By Andrew Chung, Lawrence Hurley and David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden’s U.S. Supreme Court nominee, on Thursday moved closer to securing Senate confirmation in the next two weeks, while experts from the nati…
U.S., allies announce new Russia sanctions over Ukraine invasion
By Jarrett Renshaw and Daphne Psaledakis BRUSSELS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States and its allies on Thursday imposed fresh sanctions on Russia, targeting dozens of Russian defense companies, hundreds of members of its parliament and the chief e…
U.S. to welcome up to 100,000 Ukrainians fleeing war
By Jarrett Renshaw and Ted Hesson BRUSSELS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States plans to accept up to 100,000 Ukrainians fleeing Russia’s invasion, the Biden administration announced on Thursday, after a month of bombardments touched off Europe’s f…
N.Korea says tested new ICBM, prepared for long confrontation with U.S.
By Josh Smith and Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea said it tested a new, powerful type of intercontinental ballistic missile on Thursday, marking an end to a self-imposed moratorium on long-range testing in place since 2017 and drawing interna…
Refugees plead for protection for Ukraine as Western leaders meet
By Anna Koper and Gerhard Mey PRZEMYSL, Poland (Reuters) – Ukrainian refugees in Poland on Thursday said Western powers should do more to protect the country from Russian bombardment as leaders met in Brussels for unprecedented summits of NATO, G7 and …
West gives more support to Ukraine, raises stakes for Russia
By Jarrett Renshaw and Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) -NATO promised Kyiv new military support and assigned more troops to the alliance’s eastern flank while London and Washington stepped up sanctions on Moscow during a trio of summits on Thursd…
Biden lands in Europe in middle of dispute over Russian energy sanctions
By Jarrett Renshaw and Steve Holland BRUSSELS (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden landed in Brussels on Wednesday in the middle of a dispute with European allies over whether to impose further energy sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. Ru…
Madeleine Albright, former U.S. secretary of state, dies at 84
By Diane Bartz WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Madeleine Albright, who fled the Nazis as a child in her native Czechoslovakia during World War Two but rose to become the first female U.S. secretary of state and, in her later years, a pop culture feminist icon, …
Fed policymakers march toward bigger rate hike in May
By Lindsay Dunsmuir and Ann Saphir (Reuters) -The Federal Reserve needs to act aggressively to bring down high inflation, and doing so could very well include a half-percentage-point rate hike at its next policy meeting in May, two U.S. central bank po…
WikiLeaks’ Assange gets married in UK high-security jail
LONDON (Reuters) -WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange married his long-term partner Stella Moris inside a British high-security prison on Wednesday at a small ceremony attended by just four guests, two official witnesses and two guards. Assange is being h…