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ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkey summoned the German ambassador in Ankara on Wednesday to express condemnation and protest over the detention in Germany of two journalists from a pro-government Turkish newspaper, the Foreign Ministry said. The public prosecutor’s office in Darmstadt said police had searched the private apartments of two journalists aged 46 and 51 in the western town of Moerfelden-Walldorf on suspicion of dangerous dissemination of personal data. Investigators confiscated electronic […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden will continue talks with congressional leaders on the United States’ debt limit later this week, the White House said on Wednesday, as U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy vowed to avoid a default. “I think at the end of the day, we do not have a debt default,” McCarthy said in an interview with CNBC. “The thing I’m confident about is now we have a structure […]

By Huseyin Hayatsever and Burcu Karakas ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkey’s main opposition party said on Wednesday it had filed complaints over suspected irregularities at thousands of ballot boxes in Sunday’s landmark elections, in which President Tayyip Erdogan performed better than expected. However, opposition party officials said the objections were unlikely to alter the result of the presidential vote, which is headed to a runoff on May 28 between Erdogan and challenger […]

(Reuters) – A Ukrainian-born activist was jailed for seven years by a Russian court on Wednesday for “justifying terrorism”, according to a Telegram channel petitioning for his release.Mikhail Krieger, 63, was arrested last November over social media posts he wrote in 2020 in which he praised two men who staged attacks on buildings of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) as “heroes”. Prosecutors also said Krieger had “incited hatred” when he […]

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The last ship left a port in Ukraine on Wednesday under a deal allowing the safe Black Sea export of Ukraine grain a day before Russia could quit the pact over obstacles to its grain and fertilizer exports. The DSM Capella has left the port of Chornomorsk carrying 30,000 tonnes of corn and was on its way to Turkey, according to data issued by […]

By Aziz El Yaakoubi RIYADH(Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a pariah for more than a decade, is expected to steal the spotlight at Friday’s Arab League summit in Saudi Arabia, where he will rub shoulders with regional leaders who once backed his war foes. Ostracised by most Arab states following his crackdown on protests against his rule in 2011 and the ensuing civil war, his government’s return to the […]

By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Pakistan’s government accused former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday of sheltering aides and supporters wanted over attacks on the army following his arrest last week, and warned he had 24 hours to hand them over or face a police operation. Khan’s arrest and the violence that followed has deepened political instability in the South Asian nation of 220 million. Pakistan has been facing its […]

By Shreyashi Sanyal and Shristi Achar A (Reuters) – U.S. stock indexes were set to open higher on Wednesday after Western Alliance led a bounce among regional banks amid cautious optimism about a potential breakthrough in the deadlock in Washington over the nation’s debt limit. Shares of U.S. regional banks rose, led by a 11.6% premarket rise in Western Alliance Bancorp as the lender’s deposit growth exceeded $2 billion and […]

(Reuters) – Melrose Industries Plc expects its engines business to power its profit margins in 2025 as aftermarket services would help boost cashflow, enabling it to buy back shares worth between 5% and 10% of its market value annually from next year. The company raised its adjusted operating margin outlook for aerospace to between 17% and 18% by 2025, compared with 14% previously. The operating margin for the Engines business […]