By Alasdair Pal and Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) -Protesters and a key trade group in Sri Lanka called for a new government to take control of the crisis-hit country on Tuesday as the president called for calm a day after clashes killed eight pe…
Honduran ex-president Hernandez pleads not guilty in U.S., decries treatment
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, with chains around his ankles, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to U.S. drug and weapons charges in Manhattan federal court while his lawyer complained of “prisoner of war”…
S&P 500, Nasdaq end up but investors cautious before inflation data
By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK (Reuters) – The S&P 500 and Nasdaq ended higher on Tuesday, with big growth shares rising after the previous day’s selloff as Treasury yields eased. At the same time, bank shares fell. The yield on the benchmark 10-yea…
IAEA warns that Iran not forthcoming on past nuclear activities
BRUSSELS/PARIS (Reuters) -The head of the United Nations’ atomic watchdog said on Tuesday Iran was dragging its feet on information about uranium particles found at old undeclared sites in the country, raising the prospect of a clash on the issue in Ju…
Russia downed satellite internet in Ukraine -Western officials
By James Pearson NEWPORT, Wales (Reuters) -Russia was behind a massive cyberattack against a satellite internet network which took tens of thousands of modems offline at the onset of Russia-Ukraine war, the United States, Britain, Canada and the Europe…
Prince Charles delivers Queen’s Speech for the first time
By Kate Holton and Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s heir-to-the-throne Prince Charles and Prince William took centre stage amid the pomp and pageantry of the opening of parliament on Tuesday, replacing the 96-year-old Queen Elizabeth who missed …
Lithuanian lawmakers brand Russian actions in Ukraine as ‘genocide’, ‘terrorism’
VILNIUS (Reuters) – Lithuania’s parliament voted unanimously on Tuesday to describe Russia’s actions in Ukraine as “genocide” and “terrorism” and to call for a international tribunal, modelled on the Nuremberg Trials after World War Two, to prosecute s…
Ukraine and Russia: What you need to know right now
(Reuters) – Finland said it would apply to join NATO “without delay”, with Sweden expected to follow suit, suggesting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will bring about the very expansion of the Western military alliance that Vladimir Putin aimed to prevent…
‘Our mountains are gone’: Grief as sacred New Mexico forests burn
By Andrew Hay ANGOSTURA, N.M. (Reuters) – Forests in Ella Arellano’s family for nine generations burned in a day on Monday as fierce winds drove the United States’ largest wildfire through a New Mexico valley towards a third county. Arellano sat in an …
Denver offers homeownership help to those denied opportunity by redlining
By Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) – Three small beds, two dressers and baskets full of clothes and other items cram a bedroom shared by three of Dontrael Starks’ children in the family’s Denver, Colorado, home. Another child, who suffers from autism, has he…