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SEOUL/TOKYO (Reuters) -North Korea fired a ballistic missile of intermediate range or longer on Thursday, South Korea and Japan said, prompting an alert for residents in Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido to take cover. Japanese authorities later retracted the alert, saying an emergency warning system had made an erroneous prediction the missile would fall near the island. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of Japan said his government would hold a National […]

By Omar Younis and Jonathan Allen MEMPHIS, Tennessee (Reuters) – Local government officials in Memphis, Tennessee, voted on Wednesday to return the second of two Democratic state lawmakers who were expelled last week for protesting gun violence on the chamber floor. In a rare rebuke last week, Republicans who control the state House of Representatives voted to kick out Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, two Black men in their late […]

By Omar Younis and Jonathan Allen MEMPHIS, Tennessee (Reuters) – Local government officials in Memphis, Tennessee, voted on Wednesday to return the second of two Democratic state lawmakers who were expelled last week for protesting gun violence on the chamber floor. In a rare rebuke last week, Republicans who control the state House of Representatives voted to kick out Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, two Black men in their late […]

By Jorgelina do Rosario and Joe Bavier WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Kenya expects at least $1.2 billion in financing inflows between April and May and is in talks for new funding from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to support falling foreign exchange reserves, its central bank governor said on Wednesday. Like much of Africa, Kenya has been hit hard by the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine […]

By Jorgelina do Rosario and Joe Bavier WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Kenya expects at least $1.2 billion in financing inflows between April and May and is in talks for new funding from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to support falling foreign exchange reserves, its central bank governor said on Wednesday. Like much of Africa, Kenya has been hit hard by the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine […]

By Jorgelina do Rosario and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Zambia could lose gains achieved so far from macroeconomic reforms if its ongoing debt restructuring is further delayed, Treasury Secretary Felix Nkulukusa said on Wednesday. The nation defaulted on its overseas debt in 2020 and is working on a restructuring with both bilateral creditors and private bondholders, but talks have been dragging on amid a lack of consensus on how to […]

By Jorgelina do Rosario and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Zambia could lose gains achieved so far from macroeconomic reforms if its ongoing debt restructuring is further delayed, Treasury Secretary Felix Nkulukusa said on Wednesday. The nation defaulted on its overseas debt in 2020 and is working on a restructuring with both bilateral creditors and private bondholders, but talks have been dragging on amid a lack of consensus on how to […]

(Reuters) – Russia said its forces struck Ukrainian army reserves trying to break through to the besieged city of Bakhmut. BATTLEFIELD * Ukraine’s military rejected a Russian claim to have captured more than 80% of Bakhmut and said it still held a “considerably larger” part. * Ukraine compared Russia to Islamic State and called on the International Criminal Court to investigate after a video showed apparent Russian soldiers filming themselves […]

SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea fired a missile on Thursday, South Korea and Japan said, prompting a warning for some Japanese residents to take cover. The Japanese government warned residents of the northernmost main island of Hokkaido to take immediate cover, saying a missile was likely to fall near the island around 8 a.m. Japan time (2300 GMT). The ballistic missile was launched off the east coast of the Korean […]