By Cassandra Garrison and Raul Cortes MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico will make an immediate water delivery to farmers in Texas, President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Friday, to help make up its shortfall under a treaty that has strained U.S. relations and prompted tariff threats by President Donald Trump. Mexico is looking for alternatives to comply …
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By Jack Queen (Reuters) -Luigi Mangione’s lawyers on Friday asked a judge to prevent the U.S. government from seeking the death penalty in a case accusing him of shooting and killing the CEO of UnitedHealth Group’s insurance division, in New York last year. Mangione’s lawyers said in a filing in New York federal court that …
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By Noor Zainab Hussain and Tatiana Bautzer (Reuters) -Morgan Stanley beat first-quarter profit estimates on Friday, helped by record equity trading and strong wealth management results, while its CEO expressed more optimism about dealmaking than his counterparts. The investment bank reported record equity trading revenue, with a 45% jump from a year earlier, reflecting increases …
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By Scott Murdoch (Reuters) -A senior JPMorgan Asset Management investment strategist said he has held back on some of his public comments on U.S. tariffs due to concerns about the impact his full opinions would have on his colleagues and on the Wall Street bank. In a webinar titled “The 2025 Tariff Shock,” Michael Cembalest, …
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By Alexandra Valencia QUITO (Reuters) – Ecuadoreans will head to the polls on Sunday to cast ballots in what is expected to be an extremely tight race for president, with both incumbent Daniel Noboa and his leftist rival Luisa Gonzalez pledging to tackle drug gangs and improve the struggling economy. Noboa, a 37-year-old business heir, …
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By Yousef Saba ABU DHABI (Reuters) – U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said on Friday that the United States could stop Iran’s oil exports as part of President Donald Trump’s plan to pressure Tehran over its nuclear programme. The January return to the White House of Trump, who in his first term withdrew the U.S. …
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By Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Greenland appointed its first Arctic ambassador on Friday, pledging to promote sustainable economic development for indigenous people and advance green energy transitions for polar communities as it prepares to chair the Arctic Council. The two-year chairmanship comes at a time when U.S. President Donald Trump is attempting to assert …
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By Akash Sriram (Reuters) -U.S. federal budget cuts have started to have some early impact on space startups after funding for such companies dropped 12.5% in the first quarter, according to investment firm Seraphim Space. Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency and the Trump administration have been delaying or cancelling contracts across its agencies to …
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By Ammu Kannampilly and Nuzulack Dausen NAIROBI/DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) – Tanzanian opposition leader Tundu Lissu survived being shot 16 times in 2017 and has been arrested on multiple occasions, but now faces an even more grave challenge after being charged with treason, a capital offence, following his calls for electoral reform. An outspoken critic …
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(This April 1 story has been refiled to fix the spelling of Kilmar Abrego Garcia and reference to MS-13 in the bullet points) By Susan Heavey and Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration erroneously deported a Salvadoran man as part of three high-profile deportation flights to El Salvador last month, after a judge’s …
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