A man walks on the rubble of a building destroyed by US air strikes in Sanaa, Yemen April 27, 2025. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah |
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Sixty-eight bodies were recovered in Yemen and 47 others were wounded after a US strike on Saada hit a detention center hosting African migrants, Yemen's Houthi-run Al Masirah TV reported.
- Israel's army is flattening the remaining ruins of the city of Rafah on the southern edge of the Gaza Strip, residents say, in what they fear is a part of a plan to herd the population into confinement in a giant camp on the barren ground.
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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre wrapped up their campaigns under the shadow of an attack in which 11 people died after a man drove through a crowd in Vancouver. On today's Reuters World News podcast, Canada Bureau Chief Caroline Stauffer weighs in on US President Donald Trump's impact and what's at stake in today's election.
- In Bondi Junction, early voters leaving a pre-poll center said they had Trump and the global economy on their mind. Australia holds a national election on Saturday, and the US president's stop-start tariffs and volatile diplomacy is bolstering the prospects of the ruling Labor Party.
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- Trump urged Russia to stop its attacks in Ukraine and suggested Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was ready to give up Crimea as the price of a peace deal with Russia.
- Republicans in the US Congress turn in earnest this week to their biggest challenge of Trump's presidency: trying to bridge internal divisions over proposed cuts to Medicaid and popular green energy initiatives to pay for a landmark tax-cut bill.
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India said it had responded to 'unprovoked' small arms firing from Pakistan along the de facto border for the fourth consecutive night, as it deepens its search for militants in the region following last week's deadly attack on tourists in Kashmir.
- The world's Catholic cardinals met for the first time after the funeral of Pope Francis to discuss a possible date to enter a secret conclave and elect the next leader of the global Church.
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Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing. REUTERS/Florence Lo/File Photo |
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Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng, a longtime confidant of Xi Jinping who serves as Xi's chief lieutenant overseeing the world's second-largest economy, is stepping into the spotlight amid Trump's tariffs.
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Risks are high the global economy will slip into a recession this year, according to a majority of economists in a Reuters poll, with scores of them saying Trump's tariffs have damaged business sentiment.
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A bruising rollercoaster ride for markets in the first 100 days of the Trump administration has seen some investors move away from American assets, but it remains to be seen whether policies have caused a sustained shift away from the US.
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The euro has unexpectedly surged since Trump's big tariffs announcement, which is likely to shave at least a couple of percentage points off European company earnings, adding to the impact of the levies themselves.
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The US aviation industry, reeling from Trump's trade war and a slump in travel demand, is lobbying the White House for exemptions from tariffs. Meanwhile, budget-conscious Americans appear to be hesitant about discretionary spending, particularly on travel. Industry experts say people are looking to spend less on vacation or even stay at home altogether.
- US corporations have been ramping up their security spending, but following the murder of UnitedHealth executive Brian Thompson that expenditure is set to rise further in 2025 as more companies see heightened threats to their top brass.
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Musk lays groundwork for big donor role in midterm elections as time with DOGE ends |
Elon Musk on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. REUTERS/Kent Nishimura/File Photo |
As billionaire Elon Musk scales back work for the US President, he’s laying the groundwork for a major role as a Republican political megadonor in next year’s midterm elections, according to four people with direct knowledge of the matter.
After announcing last week that his cost-cutting role at the White House was mainly done, Musk views his money and his social media platform X as potentially more powerful political tools than his time inside the government, when he became the face of Trump’s shake up of the federal bureaucracy, one of the people said. |
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A mountaineer holds on to the rope during an ice climbing session at Everest base camp, Nepal April 15, 2025. REUTERS/Purnima Shrestha |
Nepal will issue Everest permits only to climbers with experience of scaling at least one of the Himalayan nation's 22,965 ft peaks, according to the draft of a new law aimed at reducing overcrowding and improving safety. |
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