(Reuters) – Hurricane Ian approached Florida’s Gulf Coast on Wednesday as a powerful storm just one rating shy of the highest category designation given to storms in the United States. Storm strength is defined by the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scal…
Rowing past their severed road bridge, Ukrainians return to liberated villages
By Vitalii Hnidyi STARYI SALTIV, Ukraine (Reuters) – Ukrainian volunteer Vitalii Kivirenko loads a small rowing boat with tins of food and supplies by the village of Staryi Saltiv, on the Pechenizhske Reservoir, northeast of Kharkiv, ready to make a sh…
Nine reported killed as Iran Revolutionary Guards target dissident sites in Iraq
DUBAI/SULAIMANIYA, Iraq (Reuters) -Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Wednesday they fired missiles and drones at militant targets in the Kurdish region of neighbouring northern Iraq, where an official said nine people were killed. The strikes were re…
Exclusive-Brands blast Twitter for ads next to child pornography accounts
By Sheila Dang and Katie Paul (Reuters) – Some major advertisers including Dyson, Mazda and chemicals company Ecolab have suspended their marketing campaigns or removed their ads from parts of Twitter because their promotions are appearing alongside tw…
‘I have to keep fighting’: Mexicans wait for years behind bars for a trial
By Isabel Woodford MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Ana Georgina Dominguez has not seen her children in 13 years since she was thrown in jail for a crime Mexican prosecutors have still not proven she committed. Arrested when she was just 25 years old on money l…
Lawmakers ask Commerce Dept. to curb U.S. gun exports – letter
By Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Congressional Democrats, including Senator Elizabeth Warren, have asked the U.S. Commerce Department to curb assault weapons exports and increase oversight of gun exports after a Trump-era ruling to ease firearms ex…
U.S. goods trade deficit narrows in August as imports fall
By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. trade deficit in goods narrowed in August amid a decline in imports, which is being driven by slowing domestic demand as the Federal Reserve aggressively tightens monetary policy to tame inflation. The …
Bank of England seeks to stem bond market turmoil after tax cut storm
By Andy Bruce and David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) -The Bank of England sought to quell a fire-storm in Britain’s bond markets, saying it would buy as much government debt as needed to restore order after new Prime Minister Liz Truss’ tax cut plans trig…
Dow, S&P 500 cling to gains on lower yields, Apple slides
By Shreyashi Sanyal and Ankika Biswas (Reuters) – The Dow and the S&P 500 indexes gained in volatile trading on Wednesday as easing Treasury yields gently lifted rate-sensitive growth stocks, while losses in Apple Inc after it dropped plans to boost iP…
Analysis-Truth or bluff? Why Putin’s nuclear warnings have the West worried
By Guy Faulconbridge and Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin’s latest warning that he is ready to use nuclear weapons to defend Russia amid the war in Ukraine has made a troubling question much more urgent: Is the former KGB spy b…