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By Elizabeth Culliford (Reuters) – Russia is blocking Meta Platforms Inc’s Facebook, the country’s communications regulator said on Friday, in response to what it said were restrictions on access to Russian media on the platform. The regulator, Roskomn…

By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. job growth accelerated in February, pushing the unemployment rate to a two-year low of 3.8% and raising optimism that the economy could withstand mounting headwinds from geopolitical tensions, inflation and…

By Alexander Cornwell ABU DHABI (Reuters) -The United States still needs other nations to take Afghans who fled their homeland last year, a senior U.S. State Department official said on Friday, six months after Washington’s chaotic withdrawal as the ha…

By Jibran Ahmad PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) -A suicide bombing at a Shi’ite Muslim mosque during Friday prayers in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar killed at least 56 people and injured nearly 200, police and hospital officials said. An arm…

By Simon Lewis and Ingrid Melander BRUSSELS (Reuters) -NATO on Friday rejected Ukrainian calls for help to protect its skies from Russian warplanes, wary of being dragged into Moscow’s war on its neighbour, but Europe promised more sanctions to punish …

By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) – As the United States and Western allies grapple with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Biden administration is taking a unique approach to fighting a surge in Russian disinformation and propaganda. Unlike its Euro…

By Herbert Lash and Huw Jones NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) – Data showing a red-hot U.S. jobs market sent Treasury yields lower and strengthened the dollar on Friday, but the war in Ukraine overshadowed the blowout report as the euro plunged on expectatio…

By Lawrence Hurley and Nate Raymond WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday reinstated convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence for his role in the 2013 attack that killed three people and wounded more than 260…

By John Geddie and Joe Brock NAIROBI (Reuters) – When the United Nations agreed a landmark deal to create the world’s first ever global plastic pollution treaty this week, every party was quick to claim a victory, from industry lobbyists to environment…

By Devik Jain and Noel Randewich (Reuters) – Wall Street ended lower on Friday as the war in Ukraine overshadowed an acceleration in U.S. jobs growth last month that pointed to strength in the economy. Most of the 11 major S&P sector indexes declined, …