Last UK evacuation flights out of Sudan to leave Wednesday -minister

LONDON (Reuters) – British nationals who want to leave Sudan should go to Port Sudan where final evacuation flights will depart on Wednesday, the British government said. Foreign minister James Cleverly urged Britons to continue to follow the government’s travel advice for Sudan, where military factions are in their third week of fighting each other. …

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White House says Toyota ‘fully committed’ to electrifying auto fleet

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -White House senior adviser John Podesta said Toyota Motor Corp “had been the laggard” on producing electric vehicles but is now “fully committed” after he met recently with senior company officials at the Japanese automaker. “I think they’re going to stick with plug-in hybrids for a while, maybe longer than …

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Biden supports Manchin’s permitting bill, adviser Podesta says

By Valerie Volcovici, Timothy Gardner and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The White House will support Senator Joe Manchin’s bill introduced on Tuesday to speed energy project permits, because it would help clean power companies use vast incentives in President Joe Biden’s climate law, adviser John Podesta said. Despite recent calls by Manchin, a conservative West …

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Biden will talk budget but won’t negotiate debt ceiling in Congress meeting

By Andrea Shalal and Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden will not negotiate over the debt ceiling during his meeting with four top congressional leaders on May 9, but he will discuss starting “a separate budget process” to talk about spending priorities, the White House said on Tuesday. Biden on Monday summoned the four …

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Casa Blanca: Biden hablará del presupuesto pero no negociará techo de deuda en reunión

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – El presidente de Estados Unidos, Joe Biden, no negociará sobre el techo de la deuda durante su reunión con cuatro de los principales líderes del Congreso el 9 de mayo, pero discutirá el inicio de “un proceso presupuestario separado”, dijo el martes la Casa Blanca. Biden convocó el lunes a los cuatro …

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Brasil ordena a Google frenar la campaña contra la “ley de noticias falsas”

Por Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) -El Gobierno brasileño se opuso el martes a la campaña de Google LLC contra un proyecto de ley de regulación de Internet para reprimir las noticias falsas y ordenó a la empresa estadounidense que cambie un enlace de su motor de búsqueda en Brasil. La propuesta de ley para penalizar …

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As lithium miners gear up for first-quarter earnings, investors focus on tumbling prices

By Arshreet Singh (Reuters) – U.S. lithium miners Albemarle and Livent are expected to report a rise in quarterly profit this week, but investor focus will likely be on how they plan to navigate the slide in prices for the metal used in electric-vehicle batteries. Strong demand for EVs and limited supply of the metal …

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