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By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) – Kyiv would consider allowing Russian ammonia to transit its territory for export on condition the newly-renewed Black Sea grain deal is expanded to include more Ukrainian ports and a wider range of commodities, a government source told Reuters. The comments are the first time Kyiv has publicly laid out its stance on Russian ammonia, which Moscow wants shipped via the Black Sea under the […]

BAUCHI, Nigeria (Reuters) – The death toll from fighting between farmers and herders in Nigeria’s north-central state of Plateau has risen beyond 100, with locals searching in the bush for more bodies, residents and local authorities said on Friday. Gunmen stormed villages and burned several houses in the Mangu local government area on Tuesday, with at least 20 people initially estimated to have died, mostly women and children. The violence […]

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Pilots at American Airlines have reached an agreement in principle on a new contract, their union said on Friday. (Reporting by Rajesh Kumar Singh and Allison Lampert; Editing by Nick Zieminski) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia on Friday declared environmental group Greenpeace an “undesirable organisation”, effectively banning it from operating in the country. In a statement, the Prosecutor General said Greenpeace had tried to “interfere in the internal affairs of the state” and was “engaged in anti-Russian propaganda” by calling for sanctions against Moscow. Greenpeace was not immediately available to comment. Born out of the anti-nuclear, counterculture movement of the late 1960s, […]

(Reuters) – Wall Street’s main indexes opened higher on Friday on optimism that a deal to avoid a catastrophic U.S. debt default could be reached over the weekend. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 47.04 points, or 0.14%, at the open to 33,582.95. The S&P 500 opened higher by 6.10 points, or 0.15%, at 4,204.15, while the Nasdaq Composite gained 20.63 points, or 0.16%, to 12,709.46 at the opening bell. […]

By Noah Browning LONDON (Reuters) -Oil prices rebounded on Friday from losses of more than 1% the previous day as investors turned cautiously optimistic over the fading risk of a U.S. debt default. Brent futures rose 61 cents, or 0.8%, to $76.47 a barrel by 1345 GMT, while West Texas Intermediate U.S. crude for July expiry climbed 50 cents, or 0.7%, to $72.44 The less active U.S. crude contract for […]

By Noah Browning LONDON (Reuters) -Oil prices rebounded on Friday from losses of more than 1% the previous day as investors turned cautiously optimistic over the fading risk of a U.S. debt default. Brent futures rose $1.15, or 1.5%, to $77.01 a barrel by 1205 GMT, while West Texas Intermediate U.S. crude for July expiry climbed $1.16, or 1.6%, to $73.10. The less active U.S. crude contract for May which […]

Federal Reserve Governor Michelle Bowman on Friday repeated her call for the U.S. central bank to hire an outside party to analyze the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, and against using that failure as a “pretext” for making broad changes to bank regulation. “We should consider whether there are necessary – and targeted – adjustments we should make to banking regulation,” Bowman said in remarks prepared for delivery to a […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Biden administration added 71 entities to a trade blacklist for supporting Russia on Friday, as the Group of Seven wealthy nations announced new sanctions on Moscow over its war in Ukraine. The U.S. Commerce Department action targets support for Russia’s military and expands the scope of export controls on Russia and Belarus. The blacklist includes 69 Russian entities, one from Armenia and one from Kyrgyzstan. The […]