By Lisa Barrington DUBAI (Reuters) – The United Nations on Thursday fell far short of raising the money it needs for an operation to salvage 1.1 million barrels of oil from a decaying vessel moored off Yemen’s coast and avert an environmental disaster. U.N. officials have been warning for years that the Red Sea and…
By Rich McKay ATLANTA (Reuters) -A former U.S. Coast Guardsman accused of killing a woman and wounding four others in a shooting in an Atlanta medical building was denied bail on Thursday. The suspected gunman, identified as 24-year-old Deion Patterson, had waived his right to appear at the court hearing during which Fulton County Magistrate…
By Andy Sullivan and Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Republican plan to cut federal spending in exchange for lifting the U.S. government’s debt ceiling would lower employment, slow economic growth and “meaningfully increase” the likelihood of a recession, Moody’s Analytics’ chief economist told a Senate committee on Thursday. Mark Zandi told the Senate Budget…
NAIROBI (Reuters) -A Kenyan cult leader accused of ordering his followers to starve themselves to death will be detained by police until a hearing on Friday, a court ruled on Tuesday as investigators searched for more bodies in a forest where 101 corpses have already been unearthed. Kenyan authorities say the dead were members of…
MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) – A Kenyan court on Thursday released on bond a televangelist detained last week as part of an investigation into the deaths of dozens of people whom police say starved themselves to death on the instructions of a cult leader. Kenya’s interior minister accused Pastor Ezekiel Odero after his arrest last Thursday…
(Reuters) – The death of a man who was placed in a chokehold by a fellow passenger on a New York City subway train earlier this week has been ruled a homicide by the city’s medical examiner as calls for an arrest in the incident have intensified. The deceased man, identified as 30-year-old Jordan Neely,…
By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The Afghan people are in for a “very difficult year ahead,” warned the top U.S. aid official, as donors grapple with challenging a Taliban administration crackdown on women and girls, more crises around the world and overall less funding. The Taliban seized power in August 2021 as U.S.-led…
CAIRO (Reuters) – Arab foreign ministers will meet at the Arab League in Cairo on Sunday to discuss Syria, a League spokesman said, amid a regional push to normalise ties with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad after a decade of estrangement. The foreign ministers will hold a separate meeting on Sunday to address the conflict that…
(Reuters) – North Carolina’s Republican-dominated House on Wednesday passed and sent to the state Senate a controversial bill limiting most abortions to the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, a sharp drop from the state’s current limit of 20 weeks’ gestation. The bill passed 71-46 along party lines, with one Republican and two Democratic lawmakers not…
By Balazs Koranyi and Francesco Canepa FRANKFURT (Reuters) – The European Central Bank slowed the pace of its interest rate increases on Thursday but signalled more tightening to come in what markets expect to be the final stage of its fight against inflation. All ECB policymakers but one, Austria’s Robert Holzmann, backed the 25-basis-point increase…
