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By Kanishka Singh and Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republicans in the House of Representatives on Monday laid plans to advance a debt-ceiling deal with Democratic President Joe Biden starting Tuesday, with the aim of passing it through Congress before the U.S. government runs out of money early next week. The House Rules Committee said it would take up the agreement on Tuesday afternoon, which could clear the way for […]

By Karolos Grohmann PARIS (Reuters) – Discussions about the war in Ukraine on the tennis circuit avoid the important issues and are just empty words that do not support people who are suffering, Ukrainian Elina Svitolina said on Monday. The 28-year-old former world number three stopped playing shortly after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year. She returned to action in April this year following the birth of her first child […]

By Karolos Grohmann PARIS (Reuters) – Discussions about the war in Ukraine on the tennis circuit avoid the important issues and are just empty words that do not support people who are suffering, Ukrainian Elina Svitolina said on Monday. The 28-year-old former world number three stopped playing shortly after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year. She returned to action in April this year following the birth of her first child […]

By Karolos Grohmann PARIS (Reuters) – Discussions about the war in Ukraine on the tennis circuit avoid the important issues and are just empty words that do not support people who are suffering, Ukrainian Elina Svitolina said on Monday. The 28-year-old former world number three stopped playing shortly after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year. She returned to action in April this year following the birth of her first child […]

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) – A court in El Salvador sentenced former President Mauricio Funes and his justice minister to over a decade behind bars for their link with criminal groups and failure to comply with duties, the attorney general’s office said in a tweet on Monday. Funes was sentenced to 14 years and former defense minister, David Munguia, to 18. “We were able to verify that these two former officials, […]

By Kiana Wilburg GEORGETOWN (Reuters) – A 15-year-old girl who is accused of having started a fire at a school dormitory in Guyana last week was charged with 19 murders on Monday. The fire killed 18 mostly Indigenous girls and one five-year-old boy in the building in the central city of Mahdia. The girl started the fire after her phone was confiscated, police said. The girl is being held in […]

(Reuters) – HSBC is set to announce next month that the UK arm of Silicon Valley Bank will be renamed HSBC Innovation Banking, Sky News reported on Monday. The British government and the Bank of England facilitated a private sale of SVB UK to HSBC in March, in a move which would protect deposits without taxpayer support. Startup-focused lender SVB Financial Group became the largest bank to fail since the […]

By Arathy Somasekhar HOUSTON (Reuters) -Oil prices slipped on Monday, as worries over further interest rate hikes that could curb energy demand trumped a tentative U.S. debt ceiling deal that would avert a default by the world’s top oil consumer. Brent crude futures slipped 23 cents, or 0.3%, to $76.72 a barrel by 1640 GMT, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude was flat at $72.67 a barrel. Trade was expected […]

MILAN (Reuters) -Four people, including two Italians who worked for the intelligence service, died on Sunday after a tourist boat capsized when a storm hit Lake Maggiore in northern Italy, local officials said. A pensioner who was formerly a member of the Israeli security forces and the Russian wife of the boat captain also died in the accident, Israel’s foreign ministry and local media said. The 16-metre (52.5-feet) long boat […]