By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Arafat Barbakh CAIRO/GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Europe’s senior diplomat Josep Borrell began a new diplomatic push on Friday to stop spillover from the Gaza war into Israeli-occupied West Bank, Lebanon and Red Sea shipping lanes. Their Middle East visits came three months since Hamas militants from …
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(Reuters) – A Myanmar rebel alliance has gained control of a key town along the country’s volatile northern border with China after weeks of fierce fighting with junta troops, the alliance and the junta said. The Three Brotherhood Alliance, as the group is known, said on Friday it had taken took over Laukkai town after …
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By Daniel Trotta and Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) -Wayne LaPierre resigned as leader of the National Rifle Association on Friday, ending a long career that saw it became one of the most powerful lobbies in Washington, only to have its prestige tarnished by graft accusations and a bankruptcy filing. LaPierre, 74, chief executive since 1991, steps …
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-The United Auto Workers (UAW) union has reached agreement with auto parts maker Allison Transmission Holdings Inc on a tentative deal covering 1,500 workers in Indianapolis, the labor group said on Friday. The four-year contract guarantees a starting wage of $20 an hour for UAW employees and retroactive pay hikes until Nov. 15 last year, …
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Some of the families of kidnapped Venezuelan and Honduran migrants paid ransoms to their abductors before the group was rescued this week, Mexico’s security minister said on Friday. The 32 migrants were kidnapped from a bus over the weekend by armed men aiming to extort money from them and their families in …
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By David French (Reuters) -U.S. stock indexes endured a topsy-turvy session on Friday but ultimately closed marginally higher, although the small gains did not stop the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite from starting 2024 with their worst weekly showing in months. All three benchmarks recorded their first weekly declines for ten weeks: the S&P 500Â dropped …
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By Erwin Seba HOUSTON (Reuters) -Oil prices settled higher on Friday as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken began a week-long sweep through the Middle East in an attempt to contain regional tensions stoked by the Israel-Hamas conflict. Brent crude futures settled up $1.17, or 1.51%, at $78.76 a barrel. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude …
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By Herbert Lash and Naomi Rovnick NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) -Bond prices slid and a gauge of global equity performance closed a tad higher in choppy trading on Friday after a surprisingly strong U.S. labor report increased the odds that the Federal Reserve can engineer a “soft landing” for the economy. U.S. employers hired more workers …
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By Krishn Kaushik NEW DELHI (Reuters) -The Indian Navy on Friday rescued the crew of a merchant vessel after its attempted hijack in the Arabian Sea and said it had not found any pirates on board. An Indian Navy warship intercepted the Liberian-flagged MV Lila Norfolk bulk carrier less than a day after it had …
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By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK (Reuters) -The dollar was little changed on Friday after a rally in response to mixed data that suggested the world’s largest economy showed pockets of weakness but remained resilient overall. The dollar index was flat at 102.43 in afternoon trading after hitting 103.10 in wake of the stronger-than-expected U.S. jobs …
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