By Bate Felix and Ngouda Dione DAKAR (Reuters) -Over 10,000 supporters of Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko massed at a field in the capital Dakar on Tuesday, the first of three days of planned protests in support of the aspiring presidential candidate, who faces a libel case set to resume this week. The demonstrations are …
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(Corrects reason for the issuing of arrest warrant against Khan in paragraph 14) By Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistani police and supporters of Imran Khan fought pitched battles on Tuesday outside the former prime minister’s home in the eastern city of Lahore, injuring several on both sides, ahead of his possible arrest, a …
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By Gerauds Wilfried Obangome LIBREVILLE (Reuters) – Search teams in Gabon have recovered the dead bodies of 15 passengers of a ferry that sank off the West African country’s coast last week, bringing the provisional death toll up to 21, the coordinator of rescue operations said on Tuesday. The Esther Miracle ferry was carrying 161 …
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By Nellie Peyton JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Tropical cyclone Freddy hit the coast of southern Africa for a second time over the weekend, bringing its total death toll to more than 220 people in Malawi, Mozambique and Madagascar. The month-long storm has broken at least one record and could break two more, meteorologists say. As climate …
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By Gustavo Palencia and Ben Blanchard TEGUCIGALPA/TAIPEI (Reuters) – Honduran President Xiomara Castro said on Tuesday she had asked the country’s foreign minister to open official relations with China, pressuring Taiwan ahead of a sensitive visit by President Tsai Ing-wen to the United States and Central America. China does not allow countries with which it …
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By Scott Murdoch, Julie Zhu and Kane Wu HONG KONG (Reuters) – Chinese battery giant CATL’s plan to raise at least $5 billion in Swiss global depository receipts (GDR) has been delayed as Beijing regulators raise concerns over the large scale of the offering, three people with direct knowledge of the matter said. The world’s …
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) -North Carolina Republicans on Tuesday urged the state’s high court to reverse course and permit lawmakers to draw politically advantageous legislative districts, an outcome that would boost the party’s chances of holding onto its tenuous majority in the U.S. House of Representatives next year. The hearing in Raleigh took place after …
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By Chris Prentice (Reuters) – Bruised U.S. bank stocks regained some ground on Tuesday, as a sell-off sparked by Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse gave way to bargain-hunting by investors hopeful that efforts to shore up confidence would avert a wider financial crisis. Regulatory scrutiny of SVB’s demise last week – the largest U.S. bank failure …
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By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday proposed the first-ever national drinking water standard for six cancer-causing chemicals known as polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). The proposal is a major milestone in the EPA’s strategy to tackle the human-made so-called “forever chemicals” found in water, air and food that have caused tens …
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By Soo-hyang Choi SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea off its east coast on Tuesday, South Korea’s military said, the latest of several weapons tests as the South and the United States conduct their largest joint military drills in years. The missiles were fired about 7:40 a.m. (2240 GMT …
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