WARSAW (Reuters) – The European Union could see another record number of people seeking to reach its borders this year via irregular crossings, with more migrants driven by poverty and climate change rather than conflict, the EU’s Frontex border agency said on Friday. Frontex reported some 330,000 unauthorised arrivals via all routes last year, the…
By Rachael Levy WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers will ask regulators to investigate whether the make-up of a panel overseeing animal testing at Elon Musk’s brain-chip startup Neuralink contributed to botched and rushed experiments. U.S. House Representatives Earl Francis Blumenauer and Adam Schiff, both Democrats, have signed a draft letter to the U.S. Department of…
By Joy Malone TOMS RIVER, New Jersey (Reuters) – Ciara Clark, a Black doula, labored for more than nine hours at home before making a last-minute switch to go to the hospital to give birth. With her own Black doula and mother by her side, Clark had hoped to have her baby at home with…
By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will kick off fundraising for Democrats’ 2024 re-election campaign in the swing state of Georgia on Friday, as she and President Joe Biden start to tap donors who contributed over $1 billion to the 2020 campaign. Harris will headline the Democratic Party of Georgia’s “Spring…
By James Davey LONDON (Reuters) – British lawmakers launched an investigation on Friday into the fairness of the country’s food supply chain, seeking to understand why households are facing the highest levels of food price inflation since the 1970s. The cross-party Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Committee of the House of Commons, the lower…
ROME (Reuters) – A new Italian law that narrows asylum rights in an effort to dissuade migrants from heading to Italy is repressive and inhumane, a leading rights watchdog said on Friday. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s nationalist government drew up the legislation after a shipwreck off southern Italy in February that killed more than 90…
By David Milliken and William Schomberg LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s economy grew sluggishly in early 2023, better than the shallow recession once expected, but an unexpectedly sharp drop in output in March underscored how fragile its recovery remains. Gross domestic product (GDP) edged up 0.1% in the first three months of the year, official data showed…
By Arathy Somasekhar HOUSTON (Reuters) – Oil pipelines from the top U.S. shale field to Houston that have run half empty are filling again as rising output has absorbed most of the space on lines to the main south Texas export hub in Corpus Christi. U.S. crude exports climbed to a record of about 4.5…
By Allison Lampert, Abhijith Ganapavaram and Valerie Insinna MONTREAL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The CEO of Canadian aerospace supplier Abipa International would not negotiate further when a potential customer recently pressed for additional price cuts on components used in areas like engines and landing gear. That stance by CEO Jean Blondin is one that more and more…
By Panu Wongcha-um and Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s embattled Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha is lagging behind the opposition in polls ahead of Sunday’s general election but electoral rules written by his former military junta mean the retired army chief can’t be counted out. Prayuth, 69, who first came to office in a 2014…
