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Ex-correctional official sent to US prison for payments from Galleon's Rajaratnam
By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) - A former correctional counselor at a federal prison in Massachusetts was sentenced on Wednesday to two years in prison for corruptly accepting tens of thousands of dollars from a wealthy inmate identified by a ...
Ghana's top court postpones hearing on challenge to anti-LGBTQ bill
ACCRA (Reuters) - Ghana's Supreme Court said on Wednesday that lawyers battling over the legality of one of Africa's most restrictive anti-LGBTQ bill must amend their motions due to insulting language in their submissions and then postponed the ...
Analysis-Indiana vote shows Trump still struggling with Republican holdouts
By James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As Donald Trump stewed in a Manhattan courtroom during his hush money trial, voters hundreds of miles away in Indiana showed the Republican presidential candidate he still has work to do to win over some ...
Federal unions fighting back against three-day in-office mandate for public servants
Multiple unions have come together to express their “vehement opposition” to the federal government’s decision to require its employees to work in-office three days a week, sending open letters to federal officials and planning a joint press ...
Biden set to tighten asylum access at U.S.-Mexico border - sources
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration is set to tighten access to asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border via a new regulation that could be issued at soon as Thursday, three sources familiar with the matter said, in a move aimed at reducing ...
North Macedonia’s opposition holds strong lead in parliamentary election
SKOPJE (Reuters) - North Macedonia's right-wing opposition party VMRO-DPMNE held a strong lead in Wednesday's parliamentary elections, with 34% of votes after 23% of votes counted, election commission results showed. The ruling Social Democrats ...
Blast in north Afghanistan kills three Taliban security personnel
By Mohammad Yunus Yawar KABUL (Reuters) -Three Taliban security personnel were killed when a motorcycle carrying an explosive device blew up near a military vehicle in northern Afghanistan being used in opium poppy eradication operations, an interior ...
EU envoys agree to use profits from frozen Russian assets for Ukraine
By Julia Payne BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Ambassadors from European Union countries agreed on Wednesday to use windfall profits from Russian central bank assets frozen in the EU for Ukraine's defence, the Belgian government said. Ministers still need ...
US FEC gives Trump 45 more days to file personal financial disclosures
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Election Commission on Wednesday granted Republican former President Donald Trump a 45-day extension to file personal financial disclosures, it said in a letter to Trump's lawyer that was released to the ...
Four UK editors named in Prince Harry's phone-hacking lawsuit against Daily Mail
By Sam Tobin and Michael Holden LONDON(Reuters) - Four current British newspaper editors and a string of other senior press figures have been named in a privacy lawsuit brought by Prince Harry and other public figures against the publisher of the ...
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