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By Ted Hesson and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States will expand a family-reunification parole program currently available to Cubans and Haitians to include additional nationalities, U.S. officials said on Thursday, as part of a suite of measures aimed at curbing record border crossings. The program will be expanded to nationals of Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras in an effort to create new lawful pathways for migrants, the […]

(Reuters) – Ride-hailing firm Lyft Inc on Thursday said it will lay off 1,072 employees, representing 26% of the company’s workforce, as part of a previously announced retrenchment plan. (Reporting by Yuvraj Malik in Bengaluru; Editing by Maju Samuel) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

(Reuters) – Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp (SMBC) said it will combine its U.S. equity and M&A business with Jefferies Financial Group Inc as part of a deal in which its parent, Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, will boost its stake in the U.S firm and its presence in the country. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG) will raise its stake in Jefferies from 4.5% currently to as much as 15%, giving […]

By Elizabeth Piper and Vitalii Hnidyi VYSHNEVA, Ukraine (Reuters) – Doctor Oleg Marchenko never knows what he will find when he visits villages retaken by Ukrainian forces in the east of the country last autumn. Mines lie scattered around and often there are no medical facilities left. He can be certain of one thing, however: many patients he meets will be suffering from high blood pressure after living for months […]

By Nia Williams (Reuters) – In early February, Chief Allan Adam of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation in northern Alberta started fielding calls from community members after the provincial regulator revealed toxic wastewater had been leaking for months from a tailings pond at Imperial Oil’s Kearl oil sands mine. Many in the community hunt and fish downstream of Canada’s huge bitumen mines, and wanted to know if the game meat […]

By Yiannis Kourtoglou and Michele Kambas LARNACA, Cyprus (Reuters) – Britain had evacuated around 900 of its citizens from Sudan through Cyprus as of early afternoon Thursday and urged those remaining in the conflict-riven country to grasp an opportunity to leave during the final hours of a cease fire. Hundreds of people have been killed in the capital Khartoum in nearly two weeks of conflict between the army and a […]

By Emily Rose JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Thursday brushed off legal action taken against him by Walt Disney Co, describing it as politically motivated and accusing the global entertainment giant of lacking accountability and transparency. Disney, in a lawsuit filed this week, accused the DeSantis administration of “weaponizing its power to inflict political punishment” in a dispute over special provisions for the Disney World theme park in […]

By Ted Hesson and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States will expand a family-reunification parole program currently available to Cubans and Haitians to include additional nationalities, U.S. officials said on Thursday, as part of a suite of measures aimed at curbing record border crossings. The program will be expanded to nationals of Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras in an effort to create new lawful pathways for migrants, the […]

By Ismail Shakil OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada has conducted its first evacuation flight from Sudan, and is working toward extracting more Canadians from the war-torn North African country as soon as possible, Defence Minister Anita Anand said on Thursday. Countries globally have rushed to extract foreign diplomats and citizens from Sudan after a conflict between the Sudanese army and a paramilitary group called the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) killed hundreds […]