By Carolyn Cohn LONDON (Reuters) – World stocks rose in holiday-thinned trade on Monday, helped by a bounce in oil as concerns over tight supply outweighed recession fears. European stocks rallied 0.8% and Britain’s FTSE rose over 1%, boosted by gains …
Galvanisers wanted: post-Brexit worker shortages strain UK employers
By David Milliken TELFORD, England (Reuters) – British manufacturing firm Corbetts the Galvanizers used to rely on a stream of workers from Poland and Romania to fill its shop floor, where steel is dipped into a long vat of molten zinc at temperatures …
Ukraine war to shift to Donetsk after fall of Luhansk; Russia claims major victory
By Tom Balmforth and Max Hunder KYIV (Reuters) – Russian forces in Ukraine will focus on trying to seize all of the Donetsk region, having forced Ukrainian troops to withdraw from the last major city under their control in the neighbouring Luhansk regi…
Video shows Ohio officers killed unarmed Black man in hail of bullets
By Gaelen Morse and Gabriella Borter AKRON, Ohio (Reuters) -Video released on Sunday showed eight police officers in Akron, Ohio, were involved in a shooting that killed an unarmed Black man whose body was found with some 60 gunshot wounds after he fle…
Glacier collapses in Italian Alps, killing at least six
ROME (Reuters) -Parts of a mountain glacier collapsed in the Italian Alps on Sunday amid record temperatures, local authorities said, killing at least six people and injuring eight. The Trento provincial government said rescue operations were in progre…
Second woman killed in shark attack in Egypt’s Red Sea
CAIRO (Reuters) -Two women were killed in shark attacks in Egypt’s Red Sea, south of the city of Hurghada, the Egyptian Ministry of Environment said on Sunday. Two sources told Reuters that the body of a Romanian tourist in her late forties was discove…
Israel says it will test bullet that killed reporter, Palestinians disagree
By Dan Williams and Ali Sawafta JERUSALEM/RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) -Israel said on Sunday it would test a bullet that killed a Palestinian-American journalist to determine whether one of its soldiers shot her and said a U.S. observer would be pres…
Uzbekistan reports casualties in unrest, opposition says at least 5 killed
By Olzhas Auyezov and Mark Trevelyan ALMATY (Reuters) -Uzbekistan’s President Shavkat Mirziyoyev said on Sunday there were casualties among civilians and law enforcement officers after rare protests in the Central Asian country, and an exiled oppositio…
Cheney: Jan. 6 panel could make multiple criminal referrals of Trump
(Reuters) -The congressional panel investigating last year’s attack on the U.S. Capitol by Donald Trump’s supporters could make multiple referrals to the Justice Department seeking criminal charges against the former president, its vice chair Liz Chene…
Argentine president scrambles to replace economy chief after Guzman exit
By Jorge Otaola BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -Argentine President Alberto Fernandez held meetings and telephone calls on Sunday as he scrambled to find a new economy minister, official sources said, after the abrupt exit of ally Martin Guzman shook the count…