By Karen Lema (Reuters) – Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr has said the prospect of tensions escalating over Taiwan was a “grave concern” to Southeast Asian leaders and discussions about it were inevitable at this week’s summit in Indonesia. “Considering that we agree on the concept of ASEAN centrality when it comes to regional concerns,…
By Madhumita Gokhale BENGALURU (Reuters) – India’s consumer inflation likely cooled to an 18-month low in April as rises in food and fuel prices moderated, keeping it below the Reserve Bank of India’s upper tolerance limit for the second consecutive month, a Reuters poll of economists found. Food inflation, which accounts for nearly half of…
By Khalid Abdelaziz KHARTOUM (Reuters) -Residents of Sudan’s capital reported heavy air strikes in central Khartoum on Tuesday amid a surge in looting while Saudi Arabia said negotiators were working toward a short-term ceasefire. Witnesses said the army unleashed intense air bombardment in the centre of Khartoum and around the presidential palace. The rival Rapid…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden and top Republican lawmakers met face-to-face on Tuesday as a deadlock over raising the $31.4 trillion U.S. debt limit threatened to push the country into an unprecedented default in as soon as three weeks if Congress does not act. Biden is calling on lawmakers to raise the federal government’s…
By Jack Queen and Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump must pay $5 million in damages for sexually abusing magazine writer E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s and then defaming her by branding her a liar, a jury decided on Tuesday. “Today, the world finally knows the truth,” Carroll said in a statement. “This…
(Reuters) -Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who was taken off the air by the network last month, said on Tuesday he would relaunch his show on Twitter “soon.” Fox News Media and Carlson agreed to part ways last month, shortly after parent company Fox Corp settled for $787.5 million a defamation lawsuit in which…
By Julio-Cesar Chavez and Lizbeth Diaz EL PASO, Texas (Reuters) -U.S. border agents in El Paso, Texas, on Tuesday urged hundreds of migrants amassing on city streets to surrender to authorities as illegal crossings rose in the run-up to the end of COVID-19 border restrictions known as Title 42 later this week. At the same…
By Lizbeth Diaz MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Long lines of migrants have amassed this week in the border city of Tijuana, near the sprawling wall that divides Mexico from the United States, in the final days of a three-year long COVID-19 policy that blocked people crossing from seeking asylum. The policy, known as Title 42,…
SHAKAHOLA FOREST, Kenya (Reuters) -Kenyan investigators exhumed 21 more bodies on Tuesday as they resumed a search for followers of a doomsday cult, who the interior minister described as victims of a “highly organised crime”. Paul Mackenzie, leader of the Good News International Church, is in custody accused of ordering followers to starve their children…
By Lisa Richwine and Dawn Chmielewski LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – (This May 8 story has been corrected to say that Yahlin Chang is the co-showrunner and executive producer of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’, and not co-executive producer and writer, in paragraph 2, and to change the description of ‘American Born Chinese’ in paragraph 13) Writing for…
