By Sharon Bernstein and Andrew Hay (Reuters) -Southern California authorities on Monday identified the suspect in a weekend shooting at a church luncheon as a 68-year-old Las Vegas man, saying he was in custody, charged with murder and attempted murder…
Wall Street falls as growth stocks, glum China data weigh
By Amruta Khandekar (Reuters) -Wall Street’s main indexes fell on Monday as downbeat China data added to worries about a global economic slowdown against the backdrop of aggressive policy tightening by the U.S. Federal Reserve. Chinese and European sto…
Sri Lanka down to last day of petrol, PM tells crisis-hit nation
By Alasdair Pal and Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) -Sri Lanka’s new prime minister said on Monday the crisis-hit nation was down to its last day of petrol, as the country’s power minister told citizens not to join the lengthy fuel queues that have…
Yields slip, stocks struggle as economic fears grow
By Herbert Lash NEW YORK (Reuters) -American and European equity markets wobbled and U.S. Treasury yields fell on Monday after unexpectedly weak economic data from China and a big slide in New York state’s factory activity painted a bleak picture for e…
U.S. congresswoman Liz Cheney blasts fellow Republicans after ‘great replacement’ mass shooting
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Representative Liz Cheney called on fellow Republicans to reject white supremacism, days after a teenage gunman motivated by the right-wing “great replacement” theory allegedly killed 10 people in a racist sh…
Former top Republican lawmaker in Colorado received leak of voting data
By Alexandra Ulmer (Reuters) -A former Republican minority leader of the Colorado legislature is among the recipients of a trove of sensitive voting data leaked by a county official working with activists seeking to prove President Donald Trump’s false…
Scholz’s balancing act just got harder after German state election
By Paul Carrel (Reuters) -The worst post-war result for Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats in a traditional party stronghold heaps pressure on him to show more decisive leadership over the Ukraine crisis and Germans’ concerns about soaring costs…
Biden sends top-tier team to UAE with eye on frayed ties
By Humeyra Pamuk ABU DHABI (Reuters) -President Joe Biden sent a high-powered U.S. delegation to the United Arab Emirates on Monday to offer condolences after the death of its ruler, in an apparent bid to repair frayed ties with Gulf Arab allies. Washi…
Ukraine and Russia: What you need to know right now
(Reuters) – Ukrainian forces were holding their positions in intense street fighting and under day and night shelling in Sievierodonetsk, officials said, as Russia pushes to control the bombed-out city, key to its objective of controlling eastern Ukrai…
Hungary PM Orban warns of “era of recession” in Europe
By Krisztina Than and Gergely Szakacs BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Monday raised the spectre of an “era of recession” in Europe as the continent grapples with surging energy costs and rising inflation due to the war in …