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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus, told Russia’s defence minister on Monday that he wanted guarantees that Moscow would defend his country if it was attacked, the state-owned BelTA news agency reported. BelTA cited Lukashenko as making the remarks to Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu during a meeting in the Belarusian capital Minsk. Lukashenko was cited as saying that he had previously discussed the matter with Russian […]

By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Francis said on Monday he was praying that the Good Friday agreement signed 25 years ago that largely ended violence in Northern Ireland can be “consolidated” to benefit the people of all of Ireland. Francis made the comment about the 1998 agreement, which has come under strain following Britain’s exit from the European Union, in his noon address on Easter Monday to tens […]

(Reuters) – Vodafone said some UK users of its home broadband service were facing an outage on Monday morning and the company was working to resolve it. Downdetector’s UK website said more than 2,800 mostly landline users were having trouble accessing Vodafone at the peak of the outage. (Reporting by Urvi Dugar in Bengaluru; editing by John Stonestreet) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – The federal judge who on Friday suspended approval of the abortion pill mifepristone is a former Christian legal activist whose small courthouse in Amarillo, Texas, has become a go-to destination for conservatives challenging Biden administration policies. U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, an appointee of former Republican President Donald Trump, had a long track record of opposing abortion and LGBTQ rights before the U.S. Senate confirmed […]

(Reuters) – Vodafone said some UK users of its home broadband service were facing an outage on Monday morning and the company was working to resolve it. Downdetector’s UK website said more than 2,800 mostly landline users were having trouble accessing Vodafone at the peak of the outage. (Reporting by Urvi Dugar in Bengaluru; editing by John Stonestreet) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

MILAN (Reuters) – Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s health condition is steadily improving as he is treated in hospital for a lung infection caused by chronic leukaemia, his doctors said on Monday. “Over the past 48 hours there has been a progressive and steady improvement in the functionality of organs being monitored,” doctors Alberto Zangrillo and Fabio Ciceri said in a bulletin. The 86-year-old billionaire media tycoon was rushed […]

By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) – A Nashville-area county council may return to the statehouse one of two Democratic Tennessee lawmakers who were expelled from the chamber last week over a gun control protest when it meets on Monday to fill the vacant seat. Republicans who control the state House of Representatives on Thursday voted to kick out Justin Jones and James Pearson, two Black men who recently joined the legislature, […]

By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Jeffrey Haley, the CEO of American National Bank and Trust Company, saw the crunch coming at the start of 2023. Rising interest rates and a slowing economy to him meant that loan growth would likely fall by half as the Danville, Virginia-based community bank turned its focus to better-quality, higher-yielding credit, worrying little about volume. Then a pair of U.S. regional banks abruptly failed […]

A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Tom Westbrook A surprise drop in unemployment and steady-as-she-goes hiring figures are boosting confidence among believers that the United States economy can get through this year with just relatively minor setbacks. While faster-moving surveys last week seemed to paint a picture of a March slowdown, Good Friday’s non-farm payrolls figures suggested the jobs market remains solid, with unemployment […]