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By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A fresh push for bipartisan immigration reforms, coupled with enhanced border security, is emerging in the U.S. Congress, as thousands of migrants amass across the border in Mexico with the end of Title 42 controls next week. It has been 37 years since Congress passed significant immigration reform, but a persistently high volume of migrants and an acute labor shortage have galvanized lawmakers. At […]

A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan If the Federal Reserve needs more information on what to do for its next move on interest rates, relentless stress in regional bank shares again this week may yet figure highly. As the Fed delivered what markets assume will be the last rate hike of a brutal 13-month, 500-basis-point tightening cycle, further aftershocks from the March […]

(Reuters) – Russia accused the United States on Thursday of being behind what it says was a drone attack on the Kremlin intended to kill President Vladimir Putin. FIGHTING * Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukraine would launch a counteroffensive soon against occupying Russian forces. * Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of Russia’s Wagner Group mercenary force, said the counteroffensive had already begun and his forces were observing heightened activity along the […]

By Victoria Waldersee BERLIN (Reuters) -BMW reported a higher earnings margin for its cars segment on Thursday, with a rise to 12.1% in the first quarter from 8.9% a year earlier, but kept its outlook unchanged in the face of ongoing high costs and rising competition. The German carmaker attributed a drop in group earnings before tax to 5.1 billion euros ($5.65 billion) from 12.2 billion last year to the […]

By Steve Scherer OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will kick off what is likely to be the last Liberal Party convention before the next election on Thursday, and though fatigue with his government has deepened there is little question that he is fully in command of his party. Trudeau will seek to rally some 3,500 Liberal members from across the country at 8 p.m. ET (2400 GMT) […]

SRINAGAR (Reuters) -An Indian army helicopter made a “hard landing” in a remote part of Indian Kashmir on Thursday injuring the two pilots and a technician on board, the army said. The indigenously produced Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH) reported a technical fault to air traffic control and made a precautionary landing on the banks of a river in the remote Kishtwar region, the army said. “Due to the undulating ground, […]

NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) -Israeli forces on Thursday killed two Palestinian gunmen who had shot dead a British-Israeli mother and her two daughters in April in the occupied West Bank, Israel’s domestic security service said. A third militant who had aided the two gunmen was also killed in the raid, Israel’s Shin Bet service said. The Palestinian Health Ministry said there had been three fatalities during the raid in the […]

By Duncan Miriri MALINDI, Kenya (Reuters) – Kenyan cult leader Paul Mackenzie lived with hundreds of followers in makeshift homes of polythene sheeting and thatch in a remote forest camp that he divided into areas with biblical names like Jerusalem and Judea, relatives of his adherents say. He told them the world as they knew it was going to end on April 15 and Satan would rule for 1,000 years, […]

(Reuters) – Remco Evenepoel and Primoz Roglic will lock horns again in the year’s first Grand Tour when the Giro d’Italia begins on Saturday with cycling fans anticipating a renewal of the battle that was sadly interrupted at last year’s Vuelta a Espana. Belgian tyro Evenepoel won his first Grand Tour race after Slovenian Roglic crashed on stage 16, ending what had been a stunning fightback by the Olympic road […]