By Herbert Lash, Shreyashi Sanyal and Ankika Biswas (Reuters) – Wall Street fell sharply on Friday following a solid jobs report for September that increased the likelihood the Federal Reserve will barrel ahead with an interest rate hiking campaign man…
U.S. buys radiation sickness drug as part of long-standing program
By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government this week bought $290 million in supplies of a drug designed to treat blood cell injuries following radiological and nuclear emergencies as part of what it said were long-standing efforts to…
White House says COVID booster campaign going well, should pick up
By Ahmed Aboulenein and Michael Erman WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House expects the rate of vaccination in its fall booster campaign to pick up over the coming weeks, and its COVID response coordinator Dr. Ashish Jha on Friday characterized the ini…
Uvalde school district suspends entire police force after mass shooting
(Reuters) -The school district in Uvalde, Texas, suspended its entire police force on Friday, five months after a mass shooting claimed the lives of 19 students and two teachers, the district said in a statement. The district said it suspended all acti…
U.S. aims to hobble China’s chip industry with sweeping new export rules
By Stephen Nellis and Karen Freifeld (Reuters) – The Biden administration on Friday published a sweeping set of export controls, including a measure to cut China off from certain semiconductor chips made anywhere in the world with U.S. tools, vastly ex…
Canada authorises Pfizer’s Omicron retooled booster
(Reuters) -Canada on Friday authorised updated COVID-19 booster shots from Pfizer Inc and its partner BioNTech SE that target the Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants, according to the government’s website. Pfizer and BioNTech said in a joint statement th…
Families traumatised by Thailand attack cling to slain children’s toys
By Poppy McPherson and Jiraporn Kuhakan UTHAI SAWAN, Thailand (Reuters) -Grief-stricken relatives sobbed and clutched toys at a children’s daycare centre on Friday, a day after a former policeman killed 34 people, most of them young children, in a knif…
EU leaders reaffirm support for Ukraine, squabble over gas price cap
By Sabine Siebold, Jan Lopatka and Michel Rose PRAGUE (Reuters) – European Union leaders on Friday agreed to give more financial and military aid to Ukraine, but a full day of talks in Prague’s ornate royal castle seemed to bring them no closer to deci…
In echo of Cold War, Nobel Peace Prize goes to Ukraine, Russia, Belarus rights campaigners
By Nora Buli and Gwladys Fouche OSLO (Reuters) – Jailed Belarusian activist Ales Byalyatski, Russian rights group Memorial and Ukraine’s Center for Civil Liberties won the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, amid a war in their region that is the worst c…
Analysis-Defeats in Ukraine stoke crisis for Vladimir Putin
LONDON (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin is grappling with the gravest domestic crisis of his 23-year rule: an increasingly public quarrel inside the Russian elite over who is to blame for the battlefield defeats in Ukraine. Since he was handed the …