By Nicolas Delame and Mimosa Spencer PARIS (Reuters) – French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne said on Saturday she is backing a parliamentary bill to add abortion rights to the country’s constitution. The move comes after the United States Supreme Court…
Thousands march in Munich to demand G7 action on poverty and climate
BERLIN (Reuters) -Some 4,000 people marched in Munich on Saturday calling on leaders of the Group of Seven industrialized countries to take action to fight poverty, climate change and world hunger and end dependence on Russian fossil fuels. Leaders of …
Biden ‘respects’ Supreme Court despite abortion ruling, White House says
By Andrea Shalal and Trevor Hunnicutt ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) -President Joe Biden, who is weighing unilateral actions to counter an “extreme” ruling ending the U.S. right to abortion, nonetheless “respects” the Supreme Court and sees no need to…
Taliban calls for release of frozen funds after deadly earthquake
By Charlotte Greenfield KABUL (Reuters) -Afghanistan’s Taliban administration on Saturday called on international governments to roll back sanctions and lift a freeze on central bank assets following the earthquake that killed more than 1,000 people an…
Taliban appeal for more aid after deadly Afghanistan earthquake
By Mohammad Yunus Yawar and Charlotte Greenfield KABUL (Reuters) -Vital medical supplies reached hospitals on Saturday in the remote area of Afghanistan hit by an earthquake that killed more than 1,000 people this week, as the country’s Taliban governm…
Protesters at U.S. Supreme Court decry abortion ruling overturning Roe v. Wade
By Kanishka Singh, Trevor Hunnicutt and Gabriella Borter WASHINGTON/JACKSON, Miss. (Reuters) -Hundreds of protesters descended on the U.S. Supreme Court on Saturday to denounce the justice’s decision to overturn the half-century-old Roe v. Wade precede…
Biden signs gun safety bill into law, takes swipe at Supreme Court
By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Saturday signed into law the first major federal gun reform in three decades, days after a decision he condemned by the Supreme Court expanding firearm owners’ rights. “God willing, …
Pfizer/BioNTech say Omicron-based COVID shots improve response vs that variant
By Michael Erman NEW YORK (Reuters) – Pfizer Inc and BioNTech SE said on Saturday that a booster dose of updated versions of their COVID-19 vaccine, modified specifically to combat the Omicron coronavirus variant, generated a higher immune response aga…
Biden administration signals fight over medication abortion
By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s administration indicated it will seek to prevent states from banning a pill used for medication abortion in light of the Supreme Court ruling overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, s…
U.S.’s Russia sanctions architect Singh departs as Ukraine war drags on
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden will have a new “sherpa” on his trip to Germany next week – a former BlackRock strategist named Mike Pyle, who replaces Washington’s former point person on sanctions, Daleep Singh. Singh,…