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Galleon hedge fund founder Raj Rajaratnam departs Manhattan Federal Court in New York October 13, 2011..

Ex-correctional official sent to US prison for payments from Galleon's Rajaratnam

Nate Raymond |Updated 11 minutes ago |2 min read

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 ...

Gay couple, Suleman, 30, an entrepreneur, and Kwame, 30, a student, are photographed as they speak with Reuters about the passage of Ghana's anti-LGBT bill, in Accra, Ghana March 17, 2024.

Ghana's top court postpones hearing on challenge to anti-LGBTQ bill

Reuters |Updated 21 minutes ago |2 min read

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 ...

Campaign signs for Republican presidential candidates former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley and former U.S. President Donald Trump stand along an intersection in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, U.S., February 22, 2024.

Analysis-Indiana vote shows Trump still struggling with Republican holdouts

James Oliphant |Updated 21 minutes ago |3 min read

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 ...

PSAC strikers on Heron Rd. in Ottawa on April 21, 2023.

Federal unions fighting back against three-day in-office mandate for public servants

Catherine Morrison |Updated 25 minutes ago |3 min read Premium content

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 ...

Asylum-seeking migrants from India wait by the border wall while waiting to be picked up by the U.S. Border Patrol after crossing the border from Mexico into the U.S. in Jacumba Hot Springs, California, U.S. April 27, 2024.

Biden set to tighten asylum access at U.S.-Mexico border - sources

Reuters |Updated just now |1 min read

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 ...

Ruling Social Democratic Union of Macedonia's presidential candidate and North Macedonia's President Stevo Pendarovski votes during the parliamentary elections and the second round of the presidential elections in Skopje, North Macedonia May 8, 2024.

North Macedonia’s opposition holds strong lead in parliamentary election

Reuters |Updated 51 minutes ago |1 min read

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 ...

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Blast in north Afghanistan kills three Taliban security personnel

Mohammad Yunus Yawar |Updated 1 hour ago |2 min read

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 ...

Flags of Ukraine fly in front of the EU Parliament building on the first anniversary of the Russian invasion, in Brussels, Belgium February 24, 2023.

EU envoys agree to use profits from frozen Russian assets for Ukraine

Julia Payne |Updated 1 hour ago |3 min read

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 ...

Former President Donald Trump arrives to speak to members of the media as he arrives at Manhattan criminal court, in New York City, U.S., May 7, 2024. Mary Altaffer/Pool via

US FEC gives Trump 45 more days to file personal financial disclosures

Reuters |Updated 1 minutes ago |1 min read

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 ...

Britain's Prince Harry arrives to attend the Invictus Games Foundation 10th Anniversary Service of Thanksgiving at St Paul’s Cathedral, in London, Britain, May 8, 2024.

Four UK editors named in Prince Harry's phone-hacking lawsuit against Daily Mail

Michael Holden, Sam Tobin |Updated 1 hour ago |3 min read

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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