By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK (Reuters) – The S&P 500 ended higher on Friday as financial shares rose after the benchmark Treasury yield jumped to its highest level in nearly three years. The Nasdaq ended lower, and tech and other big growth names …
In Poland, Biden visits U.S. troops on NATO eastern flank
By Jarrett Renshaw RZESZOW, Poland (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday got a firsthand look at international efforts to help some of the millions of Ukrainian war refugees in Poland, and spoke to American troops bolstering NATO’s eastern fla…
China to ‘dance’ between Russia, Western economic ties – senior U.S. official
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China is likely to offer some support to Russia’s economy amid Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, but will engage in a “dance” to maintain economic ties with Europe and the United States, a senior White House official said on Friday. …
U.S. plans to close, scale back four immigrant detention centers, document shows
By Ted Hesson and Mica Rosenberg WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States plans to close a troubled detention center in Alabama and significantly scale back the number of beds contracted at three other facilities, citing concerns about conditions, acco…
Analysis-New EU rules regulating U.S. tech giants likely to set global standard
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Landmark EU rules targeting Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta and Microsoft are likely to set a global benchmark and may even force changes in the tech giants’ business models, lawyers and experts said. Europe’s antitrust…
U.S., EU strike LNG deal as Europe seeks to cut Russian gas
By Jarrett Renshaw and Nina Chestney BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) -The United States will work to supply 15 billion cubic metres of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to the European Union this year to help it wean off Russian energy supplies, the transatlantic …
‘We are lost’: Yemenis face eighth year of struggle as war grinds on
SANAA (Reuters) – Khaled Rmeishi, 16, has spent half his life watching Yemen, and his hopes for the future, collapse under a war that has pushed millions in the long-impoverished Arabian peninsula country deeper into poverty and hunger. Rmeishi, who is…
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thomas is discharged from hospital -Supreme Court
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who was hospitalized with flu-like symptoms last week, was discharged from the hospital on Friday morning, the Supreme Court said. The 73-year-old conservative justice was admitted to a…
Russia signals scaled-back war aims, Ukrainians advance near Kyiv
By Gleb Garanich and Natalia Zinets BUCHA/LVIV, Ukraine (Reuters) – Moscow signalled on Friday it was scaling back its ambitions in Ukraine to focus on territory claimed by Russian-backed separatists as Ukrainian forces went on the offensive to recaptu…
As presidents meet, Ukraine refugees just want fighting to end
By Anna Koper PRZEMYSL, Poland (Reuters) -Ukrainian refugee Viktoria Lysykh had one message for world leaders after she crossed the border into Poland on Friday: “I want the war to end as soon as possible … In what way exactly? By any means.” The 35-…