Australian prime minister raises prospect of early election over housing impasse
By Lewis Jackson SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia could go to an election more than a year ahead of schedule as opposition parties threaten to block a flagship housing bill for a second…
WTO members overcome impasse, appoint chairs for negotiations
GENEVA (Reuters) – World Trade Organization members have overcome a months-long impasse over who will chair ongoing negotiations to fix new global trade rules for agriculture and fisheries, the watchdog’s chief confirmed…
Fed will face tough choices the longer debt ceiling impasse persists -analysts
By Michael S. Derby NEW YORK (Reuters) – The standoff over the U.S. government’s borrowing limit is unlikely for now to crimp the Federal Reserve’s plans for higher interest rates and to…
Unifor union, Bell Canada reach impasse on labor negotiations
(Reuters) – Talks between Canadian clerical workers and telecom services provider Bell Canada broke down after a week of negotiations, Unifor, the nation’s biggest private-sector labor union, said late on Friday. Unifor…
US senators at impasse on bill to boost Ukraine sanctions, defense
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON – Democratic and Republican U.S. senators who have been negotiating for weeks on a bipartisan bill to punish Russia for its troop build up near Ukraine said they…
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