TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – A Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) plane took off from the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa on Tuesday morning carrying the country’s former police, Juan Carlos “El Tigre” Bonilla, who is being extradited to the United States o…
Texas power demand hits monthly record in heatwave
(Reuters) – The Texas power grid said Tuesday that it has sufficient resources to meet demand this week as consumers crank up their air conditioners to escape unseasonably hot weather after usage soared to a monthly record on Monday. The Electric Relia…
Major U.S. retailers limit infant formula purchases on shortage
(Reuters) – U.S. retailers including Target Corp, CVS Health Corp and Walgreens Boots Alliance said on Tuesday they have limited purchases of infant formula due to a supply shortage. The limits come after top supplier Abbott Laboratories in February re…
Pharmacy chains should pay $878 million for opioid epidemic role, Ohio counties say
By Dietrich Knauth (Reuters) -A lawyer for two Ohio counties said on Monday that CVS Health Corp, Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc and Walmart Inc should fund an $878 million plan to address the opioid crisis there, as a first-of-its-kind trial got underwa…
Ukraine war fuels food crisis in distant Africa
By Nelson Banya HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwean security guard Edwin Dapi was already struggling to provide for his wife and four children before a conflict 11,000 km (6,800 miles) away in Ukraine sent global prices for grains, cooking oils, fuel and fer…
Ukraine pushes Russian troops back in counter-offensive near Kharkiv
By Jonathan Landay KHARKIV, Ukraine (Reuters) -Ukraine said on Tuesday its forces had recaptured villages from Russian troops north and northeast of Kharkiv, pressing a counter-offensive that could signal a shift in the war’s momentum and jeopardise Ru…
Republican leader asks for Democratic nomination to FTC be pulled
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell urged the Biden administration on Tuesday to reconsider its nomination of privacy expert Alvaro Bedoya to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, possibly extending the Democrats’ inability…
At least 3,000 have died in Ukraine for want of disease treatment -WHO
By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -The World Health Organization’s European chief said on Tuesday that at least 3,000 people had died in Ukraine since Russia’s invasion in February because they had been unable to access treatments for chronic diseases. So…
Hoping to win back voters, UK’s Johnson pledges economic growth
By Elizabeth Piper and Andrew MacAskill LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised on Tuesday to revive Britain’s economic growth to help those struggling with a cost-of-living crisis and to tackle regional inequalities after setting out …
Dropping zero-COVID policy in China without safeguards risks 1.5m lives – study
By David Stanway and Jennifer Rigby SHANGHAI/LONDON (Reuters) – China risks just over 1.5 million COVID deaths if it drops its tough zero-COVID policy without any safeguards such as ramping up vaccination and access to treatments, according to new mode…