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(Reuters) -An armed attack has killed 10 people in the Ecuadorean port city of Guayaquil, the public prosecutor’s office of Ecuador and police reported on Sunday. A rifle and 9-millimeter caliber guns were found at the scene, the Ecuadorean Prosecutor’s Office posted on its Twitter account. “At the moment, our investigation and intelligence units are carrying out operational actions in order to identify those responsible,” the National Police tweeted. There […]

By Chris Prentice and Nupur Anand NEW YORK (Reuters) -PNC Financial Services Group and JPMorgan Chase & Co were among banks set to submit final bids for First Republic Bank by midday Sunday in an auction being run by U.S. regulators, sources familiar with the matter. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp is expected to announce a deal on Sunday night before Asian markets open, with the regulator likely to say […]

By Chris Prentice and Nupur Anand NEW YORK (Reuters) – PNC Financial Services Group and JPMorgan Chase & Co were among banks set to submit final bids for First Republic Bank by midday Sunday in an auction being run by U.S. regulators, sources familiar with the matter. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp is expected to announce a deal on Sunday night before Asian markets open, with the regulator likely to […]

By Chris Prentice and Nupur Anand NEW YORK (Reuters) – PNC Financial Services Group and JPMorgan Chase & Co were among banks set to submit final bids for First Republic Bank by midday Sunday in an auction being run by U.S. regulators, sources familiar with the matter. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp is expected to announce a deal on Sunday night before Asian markets open, with the regulator likely to […]

(Reuters) – An armed attack has killed 10 people in the Ecuadorean port city of Guayaquil, Ecuador’s public prosecutor’s office and police reported on Sunday. A rifle and 9-millimeter caliber guns were found at the scene, the Ecuadorian Prosecutor’s Office reported on its Twitter account. “At the moment, our investigation and intelligence units are carrying out operational actions in order to identify those responsible,” the National Police tweeted. So far […]

By Lucinda Elliott and Daniela Desantis ASUNCION (Reuters) -Paraguayans began voting on Sunday in what could be the biggest electoral challenge to the ruling conservative Colorado Party in over a decade and with the country’s long ties with Taiwan potentially at stake. Polling stations opened at 7 a.m. (1100 GMT) in what is expected to be a close contest between Colorado Party presidential candidate Santiago Pena, a 44-year-old economist, and […]

(Reuters) -A man shot dead five neighbors including an 8-year-old boy after some of them had asked him to stop shooting a semiautomatic rifle in his front yard in Cleveland, Texas, because it was keeping their baby awake, police said on Saturday. Police were still looking for the suspect, who used an AR-15-style rifle in the shooting late inside the neighbors’ home on Friday, San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers […]

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – An Israeli army officer was removed from his post on Sunday for attending a political protest in uniform, the first such case during a crisis over the government’s planned judicial overhaul that has stirred rancour within the military ranks. Local media identified the officer as a major who was televised carrying a stretcher in a publicity stunt during a pro-government rally that was convened on Thursday in […]

By El Tayeb Siddig and Aidan Lewis KHARTOUM (Reuters) -Sudan’s rival military forces accused each other of fresh violations of a ceasefire on Sunday as their deadly conflict rumbled on for a third week despite warnings of a slide towards catastrophic civil war. Hundreds of people have been killed and thousands wounded since a long-simmering power struggle between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) erupted into […]