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BRASILIA (Reuters) – Fiscal responsibility will not be negotiable if leftist leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva wins next Sunday’s presidential runoff vote, Lula’s running mate Geraldo Alckmin said on Monday. Lula, who leads opinion polls by a narrowing …

By Elizabeth Piper and William Schomberg LONDON (Reuters) – Elected for the first time to parliament in 2015, Rishi Sunak became Britain’s youngest prime minister in more than 200 years on Monday, tasked with steering the country through an economic cr…

By Elizabeth Piper, Alistair Smout and William James LONDON (Reuters) -Rishi Sunak will become Britain’s first prime minister of colour on Tuesday after he won the race to lead the Conservative Party, tasked with steering a deeply divided country throu…

By Joseph Ax (Reuters) – A former Minneapolis police officer charged in connection with the murder of George Floyd pleaded guilty on Monday as his trial was about to begin, a court spokesperson confirmed. J. Alexander Kueng, who pleaded guilty to one c…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The top U.S. and Russian generals held talks by phone on Monday for the first time since May, a U.S. official told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity. The official did not immediately provide further details on the conve…

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron and Pope Francis held nearly an hour of private talks on Monday, with the crisis in Ukraine and prospects for peace there expected to have been their main topic of discussion. Macron, accompanie…

(Reuters) -A Korean Air Lines Co Ltd jet with 173 people on board overshot the runway at Cebu International Airport in the Philippines late on Sunday, the airline said, adding that there were no injuries and all passengers had evacuated safely. The Air…

By Yew Lun Tian and Tony Munroe BEIJING (Reuters) -China wrapped up its twice-a-decade leadership reshuffle on Sunday, with Xi Jinping securing a third term as general secretary of the ruling Communist Party and packing the new Politburo Standing Commi…

SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea fired 10 artillery shells off its west coast on Monday, the North’s official KCNA said, in response to South Korea’s warning shots fired at a North Korean boat that crossed the two Koreas’ maritime border. North Korea fired…

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) -Formula One and the championship-leading Red Bull team mourned the death of the energy drink company’s Austrian founder Dietrich Mateschitz on Saturday at the age of 78. Red Bull Racing principal Christian Horner confirmed the …