WARSAW (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of people held an opposition rally in Warsaw on Sunday, two weeks ahead of an election that the liberal Civic Platform (PO) says may decide Poland’s future in the European Union and its democratic standing.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden on Sunday pressed congressional Republicans to back a bill to provide more aid to Ukraine, saying he was “sick and tired” of the political brinkmanship that nearly led to a government shutdown.
UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – The United Nations Security Council is set to vote on Monday to approve the deployment of foreign police to Haiti and authorize the use of force to help the Caribbean country fight violent gangs that have largely overrun the capital Port-au-Prince.
ANKARA, (Reuters) – Two attackers detonated a bomb in front of Turkish government buildings in Ankara today in an assault that left both of them dead and two police officers wounded, in what authorities called the capital’s first terrorist attack in years.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Congress passed a stopgap funding bill late yesterday with overwhelming Democratic support after Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy backed down from an earlier demand by his party’s hardliners for a partisan bill.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee vowed yesterday to block military aid and arms sales to Egypt if it does not take concrete steps to improve human rights in the country.
BEIJING, (Reuters) – China’s factory activity expanded for the first time in six months in September, an official survey showed on Saturday, adding to a run of indicators suggesting the world’s second-largest economy has begun to bottom out.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is clinically stable one day after hip surgery and has begun to walk in physiotherapy sessions, the Sirio-Libanes Hospital in Brazil’s capital said yesterday.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Americans celebrated the 99th birthday of former President Jimmy Carter this weekend, with the White House putting up a wooden cake display on its north lawn and the Carter library in Georgia hosting a party for the public.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives passed a stopgap funding bill today with overwhelming Democratic support after Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy backed down from an earlier demand by party hardliners for a partisan bill.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A Texas investment firm agreed yesteday to pay $2.51 million to settle a U.S.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Hardline Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday rejected a bill proposed by their leader to temporarily fund the government, making it all but certain that federal agencies will partially shut down beginning tomorrow.
(Reuters) – An admitted former street gang leader was arrested yesterday on a charge of murder in the Las Vegas shooting death of hip-hop star Tupac Shakur nearly three decades ago, a long-unsolved crime that became a defining moment in the history of rap music.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Top U.S. general Mark Milley retired yesterday after a four-year tenure, saying in a speech that U.S.
QUETTA/PESHAWAR, Pakistan, (Reuters) – Suicide bombings ripped through two mosques in Pakistan today, killing at least 57 people and injuring more than 60 amid events marking the birthday of the Prophet Mohammed, police and health officials said.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Dianne Feinstein, a long-serving Democratic U.S. senator from California and gun control advocate who spearheaded the first federal assault weapons ban and documented the CIA’s torture of foreign terrorism suspects, has died at 90, a source familiar with the news said today.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Power blackouts in Cuba are expected to increase significantly due to a lack of fuel, officials warned in a nationwide TV broadcast, worsening the country’s plight as it deals with food and medicine shortages.
GENEVA, (Reuters) – U.N. human rights experts have called for major reforms of the U.S.
TEMPE, Arizona, (Reuters) – President Joe Biden launched a wide-ranging attack on Republican Donald Trump yesterday, warning that his predecessor is a threat to American democracy and drawing a sharp distinction between himself and his likely 2024 election opponent.
LONDON, (Reuters) – British-Irish actor Michael Gambon, best known to global audiences for playing the wise professor Albus Dumbledore in the “Harry Potter” movie franchise and whose career was launched by his mentor Laurence Olivier, died aged 82 yesterday.
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