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KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo on Monday announced the creation of a paramilitary guard to secure its vast mining operations, backed by U.S. and Emirati investments, as Washington tries to lock in access to critical minerals amid a fragile peace process in the troubled east. The central African country’s General Inspectorate of Mines said in a statement the new unit would be deployed gradually, with an initial 2,500 to 3,000 […]

BERLIN (AP) — The German government suspects Russia is behind a series of phishing attacks on Signal targeting high-ranking politicians, including two government ministers, military personnel and journalists, a government spokesperson said. Federal prosecutors have been conducting a preliminary investigation since mid-February 2026 into alleged cyberattacks on Signal accounts, a spokesperson for the federal prosecutors confirmed on Saturday. Among other things, the investigation involves an initial suspicion of espionage, she […]

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A body has been found in a waterway near a bridge over Tampa Bay where the body of one of two missing Bangladeshi doctoral students was found days earlier, authorities in Florida announced. The body was recovered from waterways in the area of Interstate 275, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release on Sunday night. The body had not been identified, the sheriff’s […]

MOSCOW, April 27 (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi in St. Petersburg on Monday and told him he hoped the Iranian people would weather what he described as a “difficult period” and that peace would soon prevail. Russia has offered to mediate to try to help restore calm to the Middle East following U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, which Moscow has […]

By Andrew Chung WASHINGTON, April 27 (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear another bid by parents to sue a public school district over actions by teachers and officials to support the gender identity of students by not disclosing name or pronoun changes to parents without the child’s consent. The justices turned away an appeal by the parents of a student who had self-identified as nonbinary […]

BRUSSELS, April 27 (Reuters) – Top EU officials and Hungary’s incoming government will discuss on Wednesday the changes Budapest needs to push through to release 17 billion euros in EU funds that have been blocked due to rule-of-law concerns under the outgoing government. Some of the frozen funds, such as 11 billion euros ($13 billion) from the post-pandemic Recovery Fund, must be drawn by mid-August, or be irrevocably lost. European […]

By Anant Chandak and Indradip Ghosh BENGALURU, April 27 (Reuters) – Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) economies are sliding into their worst economic crisis since the pandemic, with several expected to contract this year on spillovers from the U.S.-Israel war with Iran right on its doorstep. The war’s knock-on effects have ripped through the energy market – the Gulf economies’ lifeline – driving oil prices sharply higher and triggering a historic […]

LONDON, April 27 (Reuters) – Shell has agreed to buy Canadian energy company ARC Resources in a deal valued at $16.4 billion, including debt, which the British oil and gas major said on Monday would boost its output by 370,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day. Analysts and the company had forecast it needed an acquisition or exploration breakthrough to make up for an expected production shortage of 350,000 to […]

April 27 (Reuters) – Critical Metals said on Monday it would acquire all outstanding shares of European Lithium in an about $835 million deal, giving the U.S.-based miner full ownership of Greenland’s Tanbreez rare earth project. Shares of Critical Metals, which currently holds a 92.5% interest in the asset, jumped more than 6% in premarket trading. European Lithium owns the remaining 7.5% in the project. Under the deal, European Lithium […]