(Reuters) – The U.S. Air National Guardsman accused of leaking top-secret military intelligence records online will appear in a federal court in Massachusetts on Wednesday for his arraignment on some of the most serious security breach charges, a court notice showed on Friday. Jack Douglas Teixeira, 21, of North Dighton, Massachusetts, has been indicted on…
(Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin said this month that Russia was considering withdrawing from the Black Sea grain deal as he accused the West of cheating Moscow because it still faced obstacles getting its own agricultural goods to world markets. Putin said he would discuss the future of the grain deal with visiting African leaders…
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. rights groups plan protests next week against Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s state visit to Washington over what they call India’s deteriorating human rights record, even though experts do not expect Washington to be publicly critical of New Delhi. The Indian American Muslim Council, Peace Action, Veterans for Peace…
(Reuters) -A dangerous heat wave that helped spawn deadly tornadoes in Texas and Florida threatened on Friday to bring more extreme weather to the U.S. South, prompting the National Weather Service to warn Americans to limit time outdoors over the long Juneteenth weekend. At least four people were killed in twisters that touched down on…
By Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – There has been no sign of improvement in the political situation in Myanmar since the 2021 coup, Singapore Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan said following a meeting in Washington with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who said he shared his counterpart’s pessimism. Singapore is a member of the Association…
By Anna Mehler Paperny TORONTO (Reuters) – Canada’s Supreme Court on Friday upheld an asylum-seeker pact between Canada and the United States but sent the case back to a lower court to determine whether the contested agreement violates equality rights. The verdict is a partial victory for the Canadian government, keeping the pact in place…
By Daina Beth Solomon MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -U.S. labor officials on Friday asked Mexico to investigate alleged worker rights abuses at a Grupo Mexico mine in the central state of Zacatecas, the 11th U.S. labor complaint in Mexico under a 2020 trade pact. The U.S. request follows a petition from a Mexican union, Los Mineros,…
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States has imposed visa restrictions on Uganda officials after the African nation passed an anti-LGBTQ law that was condemned by many countries and the United Nations, the U.S. State Department said on Friday. The law, considered one of the harshest in the world, was enacted in May and…
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, will not have to sit for a second deposition in the U.S. Virgin Islands’ lawsuit over the bank’s work for Jeffrey Epstein, the late financier and sex offender. U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan on Friday denied “in its entirety”…
VIENNA (Reuters) – It is unclear whether water from the huge reservoir of the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine that burst last week can still be pumped to the nearby Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (ZNPP) for cooling, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Friday. While the reservoir was a main source of water for cooling the…
