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TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisian police arrested three prominent officials of the main opposition Ennahda party on Tuesday, hours after they detained party leader Rached Ghannouchi, the most prominent critic of President Kais Saied, a lawyer and officials said. Lawyer Monia Bouali told Reuters that the officials arrested are Mohamed Goumani, Belkacem Hassan and Mohammed Chnaiba. Officials in Ennahda confirmed the arrests. Police raided Ennahda party headquarters early on Tuesday and […]

By Khalid Abdelaziz, Nafisa Eltahir and Humeyra Pamuk KHARTOUM (Reuters) -The United States spoke to rival Sudanese commanders who have been waging fierce battles in Khartoum and beyond for a fourth day, telling them to stop fighting and to protect civilians and others after a U.S diplomatic convoy came under fire. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken held separate calls with the army chief and head of the paramilitary Rapid […]

By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin has visited military headquarters in Russian-controlled Ukraine, the Kremlin said, where he discussed the war with a general from Russia’s airborne troops who has reportedly taken up a powerful new role in the invasion. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, launched on Feb. 24, 2022, has triggered the deadliest European conflict since World War Two. Moscow claims to have annexed four Ukrainian regions but […]

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European ombudsman has made an initial finding that the European Commission’s failure to be fully transparent about its meetings with the tobacco industry constitutes maladministration and is demanding an answer within three months. In a letter to the Commission made public on Tuesday, ombudsman Emily O’Reilly shared preliminary conclusions from her team’s inquiry into EU executive contacts with tobacco interest representatives in 2020 and 2021, a […]

By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Internal Revenue Service declared on Tuesday that it is completing its first “normal” tax filing season since the COVID-19 pandemic struck in 2020, with a backlog of millions of unprocessed returns from previous years fully cleared. New IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel told reporters that the initial spending of $80 billion in new IRS funding helped purchase new scanning technology that has allowed […]

By Natalie Grover and Aby Jose Koilparambil (Reuters) – GSK plans to buy Canada-based drug developer Bellus Health Inc in an all-cash deal for $2 billion as the British drugmaker expands its bet on respiratory therapies. The move to replenish its pipeline comes as GSK investors fret about whether there is enough in the medicine cabinet to keep the momentum going into the next decade with expected loss of patent […]

By Kevin Yao and Joe Cash BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s economy grew at a faster-than-expected pace in the first quarter, as the end of strict COVID curbs lifted businesses and consumers out of crippling pandemic disruptions, although headwinds from a global slowdown point to a bumpy ride ahead. More than a year-long sweeping streak of global monetary policy tightening to rein in red-hot inflation has dented world economic growth, leaving […]

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European ombudsman has made an initial finding that the European Commission’s failure to be fully transparent about its meetings with the tobacco industry constitutes maladministration and is demanding an answer within three months. In a letter to the Commission made public on Tuesday, ombudsman Emily O’Reilly shared preliminary conclusions from her team’s inquiry into EU executive contacts with tobacco interest representatives in 2020 and 2021, a […]

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European ombudsman has made an initial finding that the European Commission’s failure to be fully transparent about its meetings with the tobacco industry constitutes maladministration and is demanding an answer within three months. In a letter to the Commission made public on Tuesday, ombudsman Emily O’Reilly shared preliminary conclusions from her team’s inquiry into EU executive contacts with tobacco interest representatives in 2020 and 2021, a […]