By Thomas Ferraro WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The biggest overhaul of U.S. immigration laws in a generation won bipartisan approval from a powerful U.S. Senate committee last week, but there is a strong chance that Republicans in the House of Representatives will end up killing it. The problem: House Republicans are far from convinced by arguments [...]
ABIDJAN (Reuters) – An al Qaeda-linked group that carried out the raid on the In Amenas gas plant in Algeria in January has claimed to have participated in Thursday’s attacks in Niger. A statement posted on the internet on Friday was signed by Khalid Abu al-Abbas, better known as Mokhtar Belmokhtar, a leading figure in [...]
By Chrystia Freeland NEW YORK (Reuters) – We are living in the age of the technocrats. In business, Big Data, and the Big Brains who can parse it, rule. In government, the technocrats are on top, too. From Washington to Frankfurt to Rome, technocrats have stepped in where politicians feared to tread, rescuing economies, or [...]
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Manufacturing slowed for a second straight month in May as weak overseas demand and government belt-tightening at home led to the sector’s most sluggish rate of growth since October, a survey showed on Thursday. Financial data firm Markit said its "flash," or preliminary, U.S. Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index fell to a [...]
By Lucia Mutikani WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell last week, pointing to resilience in the labor market despite belt-tightening by Washington. The improving employment picture is helping to prop up housing, with rising home prices keeping domestic consumption supported, limiting the drag from tighter fiscal policy [...]
By Abdoulaye Massalatchi NIAMEY (Reuters) – Suicide bombers struck a military barracks and a mine run by French nuclear group Areva in Niger on Thursday, killing and wounding several people in separate attacks that showed the fight against Islamist militants was spreading across West Africa. Military sources said several soldiers were killed in a gun [...]
By Andrei Khalip LISBON (Reuters) – President Anibal Cavaco Silva thanked Portugal’s patron saint for a long-delayed approval of Lisbon’s bailout review last week, but the head of state could claim a share of the credit for himself. The conservative president’s role has grown far beyond his figurehead status in the past few weeks. With [...]
By Marina Lopes MAPUTO (Reuters) – Human Rights Watch accused Mozambique’s government and foreign mining companies on Thursday of "serious shortcomings" in resettling communities to make way for coal mines, leaving thousands without proper homes, food or sources of income. In a report on the social impact of a mining boom in the war-scarred southern [...]
By Steve Scherer ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s new government, already sinking in opinion polls and riven by internal disputes, on Wednesday lays out its plans to address one of the main causes of public anger – soaring unemployment among young people. But the left-right coalition’s room for maneuver even to address this pressing problem is [...]
ROME (Reuters) – Millions of Italians cannot afford to heat their homes properly or eat meat as their country is racked by recession and soaring unemployment, said a report which found the number of people considered seriously deprived had doubled in the past two years. The findings from national statistics institute ISTAT underline the scale [...]
