MANAGUA (Reuters) – Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi arrived in Nicaragua on Tuesday, according to state media, marking his second stop on a three-nation Latin American tour. Nicaragua’s Foreign Minister Denis Moncada received Raisi at the airport, state media said, adding the Iranian leader traveled with his wife and a delegation made up of ministers and…
By Mike Stone, Trevor Hunnicutt and Krishn Kaushik WASHINGTON/NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Ahead of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s state visit to Washington, the Biden administration is pushing New Delhi to cut through its own red tape and advance a deal for dozens of U.S.-made armed drones, two people familiar with the matter said. India…
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s interior minister, a close confidant of the popular outgoing president, announced on Tuesday he would leave his post at the end of this week to focus on his bid to win the ruling party’s nod for next year’s presidential election. Interior Minister Adan Augusto Lopez’s decision, required under recently adopted…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Tuesday that White House lawyers would review a ruling from a government agency that said she had violated a law limiting political activity by federal employees. The Office of Special Counsel on Monday announced that Jean-Pierre had violating the Hatch Act by referring to…
By Samrhitha A and Chavi Mehta (Reuters) – Amazon.com said cloud services offered by its unit, Amazon Web Services (AWS), were restored after a big disruption on Tuesday affected websites of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Boston Globe among others. Several hours after Downdetector.com started showing reports of outages, Amazon said, “the…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Uruguay President Luis Lacalle Pou met with U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday, and the two leaders explored ways to expand bilateral trade and economic ties, the White House said. Lacalle Pou stopped in Washington for the previously unannounced meeting on his way to New York, where he was scheduled to attend…
By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. consumer prices barely rose in May and the annual increase in inflation was the smallest in more than two years, though underlying price pressures remained strong, supporting the view that the Federal Reserve would keep interest rates unchanged on Wednesday while adopting a hawkish posture. The smaller-than-expected rise…
By Helen Coster NEW YORK (Reuters) – The number of people globally who initially access news through a website or app has dropped by 10 points since 2018, and younger groups prefer to access news through social media, search or mobile aggregators, according to a report released on Tuesday. Audiences pay more attention to celebrities,…
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. House of Representatives voted unanimously on Tuesday for a resolution calling on Russia to release Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, who has been imprisoned in Russia for three months. The vote was 422-0 in favor of the non-binding measure. Gershkovich, a U.S. citizen, was arrested in March…
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – The U.S. National Labor Relations Board on Tuesday made it more difficult for companies to treat workers as independent contractors rather than employees, handing workers in the gig economy and other industries a potential path to join unions. The Democrat-led board threw out a more business-friendly standard for classifying workers…
