By Philip Blenkinsop, Humeyra Pamuk and Simon Lewis LULEA, Sweden/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday urged Turkey to immediately finalize Sweden’s accession to NATO, saying the Nordic country had already taken significant steps to address Ankara’s objections to its membership. Blinken also rejected the suggestion that the Biden administration was linking…
By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Donald Trump said on Tuesday that if elected president again in 2024 he would seek to end automatic citizenship for children born in the United States to immigrants in the country illegally, a plan that contradicts how a 19th century amendment to the U.S. Constitution long has been interpreted….
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – Los Angeles on Tuesday announced a settlement with a Nevada-based company it accused of illegally selling so-called “ghost guns,” components without serial numbers that a purchaser can easily assemble into a complete gun, in California. The company, Polymer80, will pay $4 million in civil penalties, and its two founders will…
By Fatos Bytyci ZVECAN, Kosovo (Reuters) -NATO is to send 700 extra troops to Kosovo and put another battalion on high alert to go in as unrest in the region has intensified since ethnic Albanian mayors took office in the country’s northern Serb-majority area after votes last month. In the town of Zvecan on Tuesday,…
By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. consumer confidence slipped to a six-month low in May as Americans’ assessment of the labor market softened, but more households planned to purchase motor vehicles and other big-ticket items over the next six months, which could support economic growth this quarter. The ebb in confidence reported by the…
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors on Monday said they opposed a motion by former cryptocurrency billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried to dismiss criminal charges accusing him of stealing billions of dollars from customers to plug losses at his hedge fund. Bankman-Fried, the 31-year-old founder of FTX Trading, has pleaded not guilty in Manhattan…
By Steve Scherer OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada’s spy agency told former Canadian Conservative Party leader Erin O’Toole that China campaigned to discredit him and suppress votes ahead of the 2021 election he lost to Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, O’Toole said on Tuesday. In a briefing on Friday, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) informed…
(Reuters) – Fifteen years after Kosovo declared independence, 50,000 minority Serbs in the north bordering Serbia refuse to recognise state institutions, receive pay and benefits from Serbia’s budget and pay no taxes either to Pristina or Belgrade. Unrest in the region has intensified more recently since ethnic Albanian mayors took office in northern Kosovo’s Serb-majority…
By Andrew MacAskill LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will hold talks with U.S. President Joe Biden next week when they will discuss improving economic ties and how to sustain military support for Ukraine in its conflict with Russia. Sunak will be in Washington on Wednesday and Thursday next week for meetings with Biden,…
By Katharine Jackson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Rosalynn Carter, former U.S. first lady and wife of former president Jimmy Carter, has dementia, the Carter family announced on Tuesday. “She continues to live happily at home with her husband, enjoying spring in Plains and visits with loved ones,” the family said in a statement released by the…
