By Max Hunder
KHARKIV REGION, Ukraine (Reuters) - Peeking out from under a hat and with his face covered, the Russian fighting for Kyiv described unrelenting battles in the northeastern Ukrainian region of Kharkiv where Moscow's forces opened a new front last week.
"The situation is difficult, the intensity is very high, there is fighting almost every ten minutes," said the mortarman, who identified himself only by his callsign, Winnie.
... (continue reading...)WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell last week, pointing to underlying strength in the labor market.
Initial claims for state unemployment benefits dropped 10,000 to a seasonally adjusted 222,000 for the week ended May 11, the Labor Department said on Thursday. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast 220,000 claims in the latest week.
The decline reversed a portion of the jump... (continue reading...)
LONDON (Reuters) - A transgender politician from Russia said on Thursday that he had reverted to his gender assigned at birth, in an unusual message amid a crackdown on LGBTQ rights in the country.
Roman Alyoshin, who previously went by the name Yulia Alyoshina and last year ran for governor of a Siberian region, said he had come to the decision during Orthodox Lent after a period of "spiritual anguish".
"I went through old albums of my... (continue reading...)
(Reuters) - A subset of key and highly sensitive U.S. inflation data was inadvertently published about 30 minutes ahead of its scheduled release on Wednesday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said, and a full investigation to the latest data-management misstep at the agency is underway.
"In advance of today's (Consumer Price Index) and Real Earnings releases, BLS inadvertently loaded a subset of files to the website approximately 30 minutes prior to the... (continue reading...)
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - A fire broke out at a Novo Nordisk construction site in the Danish city of Kalundborg on Thursday, TV2 News reported, citing local police.
A Novo Nordisk spokesperson confirmed there was a fire but declined to comment further.
It was not immediately clear what the rapidly expanding maker of weight-loss drug Wegovy was building at the site.
(Reporting by Louise Rasmussen and Terje... (continue reading...)
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