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(Reuters) -Air Canada reported a smaller-than-expected quarterly loss on Friday, as Canada’s largest airline benefited from resilient travel demand. Major airlines are enjoying the strongest travel demand since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, despite rising airfares and squeezed budgets amid high inflation. Canada, which lifted all COVID-related restrictions last year, has seen a strong rebound in international leisure and corporate travel. “Our first quarter financial results exceeded both internal […]

By Orhan Coskun, Ece Toksabay and Huseyin Hayatsever ANKARA (Reuters) -Kemal Kilicdaroglu, main challenger of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, said on Friday his party has concrete evidence of Russia’s responsibility for the release of “deep fake” online content ahead of Sunday’s presidential elections. Asked why he tweeted on Thursday that Russia was responsible, he told Reuters: “If we did not have it [concrete evidence], I wouldn’t have tweeted.” The party […]

By Chayut Setboonsarng and Martin Petty BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand holds an election on May 14 after nearly a decade of a government led or backed by its royalist military after a coup in 2014. Below is a rundown of what to expect. WHAT’S BEING DECIDED? Roughly 52 million of Thailand’s 65 million population are eligible to cast votes for members of a new 500-seat house of representatives for the […]

By Panu Wongcha-um and Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s embattled Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha is lagging behind the opposition in polls ahead of Sunday’s general election but electoral rules written by his former military junta mean the retired army chief can’t be counted out. Prayuth, 69, who first came to office in a 2014 coup, has survived a hotly disputed election in 2019, mass protests in 2020 and four […]

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – A former Argentine businessmen whose testimony contributed to the U.S. convictions of South American soccer officials and a television executive in the sprawling investigation into corruption at FIFA is set to be sentenced on Friday. Alejandro Burzaco, the former head of Argentine sports marketing company Torneos y Competencias, pleaded guilty in 2015 to three counts of racketeering conspiracy, wire fraud conspiracy and money […]

By Panu Wongcha-um and Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s embattled Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha is lagging behind the opposition in polls ahead of Sunday’s general election but electoral rules written by his former military junta mean the retired army chief can’t be counted out. Prayuth, 69, who first came to office in a 2014 coup, has survived a hotly disputed election in 2019, mass protests in 2020 and four […]

By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will kick off fundraising for her 2024 re-election campaign in the swing state of Georgia on Friday as she and President Joe Biden tap donors for contributions to a ticket that raised over $1 billion in 2020. Harris will be headlining the Democratic Party of Georgia’s Spring Soiree fundraiser – a gathering expected to have hundreds of attendees. She […]

A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan A strange calm fell over world markets on Friday as tensions around the U.S. debt ceiling impasse and a fresh wobble in U.S. bank stocks hung in the background, with a postponement of a key showdown on the former read as possible progress. A debt limit meeting between President Joe Biden and top lawmakers that had […]

(Reuters) – Turks vote on May 14 in an election seen as one of the most consequential in Turkey’s modern history, with President Tayyip Erdogan facing the biggest political challenge of his two-decade rule. Here is a guide to the election, the presidential candidates, and the political alliances vying for power: THE ELECTION Turks will be electing both a president and parliament for a five-year term. To win the presidency […]