles. Senator Ted Cruz, the top Republican on the Senate Commerce Committee, and Democrat Ed Markey, who also sits on the panel, wrote to BMW, Volkswagen, Tesla, Mazda, Polestar, Rivian and Volvo…
By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden will deliver what his aides are billing as a major economic policy speech on Wednesday, laying down a key marker for his re-election campaign. Plans for a speech in Chicago on “Bidenomics,” which have not previously been reported and were seen in a White House…
CAIRO (Reuters) – Sudan’s two-month long war is extending across the country with the army and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) clashing in several areas on Friday. Air strikes and anti-aircraft missile fire hit overnight in the Omdurman and Khartoum, two of the three cities that make up Sudan’s wider capital. But the war has in…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States slapped sanctions on Friday on two Russian intelligence officers who attempted to interfere in a local American election as part of Moscow’s “global malign influence operations,” the Treasury Department said. The two officers, Yegor Sergeyevich Popov and Aleksei Borisovich Sukhodolov, both members of Russia’s Federal Security Service, have worked…
MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s ombudsman is to investigate the sinking of a dinghy headed to the Canary Islands from Morocco on Wednesday after more than 30 migrants were feared dead. Migration-focused organisations Walking Borders and Alarm Phone criticised Spain and Morocco this week for not intervening earlier to rescue the vessel’s passengers. Spain says all…
By Leah Douglas WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Biden administration will spend $2.3 billion on food purchases for schools and food banks as the end of pandemic-era aid leads to rising food insecurity, the Department of Agriculture said on Friday. Supplemental food aid for low-income families and schools tied to the COVID-19 pandemic has mostly expired….
By Libby George LONDON (Reuters) -Foreign investors hoping for a game-changing rate hike from Turkey’s newly appointed central bank chief said Thursday’s disappointing move to a key rate of just 15% could keep some money on the sidelines. The appointment of U.S.-trained banker Hafize Gaye Erkan to lead the bank boosted expectations that it would…
By Gibran Naiyyar Peshimam KHUIRATTA, Pakistan-administered Kashmir (Reuters) – Hameed Iqbal Bhatti had prospered over two decades working in Saudi Arabia, but after returning to Pakistan three years ago, he was getting desperate. The economy had suffered in the pandemic and his restaurant business closed. With work avenues drying up and sky-high inflation blowing a…
(Reuters) – The five people aboard a submersible visiting the wreck of the Titanic died after a catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber, U.S. Coast Guard officials said on Thursday. A “debris field” matching the submersible was discovered by a robotic deep-sea vessel. Here is a timeline of events since the start of the trip,…
By Elena Rodriguez and Joan Faus MADRID/BARCELONA (Reuters) – Protesters wearing white masks and carrying signs reading “massacre” and “Europe responsible” marked the anniversary on Friday of a mass attempt to cross from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Melilla in which at least 23 migrants and refugees died. Speakers from the Spanish umbrella rights…
