WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden has read a letter from WNBA star Brittney Griner, who has been detained in Russia for more than four months, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Tuesday. Griner wrote a letter, sent by her r…
Euro slumps to two-decade low as recession fears grow
By Herbert Lash NEW YORK (Reuters) – Safe-haven demand strengthened the dollar on Tuesday to levels last seen in 2002 while the euro slumped to two-decade lows as the latest surge in European gas prices fueled recession concerns. The dollar index rose …
Pound at two-year low after two senior UK cabinet ministers quit
By Joice Alves LONDON (Reuters) -Sterling slumped against to a two-year low against the dollar on Tuesday as a crisis in British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government compounded pressure on a currency already reeling from recession fears and a resu…
Tennis-Battling Brit Norrie sets up Djokovic semi-final
By Mitch Phillips LONDON (Reuters) -British ninth-seed Cameron Norrie reached his first Grand Slam semi-final when he twice came from behind to beat unseeded Belgian David Goffin in five sets on Tuesday to set up a dream Wimbledon meeting with Novak Dj…
Factbox-Can Boris Johnson be forced out, and how is a successor chosen?
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s finance and health ministers resigned on Tuesday, in what could be the final blow for Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s premiership. Johnson narrowly survived a confidence vote last month, giving him 12 months of immunity from…
Factbox-Inflation ‘eats away’ at Argentines: economy chief Batakis in her own words
By Eliana Raszewski BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s economy minister Silvina Batakis took office on Monday after the abrupt resignation of her predecessor threw the government and markets into disarray. Analysts said her first comments would be ke…
Two UK junior-ranking government lawmakers quit in protest at Johnson
LONDON (Reuters) – Two lawmakers from Britain’s Conservative Party quit their junior-ranking government posts on Tuesday in protest at Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s leadership. Parliamentary private secretaries Jonathan Gullis and Saqib Bhatti posted …
Mexican grandfather, synagogue teacher among victims of July 4 shooting
By Brendan O’Brien and Tom Polansek HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (Reuters) – A teacher at a synagogue and a grandfather in his 70s who came from Mexico to visit his family were among the six people killed in the shooting at a Fourth of July parade in Chicago su…
Factbox-Now UK’s Boris Johnson has quit, who could replace him?
By Andrew MacAskill and Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) – Boris Johnson said on Thursday he was resigning as Britain’s prime minister, bowing to calls from ministerial colleagues and lawmakers in his Conservative Party. Below is a summary of some of t…
ASML shares fall on report US wants to restrict sales to China
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -Shares in ASML Holding, a key supplier of equipment to semiconductor makers, fell on Tuesday following a Bloomberg News report that the U.S. government wants to restrict the company from selling equipment to China. ASML has already…