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Montana transgender legislator silenced after ‘blood on your hands’ comment

By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) – Montana statehouse Republicans on Wednesday silenced Democratic transgender legislator Zooey Zephyr from floor debates for breaking decorum after she said lawmakers who backed a ban on gender-affirming healthcare for minors would have “blood on your hands.” Under the motion that passed with a vote of 68-32, Zephyr will be allowed …

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Russia kills 25 in biggest Ukraine air strikes for nearly two months

By Sergiy Karazy and Dan Peleschuk UMAN, Ukraine/KYIV (Reuters) – Russia hurled missiles at cities across Ukraine as people slept on Friday, killing at least 25 civilians in the first large-scale air strikes in nearly two months, as Kyiv said it was nearly ready to launch a huge assault to retake occupied land. Firefighters tackled …

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Gold heads for second monthly rise on US banking turmoil

By Deep Kaushik Vakil (Reuters) – Gold bounced back on Friday on a dip in yields and renewed concerns over the U.S. banking turmoil, putting the safe haven on course for its second monthly rise even as steady U.S. inflation reinforced bets for an interest rate hike next week. Spot gold was 0.1% higher at …

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China ‘police station’ case shows U.S. ramping up use of foreign agent laws

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. charges last week against two people for allegedly running a Chinese “secret police station” in New York marked the latest case in a broad ramp-up in the use of a century-old law meant to curb the activity of foreign agents. The law, Section 951, was passed as …

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Migrants find tips on Chinese version of TikTok for long trek to U.S.-Mexico border

By Echo Wang and Mica Rosenberg FRONTON, Texas -Lihua Wu’s journey to the United States started when she scrolled past the words “The Route”, one of several common hashtags on Douyin, the Chinese counterpart of TikTok, advising migrants on the irregular overland trek across Latin America to the United States, also known online as “the …

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How Sudan’s military factions set path to war as mediation stalled

By Khalid Abdelaziz, Nafisa Eltahir and Aidan Lewis KHARTOUM (Reuters) -Alarmed that movements of rival military factions in Sudan could bring bloodshed, a group of mediators pushed for last-ditch talks between army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and paramilitary commander General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo two weeks ago. But neither of Sudan’s two most powerful men showed …

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UK unions split over government pay offer for health workers

By Kylie MacLellan and Farouq Suleiman LONDON (Reuters) – British healthcare and ambulance workers belonging to the GMB trade union have voted to accept a government pay offer, the union said on Friday, hours after members of another union rejected it. The offer, agreed between the government and healthcare union leaders last month, included a …

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Why does King Charles have a coronation ceremony and what happens?

(This April 18 story has been corrected to change years to 350 in the penultimate paragraph) LONDON (Reuters) – King Charles became monarch of the United Kingdom and 14 other realms on the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth in September, but in May he will be crowned in a ceremony full of pomp, pageantry …

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BBC’s Sharp quits after breaching rules over Boris Johnson loan

By Sarah Young LONDON (Reuters) -BBC Chairman Richard Sharp resigned on Friday after an independent report found he breached rules by not disclosing a potential conflict of interest in his role in securing a $1 million loan for the then-prime minister, Boris Johnson. His exit amid a cronyism row comes at a time of heightened …

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Wall Street ends sharply lower, Treasury yields slide as recession fears mount

(This April 25 story has been corrected to rectify the name of the firm to Morgan Stanley Investment Management, not Morgan Stanley Asset Management, in paragraph 14) By Stephen Culp NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stocks sold off, closing deep in negative territory, and Treasury yields dropped on Tuesday as disappointing earnings and soft economic …

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