By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Six U.S. senators on Friday urged the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to delay implementing a new compensation system that they said would cut pay for tens of thousands of rural postal delivery workers. The senators — Democrats Ron Wyden, Elizabeth Warren, Sherrod Brown, Ed Markey and John Fetterman and independent…
By Arpan Chaturvedi and Siddhi Nayak NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian airline Go First’s effort to start insolvency proceedings has become ensnared in a tussle with aircraft lessors after they asked the aviation regulator to deregister some of its planes as a step towards taking them back. India’s first major airline collapse since 2019 underlines…
By Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Friday it would stop reporting or monitoring COVID-19 case data and transmission rates after the government ends the pandemic’s public health emergency designation next week. The agency will stop using its color-coded COVID-19 Community Levels (CCL) system, which…
By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations said on Friday it will continue to keep Afghan staff working from home after the Taliban administration began enforcing a ban on Afghan women working for the world body a month ago. The United Nations has some 3,300 Afghan staff, of whom about 400 are…
By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. job growth accelerated in April while wage gains increased solidly, pointing to persistent labor market strength that could compel the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates higher for longer as it fights to bring inflation under control. The Labor Department’s closely watched employment report on Friday also showed…
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador does not foresee a jump in migrant flows once U.S. border restrictions are lifted next week, contrary to U.S. officials who are preparing for the possibility of a spike in illegal border crossings. The border policy known as Title 42, which allows U.S. authorities to rapidly…
By Mark Trevelyan, Andrew Osborn and Jonathan Landay LONDON (Reuters) – An extraordinary announcement by Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin that his fighters will abandon the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut looks like an exercise in blame avoidance and disinformation, Russia specialists and military analysts say. But it takes his conflict with defence chiefs to a…
By Antonio Bronic and Aleksandar Vasovic DUBONA, Serbia (Reuters) -A young man wearing a T-shirt with neo-Nazi symbols killed eight people and wounded 14 in Serbia’s second mass shooting in consecutive days, and he was caught later hiding at his grandfather’s house, authorities said on Friday. The latest rampage took place in the village of…
By Michael Holden and Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) -King Charles will be crowned at Westminster Abbey in a ceremony full of pomp, pageantry and solemn religious significance on Saturday. Below are details about Charles, his role in the Commonwealth and why he has a coronation. CHARLES Charles was born in 1948, the eldest of Queen…
JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel is hoping for a breakthrough this weekend in efforts to normalize ties with Saudi Arabia during White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan’s visit there, a senior security official said on Friday. The head of Israel’s National Security Council, Tzachi Hanegbi, spoke on Wednesday with his counterpart Sullivan, who is set to…
