US and World News

By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) -At least 100 Russians asked for help from President Vladimir Putin on Monday in a city struck by the worst flooding ever recorded, chanting “shame …

By Stephen Culp NEW YORK (Reuters) -U.S. stocks were essentially unchanged at the close of a choppy session on Monday, with a solar eclipse offering distraction ahead of crucial inflation …

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday called for legislation to force TikTok’s parent company, China’s ByteDance, to divest the short video app used …

QUITO (Reuters) – Ecuador’s former vice president Jorge Glas was taken to a hospital in Guayaquil on Monday, the SNAI prison agency said in a statement, due to apparently becoming …

By Manuel Mucari MAPUTO (Reuters) -More than 100 people died after a ferry boat sank off the northern coast of Mozambique, President Filipe Nyusi said on Monday, and almost 20 …

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Representative Nancy Pelosi, former House speaker and a key ally of Joe Biden, signed a letter on Friday from dozens of congressional Democrats to the …

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An engine cover on a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-800 fell off on Sunday during takeoff in Denver and struck the wing flap, prompting the …

NEW YORK (Reuters) – A New York appellate judge on Monday denied Donald Trump’s bid to delay his April 15 criminal trial on charges stemming from hush money paid to …

By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada’s domestic spy agency concluded that China interfered in the last two elections, an official probe heard on Monday, the firmest evidence so far …

DAMASCUS (Reuters) -Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian inaugurated a new site for Iranian consular services in the Syrian capital on Monday, Syrian state media reported, in a building near the …

By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza has prompted calls for Washington to put conditions on the billions of dollars in military funding and other assistance …

By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Ahmed Mohamed Hassan CAIRO (Reuters) -Hamas rejected an Israeli ceasefire proposal made at talks in Cairo, a senior Hamas official said on Monday, and Israeli Prime …

By Sinéad Carew and Harry Robertson NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) -Equity indexes rose slightly on Monday as U.S. bond yields hit their highest levels since late November and investors continued to …

By Andreas Rinke, Matthias Williams BERLIN/LONDON (Reuters) -When Simon Harris became Ireland’s prime minister-in-waiting in March, he turned to a favoured platform to express himself: TikTok.  In a video with …

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -Jonathan Majors, a fast-rising Hollywood star before domestic violence charges derailed his career, avoided jail and was sentenced to one year of domestic-violence counseling …

By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) -Paramount Pictures has won the dismissal of a lawsuit claiming its 2022 Tom Cruise blockbuster “Top Gun: Maverick” borrowed too much from a 1983 magazine article …

By Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A deal to release hostages held in Gaza is difficult but “doable”, Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid said on Monday after he and U.S. …

By David Brunnstrom and Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden hosts the leaders of Japan and the Philippines this week to boost economic and defense ties as the …

By Doaa Rouqa GAZA (Reuters) – When Israeli forces withdrew from Khan Younis, the Al-Najjar family braced for the worst before returning to the southern Gaza city where their house …

By Andrea Shalal and Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House welcomed on Monday the arrival on Sunday of more than 300 aid trucks in Gaza, but said it …

By Daphne Psaledakis (Reuters) -The United Nations Security Council president on Monday referred the Palestinian Authority’s application to become a full member of the world body to the committee on …

By Marisa Taylor WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Synchron Inc, a rival to Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain implant startup, is preparing to recruit patients for a large-scale clinical trial required to seek …

By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia said on Monday that Ukraine had endangered European nuclear security by attacking the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station with a drone which was shot …