By Lisandra Paraguassu, Rodrigo Viga Gaier and Gram Slattery BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazilians voted on Sunday in the first round of their country’s most polarized election in decades, with leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva favored to beat right-wing incu…
UK cabinet was not informed of plans to scrap top rate of tax, Truss says
BIRMINGHAM, England (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Liz Truss said on Sunday her cabinet of top ministers was not informed in advance that the government planned to abolish the top rate of tax, adding it was a decision taken by finance minister Kwas…
Analysis-Under water: how the Bank of England threw markets a lifeline
By Carolyn Cohn, Tommy Wilkes and Carolina Mandl LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Calls to the Bank of England saying some British pension funds were struggling to meet margin calls began on Monday. By Wednesday they were getting more urgent and coordinated…
Germany’s RWE buys Con Edison clean energy in $6.8 billion U.S. shift
By Christoph Steitz and Thomas Escritt FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Germany’s largest power producer RWE has agreed to buy Con Edison’s Clean Energy Businesses for $6.8 billion, nearly doubling RWE’s renewables portfolio in the United States, the world’s secon…
Indonesia soccer stampede kills 125 after police use tear gas in stadium
(This Oct. 1 story corrects to remove extraneous word in the first paragraph) By Stanley Widianto, Stefanno Sulaiman and Yuddy Cahya Budiman MALANG, Indonesia (Reuters) – A stampede at a soccer stadium in Indonesia has killed 125 people and injured mor…
Liz Truss tries to reassure public on economic plan as Conservatives gather
By Elizabeth Piper and Andrew MacAskill BIRMINGHAM, England (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Liz Truss tried to reassure her party and the public on Sunday by saying she should have done more to “lay the ground” for an economic plan that saw the poun…
Moderate Bosniak candidate leads in race for presidency seat
By Daria Sito-Sucic SARAJEVO (Reuters) -Moderate Bosniak candidate Denis Becirevic is leading in the run-up for the seat on Bosnia’s tripartite inter-ethnic presidency, preliminary results based on a partial vote count showed on Monday. Becirevic, the …
UK’s Labour has 19-point lead over Conservatives – Opinium poll
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s opposition Labour Party has extended its lead over Prime Minister Liz Truss’s Conservative Party to 19 points, an opinion poll by market research company Opinium showed on Saturday, on the eve of the Conservatives’ annual c…
Britain has ‘too many’ low-skilled migrants -interior minister
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain has too many low-skilled migrant works and very high numbers of international students, who often brought dependents with them, the country’s new interior minister Suella Braverman said in an interview with The Sun on Sunday …
Germany says it will supply Ukraine with air defence system in days
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany will deliver the first of four advanced IRIS-T air defence systems to Ukraine in the coming days to help ward off drone attacks, its defence minister Christine Lambrecht said during an unannounced visit to Odessa on Saturday….