WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday morning after taking an antigen test, the department said in a statement, adding he was experiencing mild symptoms. Becerra was not co…
Explainer-What is in Britain’s proposed new post-Brexit law for N.Ireland
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain published legislation on Monday to tackle disruption to post-Brexit trade with Northern Ireland, setting out measures it says are needed to protect peace in the British-ruled province but which are sure to antagonise the Euro…
Israel tells its citizens to avoid Istanbul, warns Iran not to harm them
JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel raised its Istanbul travel advisory to the highest level on Monday because of what it said was a threat of Iranian attempts to kill or abduct Israelis vacationing in Turkey. Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said a “huge effort” b…
S&P 500 confirms bear market as recession worry grows
By Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. equities tumbled on Monday, with the S&P 500 confirming it is in a bear market, as fears grow that the expected aggressive interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve would push the economy into a recession…
Amid fierce fighting, Russian forces cut last Sievierodonetsk escape route
By Natalia Zinets and Abdelaziz Boumzar KYIV/BAKHMUT, Ukraine (Reuters) – Russian forces tightened their grip on the eastern Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk on Monday, a Ukrainian official said, cutting off the last routes for evacuating citizens in …
Rising expectations of aggressive Fed move this week roil markets
SINGAPORE/NEW YORK (Reuters) -Rising expectations that the Federal Reserve this week will raise interest rates by more than previously forecast unsettled investors on Monday, fuelling steep declines in U.S. stocks and bonds and intensifying fears over …
Trump aides tell Jan. 6 committee he ignored their doubts about election fraud
(Adds attribution, paragraph 8) By Patricia Zengerle and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON(Reuters) -Top advisers to then-President Donald Trump told him that his claims of widespread election fraud were unfounded and would not reverse his 2020 election loss, b…
Indigenous expert, British journalist found dead in Brazil -report
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – The bodies of British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, who had been missing for more than a week in Brazil’s Amazon jungle, were found on Monday, news outlet G1 reported on Monday, quoting Phillips’ wif…
‘We beg God for water’: Chilean lake turns to desert, sounding climate change alarm
By Alexander Villegas and Rodrigo Gutierrez PENUELAS, Chile (Reuters) – The Penuelas reservoir in central Chile was until twenty years ago the main source of water for the city of Valparaiso, holding enough water for 38,000 Olympic-size swimming pools….
Sanofi says next-gen COVID booster shot has potential against main variants
By Ludwig Burger and Tassilo Hummel PARIS (Reuters) -French drugmaker Sanofi said on Monday an upgraded version of the COVID-19 vaccine candidate it is developing with GSK showed potential in two trials to protect against the virus’s main variants of c…