By Simon Lewis and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Turmoil in the occupied West Bank, where violence between Jewish settlers and Palestinians is spiraling, is making Israel’s goal of normalizing relations with Saudi Arabia “a lot tougher, if not impossible,” U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday. The Biden administration earlier this week…
By Balazs Koranyi SINTRA, Portugal (Reuters) – Professional forecasters globally who have been blindsided by the recent surge in inflation acknowledged on Wednesday the need for humility to deal with economic realities still only poorly understood by their discipline. Central bankers worldwide have faced criticism in public and parliaments over the past two years for…
By Balazs Koranyi and Francesco Canepa SINTRA, Portugal (Reuters) – Leaders of the world’s top central banks reaffirmed on Wednesday they think further policy tightening will be needed to tame stubbornly high inflation but still believe they can achieve that without triggering outright recessions. U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell kept consecutive interest rate hikes…
By Felix Light and Filipp Lebedev TBILISI (Reuters) – The Wagner Group mercenaries who seized the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don on Saturday in a failed mutiny included at least three convicted criminals, a Reuters review of facial recognition software, court records and social media showed. Almost all of the fighters who took part in the…
By Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Solid majorities of Americans support providing weaponry to Ukraine to defend itself against Russia and believe that such aid demonstrates to China and other U.S. rivals a will to protect U.S. interests and allies, according to a Reuters/Ipsos survey. The two-day poll that was concluded on Tuesday charted a…
By Phil Stewart, Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States is examining how the Wagner Group’s short-lived mutiny against Russia’s military establishment might affect the mercenaries’ operations in the Middle East and Africa, officials said. Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin startled the world by leading an armed revolt on Saturday that brought his fighters from the…
(Reuters) -Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin flew into exile in Belarus on Tuesday under a deal that ended a brief mutiny by his fighters, as President Vladimir Putin praised his armed forces for averting a civil war. A plane linked to Prigozhin was shown on a flight tracking service taking off from the southern Russian…
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – A U.S. judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Amazon.com Inc brought by the parents of two teenagers who committed suicide by consuming sodium nitrite they bought on the online retailer’s platform. U.S. District Judge James Robart in Seattle on Tuesday rejected claims by the parents of Ethan McCarthy and Kristine…
By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) -Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko is usually the one thanking Russia’s Vladimir Putin or asking him for a favour – be it a loan, cheap gas, help in navigating protests or tactical nuclear weapons. This time, the shoe is on the other foot. While the full extent of Lukashenko’s role in…
SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazil’s annual population growth slowed over the past decade to its lowest since records began 150 years ago, the government statistics agency said on Wednesday, as people in one of the world’s most populous countries have fewer children. Latin America’s largest nation had 203,062,512 inhabitants in August 2022, the Brazilian Institute of…
