Today: May 03, 2024
Today: May 03, 2024

Political

Turkish national stabs Israeli policeman in Jerusalem, is shot dead -police statement

JERUSALEM (Reuters) -A Turkish national on Tuesday stabbed an Israeli border policeman in Jerusalem and was then shot dead by officers at the scene, Israeli police said.

Analysis-Inflation hasn't lost its grip on bond markets yet

By Yoruk Bahceli (Reuters) - Government borrowing costs across developed economies saw their biggest jumps in months in April, evidence that bond markets are not yet out of the woods when it comes to

Gaza war separates parents from their new born baby

By Mohammad Salem and Mahmoud Issa RAFAH/JABALIA, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Born two months premature as war raged in Gaza, Palestinian baby Yehia Hamuda was evacuated to southern Gaza after Israeli

Austrian court defers ruling on rapist Fritzl's move to regular prison

By Francois Murphy KREMS AN DER DONAU, Austria (Reuters) -A court on Tuesday deferred until next week a ruling on whether Austria's most infamous living criminal, 89-year-old incestuous rapist Josef

Global banking regulators target mismanagement in handling risks from clients

By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) - Global banking regulators on Tuesday proposed stricter standards for banks when assessing risks from customers to avoid the mismanagement highlighted by the collapse of

White House denounces takeover of campus building as protests escalate

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House denounced non-peaceful efforts to protest the war in Gaza on Tuesday as students at Columbia University occupied a campus building, saying it was "the wrong

French actor Gerard Depardieu to be tried in October over alleged sexual assaults

PARIS (Reuters) - French actor Gerard Depardieu will be tried next October for alleged sexual assaults against two women during a 2021 film shoot, the Paris public prosecutor said on Monday.

China, US to hold climate meetings in Washington in May

By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. climate change diplomat John Podesta will meet his Chinese counterpart Liu Zhenmin in Washington in May, resuming bilateral talks on climate cooperation

Netanyahu vows again to storm Rafah as Israel awaits Hamas reply to truce proposal

By Dan Williams and Nidal al-Mughrabi JERUSALEM/CAIRO (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Tuesday to go ahead with a long-promised assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah

US FCC resumes full oversight of broadband service providers

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said on Tuesday it has terminated a 2017 memorandum of understanding with the Federal Trade Commission that had

Wells Fargo investors approve executive pay, CEO underscores risk controls

By Nupur Anand NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wells Fargo shareholders on Tuesday approved its plans for executive compensation with a majority vote, including hiking CEO Charlie Scharf's 2023 package to $29

Cambodia's Supreme Court upholds the 2-year prison sentence of a casino strike leader

Cambodia’s Supreme Court has upheld the two-year prison sentence of a labor union leader who led a long-running strike against the country’s biggest casino

The Latest | Trump's hush money trial enters 11th day as second week of testimony is set to wrap up

Donald Trump will return to court as his hush money trial enters its 11th day

US jobs report for April will likely point to a slower but still-strong pace of hiring

The American economy likely delivered another solid hiring gain in April, showing continuing durability in the face of the highest interest rates in two decades

Panama Supreme Court rejects challenge to candidacy of presidential frontrunner days before vote

Panama’s Supreme Court has rejected a constitutional challenge to the candidacy of leading presidential contender José Raúl Mulino

Yellen says threats to democracy risk US economic growth, an indirect jab at Trump

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is arguing that a fractured democracy can have destructive effects on the economy

Brazil Congress approves bill to keep tax incentives for events industry

RIO DE JANEIRO/BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazil's Senate on Tuesday approved a bill maintaining tax incentives for the meetings and cultural events sector until the end of 2026, which now needs President

2 Nigerian military personnel will face court martial over a drone attack that killed 85 villagers

Nigerian military authorities say two military personnel will face a court martial over the killing of 85 villagers in a drone attack in the West African nation’s conflict-battered north four months earlier

Quagmire anyone? Fed watchers try to divine a confusing state of play

By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. central bankers began spreading rate-cut fever late last year, with the economy seemingly on a clear path back to low inflation and officials projecting

The Latest | A Rafah incursion would put hundreds of thousands of lives at risk, UN aid agency says

The United Nations humanitarian aid agency says hundreds of thousands of people would be “at imminent risk of death” if Israel carries out a military assault in the southern Gaza city of Rafah

Biden will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 politicians, activists, athletes and others

President Joe Biden will award the Presidential Medal of Freedom to a diverse group of 19 people

Biden administration says 100,000 new migrants are expected to enroll in 'Obamacare' next year

Roughly 100,000 immigrants who were brought to the U.S. are expected to enroll in the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance next year

Factbox-Details of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza

(Reuters) -The Gaza Strip is suffering an unfolding humanitarian catastrophe nearly seven months since Israel launched a devastating offensive in response to the Oct.

Vietnam lawmakers to hold extraordinary meeting on personnel issues

HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam's parliament is set to meet on Thursday afternoon to discuss personnel issues, the office of the country's lawmaking body said on Wednesday, five days after its chairman,

UK begins detaining migrants set to be deported to Rwanda

LONDON (Reuters) - British authorities have started to detain migrants in preparation for them to be sent to Rwanda in the next nine to 11 weeks, the government said on Wednesday, laying the

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