By Andrew MacAskill and Lindsay Dunsmuir EDINBURGH (Reuters) – King Charles and his siblings held a silent vigil at the side of their mother Queen Elizabeth’s coffin as it lay at rest in Edinburgh’s historic cathedral, with thousands queuing for hours …
Trump objects to Justice Department’s special master nominees -court filing
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former President Donald Trump on Monday objected in a court filing to the two candidates the U.S. Justice Department has put forward to be an independent arbiter, called a special master, to examine the contents of classified doc…
Russia’s war on Ukraine latest news: U.S. said to prod Kyiv on talks
(Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s U.S. administration is privately encouraging Ukraine’s leaders to signal an openness to negotiate with Russia and drop their public refusal to engage in peace talks unless President Vladimir Putin is removed from power…
AstraZeneca beats U.S. shareholder lawsuit over COVID vaccine disclosures
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -AstraZeneca Plc on Monday won the dismissal of a U.S. shareholder lawsuit claiming that it concealed problems in developing its COVID-19 vaccine, making it unlikely the treatment would win regulatory approval in …
Iran to release crew of two seized Greek tankers -Greek seafarers union
By Renee Maltezou and Lefteris Papadimas ATHENS (Reuters) -Iran has agreed to release the crews of two Greek tankers it seized in May in response to the confiscation of oil by the United States from an Iranian-flagged tanker in Greece, a Greek seafarer…
Xi to meet Putin in first trip outside China since COVID began
By Guy Faulconbridge and Yew Lun Tian LONDON/BEIJING (Reuters) – Xi Jinping will leave China for the first time in more than two years for a trip this week to Central Asia where he will meet Russia’s Vladimir Putin, just a month before he is set to cem…
Elizabeth, the queen who moved with a changing world
By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) -The crowning achievement of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, who died on Thursday after 70 years on the throne, was to maintain the popularity of the monarchy across decades of seismic political, social and cultural change…
U.S. completes renaming of 650 places to remove derogatory term
(Reuters) – The Biden administration on Thursday said it had completed the removal of the word “squaw” from nearly 650 place names on federal land as part of an effort to reckon with the nation’s racist past. The Interior Deparment had said in November…
Man facing Olympics doping charges argues new U.S. law is unconstitutional
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – The first person ever charged under a new law U.S. law allowing prosecutors to target doping in international sporting competitions is arguing the law is unconstitutional, in a bid to persuade a judge to dismiss the ch…