BUDAPEST, March 24 (Reuters) – The winner of Hungary’s April 12 parliamentary election will have to take steps to rein in social spending to shore up state finances amid risks to an economic recovery from the global energy price shock, S&P Global said. Hungary’s budget deficit reached nearly 40% of the full-year target in the …
BEIJING, March 24 (Reuters) – China has lodged solemn representations with the Japanese after what it described as a “forceful break-in” at its embassy in Tokyo, the Chinese foreign ministry said on Tuesday. An individual who claimed to be an active-duty officer of the Japan Self-Defense Forces scaled the wall and forcibly entered the Chinese …
March 23 (Reuters) – The Trump administration is quietly weighing Iran’s parliament speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, as a potential partner, and even a future leader, Politico reported on Monday, citing two administration officials. Ghalibaf is seen by at least some in the White House as a workable partner who could lead Iran and negotiate with …
By Kanishka Singh and Ismail Shakil WASHINGTON, March 23 (Reuters) – The U.S. Defense Department said on Monday it was adopting new restrictions on journalists, after a court blocked a previous press access policy, and would close an indoor workspace in favor of an area on grounds outside the main Pentagon building. Press freedom advocates …
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A South Florida judge on Monday cleared three more police officers of wrongdoing in the shooting death of a UPS driver who had been taken hostage during a 2019 robbery. Broward Circuit Judge Ernest Kollra ruled that Miami-Dade police officers Richard Santiesteban, Leslie Lee and Rodolfo Mirabal — who had …
SAO PAULO, March 23 (Reuters) – Brazil’s hospitalized former President Jair Bolsonaro has been discharged from the intensive care unit, local media reported on Monday, citing his doctor. Bolsonaro, 71, had been in intensive care in a Brasilia hospital since March 13 due to bronchopneumonia, a lung infection that spreads from the airways into the …
The U.S. Defense Department will remove media offices from the Pentagon after a federal judge sided with The New York Times in a lawsuit challenging limits on reporters’ access to the building, a department official announced Monday. An area of the Pentagon known as “Correspondents’ Corridor” that reporters have used for decades to cover the …
March 24 (Reuters) – Airstrikes targeting a site belonging to Iraq’s Shi’ite Popular Mobilization Forces in the western province of Anbar killed at least 15 fighters, including the PMF’s Anbar operations commander, and wounded 30 others, security and health sources told Reuters early on Tuesday. The PMF confirmed in a statement the death of its …
March 24 (Reuters) – A 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck near the Pacific island nation of Tonga on Tuesday, according to the United States Geological Survey, triggering sirens in the capital though no tsunami was expected. There were no immediate reports of any damage or casualties. Footage from the Tonga Broadcasting Commission showed people gathered on …
KYIV, March 24 (Reuters) – Russia launched drones and missiles overnight on Tuesday at Ukraine, killing at least three people, damaging houses and triggering fires, Ukrainian officials said. The attack came as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned on Monday of an imminent, mass Russian attack on the country, citing Ukrainian intelligence. One person was killed and …