By Tyler Clifford NEW YORK (Reuters) – The New York Police Department has called for “elevated vigilance” ahead of the U.S. midterm elections, warning that extremists could target political events and polling sites, according to media reports. Poll wor…
Putin blasts West, says world faces most dangerous decade since WW2
By Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that the world faced the most dangerous decade since World War Two as Western elites scrambled to prevent the inevitable crumbling of the global dominance of the United S…
Myanmar warns any ASEAN pressures would create ‘negative implications’
By Stanley Widianto, Ananda Teresia and Wa Lone JAKARTA (Reuters) – Myanmar’s military government warned on Thursday that any pressure from its Southeast Asian neighbours to put a time frame on a peace plan would create “negative implications”. The rul…
Canada will seek membership to the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Canada will seek membership to the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework, Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said at a press conference on Wednesday following a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Joly said Canada and the U…
Relatives of Uvalde victims call on ‘disgraced’ Texas public safety director to resign
By Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) – Relatives of children killed in the Uvalde school shooting confronted the Texas public safety director on Thursday and demanded he resign over the failure of his agency’s troopers to confront the gunman quickly and possib…
Barrack says he hoped Trump ties would appeal to UAE; denies being agent
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Tom Barrack, a onetime fundraiser for Donald Trump, acknowledged under cross-examination on Thursday that he hoped his ties to the then-president would encourage a United Arab Emirates official to invest with his compan…
Trump’s company: We don’t need a monitor
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s namesake company urged a New York judge to reject a demand by the state’s attorney general to appoint a monitor to oversee its financial practices, after she accused it of “staggering” fraud. The …
S&P 500, Nasdaq slide, while Dow ends higher on mixed earnings picture
By Stephen Culp NEW YORK (Reuters) – The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq posted losses on Thursday, as investors contended with solid economic data and a mixed bag of corporate earnings. The price-weighted Dow advanced, held aloft by industrials, while weakness…
U.S. economy rebounds in Q3 on boost from trade, but demand stalling
By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. economy rebounded strongly in the third quarter amid a shrinking trade deficit, but the data overstated the nation’s economic health as domestic demand was the weakest in two years because of the Federa…
U.S. to scrap sea-launched nuclear missile despite military backing
By Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States will stop developing nuclear-armed sea launched cruise missiles, Pentagon documents released on Thursday said, despite senior military officials publicly recommending keeping it. Th…