By Nathan Layne HILLSDALE, Mich (Reuters) – Jon Smith, a local leader in rural Michigan of America First, a far-right Republican faction that denies the results of the 2020 election, wants to shift the entire party to the right – even if it means short-term losses at the ballot box. “We need to redefine what …
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By Laura Matthews NEW YORK (Reuters) – The dollar edged lower against the euro and sterling on Friday, as the market readjusts ahead of the long weekend and awaits clues on how the Federal Reserve plans to continue tackling still-high inflation. Several Federal Reserve officials signaled this week that the U.S. central bank likely has …
By Seher Dareen (Reuters) – Gold prices edged higher on Friday but were still on track for their third straight weekly dip, weighed down by an overall stronger dollar and bond yields following fresh hawkish rhetoric from U.S. Federal Reserve officials. Spot gold was up 0.3% at $1,842.27 per ounce by 2:40 p.m. ET (1940 …
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By Akhtar Soomro and Ariba Shahid KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) -Islamists stormed a police station in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi on Friday, killing two people in a hail of gunfire and a series of loud explosions before they themselves were killed, officials said. Security forces retook the building after several hours and killed three …
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(Reuters) -President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday it was “obvious” Ukraine would not be the last stop of President Vladimir Putin’s invasion, and that it was vital the West did not delay arms deliveries to help repel Russian forces. The Ukrainian leader told the Munich Security Conference by video link that while the West was …
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SOFIA (Reuters) – Bulgarian police have arrested four people after they found the bodies of 18 dead migrants from Afghanistan, including that of a child, in an abandoned truck near the capital Sofia, officials said on Friday. The truck was transporting timber and carrying illegal migrants hidden in compartments, the interior ministry said in a …
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BORODIANKA, Ukraine (Reuters) – Eleven-year-old Veronika Krasevych crouched down in the rubble near the ruins of her home in northern Ukraine, holding out a sachet of food to two ragged cats at her feet. Almost a year earlier, Russian shells had rained down on her family’s ninth-floor apartment in the town of Borodianka, as they …
By Amanda Ferguson BELFAST (Reuters) -Britain’s prime minister told Northern Ireland politicians on Friday that progress had been made on easing post-Brexit trade rules as he sought to keep the province’s sceptical unionists on side in a final push for a deal with the European Union. After weeks of intense London-Brussels talks, momentum has been …
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By Steve Holland and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden said on Thursday he expects to speak with China’s president, Xi Jinping, about what the United States says was a Chinese spy balloon that a U.S. fighter jet shot down early this month after it transited the United States. “We are not looking for …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Democratic U.S. Senator John Fetterman, who flipped a Republican-held seat in last November’s elections just six months after suffering a near-fatal stroke, checked into a Washington-area hospital on Wednesday for treatment for clinical depression, his office said in a statement. The 53-year-old Pennsylvania senator was evaluated at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center …
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