Russia releases U.S. Navy veteran into Poland, says former Governor Richardson

By Simon Lewis and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Russia on Thursday released a U.S. citizen who had crossed into its Kaliningrad exclave in the first weeks of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine last February, former U.S. diplomat Bill Richardson, who met the man at the border in Poland, said in a statement. U.S. Navy veteran Taylor …

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Special counsel named to probe Biden’s handling of documents

By Sarah N. Lynch and Jarrett Renshaw WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday announced the appointment of a special counsel to investigate President Joe Biden’s handling of sensitive government documents – an inquiry that could cast a shadow over the Democrat’s expected run for re-election in 2024. The top U.S. law enforcement …

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Italy’s Meloni renews criticism of euro zone bailout fund

ROME (Reuters) -Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Thursday renewed her criticism of the euro zone bailout fund, a 500-billion-euro ($541.55 billion) facility held back by Rome’s reluctance to ratify its recently-adopted reform. Meloni aired her concerns about the so-called European Stability Mechanism (ESM) in a meeting in Rome with the fund’s top managers, Director …

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Germany says its borrowing rose in 2022 due to pandemic, Ukraine war

BERLIN (Reuters) – The German government’s net borrowing rose to 115.4 billion euros ($124.5 billion) in 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, but was lower than originally expected, the country’s finance ministry said on Thursday. Last year, government borrowing was at its third-highest level in the history of Germany, following …

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Biden slams House Republicans’ plans on taxes, says they will make inflation worse

By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Biden criticized House Republicans who have taken control of Congress for backing tax measures that he said would benefit the wealthy at the expense of middle class taxpayers, and make inflation worse. The Republican-controlled House passed a bill Monday night that would slash tens of billions of funding …

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Los datos de inflación de los últimos 3 meses son un “paso en la buena dirección”: Barkin de la Fed

RICHMOND, EEUU, 12 ene (Reuters) – Los recientes datos de inflación han avanzado en la “dirección correcta” y permiten a la Reserva Federal “dirigir más deliberadamente” su batalla para reducir el ritmo de alza de los precios, declaró el jueves el presidente de la Reserva Federal de Richmond, Tom Barkin. “Simplemente tiene sentido dirigir más …

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