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By Rupam Jain and Shivam Patel NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s opposition Congress party suffered a major blow on Friday when parliament disqualified its leader Rahul Gandhi, a day after a court convicted him for comments that many Indians deemed insulting to the prime minister. Gandhi “stands disqualified from the membership of Lok Sabha from the date of his conviction”, parliament said in a notice, referring to the lower house […]

By Amruta Khandekar and Ankika Biswas (Reuters) – U.S. stock index futures slipped into red on Friday as lingering concerns over the banking sector’s health steered investors away from financial stocks despite reassurances from authorities. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen’s reassurances that measures will be taken to keep Americans’ deposits safe amid turmoil in the banking sector, sparked by the collapse of two U.S regional banks, had driven Wall Street’s main […]

By Ashitha Shivaprasad (Reuters) – The El Nino weather pattern could boost yields in the second half of the year for U.S. cotton farmers, who were forced to abandon a big chunk of their cropland in 2022 after one of the worst droughts in years. While El Nino typically brings dry weather to Asia, with impacts already being felt in Australia, Indonesia and India, it is known for wet weather […]

By Elizabeth Pineau and Dominique Vidalon PARIS (Reuters) -President Emmanuel Macron was under pressure on Friday to find a way out of a crisis that has seen some of France’s worst street violence in years over a pension bill he has pushed through parliament without a vote. In Paris and many cities across the country, clean-up crews sifted through broken glass, charred garbage cans and shattered bus stops after violent […]

By Nathan Layne LACONIA, New Hampshire (Reuters) – Longtime Donald Trump supporter Doug Lambert agrees with the former president that the potential criminal charges he faces in New York are being cooked up by his enemies on the left. But, Lambert worries about the “messiness” of a Trump presidential candidacy and is leaning towards voting for someone else. Like other Republicans in New Hampshire, which traditionally holds the second nominating […]

By Anna Mehler Paperny and Ted Hesson TORONTO (Reuters) – Canada and the United States have reached a deal to return asylum seekers who cross the border via unofficial crossings, Canadian and U.S. officials told Reuters on Thursday, marking a major development at a time of record irregular crossings into Canada. WHAT IS IN THE DEAL? The deal will allow either country to return asylum seekers who cross the border […]

A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan After a week of sweeping interest rate rises into a simmering bank crisis, market anxiety about the state of the financial system persists as the end of the first quarter comes into view. Just how much economic damage the banking fright on both sides of Atlantic will wreak is now a critical question for policymakers, who […]

JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu violated the law by saying he would get personally involved in a judicial overhaul plan, the attorney-general said on Friday. In the face of intensifying protests against the proposed changes, Netanyahu said on Thursday he was putting aside all other considerations and would do “anything it takes” to reach a solution. Netanyahu, who is on trial on corruption charges which he denies, said […]

SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Chinese battery giant CATL plans to start this year the mass production and delivery of batteries based on a new materials technology, M3P, which will perform better and cost less than nickel and cobalt-based ones, its chairman said. M3P batteries will have greater energy density and perform better than lithium-ion phosphate batteries, a market CATL dominates. They will also be cheaper than nickel and cobalt-based batteries, Zeng Yuqun […]