By Alexandros Avramidis, Stelios Misinas KATERINI, Greece/ATHENS (Reuters) -Families and friends, dressed in black, clung to each other, in tears, as the coffin of a 34-year-old mother killed in Greece’s deadliest train crash was lifted up the stairs of a church on Friday. The first known funeral after Tuesday night’s accident, which killed at least …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland made an unannounced visit to Lviv, Ukraine, on Friday at the invitation of the Ukrainian prosecutor general, a Justice Department official said. “The attorney general held several meetings and reaffirmed our determination to hold Russia accountable for crimes committed in its unjust and unprovoked invasion against its …
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By Johann M Cherian and Fergal Smith (Reuters) – Canada’s commodity-heavy main stock index rose on Friday to its highest closing level in more than two weeks as encouraging economic data from major energy importer China allayed fears of a global economic slowdown. Activity in China’s services sector expanded at the fastest pace in six …
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By Jarrett Renshaw and Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden’s team is moving to tap top Democratic allies and even some people once seen as possible rivals as key representatives of his expected re-election bid. The Democratic National Committee (DNC) will host a “national advisory board” comprised of the sorts of rising-star …
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By Stephen Culp NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wall Street rallied on Friday to end a volatile week, as U.S. Treasury yields eased and economic data helped investors look past the growing likelihood that the Federal Reserve will have to keep its restrictive policy in place until late in the year. All three major U.S. stock …
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By Kanishka Singh and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden had a skin lesion removed from his chest in February that was a basal cell carcinoma – a common form of skin cancer – and no further treatment is needed, White House physician Kevin O’Connor said on Friday. All cancerous tissue was successfully …
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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s inflation rate is seen hitting 99.9% in 2023, speeding up from last year’s rate and topping previous estimates which saw a slightly slower rise, according to a central bank poll of analysts released Friday. The forecast, which is 2.3 percentage points above the 2023 rate projected in last month’s poll, …
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Labor representatives at a Nissan Motor Co Ltd plant in the central Mexican state of Morelos have reached an agreement with the Japanese carmaker to hike pay 9% as of April, the union said. Nissan’s deal, which the union said a majority of workers approved in late February, is in line …
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PALO ALTO, California (Reuters) – Richmond Federal Reserve Bank President Thomas Barkin said on Friday that he could envision a scenario where the central bank pushes the U.S. benchmark policy interest rate to the 5.5%-5.75% range that some in financial markets are now betting it will. “That would suggest inflation was in fact more persistent …
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CHICAGO (Reuters) – American Airlines and its flight attendants union on Friday jointly applied for federal mediation in contract negotiations. The Association of Professional Flight Attendants (APFA), which represents over 23,000 American flight attendants, said the decision to seek mediation is intended to move contract negotiations forward. The current round of negotiations started in January …
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