By Sarah N. Lynch
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senior U.S. officials met with Sikh advocates on Thursday to discuss threats facing Sikhs in the United States, including a foiled murder plot against a prominent activist last year, several attendees told Reuters.
The meeting with senior White House and U.S. intelligence officials came two days before President Joe Biden is to meet India Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The United... (continue reading...)
By Uditha Jayasinghe and Sudipto Ganguly
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Millions of Sri Lankans cast their votes on Saturday to select a new president who will face the task of cementing the South Asian country's fragile economic recovery following its worst financial crisis in decades.
More than 17 million of Sri Lanka's 22 million people are eligible to vote at the presidential election that has shaped up to be a close contest between incumbent... (continue reading...)
By Michelle Nichols
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A top United Nations official on Friday urged all countries with influence over Israel and Lebanese militant group Hezbollah "to leverage it now" to avoid an escalation of Middle East violence that she warned could dwarf the devastation seen so far.
U.N. political affairs chief Rosemary DiCarlo briefed the Security Council after attacks in which Hezbollah's pagers and walkie-talkies... (continue reading...)
(Reuters) - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has approved listing and trading of options for asset manager BlackRock's spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund.
(This story has been corrected to say that the SEC has approved BlackRock's spot bitcoin ETF options listing, and to add the dropped words 'listing and trading of options,' in the headline, and in paragraph 1 respectively)
(Reporting by Pritam Biswas in... (continue reading...)
CAIRO (Reuters) - Lebanon's Iran-aligned Hezbollah group confirmed in the early hours of Saturday that its top military commander Ibrahim Aqil was killed, calling him "one of its top leaders", without providing further details on his killing.
The Israeli military and a security source in Lebanon said Ibrahim Aqil was killed in an Israeli strike on Beirut earlier on Friday.
(Reporting by Jaidaa Taha and Maya Gebeily; editing by Diane Craft)
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