LONDON (Reuters) – Pope Francis has gifted fragments believed to be from the True Cross on which Jesus was crucified to form part of a new processional cross which will be used at the coronation of Britain’s King Charles next month. The new cross, made from recycled silver along with Welsh slate and reclaimed wood,…
By Akhtar Soomro KARACHI (Reuters) – Women pedal sewing machines, deftly lining up seams and pleats as they assemble brightly coloured dresses for young girls at an orphanage in Pakistan, in preparation for Eid al-Fitr, which ends the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. Yet as an economic crisis forces people to tighten their belts, fewer…
By Andy Bruce LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s unwanted status as the only large advanced economy still to have double-digit inflation represents just one symptom of the serious economic malaise faced by the country. Annual consumer price inflation (CPI) in Britain fell to 10.1% last month but defied forecasts for a bigger drop from February’s 10.4%,…
By Norihiko Shirouzu and Joseph White SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) – At Toyota Motor Corp’s sprawling factory here, just 16 miles (26 km) from the Alamo, a new gasoline-fueled Tundra pickup truck or hybrid Sequoia SUV rolls off the assembly line every 60 seconds. “We can’t produce enough of the Sequoias and Tundras today,” said…
By Michael Georgy DUBAI (Reuters) – A battle that is hammering Khartoum and dragging Sudan to the brink of civil war pits the army chief and his regular forces against the streetwise fighters loyal to a former warlord. Army head General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan controls heavy weapons and the airforce, but his soldiers face a…
By Karen Freifeld (Reuters) -Former Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg was released from jail on Wednesday, according to New York City Department of Correction records. Weisselberg was sent to New York’s Rikers Island jail on Jan. 10 for helping engineer a wide-ranging 15-year tax fraud scheme at former President Donald Trump’s family business….
By Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on a procurement network it accused of supporting Iran’s drone and military programs, targeting companies and suppliers in China, Iran and elsewhere in the fresh action aimed at increasing pressure on Tehran. The U.S. Treasury Department in a statement said it imposed sanctions…
By Lisa Barrington DUBAI (Reuters) – Omanis no longer need state permission to marry a foreign national according to a royal decree issued this week, a rare example of social reform in the conservative Gulf country. Sultan Haitham bin Tariq al-Said has, since assuming power in 2020 after the 50-year reign of the late Sultan…
By Oliver Denzer and Laurie Chen HAMBURG/BEIJING (Reuters) -Dazed and terrified, Yicheng Huang narrowly managed to escape being detained by police in Shanghai while attending historic protests calling for an end to China’s COVID-19 curbs that spread across numerous cities last November. The protests, unprecedented in President Xi Jinping’s decade in power, were suppressed by…
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – China is seeking to acquire equipment and knowledge in the Dutch space sector, sometimes in circumvention of export restrictions, the Netherlands’ military intelligence agency said on Wednesday. The agency, known by its Dutch acronym MIVD, said in its 2022 annual report that its analysis “shows the Chinese satellite launch capacity will increase…
