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BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombian leftwing guerrilla group the National Liberation Army (ELN) on Monday said peace talks with the government were in crisis due to comments made by Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro. The declaration from the ELN represents the most recent impasse in the midst of negotiations that Petro restarted with the rebel group last November as part of efforts to end its role in Colombia’s almost six decades of […]

PARIS (Reuters) – US electric car manufacturer Tesla will make significant investments in France, its CEO Elon Musk said in Versailles on Monday, adding that he could not give a timetable. Asked after a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron whether Tesla planned to announce investments in France, Musk said “I think at some point, but not today, at some point, yes”. “There is no announcement today but I am […]

By Huseyin Hayatsever, Orhan Coskun and Birsen Altayli ANKARA (Reuters) -President Tayyip Erdogan led comfortably on Monday after the first round of Turkey’s presidential election, with his rival facing an uphill struggle to prevent the president extending his rule into a third decade in a runoff vote on May 28. Turkish assets weakened on the news, which showed Erdogan only just below the 50% threshold needed to avoid sending the […]

(Reuters) -Russia’s defence ministry said it scrambled a fighter jet on Monday to prevent French and German patrol aircraft from entering its air space over the Baltic Sea after it detected them flying towards Russia. Moscow said the flights were being conducted by a German P-3C patrol aircraft and a French Atlantic-2 maritime patrol jet. After the Russian jet was scrambled and the French and German ones turned away from […]

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Automaker Stellantis has stopped all construction at a more-than C$5 billion ($3.74 billion) electric vehicles battery manufacturing plant in Windsor, Canada, over a disagreement with the federal government about subsidies, a spokesperson for the company said on Monday. “Effective immediately, all construction related to the battery module production on the Windsor site has stopped,” the spokesperson said. A spokesperson for Canada’s Innovation Minister, Francois-Philippe Champagne, did not immediately […]

(Reuters) – Russia spent 2 trillion roubles ($26 billion) on defence in January and February alone, a 282% jump on the same period a year ago, data on the budget portal showed, illustrating the spiralling costs for Moscow of its conflict in Ukraine. Rising military production and huge state spending are keeping Russia’s industry buzzing along, helping soften the economic impact of Western sanctions. In the first two months of […]

By Sarah N. Lynch and Tyler Clifford WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Migrant crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border have unexpectedly fallen, not risen, since Title 42 curbs expired and reinstating criminal penalties for illegal entry is likely the biggest reason, the Biden administration said on Sunday. U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said border patrol agents have seen a 50% drop in the number of migrants crossing the border since Thursday, when President […]

OTTAWA (Reuters) -Automaker Stellantis has stopped all construction at a more-than C$5 billion ($3.74 billion) electric vehicles battery manufacturing plant in Windsor, Canada, over a disagreement with the federal government about subsidies, a spokesperson for the company said on Monday. “Effective immediately, all construction related to the battery module production on the Windsor site has stopped,” the spokesperson said. A spokesperson for Canada’s Innovation Minister, Francois-Philippe Champagne, did not immediately respond […]

By David Morgan, Jeff Mason and Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden and Republican House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy entered a critical week for debt-ceiling talks hoping they can find common ground on spending levels and energy regulations to avert a devastating default Ahead of a planned Tuesday sitdown between Democrat Biden, McCarthy and the three other top congressional leaders, the two sides did not appear close to […]