By Ana Mano and Roberto Samora
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Torrential rainfall in Brazil's second-largest soybean and sixth-largest corn state is disrupting the final stages of the harvest, according to a meteorologist's bulletin on Thursday, a grains broker and an analyst.
By April 25, 82% of Rio Grande do Sul's corn area and 66% of the soybean area had been harvested, according to regional crop agency Emater, which did not have an immediate... (continue reading...)
(Reuters) - Universal Music Group on Thursday posted first-quarter adjusted core profit that beat expectations, helped by the success of its star Taylor Swift.
The world's biggest music label posted adjusted core earnings (EBITDA) of 591 million euros ($632.6 million), up 15.9% year-on-year and comfortably above the 567 million expected by analysts in a Visible Alpha consensus shared by the company.
($1 = 0.9343 euros)
... (continue reading...)By Steve Holland
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Under mounting political pressure, U.S. President Joe Biden broke his silence on campus unrest over the war in Gaza on Thursday, saying Americans have the right to demonstrate but not to unleash violence.
"There is a right to protest, but not a right to cause chaos," Biden said in remarks at the White House.
With television images of campus unrest that have swept the country in recent... (continue reading...)
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Thursday that Western claims that it was cooperating militarily with North Korea were inaccurate and said its relationship with Pyongyang was neither directed against third countries nor threatening to the security of the region.
Reuters on April 25 reported from Washington that China was providing moorage for a U.S.-sanctioned Russian cargo ship implicated in North Korean arms transfers to Russia, according to... (continue reading...)
WARSAW (Reuters) -Polish President Andrzej Duda has submitted to parliament a draft bill aimed at increasing defence readiness, citing new forms of threat from Russia, the National Security Bureau (BBN) said on Thursday.
Under the proposal, the general and operational military commands would be combined into a joint body in the NATO and European Union member state.
The draft also envisages new permanent defence plans ensuring the army's... (continue reading...)
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