Brazil soy output at top farm state may drop 15% amid torrential rains
By Ana Mano and Roberto Samora SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The outlook for soy production in one of Brazil's biggest farm states is deteriorating quickly after heavy rains disrupted harvesting with about a quarter of fields left to reap from in Rio Grand...
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Inspired by 'The Crown', new series explores Gandhi's early life
By Hanna Rantala LONDON (Reuters) - The years of Mahatma Gandhi when he was a shy young man who had yet to become the revered father of a nation are being brought back to life in a historic London pub and other British venues for a new television s...
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Magnitude 6.0 quake strikes Philippines, aftershocks and damage expected
MANILA (Reuters) - A magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck off the island province of Leyte in central Philippines on Friday, with damage and aftershocks expected, its seismology agency said. The German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) recorded the ...
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Top US Treasury official to travel to Singapore, Malaysia to discuss sanctions
By Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury Department's top sanctions official will travel to Singapore and Malaysia next week, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters, as Washington seeks to combat funding for Iran and it...
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Houthis offer education to students suspended in US protest crackdown
DUBAI (Reuters) - Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthi militia, which has disrupted global shipping to display its support for Palestinians in the Gaza conflict, is now offering a place for students suspended from U.S. universities after staging anti-Israel...
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Biden expands health insurance access for DACA immigrants
By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden's administration will allow certain immigrants illegally brought to the U.S. as children greater access to federally run health insurance, the White House said on Friday, addressing a se...
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Heatwaves and outages test support for juntas in Chad and Mali
By Mahamat Ramadane and Idrissa Sangare N'DJAMENA/BAMAKO (Reuters) - In Chad's scorching capital N'Djamena, housewife Sylvie Belrangar turned the handle of a tap but nothing trickled out as water shortages and extreme temperatures sweep parts of We...
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Solid US job, wage growth expected in April
By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. job growth probably slowed to a still-solid clip in April, with wages maintaining their steady rise, which would allay fears that the economy was stalling after activity pulled back considerably in the ...
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Pro-Palestinian encampments at US universities
(Reuters) - Pro-Palestinian protests demanding a ceasefire in Gaza and divestment from companies linked to Israel have spread across U.S. universities in the two weeks since Columbia University administrators called in police to dismantle an encamp...
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US court lifts order blocking $655 million clean-energy transmission line
By Clark Mindock (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Thursday lifted a lower court's order blocking a land exchange needed before developers can build a major clean-energy transmission line through a Mississippi River wildlife refuge. A three-judge...
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California boat captain gets prison term for fire deaths of 34 people
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -The captain of a dive boat that caught fire and sank off the California coast in 2019, killing 34 people in one of the state's deadliest maritime disasters, was sentenced on Thursday to four years in prison for his conviction on ...
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Trump warns he may not accept Wisconsin election results
By James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Donald Trump said he may not accept the 2024 election results in Wisconsin, a key battleground state in his matchup with President Joe Biden, leaving open the possibility of post-election turmoil. In an inte...
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Maryland estimates bridge replacement cost at $1.7 billion - $1.9 billion
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The state of Maryland said on Thursday it estimates it will cost $1.7 billion to $1.9 billion to rebuild a collapsed Baltimore bridge and anticipates it will be completed by fall 2028. The Maryland Department of Transportatio...
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Bird flu likely circulated in US cows for four months before diagnosis -paper
By Tom Polansek and Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) - Bird flu likely circulated in U.S. dairy cows on a limited basis for about four months before federal officials confirmed the disease that has now spread to nine states, according to a new f...
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Argentina farmlands face cold snap that could slow leafhopper plague
By Maximilian Heath BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina farm regions will see near-freezing temperatures in the coming days, the Buenos Aires grains exchange said in a report on Thursday, which could help against an insect plague hitting the corn cr...
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Bird flu outbreak in dairy cows fails to deter US raw milk sellers
By Lisa Baertlein, Julie Steenhuysen and Tom Polansek LOS ANGELES/CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. sellers of raw milk appear undeterred by federal health warnings for consumers to avoid drinking unpasteurized milk in light of a bird flu outbreak that has ...
May 02, 2024
Pentagon acknowledges US mistakenly killed civilian in 2023 Syria strike, Washington Post reports
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon has acknowledged in an internal investigation that the United States mistakenly killed a civilian in Syria in a 2023 drone strike, the Washington Post reported on Thursday. The U.S. Central Command assessment con...
May 02, 2024
Heavy rains in big Brazil farm state disrupt soy, corn harvests in final stages
By Ana Mano and Roberto Samora SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Torrential rainfall in Brazil's second-largest soybean and sixth-largest corn state is disrupting the final stages of the harvest, according to a meteorologist's bulletin on Thursday, a grains br...
May 02, 2024
Why Palestinians can count on American students but not Arab allies to protest
By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Maya Gebeily CAIRO/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Palestinians may be gratified to see American university campuses erupt in outrage over Israel's offensive in Gaza, but some in the embattled enclave are also wondering why no similar p...
May 02, 2024
Looted gold, royal treasures go on show back home in Ghana
By Maxwell Akalaare Adombila ACCRA (Reuters) - Gold neck discs, a sword, a royal chair and dozens of other treasures looted during British colonial rule went on show in Ghana this week for the first time since their historic return. People travelle...
May 02, 2024
Biden thinks he can flip North Carolina, polls show a rough road
By Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) - Since 1968, North Carolina has backed only two Democrats for president: Jimmy Carter in 1976 and Barack Obama in 2008. President Joe Biden visits the southeastern state on Thursday for the third time this year, bettin...
May 02, 2024
Hugo Boss shares fall on weaker China demand, US uncertainty
By Linda Pasquini (Reuters) -Shares in Hugo Boss slumped nearly 10% on Thursday, hitting their lowest level since 2022 after the premium apparel brand flagged weaker demand in China and concern about U.S. consumer sentiment ahead of the presidential el...
May 02, 2024
California police flatten pro-Palestinian camp at UCLA, arrest protesters
By Lisa Richwine and Omar Younis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hundreds of helmeted police swarmed the site of a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of California at Los Angeles early on Thursday, arresting defiant demonstrators and dismantling the...
May 02, 2024
Death toll from rains in southern Brazil climbs to 13, Lula visits region
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The death toll from heavy rains in Brazil's southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul rose to 13, local authorities said on Thursday, as the state government declared a state of public calamity to handle the dramatic situation. ...
May 02, 2024
European court backs Italy in Greek statue dispute with Getty Museum
ROME (Reuters) - The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday ruled in favour of Italy's long-standing demand that the Getty Villa Museum in the United States return an ancient Greek statue which Rome claims was smuggled out of the country...
May 02, 2024