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By Andrea Shalal KYIV – Securing a new $5 billion loan from the IMF would help reassure Ukraine’s other creditors that the war-torn country’s macroeconomic situation was under control, President …

By Sharon Bernstein and Andrew Hay (Reuters) – Before Salman Rushdie arrived on Friday, the bucolic New York retreat where the author was due to speak had arranged for a …

FRANKFURT – In an interview conducted just weeks before he was stabbed and seriously wounded by an attacker in New York state, author Salman Rushdie said his life was now …

MEXICO CITY -Hundreds of Mexican soldiers were sent to the border city of Juarez Friday after a prison face-off between members of two rival cartels caused a riot and shootouts …

By Svea Herbst-Bayliss (Reuters) – The New York Times Co has turned to Bank of America Corp and law firm Sidley Austin LLP for advice on how to handle a …

By Kannaki Deka (Reuters) -Peloton Interactive Inc said on Friday it would cut jobs, shut stores and raise prices on its exercise equipment including treadmills and top-end bikes as it …

By Svea Herbst-Bayliss BOSTON – Activist hedge fund Starboard Value, which had offered to buy Kohl’s Corp for roughly $9 billion early this year, slashed its stake in the department …

By David Shepardson and Hyunjoo Jin WASHINGTON -Audi of America, Kia Corp and Porsche said on Friday that buyers of its electric vehicles will lose access to federal tax credits …

By Randi Love (Reuters) -Here are reactions to Friday’s attack on novelist Salman Rushdie. SUZANNE NOSSEL, CEO OF FREE EXPRESSION ORGANIZATION PEN AMERICA: “We can think of no comparable incident …

By Kanishka Singh and Jonathan Allen NEW YORK – Salman Rushdie, the Indian-born novelist who spent years in hiding after Iran urged Muslims to kill him because of his writing, …

By Natalia Zinets KYIV -Ukraine and Russia accused each other on Friday of risking catastrophe by shelling Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, occupied by Russian forces in a region expected …

TAIPEI -Taiwan on Friday blamed “political considerations” for the cancellation of WorldPride 2025 Taiwan after it said the organisers had insisted the word “Taiwan” be removed. Taiwan participates in global …

By David Morgan, Moira Warburton and Rose Horowitch WASHINGTON -The Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives approved a $430 billion bill on Friday that is seen as the biggest climate package …

By David Morgan WASHINGTON – The $430 billion climate change, healthcare and tax bill that passed the U.S. Congress on Friday aims to help reduce the carbon emissions that drive …

(Reuters) – The Southern Baptist Convention, the largest U.S. Protestant denomination, said on Friday that several of its entities were being investigated by the Justice Department, after a report found …

By Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON – Big Pharma spent more than any other industry to lobby Congress and federal agencies this year, a Reuters analysis shows, but still suffered a major …

(Reuters) -Net profit at Grupo SURA, Colombia’s largest investment company, rose 30.3% in the second quarter from the year-earlier period, boosted by higher financial income and lower COVID claims, the …

By Sarah N. Lynch (Reuters) – FBI agents in this week’s search of former U.S. President Donald Trump’s Florida home removed 11 sets of classified documents including some marked as …

By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON – U.S. federal agents were looking for documents relating to nuclear weapons when they raided former President Donald Trump’s home in Florida this week, the …

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON -Delta Air Lines can temporarily cut some flights at New York’s LaGuardia and John F. Kennedy airports and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, the U.S. Federal …

By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA – Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Friday designated new commanders for the military and the police, saying he chose the officials because they have not …

(Reuters) -Global rating agencies S&P and Fitch on Friday lowered Ukraine’s foreign currency ratings to selective default and restricted default as they consider the country’s debt restructuring as distressed. Earlier …

By Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) -A former Louisville, Kentucky, police officer will plead guilty to helping falsify a search warrant in the botched 2020 raid that killed Breonna Taylor, in a …