By Andrius Sytas, Sabine Siebold and John Irish VILNIUS (Reuters) -NATO members sought to overcome divisions over how to put Ukraine on a path to membership on the eve of Tuesday’s start to a summit in Lithuania, apparently removing one hurdle to Kyiv joining the alliance. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said he had put…
By Nelson Acosta HAVANA (Reuters) -Cuba on Monday accused the U.S. government of bearing “direct responsibility” for the protests that rocked the Caribbean island two years ago, marking the largest demonstrations since Fidel Castro’s 1959 revolution. “The United States has a direct responsibility for the disturbances of July 11 and 12, 2021,” the Communist Party-run…
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A judge on Monday ordered Kansas to stop allowing transgender people to change the gender listed on their driver’s licenses after a lawsuit filed by the state’s Republican attorney general. The state’s Democratic Governor Laura Kelly and Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach have been at odds over the issue,…
VILNIUS (Reuters) -Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has agreed to forward to parliament Sweden’s bid to join the NATO military alliance, Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Monday, on the eve of a NATO summit in Vilnius. “I’m glad to announce … that President Erdogan has agreed to forward the accession protocol for Sweden to the grand…
By Sarah McFarlane and Valerie Volcovici LONDON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – When it comes to taking stock of global emissions, there’s an elephant in the room: the world’s armed forces. As temperatures hit new highs, scientists and environmental groups are stepping up pressure on the U.N. to force armies to disclose all their emissions and end a…
By David Shepardson (Reuters) -The United Auto Workers union said on Monday it will open contract talks with Detroit’s Big Three automakers starting on Thursday, ahead of the mid-September expiration of the current four-year labor deal. The union said talks will open on Thursday with Chrysler-parent Stellantis, on Friday with Ford Motor and on July…
By Ann Saphir and Michael S. Derby (Reuters) -The Federal Reserve will likely need to raise interest rates further to bring down inflation that is still too high, but the end to its current monetary policy tightening cycle is getting close, several U.S. central bank officials said on Monday. The Fed has raised interest rates…
By Ross Kerber (Reuters) – A new Missouri securities rule offers a template for Republican U.S. state officials who want to advance an “anti-woke” business agenda even as such ideas struggle for legislative backing. Missouri’s Republican secretary of state, John “Jay” Ashcroft, issued a rule on June 1 that requires broker-dealers to obtain consent from…
By Sabine Siebold VILNIUS (Reuters) – NATO leaders meet in Vilnius on Tuesday and Wednesday to tackle a wide range of topics, from divisions over Ukraine’s membership bid and Sweden’s accession to boosting ammunitions stockpiles and reviewing the first defence plans in decades. It will be the fourth NATO summit since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,…
By Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea accused the United States on Monday of violating its airspace by conducting surveillance flights and warned that, while Pyongyang was exercising restraint, such flights may be shot down. Provocative military actions by the United States were bringing the Korean peninsula closer to a nuclear conflict, an unnamed spokesperson…
