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NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Ukraine’s deputy foreign minister on Monday said Kyiv wanted New Delhi to be more involved in helping resolve its conflict with Russia and has sought a visit by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other top officials. Emine Dzhaparova told broadcaster CNBC TV18 in an interview that Kyiv also expected India to invite Ukrainian officials to participate in G20 events and intensify political dialogue with Kyiv. India […]

By Jorgelina do Rosario WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A combination of sticky high interest rates and lacklustre global growth could push a number of emerging economies that are facing soaring refinancing needs into debt difficulties next year. Many weaker economies navigated the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine with financing aid from multilateral and bilateral lenders. But repayments on emerging markets’ high-yield international bonds will total $30 […]

By Ahmed Aboulenein WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A federal judge’s decision last week to suspend the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of abortion pill mifepristone could severely weaken the agency if allowed to stand, health policy and legal experts said. U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s ruling on Friday, which followed a March 15 hearing, was a preliminary injunction that would essentially ban sales of mifepristone while the case by […]

MILAN (Reuters) -A merchant ship has supplied fuel and water to a boat with around 400 migrants on board which is in distress between Greece and Malta but Maltese authorities have ordered it not to conduct a rescue, German NGO Sea-Watch International said on Monday. The vessel, which departed from Tobruk in Libya amid a sharp rise of migrant boats crossing the Mediterranean from North Africa, was reported to be […]

(Fixes spelling in headline) By Jorgelina do Rosario WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A combination of sticky high interest rates and lacklustre global growth could push a number of emerging economies that are facing soaring refinancing needs into debt difficulties next year. Many weaker economies navigated the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine with financing aid from multilateral and bilateral lenders. But repayments on emerging markets’ high-yield international bonds […]

MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin said on Monday that there was a general tendency to always blame Russia for everything when asked about accusations that Moscow may have been behind a leak of U.S. intelligence documents about a number of countries including Ukraine. The U.S. national security community is grappling with fallout from the release of dozens of secret documents, including the impact on sensitive information-sharing within the government and ties […]

By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) -A Nashville-area county council may return to the statehouse one of two Democratic Tennessee lawmakers who were expelled from the chamber last week over a gun control protest when it meets on Monday to fill the vacant seat. Republicans who control the state House of Representatives on Thursday voted to kick out Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, two Black men who recently joined the legislature, over […]

(Reuters) -Vodafone said it was working to resolve an outage that had affected some UK users of its home broadband service on Monday. Downdetector’s UK website said more than 2,800 mostly landline users were having trouble accessing Vodafone at the peak of the outage. “Getting our customers reconnected is now our top priority, and we’re incredibly sorry for any inconvenience this is causing,” Vodafone said in a tweet, adding in […]

(Reuters) -Vodafone said it was working to resolve an outage that had affected some UK users of its home broadband service on Monday. Downdetector’s UK website said more than 2,800 mostly landline users were having trouble accessing Vodafone at the peak of the outage. “Getting our customers reconnected is now our top priority, and we’re incredibly sorry for any inconvenience this is causing,” Vodafone said in a tweet, adding in […]