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By Joan Faus and Belén Carreño BARCELONA/MADRID (Reuters) – A Catalan pro-independence party could hold the key to unlocking Spain’s political gridlock after a national election ended in a hung parliament. The centre-right People’s Party (PP) and the far-right Vox won the most parliamentary seats in Sunday’s ballot with a combined 169 – short of the 176 seats needed for a majority despite poll predictions the bloc was on course […]

AMMAN (Reuters) – The Jordanian army said on Monday it had shot down a drone carrying drugs from Syria into its northern frontier region in the third such incident in recent weeks. The plane, which was carrying two kilos of‮ ‬crystal methamphetamine, was intercepted and downed on Jordan’s side of the border, it said. It comes a day after army and security chiefs from Jordan and Syria met to discuss […]

By Supantha Mukherjee and Martin Coulter STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Elon Musk and Twitter Chief Executive Officer Linda Yaccarino unveiled a logo for the social media platform on Monday that featured a white X on a black background as a replacement for the familiar blue bird symbol. “X is here! Let’s do this,” tweeted Yaccarino, who also posted a picture of the logo projected onto the company’s offices in San Francisco. Both […]

By Mrinmay Dey and Michelle Conlin (Reuters) -Twitter Inc owner Elon Musk on Sunday signaled he would do more to take the social media company in a new direction with a rebranding that will replace its well-known blue bird logo with an X after acknowledging advertisers have been slow to return. The change, which was not evident on the website on Sunday evening, followed Musk’s recent admission that advertising revenue […]

KYIV (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that the extension of a European Union ban on Ukrainian grain imports in September would be “unacceptable”. Five central European countries want the EU ban extended at least until the end of the year. The ban is set to expire on Sept. 15. “Our position is clear: blocking (Ukrainian) exports by land after September 15, when the relevant restrictions expire, is […]

By Safiyah Riddle (Reuters) – U.S. business activity slowed to a five-month low in July, dragged down by decelerating service-sector growth, closely watched survey data on Monday showed, but falling input prices and slowed hiring indicate the Federal Reserve could be making progress on important fronts in its bid to reduce inflation. S&P Global said its flash U.S. Composite PMI index, which tracks manufacturing and service sectors, fell to a […]

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden would veto Republican-backed defense, health and agriculture spending bills if he were presented with them, the White House said on Monday, alleging House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy was backing away from spending levels agreed to in a debt-limit deal. McCarthy and House Republicans were pushing cuts the Biden administration could not accept, the White House said in a statement […]

DUBAI/COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Iraq condemned the burning of a copy of the Koran in front of its embassy in Denmark on Monday and said Danish staff at the embassy in Baghdad had left the country after protests there, while Copenhagen said it had “not withdrawn from Iraq”. Demonstrations have raged across Iran and Iraq after Denmark and Sweden allowed the burning of the Koran under rules protecting free speech. Protesters in […]

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden would veto Republican-backed defense, health and agriculture spending bills if he were presented with them, the White House said on Monday, alleging House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy was backing away from spending levels agreed to in a debt-limit deal. McCarthy and House Republicans were pushing cuts the Biden administration could not accept, the White House said in a statement […]