By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Federal Reserve kicks off a two-day policy meeting on Tuesday that is likely to push the U.S. central bank’s benchmark overnight interest rate to its highest level in nearly 16 years, hitting a potential plateau that will test the economy in a way not seen since the onset…
By Mohamed Noureldin KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudan’s warring military factions agreed to a new and longer seven-day ceasefire from Thursday, neighbour and mediator South Sudan said, even as more air strikes and shooting in the Khartoum capital region undercut their latest supposed truce. Previous ceasefire pledges have ranged from 24 to 72 hours but there…
(Reuters) -The bodies of seven people, including two missing teens and a convicted sex offender, were found Monday afternoon on a property near the small Oklahoma city of Henryetta, the county sheriff said. Corpses believed to be 14-year-old Ivy Webster and 16-year-old Brittany Brewer were found when officers searched the property where the sex offender,…
(Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told the Washington Post in an interview published on Tuesday that the White House did not inform him about a leak of secret U.S. documents that grabbed attention around the world last month. “I did not receive information from the White House or the Pentagon beforehand,” Zelenskiy was quoted…
(Reuters) – The Ukrainian general in charge of ground forces said his troops would not give up the eastern city of Bakhmut as they prepare to begin a counteroffensive against occupying Russian forces. FIGHTING/MILITARY * The United States plans to announce as soon as Wednesday a $300 million military aid package for Ukraine that will…
By Blake Brittain (Reuters) – Amgen Inc sued Novartis AG’s Sandoz in New Jersey federal court Monday, accusing Sandoz’s proposed versions of its multibillion-dollar bone-strengthening drugs Prolia and Xgeva of infringing several patents. Amgen asked the court to block Sandoz’s biosimilars of the drugs until its patents expire. One of the patents named in the…
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – A lawyer for a Florida prosecutor on Tuesday urged a federal appeals court to reinstate his client after the state’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, indefinitely suspended him over his pledge not to prosecute people seeking or providing abortions. “This governor punishes dissenting voices,” David A. O’Neil, a lawyer for suspended…
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States on Tuesday launched a program to defend journalists around the world from legal threats aimed at silencing critical voices, a growing tactic that top U.S. aid official Samantha Power described as “lawfare.” Power, administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), announced the Reporters Shield program at…
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – NATO fighter jets scrambled on Sunday to track a Russian maritime patrol aircraft that violated air safety rules over the North Atlantic, the alliance said on Tuesday. “The (Russian) aircraft was not complying with international air safety rules and could pose a danger to other aircraft in the region,” NATO’s air command…
(This May 1 story has been refiled to say ‘call’ in the headline) ASUNCION (Reuters) – Supporters of a right-wing candidate who came third in Paraguay’s presidential election clashed with police outside the electoral court on Monday, amid complaints of fraud in a vote that the ruling Colorado Party won comfortably. Police put up fences…
