WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund reached a staff-level agreement with Tanzania on a review that will make about $265.8 million available to the African country, the IMF said in a statement on Thursday. (Reporting by Jasper Ward; editing by Kanishka Singh)
(Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Energy said on Wednesday it has approved conditional loan guarantee commitments totaling nearly $3 billion for two sustainable aviation fuel projects. The agency’s Loan Programs Office said the funding of up to $1.44 billion to Calumet’s unit would support the expansion of its facility in Montana. The facility will …
By Costas Pitas (Reuters) -The U.S. Secret Service has become bureaucratic and complacent and is in need of reform, an independent review into the first assassination attempt on Donald Trump concluded on Thursday, saying without change such an incident will happen again. On July 13, Trump, the Republican candidate in the Nov. 5 presidential election, …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) – Kenya’s Senate on Thursday voted to dismiss Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua from office by impeachment on the first of 11 charges levelled against him, in an unprecedented move that risks pushing the country towards a political crisis. (Reporting by Ammu Kannampilly; editing by Jonathan Oatis)
By Daphne Psaledakis and Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States wants to kickstart talks on a proposal to achieve a ceasefire and the release of hostages in Gaza, U.S. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Thursday, after the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, which he called a “seismic event.” Miller told …
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By Douglas Gillison, Chris Prentice and Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A 25-year-old Alabama man was arrested on Thursday for hacking the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s X account this year as part of an alleged conspiracy to manipulate bitcoin prices, U.S. prosecutors said. In January, a hacker posted false news on the SEC’s @SECGov …
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MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said he had argued for Europe to remain open and prosperous instead of closed and poor in a European Council summit in which countries like Italy and Germany are seeking to tighten the bloc’s stance. Sanchez said in a news conference after the summit that he had …
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-Two athletes, one from Britain and the other from Mexico, died on Thursday on the first day of the Torremolinos-Andalucia Triathlon Championship Finals, both competing in the age-group sprint event, World Triathlon said. British Triathlon confirmed the death of one of its age-group team members, without revealing his identity or cause of death. The Mexican …
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By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – Texas on Thursday filed what appears to be the first lawsuit against a doctor for allegedly violating the state’s ban on providing gender-affirming care, such as puberty blockers and hormones, to transgender minors. In a complaint filed in the District Court of Collin County, Texas, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton …
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Romania scrambled four fighter jets on Thursday after a small flying object, likely a drone, breached national airspace up to 14 km inland in the southeastern county of Constanta, the defence ministry said. The European Union and NATO state, which shares a 650-km (400-mile) border with Ukraine, has had Russian drone fragments fall …
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