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By Steve Holland, Jarrett Renshaw and Heather Timmons WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden said on Tuesday he will seek a second White House term in 2024, a decision that will test whether Americans are ready to give the 80-year-old Democrat, already the oldest U.S. president ever, another four years in office. Biden made his announcement in a slickly produced video released by his new campaign team, in which he […]

By Catarina Demony and Miguel Pereira LISBON (Reuters) – Opponents of Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva condemned his visit on Tuesday to Portugal’s parliament as hypocritical while a rival group of supporters hailed him as the saviour of their nation. On his first visit to Europe since taking office as president, the leftist leader was attending Portugal’s annual commemoration of the 1974 “Carnation” revolution which toppled dictator Antonio […]

By Sruthi Shankar and Ankika Biswas (Reuters) -U.S. stock index futures fell on Tuesday as a plunge in deposits of regional lender First Republic Bank stoked concerns about the banking sector, while investors parsed through earnings reports for clues on the health of corporate America and the economy. First Republic Bank tanked 21.5% in premarket trading after the beleaguered lender reported a more than $100 billion flight in deposits in […]

By Noele Illien and Stefania Spezzati ZURICH (Reuters) – UBS said on Tuesday it had set aside more money to draw a line under its involvement in toxic U.S. mortgages, halving its first-quarter profit as the bank girds itself for the “hard” task of swallowing fallen rival Credit Suisse. Sergio Ermotti, brought back as UBS chief executive to steer the takeover, said it aims to close the deal with fellow […]

MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin rejected what it said were lies that President Vladimir Putin had lookalike body doubles who stood in for the 70-year-old leader and that he spent much of his time shielding in a nuclear bunker. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov listed what he said were fabrications about Russia in a speech that touched on the country’s history since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union, the causes […]

By Khalid Abdelaziz KHARTOUM (Reuters) -Fighting in Sudan eased overnight after the army and a rival paramilitary force agreed to a three-day truce, allowing more Sudanese to flee on Tuesday and foreign countries to extract citizens. However, the World Health Organization said there was a “high risk of biological hazard” in the capital Khartoum after one of the warring parties seized a national laboratory holding measles and cholera pathogens and […]

Spencer Strider struck out a season-high 13 batters in eight scoreless innings and Sam Hilliard hit a pair of home runs to help the Atlanta Braves end their four-game losing streak with an 11-0 win over the visiting Miami Marlins on Monday. Strider retired the first 18 batters he faced. The perfect-game bid ended in the seventh when Jazz Chisholm Jr. reached on an error, rolling a routine grounder through […]

By Joseph White and Paul Lienert DETROIT (Reuters) – General Motors Co on Tuesday lifted its full-year profit and cash flow forecasts, citing stronger-than-expected demand and higher prices, even as pre-tax profits for the first quarter fell. The No. 1 U.S. automaker said it expects full-year pre-tax profit in a range between $11 billion and $13 billion, up $500 million from a prior forecast. Shares in the Detroit automaker rose […]

By Khalid Abdelaziz KHARTOUM (Reuters) -Fighting in Sudan eased overnight after the army and a rival paramilitary force agreed to a three-day truce, allowing more Sudanese to flee on Tuesday and foreign countries to extract citizens. However, the World Health Organization said there was a “high risk of biological hazard” in the capital Khartoum after one of the warring parties seized a national laboratory holding measles and cholera pathogens and […]