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Drivers face black or white choice to speed up new-car delivery
Date: July 12, 2022
By Gilles Guillaume and Joseph White PARIS (Reuters) – For Emilie Malherbe, choosing the colour of her brand new Renault Arkana SUV was easy because only three were available: black, pearl-white and gray. She and her husband swiftly settled on gray because what mattered most was getting the car delivered quickly. “We heard on television...
Spain swelters as temperatures reach 43C in second heatwave
Date: July 11, 2022
By Michael Francis Gore and Catherine MacDonald MADRID (Reuters) -Spaniards kept to the shade in parks, headed for the beach or sipped iced drinks to tackle stifling temperatures as high as 43C (110F), as the country experiences its second heatwave this year. Warm summer sunshine combined with a hot air front from North Africa have...
How a band of activists helped bring down Sri Lanka’s government
Date: July 11, 2022
By Devjyot Ghoshal and Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO (Reuters) – In June, a few dozen activists started meeting regularly at a seaside tented camp in Colombo for hours-long sessions to think up ways to revive Sri Lanka’s flagging protest movement. The group, which included a Catholic priest, a digital strategist and a popular playwright, succeeded beyond...
Factbox-The process to replace UK PM Boris Johnson on Sept. 5
Date: July 11, 2022
(Reuters) – Boris Johnson has announced that he will step down as British prime minister with the Conservative Party choosing a new leader who will be announced on Sept. 5, with 11 candidates so far saying they will stand in the leadership contest. On Monday, the Conservative Party’s 1922 committee of backbench lawmakers finalised the...
New UK prime minister to be announced on Sept. 5 as tax dominates contest
Date: July 11, 2022
By Andrew MacAskill and Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s new prime minister will be announced on Sept. 5, with the first votes to begin eliminating candidates in a crowded and increasingly unpredictable and divisive contest to replace Boris Johnson coming this week. So far 11 candidates have thrown their hat in the ring to...
Sri Lanka to get new president next week amid political and economic meltdown
Date: July 11, 2022
By Uditha Jayasinghe and Devjyot Ghoshal COLOMBO (Reuters) -Sri Lanka’s parliament will elect a new president on July 20, its speaker said on Monday, after protesters stormed the residences of the current president and prime minister, who have both offered to quit amid an economic meltdown. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who had overseen a ruthless crushing...