US pushes peace talks to avert ‘point of no return’ in Sudan
By Aidan Lewis (Reuters) – The United States hopes for a relaunch of talks aimed at ending the conflict in Sudan and opening up humanitarian access soon after Ramadan ends…
By Aidan Lewis (Reuters) – The United States hopes for a relaunch of talks aimed at ending the conflict in Sudan and opening up humanitarian access soon after Ramadan ends…
Stopgap Spending Bill Clears The Senate To Avert Government Shutdown For Another Week Arjun Singh on February 29, 2024 The Senate on Thursday passed a continuing resolution (CR), the fourth…
House And Senate Pass Third Continuing Resolution To Avert Government Shutdown Arjun Singh on January 18, 2024 Both chambers of Congress on Thursday passed a continuing resolution that will avert…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. Senate bill to avert a partial government shutdown beginning this weekend secured enough votes on Thursday to pass in the Democratic-majority chamber. Voting continued. (Reporting…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A bill to avert a partial U.S. government shutdown beginning this weekend cleared a first procedural hurdle in the Senate on Tuesday, as lawmakers scrambled to pass…
House Passes Two-Step Continuing Resolution To Avert Gov’t Shutdown Mary Lou Masters on November 14, 2023 The Republican-held House of Representatives voted Tuesday to pass Speaker Mike Johnson’s two-part continuing…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Thursday took a procedural step to allow the Democratic-majority chamber to pass a stopgap government funding bill before a Nov.…
(Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday rejected a Republican short-term spending measure aimed at averting a government shutdown, raising the odds that federal agencies will cease operations…
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives late on Wednesday announced they had embraced a framework for legislation providing stopgap…
(Reuters) – Anglo American Plc’s De Beers is confident ongoing talks with South Africa’s National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) will avert a wage strike at Venetia, the country’s largest diamond…
(Reuters) – The White House will propose raising taxes on people earning more than $400,000 and reduce what Medicare pays for prescription drugs in a bid to keep the program…
AMMAN (Reuters) – Israel and Palestinian officials pledged to work towards reviving efforts to reach a “just and lasting peace” deal at the end of talks in Aqaba, saying on…
By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers is preparing a plan to defuse a looming crisis over the nation’s debt ceiling by changing it from…
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Carmaker Audi’s Mexico unit and worker representatives have agreed to 9.4% salary raises for 2023, forestalling a strike in reaching a deal for one of the…
By Michel Rose WASHINGTON (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron’s discussions with U.S. President Joe Biden have resulted in a “major breakthrough” to avert a “subsidies race” between the two…
(Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden said on Monday he was calling on Congress to intervene to avert a potential rail strike amid a railroad labor standoff that threatens to…
By Nandita Bose NANTUCKET, Mass. (Reuters) -President Joe Biden said on Thursday that his administration was involved in negotiations to avert a looming U.S. railroad strike that could shut down…
(Reuters) – Major U.S. railroads and unions representing 115,000 workers reached a tentative deal last week and averted a potential strike that could have stalled almost 30% of U.S. cargo…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. railway parties have agreed to a cooling off period as standard part of the ratification process after reaching a tentative deal overnight, a move that would…
By David Shepardson and Lisa Baertlein (Reuters) – U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh is hosting talks in Washington on Wednesday with freight railroad and union officials aimed at heading off…
Elon Musk Calls For More Fossil Fuels And Nuclear Power To Avert Energy Crisis Jack McEvoy on August 29, 2022 Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk told European energy leaders…
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON – Governments must target fiscal support to vulnerable populations hit hardest by rising energy and food prices, and now facing growing food insecurity as a result…
(Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Reserve aims to tighten monetary policy in a methodical way that keeps the economic expansion intact, Philadelphia Federal Reserve President Patrick Harker said on Wednesday.…
By Leika Kihara TOKYO -Japan is unlikely to slide into stagflation, a condition where rising inflation and shrinking economic growth co-exist, a senior central bank official said on Wednesday. With…