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More than 130,000 Turks from quake zone to vote outside home towns -election board
ANKARA (Reuters) - At least 133,000 people affected by February's devastating earthquakes in southern Turkey will vote outside their home towns, the head of the country's High Election Board (YSK) sai...
Apr 17, 2023
UPS, Teamsters to open high-stakes US labor talks
By Lisa Baertlein LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - United Parcel Service and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters union will on Monday start U.S. private sector labor contract talks covering roughly 340,...
Apr 17, 2023
Ukraine says Black Sea grain deal risks being shut down
By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) -Kyiv said on Monday a U.N.-brokered initiative allowing the safe Black Sea export of Ukrainian grain was in danger of "shutdown" after Russia blocked inspections of p...
Apr 17, 2023
Chinese man charged with blasphemy in Pakistan after angry crowds gather – police
By Jibran Ahmad PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A Chinese worker was charged with blasphemy in northern Pakistan after angry workers surrounded his office accusing him of insulting the Prophet Mohammad...
Apr 17, 2023
Exclusive-G7 coalition to keep Russian oil price cap at $60 per barrel -source
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Group of Seven (G7) coalition will keep a $60 per barrel price cap on seaborne Russian oil, a coalition official said, despite rising global crude prices an...
Apr 17, 2023
EU lawmakers call for political attention to powerful AI
(Reuters) - Legislators from the European Parliament said on Monday that political attention needed to be focused on powerful artificial intelligence (AI), agreeing with an open letter signed by acade...
Apr 17, 2023
Nigerian aviation workers block roads in strike over pay, conditions
By Seun Sanni LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigerian aviation employees on Monday blocked roads to the domestic terminal of Lagos airport, slowing traffic and threatening to delay flights as they began a two-day ...
Apr 17, 2023
Peoria crews respond to fire on N. Buckeye
PEORIA, Ill. — Fire crews responded to a residential fire around 4:45 a.m. Monday on N. Buckeye Drive, near W. Red Cedar Lane in Edwards. Fire Battalion Chief Steve Rada said crews found fire ou...
Apr 17, 2023
UK parliament’s standards commissioner investigating PM Sunak
LONDON (Reuters) -The British parliament's Commissioner for Standards opened an investigation into Prime Minister Rishi Sunak earlier this month, according to a list of open inquiries posted on its we...
Apr 17, 2023
G7 will stand up to ‘any coercion’ over Taiwan Strait – senior US official
By Humeyra Pamuk and Sakura Murakami TOKYO (Reuters) - Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven nations agree on the need to stand up to any Chinese "coercion" or efforts to exert control in the Taiw...
Apr 17, 2023
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