DUBAI (Reuters) – Jordan’s foreign minister on Thursday called on the United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) to reverse a decision to cut food subsidies to Syrian refugees by Aug. 1. The WFP office in Amman told Reuters that an “unprecedented funding crisis” had forced it to cut food help for 50,000 out of some…
KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine’s foreign partners pledged over 1.5 billion euros ($1.68 billion) in military aid for Kyiv while attending a NATO summit this week, Defence Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said on Thursday. “Meetings in Vilnius were very productive,” Reznikov wrote on Twitter following the summit on Tuesday and Wednesday in the Lithuanian capital. “Ukraine will receive…
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A group of 95 U.S. lawmakers on Thursday urged the Biden administration to finalize stricter emissions limits than it proposed in April, already prompting opposition from most automakers, a letter seen by Reuters showed. A dozen Democratic senators, including Ed Markey, Tom Carper, Alex Padilla, Ron Wyden, Elizabeth Warren,…
By Olena Harmash KYIV (Reuters) -Russian shelling killed three people in Ukraine on Thursday and four were hurt in Kyiv after the capital came under attack for the third successive night, Ukrainian officials said. An woman of 85 and a man in his forties were killed in the south of Ukraine and a 60-year-old person…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Secret Service said on Thursday it had concluded its investigation into cocaine found at the White House and said it had been unable to identify a suspect. The cocaine was found “inside a receptacle used to temporarily store electronic and personal devices prior to entering the West Wing,” the Secret…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Andrea Gacki, a veteran U.S. Treasury official who helped design Washington’s Russia sanctions strategy, has been appointed director of the department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Thursday. Gacki, who has headed the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) since 2019, “guided the office through major world…
By Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) -A federal jury on Thursday decided that Robert Bowers was eligible for the death penalty for killing 11 worshippers at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life synagogue in 2018, the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history, local media reported. Last month, the jury found Bowers, 50, guilty of dozens of federal hate crimes…
By Granth Vanaik (Reuters) -U.S. online sales during Amazon.com’s Prime Day shopping event rose 6.1% to $12.7 billion from last year, as inflation-hit Americans hunted for discounts on the e-commerce platform, Adobe Analytics data on Thursday showed. Shoppers spent $6.3 billion on the second day of the big sale as deep discounts on products such…
PRISTINA (Reuters) – Fistfights broke out at the Kosovo parliament and water was thrown on the prime minister after a heated three-day public debate over an audio recording between a ruling party member and an official from the Serb-majority north. Kosovo’s opposition has long accused nationalist Prime Minister Albin Kurti’s handling of tensions in the…
By Emma Farge and Khalid Abdelaziz GENEVA (Reuters) -The U.N. human rights office said on Thursday at least 87 people including women and children had been buried in a mass grave in Sudan’s West Darfur, saying it had credible information they were killed by the country’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF). RSF officials denied any involvement,…
