NEW DELHI/LONDON (Reuters) – Freedom of expression cannot be used for “legitimising violence”, India said on Thursday in response to media reports citing comments by Canada’s prime minister on Ottawa’s handling of supporters of a separate state for the Sikh community. India summoned the Canadian envoy in New Delhi to register its protest after Indian…
By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA (Reuters) -Ivan Marquez, the well-known leader of a faction of former FARC rebels who returned to arms after a peace deal with Colombia’s government, has died in Venezuela, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday. Though most members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) demobilized…
By Andriy Perun LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) -A Russian missile slammed into a residential building in Lviv in western Ukraine on Thursday, killing at least seven people in a city that is far from frontlines and home to thousands displaced by war. The roof and top floor of the building were destroyed in what Lviv’s mayor…
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – Official results from Guatemala’s first-round presidential election late last month will be released next week, the country’s electoral court announced on Thursday, following a extended delay triggered by challenges from parties. A court spokesperson told Reuters that final results in the presidential race from the June 25 vote did not change….
By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia should halt collective expulsions of sub-Saharan African migrants and urgently enable access to humanitarian services for those the government sent to a dangerous area of the Tunisia-Libya border, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Thursday. Tunisia has removed hundreds of the migrants to a desolate area along the…
By Sinéad Carew and Marc Jones NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) – MSCI’s global index of stocks fell on Thursday while Treasury yields rose as a surge in U.S. private payrolls prompted concerns that interest rates would stay higher for longer. Payroll company ADP said June private payrolls rose 497,000, far exceeding economists’ expectations for a 228,000…
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Thursday replaced his tourism minister, the first cabinet reshuffle of his administration, as he seeks to shore up support for his political agenda from a powerful bloc of lawmakers. Tourism minister Daniela Carneiro will be replaced by federal lawmaker Celso Sabino from the Uniao…
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. is “appalled” by a brutal attack in Chechnya on a prominent female Russian journalist and a lawyer, the State Department said in a statement on Thursday, and it urged Russia to conduct a transparent probe and ensure justice. Armed masked men on Tuesday attacked Yelena Milashina, a…
By Lewis Krauskopf, Bansari Mayur Kamdar and Johann M Cherian (Reuters) – Wall Street’s main indexes ended sharply lower on Thursday in a broad sell-off after data showing a strong labor market boosted bond yields and fanned fears the Federal Reserve will be aggressive in raising U.S. interest rates. The S&P 500 posted its biggest…
By Jason Hovet and Robert Muller PRAGUE (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on NATO leaders to take concrete steps towards Ukrainian membership at a summit next week, and he received support during a visit to Prague from the Czech president, who backed Kyiv’s bid to join the alliance. He said his country, engaged in…
