By Suban Abdulla LONDON (Reuters) – British retail sales growth slowed to a seven-month low in May as soaring food prices prompted shoppers to rein in spending on non-essential items and dashed hopes of a boost from three public holidays, the British Retail Consortium said on Tuesday. The BRC said spending in its members’ stores…
By Alexandra Valencia QUITO (Reuters) – A judge in Ecuador on Monday loosened reporting conditions for ex-president Lenin Moreno, who is being investigated on bribery charges over a contract for a Chinese-built hydroelectric plant. Moreno, who denies the accusations, had been ordered to present himself in person every two weeks to the national justice court,…
By Brad Brooks (Reuters) – An Oklahoma school board on Monday approved the Catholic Church’s application to create the first taxpayer-funded religious charter school in the U.S. Opponents of the school have vowed a legal challenge which promises to be a long court battle testing the U.S. Constitution’s concept of separation of church and state….
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – The Biden administration has asked a federal judge to toss out a lawsuit by Republican-led states seeking to strike down a rule allowing socially-conscious investing by employee retirement plans. The U.S. Department of Justice in a filing in Amarillo, Texas federal court on Friday said the rule was needed to…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen called on Monday for declassifying a government report on the death of Al Jazeera’s Shireen Abu Akleh, a Palestinian-American journalist who was shot and killed while covering an Israeli army raid last year. One of the most recognizable journalists covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for two decades, Abu…
By Valerie Volcovici (Reuters) – After a rocky start to a week of negotiations, around 170 countries agreed to develop a first draft by November of what could become the first global treaty to curb plastic pollution by the end of next year. Country delegations, NGOs and industry representatives gathered in Paris this week for…
By David Shepardson and Lisa Baertlein WASHINGTON/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Groups representing major retailers and manufacturers urged the White House on Monday to intervene in contentious West Coast port labor negotiations, citing worries about shipping disruptions during critical holiday shopping seasons. The call came after the largest terminal at Southern California’s Port of Long Beach closed…
By Lawrence White and Koh Gui Qing NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) – World stocks and the dollar dipped on Monday as investors mulled whether the Federal Reserve will refrain from raising rates in June after data last week showed slowing U.S. wage growth, while oil prices steadied after Saudi Arabia vowed big output cuts. The benchmark…
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – Texas and an anonymous anti-abortion activist made a joint court filing over the weekend, urging a federal judge to decide a $1.8 billion fraud lawsuit they brought against Planned Parenthood in their favor, saying a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling strengthened the case. The lawsuit, before U.S. District Judge Matthew…
By Edward McAllister and Diadie Ba DAKAR (Reuters) -Elhaji Cisse was busy on Friday, the day he was killed, tweeting hundreds of times as riots erupted beyond the walls of his compound in a busy suburb of Senegal’s capital Dakar. In one post, the 26-year-old student warned his 1,700 followers about security forces firing live…
