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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador will meet with White House Homeland Security adviser Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall Tuesday morning in Mexico, Lopez Obrador’s office confirmed on Monday. The Mexican leader said earlier Monday he would meet with a representative for U.S. President Joe Biden to discuss migration, without saying who. On May 11, the U.S. is scheduled to lift a COVID health policy known as “Title 42” […]

(Reuters) -Morgan Stanley is planning to eliminate about 3,000 jobs in the second quarter, a source told Reuters on Monday, in its second round of job cuts in six months. Slow dealmaking and a tough economic environment are prompting the investment bank to look at its headcount, the source said. The latest move follows another quarter in which fees from the investment banking unit fell, dragging total revenue down nearly […]

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – JPMorgan Chase & Co could be liable to women who accused Jeffrey Epstein of sexual abuse if they can show that former executive Jes Staley had first-hand knowledge that the financier ran a sex-trafficking venture, a U.S. judge said on Monday. U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan discussed Staley’s alleged role, which Staley denies, in a decision explaining why he refused to […]

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – JPMorgan Chase & Co could be liable to women who accused Jeffrey Epstein of sexual abuse if they can show that former executive Jes Staley had first-hand knowledge that the financier ran a sex-trafficking venture, a U.S. judge said on Monday. U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan discussed Staley’s alleged role, which Staley denies, in a decision explaining why he refused to […]

By Jamie McGeever (Reuters) – A look at the day ahead in Asian markets from Jamie McGeever. Purchasing managers indexes on Tuesday offer the first glimpses into how several countries around the world performed in April, with market fireworks in Asia most likely to come from the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) latest interest rate decision and guidance. Global trading activity will pick up as many markets open after the […]

By Steve Gorman (Reuters) -A dust storm that cut visibility to near zero on Monday triggered a series of chain-reaction crashes involving dozens of vehicles on an Illinois highway, killing six people and injuring at least two dozen others, state police and coroner’s officials said. Roughly 40 to 60 passenger cars and about 20 commercial vehicles, including numerous tractor-trailer rigs, were involved in the pileup around 11 a.m. CT (1200 […]

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is planning to visit South Korea on May 7 and 8 for talks with President Yoon Suk Yeol, Japan’s Kyodo news agency quoted the premier as telling reporters on Tuesday. Kishida told reporters in Ghana, where he is currently on an official visit, that he is finalising plans for the visit with Yoon, Kyodo said, adding that it would be an opportunity […]

By George Obulutsa NAIROBI (Reuters) – The bodies of several children exhumed in eastern Kenya showed signs of starvation and in some cases asphyxiation, a government pathologist said on Monday, as investigators began the first autopsies on over 100 people linked to a doomsday cult. On Monday investigators said they had completed 10 autopsies, comprising nine children aged between 18 months and 10 years, and one female adult, from the […]

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – JPMorgan Chase & Co could be liable to women who accused Jeffrey Epstein of sexual abuse if they can show that former executive Jes Staley had first-hand knowledge that the financier ran a sex-trafficking venture, a U.S. judge said on Monday. U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan discussed Staley’s alleged role, which Staley denies, in a decision explaining why he refused to […]