TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Honduras will authorize the use of the morning-after pill for rape victims after more than a decade of total restrictions, the country’s health minister announced late on Monday, though a complete ban on abortion continues. The …
U.S. Capitol police chief: attack on Pelosi’s husband bolsters case for more security
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The attack on U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband highlights the need for more money to protect lawmakers in a bitterly divided political climate, the head of the Capitol Police said on Tuesday. Authoriti…
UK counter-terrorism police lead investigation into Dover bomb incident
LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s counter-terrorism police are now leading the investigation into an incident in which petrol bombs were thrown at an immigration centre in the southern English port of Dover, police said on Tuesday. “What appears clear is tha…
Canada plans record immigration targets amid labour crunch
By Julie Gordon and Anna Mehler Paperny OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canada plans to welcome a record 500,000 new permanent residents in 2025 and has boosted its targets over the next two years as the country looks to ramp up arrivals to address an acute labour s…
Stocks mixed, yields ease; investors weigh chance of rate hike slowdown
By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK (Reuters) -Global stocks were mixed on Tuesday, with Wall Street falling and European shares gaining, while Treasury yields dipped as investors speculated whether the U.S. Federal Reserve may hint at a slower pace of t…
Victims’ relatives confront Florida school killer at sentencing
By Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) -Grieving relatives of the 17 students and teachers killed in a 2018 high school shooting in Parkland, Florida, confronted the killer, Nikolas Cruz, with tearful, angry words as his sentencing hearing began on Tuesday. At t…
U.S. Chief Justice Roberts pauses fight over Trump tax returns
By Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday temporarily blocked a U.S. House of Representatives committee from gaining access to former President Donald Trump’s tax returns, effectively pausing the fight over a requ…
Netanyahu poised for comeback in Israeli election, exit polls show
By Maayan Lubell and James Mackenzie JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared well placed to return to power as exit polls following Tuesday’s election showed his right-wing bloc heading for a narrow majority lifte…
Empty streets, shuttered shops as Russian-held Kherson braces for battle
KHERSON, Russian-controlled Ukraine (Reuters) – The streets and boulevards of the Russian-held port of Kherson in southern Ukraine are virtually empty. Many shops and businesses have been shuttered and, at a jetty on the banks of the Dnipro River, a ha…
Brazil’s Bolsonaro to break silence and accept defeat, minister says
By Ricardo Brito and Brian Ellsworth BRASILIA/SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro will not contest his electoral defeat and plans to address the nation later on Tuesday, his Communications Minister Fabio Faria told Reuters,…