By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Thursday said it referred 17 unruly passengers to the FBI for criminal investigation this year, taking the total of such referrals for violent and threatening incidents onboard planes to more than 250 since late 2021. Last month, a bipartisan group of lawmakers made…
By Terje Solsvik and Nerijus Adomaitis OSLO (Reuters) – Norway is expelling 15 Russian embassy officials that the foreign ministry said on Thursday were intelligence officers operating under the cover of diplomatic positions, the latest such expulsion by a Western nation since Moscow invaded Ukraine. The Russian embassy in Oslo told Reuters Norway’s decision was…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Biden administration is unveiling on Thursday nearly $300 million in funding from its signature infrastructure law for nine bridge projects across the country, officials said. The infrastructure law, which the U.S. Congress passed with support from Democrats and Republicans, is one of President Joe Biden’s key legislative accomplishments and one his…
By Steve Holland DUBLIN (Reuters) -President Joe Biden said on Thursday that investigators were closing in on the source of the leak of highly classified U.S. intelligence documents, in what is believed to be the most serious security breach in a decade. The Department of Justice opened a formal criminal probe last week after the…
By David Milliken and William Schomberg LONDON (Reuters) -Bank of England Chief Economist Huw Pill said on Thursday that the latest data on the economy, including a stagnation of gross domestic product in February, is “somewhat disappointing” even if it remains better than forecast by the BoE late last year. Pill, speaking at an online…
By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA (Reuters) – More than 17,600 people are members of the four major armed groups and 23 gangs with which the Colombian government hopes to reach peace or surrender deals, two security agency reports seen by Reuters show. The newly updated figures, which have not been reported before, are an effort…
By Jarrett Renshaw and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -When OPEC+ made a surprise decision earlier this month to cut oil production, President Joe Biden responded with the political equivalent of a shrug – a far cry from his declaration that there would be “consequences” for Saudi Arabia, the de facto head of the oil cartel,…
By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Pakistan’s parliament on Thursday ruled against providing funds for provincial snap polls ordered by the Supreme Court, creating new discord between the judiciary and government amid months of political and economic turmoil. The chief justice had already summoned government finance officials to his chamber on Friday to seek a reply…
By Guy Faulconbridge, Andrew Osborn and Filipp Lebedev MOSCOW (Reuters) -Alexei Navalny, Russia’s most prominent opposition politician, is grappling with severe stomach pain in jail that could be some sort of slow acting poison, his spokeswoman said on Thursday. An ambulance was called for Navalny overnight on Friday to Saturday to the maximum security IK-6…
By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) -Abortion opponents on Tuesday urged a federal appeals court to allow the suspension of the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the abortion pill mifepristone, in a case with potentially far-reaching impact on how the U.S. government regulates medicine. In a filing with the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in…
