Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks at the Liberal Party election night headquarters in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada April 29, 2025. REUTERS/Blair Gable |
- Electricity had been restored to most of Spain and Portugal after huge nationwide blackouts, although authorities were still trying to find out what caused the sudden outage. In Spain, schools and offices reopened, public transport restarted after long delays, traffic gridlock eased and many hospitals had recovered power.
- The Kremlin said that Ukraine had not responded to many offers by Russian President Vladimir Putin to start direct peace negotiations, and that it was unclear whether it would join a three-day ceasefire he has announced for next month.
- Iran has proposed meeting the European parties to a 2015 nuclear deal possibly in Rome this Friday if talks resume with the US, four diplomats said, cautioning that there has yet to be a response from the Europeans to the idea.
- Pakistan is preparing international legal action over India's suspension of a key river water-sharing treaty, a government minister told Reuters, as tensions intensify between the neighbors following an attack on tourists in India-administered Kashmir.
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Port of Baltimore, Maryland, April 2, 2025. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein |
- Trump's administration will move to reduce the impact of his automotive tariffs by alleviating some duties imposed on foreign parts in domestically manufactured cars and keeping tariffs on cars made abroad from piling on top of other ones, officials said. For more, watch our daily rundown on financial markets.
- The White House is negotiating with trading partners while US-China commerce seizes up. In this episode of The Big View podcast, Professor Simon Evenett of IMD Business School explains how the tense discussions might play out, and where they will leave the global trade system.
- HSBC warned that loan demand and credit quality could suffer from the broader fallout of Trump's global trade war, signaling tougher times for trade-focused banks even as the lender's first quarter profit beat forecasts.
- BP reported a deeper-than-expected 48% drop in net profit to $1.4 billion on weaker refining and gas trading and announced the departure of its strategy chief as it tries to shore up investor confidence.
- The first 27 satellites for Amazon's Kuiper broadband internet constellation were launched into space from Florida, kicking off the long-delayed deployment of an internet-from-space network that will rival SpaceX's Starlink.
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New-look populist Reform party could reshape the UK political landscape |
Honorary President of the Reform UK party Nigel Farage at a Reform UK press conference in Dover, May, 28, 2024. REUTERS/Chris J. Ratcliffe |
From a former police station in a small English town, a handful of right-wing campaigners used little more than a WhatsApp group to mount a challenge to the century-long dominance of Britain's big two parties at last year's election. The ramshackle operation secured the populist Reform UK party the third-biggest vote share and five parliamentary seats. It also convinced its leader, Brexit veteran Nigel Farage, he had to professionalise the party, and fast. These are the main battlegrounds to watch in the English local elections. |
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Elizabetta Campagna, 4, holds a balloon as people attend the funeral Mass of the pontiff in St. Peter's Square, April 26, 2025. REUTERS/Hannah McKay |
Pope Francis' funeral brought world leaders, monarchs, and hundreds of thousands of people to Rome to bid him farewell in a ceremony of breathtaking spectacle that offered age-old Catholic funeral rites and touching moments of personal grief. Sixteen Reuters photographers, some inside St. Peter's Basilica, others perched on podiums or deep within the crowd, shot the key moments. |
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