Paraguay’s women battle to break political glass ceiling
By Lucinda Elliott ASUNCION (Reuters) – In Paraguay’s election on Sunday, Soledad Nunez, a 40-year-old engineer and former minister, is…
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Unending ‘hell’: Sudan war rages despite truce pledges
By Khalid Abdelaziz KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Strikes by air, tanks and artillery rocked Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, and the adjacent city…
Braving boos, Macron hopes ‘cathartic’ walkabouts will soothe pension anger
By Michel Rose and Elizabeth Pineau PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron has thrown himself into what he calls a…
OpenAI closes $300 million funding round at $27 billion-$29 billion valuation – TechCrunch
(Corrects headline and story to show a $300 million share sale, not $10 bln or $10.3 billion) (Reuters) – OpenAI,…
US Fed points finger at Trump-era rollback for SVB demise
By Douglas Gillison (Reuters) -The Federal Reserve on Friday blamed the deregulatory zeal that occurred during the Trump era for…
U.S. confiscates Iran oil cargo on tanker amid Tehran tensions -sources
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. confiscated Iranian oil on a tanker at sea in recent days in a sanctions enforcement…
U.S. Army plans 24-hour aviation stand down after two deadly helicopter crashes
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Army on Friday ordered its aviation units to pause operations for one day next month to…
Wall Street climbs as strong earnings offset slowdown worries, Fed meeting in focus
By Sinéad Carew, Sruthi Shankar and Ankika Biswas (Reuters) – U.S. stock indexes advanced on Friday after strong earnings updates…
Women state senators cross party lines to block proposed South Carolina abortion ban
By Sharon Bernstein (Reuters) – A day after all five women in the South Carolina state senate banded together to…
US regulators vow to sharpen oversight as SVB, Signature aftershocks reverberate
By Ann Saphir, Hannah Lang and Chris Prentice (Reuters) – U.S. regulators on Friday put large banks on notice that…