RAFAH, Gaza Strip/ARISH, Egypt (Reuters) - Truck drivers stuck at Egypt's border with Gaza say the food they are taking to the Palestinian enclave could spoil as they wait, exacerbating a hunger crisis among Gazans as war rages on.
Israeli forces seized control of the Rafah border crossing this week and are preparing for a widely expected assault on the city next to the frontier where about 1 million people uprooted by the war have been sheltering.
... (continue reading...)OTTAWA (Reuters) - The Canadian government is moving to push back the start of a possible strike by railway workers at Canadian National Railway (CN) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC), an official said on Friday.
Workers represented by the Teamsters union last week voted overwhelmingly to strike as early as May 22. Railways are critical to Canada's economy, due to its vast geography and exports of grain, potash and coal.
Late on... (continue reading...)
VALLETTA (Reuters) - Malta deputy prime minister Chris Fearne resigned on Friday amid a corruption scandal over a 2015 government concession for the management of three state hospitals granted to a previously unknown healthcare group.
Fearne told Labour Prime Minister Robert Abela that he was resigning in the national interest while denying wrondoing. He also asked Abela to drop plans to propose him as the Maltese member of the next European... (continue reading...)
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The lower house of Russia's parliament voted on Friday to approve the nomination of Mikhail Mishustin to return as prime minister, a position he has held since 2020.
Russia's government resigned automatically after President Vladimir Putin's inauguration on May 7 following his re-election, and he nominated Mishustin, 58, to continue leading the cabinet.
(Reporting by Reuters; editing by Mark Heinrich)
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is expected on Monday to issue a final rule to address the crunch in U.S. electricity transmission as the grid struggles to connect enormous amounts of clean power while demand surges.
The long-awaited rule will attempt to ensure that a dozen fragmented U.S. regions adopt long-term plans to bring more transmission online. It will seek to coordinate... (continue reading...)
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