By Andrius Sytas VILNIUS, Sept 16 (Reuters) – The drone shot down in Lithuania by an Italian NATO fighter jet on Tuesday was of a type used by Russia and was most likely targeted at Ukraine, Lithuania’s president said on Wednesday. “It was a Gerbera…
NEW DELHI, Sept 16 (Reuters) – Nepali authorities said on Wednesday that only about 7% of the bodies recovered after the devastating flood have been identified, underscoring the scale of the work involved in helping thousands of families find out the fate of loved ones.…
LONDON (AP) — Inflation in the United Kingdom rose to a five-month high as the aftershocks of the Iran war continued to ratchet up fuel prices, official figures showed Wednesday, an increase that will pressure the Bank of England to hike interest rates again over…
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Charlie Kirk’s family blamed Utah officials for failing to prevent the conservative activist’s assassination at a state university, in a wrongful death notice announced Wednesday that presages a possible lawsuit. Attorneys for the family said Kirk’s death resulted from a…
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The Trump administration has announced that it will impose travel bans on officials it claims are responsible for discrimination against whites and other minority groups in South Africa. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday he would revoke…
Sept 16 (Reuters) – A majority of younger U.S. healthcare workers plan to explore new jobs within the next year, even as many want long-term stability with a single employer, a survey released on Wednesday found. The findings highlight a retention challenge for U.S. healthcare…
By Timour Azhari, Alexander Cornwell and Gram Slattery Sept 15 (Reuters) – U.S. officials met representatives of Yemen’s Houthis in Oman over the weekend, five sources familiar with the matter said, days after the Iran-backed militia seized a strategic stretch of the Red Sea coast in…
By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA, Sept 16 (Reuters) – A U.N.-mandated probe said on Wednesday that Venezuela’s apparatus of repression remains largely intact despite a reduction in some abuses following President Nicolas Maduro’s removal from power earlier this year. The U.S. has locked Maduro up…
Sept 16 (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote as soon as Wednesday on bipartisan legislation that seeks to rein in electricity bill increases tied to the expansion of data centers that support artificial intelligence. The vote comes as government officials…
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON, Sept 16 (Reuters) – The World Bank on Wednesday named Nobel laureate and University of Chicago professor Michael Kremer as its next chief economist, succeeding Indermit Gill, who retired last month. Kremer, 61, won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2019…
