(Reuters) – Twitter is delaying the rollout of verification check marks to subscribers of its new $8 a month service until after Tuesday’s midterm elections, the New York Times reported on Sunday. Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for co…
Special Report-Voting-system firms battle right-wing rage against the machines
By Helen Coster (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s stolen-election falsehoods have thrust America’s voting machine suppliers into a national struggle to protect their businesses. Industry leaders Dominion Voting Systems and Election Systems & Software are wagi…
British PM to raise hunger striker Abd el-Fattah’s case during COP27
CAIRO (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has said he will raise the case of Egyptian-British hunger striker Alaa Abd el-Fattah with Egypt’s leadership during the COP27 climate summit that opened on Sunday, the same day Abd el-Fattah said he…
Pope says women’s rights fight is ‘continuous struggle’, condemns mutilation
By Philip Pullella ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE (Reuters) -Pope Francis said on Sunday the fight for women’s rights was a “continuous struggle”, and condemned male chauvinism as deadly for humanity and female genital mutilation as a crime that must be stoppe…
Biden, Trump headline dueling rallies as U.S. midterms near
By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump headline rallies in New York and Florida, respectively, on Sunday to fire up voters two days before a tight midterm election in which Republicans are pushing t…
Russian jets hit Syria’s rebel-held Idlib, at least nine dead – rescuers
AMMAN (Reuters) – Russian jets bombed camps near Syria’s northwestern city of Idlib on Sunday, killing at least nine civilians in a flare-up of attacks on the last opposition-help bastion, witnesses and rescuers said. War planes flying at high altitude…
U.S. encourages Ukraine to be open to talks with Russia-Washington Post
WASHINGTON/KYIV (Reuters) – The United States is privately encouraging Ukraine to signal an openness to negotiate with Russia, the Washington Post reported, as the State Department said Moscow was escalating the war and did not seriously wish to engage…
Passenger plane crashes into Lake Victoria in Tanzania, 19 dead
By Nuzulack Dausen DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) – At least 19 people died when a passenger plane crashed into Lake Victoria in Tanzania on Sunday while trying to land at a nearby airport, the prime minister and airline said. Flight PW494, operated by Precis…
How long will it take to know who won in U.S. midterm elections?
By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Here’s some advice for anyone following Tuesday’s U.S. midterm elections: Be ready for a long night and maybe days of waiting before it’s clear whether Republicans or President Joe Biden’s Democrats will control Co…
Eli Lilly says some staff want to leave Indiana because of abortion ban, Financial Times reports
(Reuters) – Some Eli Lilly and Co employees have requested transfers from the drugmaker’s Indiana operations after the U.S. state’s lawmakers approved a bill that would ban most abortions there, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. Some staff had as…