(Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that an African initiative could be a basis for peace in Ukraine but that Ukrainian attacks made it hard to realise. He was speaking at a press conference after meeting African leaders in St Petersburg on Friday and hearing their calls for Moscow to move ahead…
(Reuters) – Social media platform X reinstated account of Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, on Saturday, after it was suspended nearly eight months ago because the rapper had violated the platform’s rules prohibiting incitement to violence. Ye’s account now shows his last post from Dec. 1, a day prior to when his…
(Reuters) – The Moroccan economy registered growth of 1.3% in 2022, slowing down from the 8% growth registered in 2021, the central bank said late on Saturday. Abdellatif Jouahri, Governor of Bank Al-Maghrib presented the figures to King Mohammed VI during a reception at the Royal Palace of Tetouan, according to a bank press release….
By Ludwig Burger and Maggie Fick FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Novo Nordisk has launched blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy in Germany, its first big European market, hoping Germans will pay hundreds of euros out of pocket for a drug that public health insurance plans are so far barred from covering. The drug, shown to help patients reduce…
(This July 28 story has been refiled to remove the garbling in paragraph 2) By Michael S. Derby (Reuters) – Less tight financial conditions as exhibited by the red-hot stock market may increase the chances that the Federal Reserve hikes rates again before the end of the year, some economists reckon, even as financial markets…
(Reuters) – Canadian Labor Minister Seamus O’Regan said on Saturday he could impose a new collective agreement or a final binding agreement on striking dock workers following their rejection of a proposed labor contract. O’Regan said he had directed the Canada Industrial Relations Board to determine whether the rejection of the tentative agreement by the…
MAGDEBURG, Germany (Reuters) – Thousands took to the streets to protest against the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) on Friday and Saturday as the party held a convention to choose its candidates for European parliamentary elections next year. Protesters outside the conference venue in the city of Magdeburg waved banners with messages like “stand together…
By Moussa Aksar and Boureima Balima NIAMEY (Reuters) -The European Union and France have cut off financial support to Niger and the United States has threatened to do the same, after military leaders this week announced they had overthrown the democratically elected president, Mohamed Bazoum. Niger is one of the poorest countries in the world,…
By Vladyslav Smilianets ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (Reuters) – A Russian missile attack killed two people and blew out apartment windows in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia on Saturday, Anatoliy Kurtiev, secretary of the city council, said. “An enemy missile hit an open area,” Kurtiev said on Telegram. “Unfortunately a man and a woman died. Another…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. nurse and her child have been kidnapped in Haiti, a faith-based humanitarian aid organization said on Saturday. “We can confirm that Alix Dorsainvil, our director’s wife, and their child were kidnapped on the morning of Thursday, July 27th from our campus near Port au Prince while serving in our community…
