BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s government on Saturday presented a budget proposal worth 502.6 trillion pesos ($127.8 billion) for 2024 to Congress, 19% greater than this year, the Finance Ministry said, an amount that would be the country’s highest if approved. Congress must greenlight the government’s budget by Oct. 20. The proposal includes spending 94.52 trillion…
By Graham Keeley BARCELONA (Reuters) -Spain’s Socialists have emerged with one seat fewer after counts of votes from abroad in last week’s election, making it harder for them to be able to form a left-wing coalition as they would need the support of hardline Catalan separatists rather than just their abstention, analysts told Reuters on…
By Liz Lee, Jenny Wang and Ryan Woo BEIJING (Reuters) -Rain soaked northern China on Saturday as Doksuri, one of the strongest storms to hit the country in years, prompted thousands to evacuate in Beijing after pummelling the Philippines and Taiwan, and lashing China’s coast. A broad area encompassing the capital faces medium to high…
By Ardee NAPOLITANO and Clotaire Achi PARIS (Reuters) – Booksellers along the river Seine say the Olympics threaten to erase a symbol of Paris, after they were told by local authorities that they will have to remove their stalls for the Summer Games opening ceremony in 2024 for security reasons. Around 570 of the famous…
By Andrew Hay (Reuters) – In the movie “Oppenheimer” the eponymous character played by Cillian Murphy says the proposed site for a secret atomic weapons lab in northern New Mexico has only a boys’ school and Indians performing burial rites. But there were homesteaders living on that land. In 1942, the U.S. Army gave 32…
By Brendan O’Brien CHICAGO (Reuters) -Tens of millions of Americans were confronted with a one-two punch of brutally hot temperatures and oppressive humidity on Friday as an unrelenting heat wave settled over the Midwest and East Coast and was expected to persist into the weekend. More than 175 million people in the U.S. were under…
By Ngouda Dione DAKAR (Reuters) – Senegal’s opposition leader Ousmane Sonko was charged on Saturday with plotting an insurrection, criminal conspiracy and other offenses, two months after his trial for a separate rape charge sparked deadly riots across the country. Sonko, 49, was handed a two-year prison sentence on June 1 for immoral behavior towards…
By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) – Bangladesh police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at stone-throwing opposition party supporters blocking major roads in the capital Dhaka on Saturday to demand the prime minister’s resignation. The main opposition party, in disarray since its leader Khaleda Zia was jailed in 2018 on graft charges, has held bigger…
WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) -A Florida judge on Friday rejected a Walt Disney Co request to dismiss a lawsuit by an oversight district, a move that could make it harder for the entertainment giant to pursue its own case against Governor Ron DeSantis as part of a yearlong feud. The ruling allows the oversight district to…
BEIJING (Reuters) – A listing of Jack Ma-backed Ant Group is unlikely in the short term, state media reported on Saturday, citing people close to regulation. Earlier this month, Ant Group announced a surprise share buyback that valued the fintech giant at $78.54 billion, well below the $315 billion touted in the suspended IPO. (Reporting…
