[ad_1] NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency said on Wednesday it would continue providing water, meals and other essentials to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico despite earlier reports its humanitarian mission in the U.S. territory would end on Wednesday. “There was never, and is not now, a decision to stop distributing commodities on
Month: January 2018
[ad_1] CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi delivered a stern warning on Wednesday to anyone looking to challenge his rule, a day after opposition leaders called for a boycott of the March 26-28 presidential election. “Be warned. What happened seven or eight years ago, will not happen again in Egypt,” Sisi said, a
[ad_1] NEW YORK (Reuters) – AT&T Inc (T.N) said on Wednesday that quarterly profit beat Wall Street analyst estimates, helped by impacts from tax cuts and wireless subscriber additions. Net income attributable to AT&T was $19.0 billion, or $3.08 per share, in the fourth quarter ended Dec. 31, up from $2.4 billion, or 39 cents
[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The FBI said on Wednesday it had “grave concerns” about the accuracy of a top-secret House Intelligence Committee memo alleging anti-Trump bias within the Justice Department, challenging President Donald Trump’s pledge to release it. The rare public rebuke by the nation’s top law enforcement agency came hours after White House Chief
[ad_1] LONDON (Reuters) – The BBC is failing to live up to its own editorial mission to report the truth by denying it has a problem with gender discrimination on pay, its former China editor Carrie Gracie told the British parliament’s media committee on Wednesday. Gracie quit her post earlier this month in protest at
[ad_1] CHARLOTTE, Mich. (Reuters) – Jessica Thomashow was a 9-year-old gymnast who still liked playing with American Girl dolls when USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar first molested her, she said in a Michigan courtroom on Wednesday. “You took advantage of my innocence and trust,” the 17-year-old high school student told Nassar, as he sat, eyes
[ad_1] (Reuters) – A federal appeals court in San Francisco ruled on Wednesday that Twitter Inc is not liable to families of two U.S. government contractors killed in an Islamic State attack in Jordan for having failed to block that group from using its accounts and messaging services. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
[ad_1] LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s leading fraud prosecutor says he is combing through his case load to detect signs that criminals are using the country to hide illicit wealth, as new powers come into effect that allow authorities to seize the proceeds of “dirty money”. So-called Unexplained Wealth Orders (UWOs), which came into force on
[ad_1] UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Russia does not believe there is a case for United Nations action against Iran, Russia’s U.N. ambassador said on Wednesday after traveling to Washington to view pieces of weapons that Washington says Tehran gave Yemen’s Houthi group. The Trump administration has for months been lobbying for Iran to be held
[ad_1] PRISTINA (Reuters) – Hundreds of people wearing white masks gathered in Pristina on Wednesday as authorities banned cars from driving in city center to counter pollution so bad it sometimes exceeds the pollution in Chinese cities. Protest organizers played a sound of a person breathing deeply. The crowd chanted “Don’t poison us”, “Help” and
[ad_1] BRUSSELS (Reuters) – U.N. refugee agency special envoy Angelina Jolie called on NATO on Wednesday to help stop the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war, as the Hollywood star broadened her international efforts to protect women’s rights. Jolie, who earlier this week visited a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan, made her
[ad_1] LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A thousand people crowded on a hilltop outside Los Angeles before dawn on Wednesday for one of the best views in America of a rare lunar eclipse called a “Super Blue Blood Moon,” as the Earth’s shadow fell across its natural satellite. Outside the Griffith Observatory, which more commonly draws
[ad_1] LONDON (Reuters) – British retailer Marks & Spencer said it plans to close a further 14 stores in its home market, speeding up a programme to re-shape its store estate as more sales move online. M&S said in 2016 it would reposition about 25 percent of its clothing and home space through a combination
[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Special counsel Robert Mueller is seeking to interview the former spokesman for President Donald Trump’s legal team as part of his investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. Mark Corallo was the spokesman for several weeks, representing Trump’s
[ad_1] (Reuters) – Boeing Co (BA.N) said on Wednesday it expects to deliver between 810 and 815 commercial aircraft in 2018, as much as 6.8 percent more than the industry-record 763 jets it delivered in 2017. The world’s biggest planemaker forecast operating cash flow of about $15 billion in 2018, compared with $13.34 billion in
[ad_1] BEIJING (Reuters) – Millions of people across the Chinese capital were treated to a “super blood blue moon” eclipse on a cold but clear night on Wednesday, a phenomenon not seen since the late Qing dynasty more than 150 years ago. The eclipse coincided with a so-called blue moon – or the second full
[ad_1] BEIJING (Reuters) – Hundreds of skywatchers are expected to huddle at the Beijing Planetarium at dusk on Wednesday to witness a “super blood blue moon” – a three-part lunar phenomenon not seen since the late Qing dynasty more than 150 years ago. Clear skies are forecast for the Chinese capital, among a number of
[ad_1] SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – One of the most dramatic moments in an upcoming trade secrets trial between Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Waymo and Uber will likely come when the former chief of Uber’s self-driving car unit takes the witness stand, as he is expected to repeatedly refuse to answer questions. Waymo sued Uber Technologies Inc
[ad_1] HONG KONG (Reuters) – Tencent Music Entertainment Group, the music arm of Tencent Holdings, on Wednesday announced with Sony Music Entertainment that they are forming a new music label, marking Tencent’s first move into having its own music label. The new label, called Liquid State, will be dedicated to promoting electronic and dance music
[ad_1] BEIJING (Reuters) – China is drawing up plans for tougher curbs on smog during the three years to 2020, an environment ministry official said on Wednesday, after a five-year crackdown on pollution helped it attain air quality targets last month. “A three-year battle plan in the war to protect blue skies” is being hammered
[ad_1] LONDON (Reuters) – Gibraltar can choose elements of any Brexit deal Britain agrees with the European Union and avoid those it considers detrimental, the chief minister of the British territory said. Fabian Picardo told the British newspaper The Independent that Gibraltar’s constitution allowed it to decide which parts of any agreement with the European
[ad_1] LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Skywatchers across western North America set their alarms to awaken before dawn on Wednesday to see a rare type of lunar eclipse called a “Super Blue Blood Moon,” with hundreds of expected to view the phenomenon from a Los Angeles mountaintop. As is the case with all total lunar eclipses,
[ad_1] SEOUL (Reuters) – Four years after the Korea Skating Union (KSU) was supposed to have cleaned up its act, allegations of favoritism and athlete mistreatment have again roiled South Korean sport just weeks ahead of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. Short track powerhouse South Korea has won 21 of the 48 gold medals awarded in
[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In his State of the Union address on Tuesday, U.S. President Donald Trump spoke of unifying the country and delivering for the American people — and he has the opportunity to back up his words with action almost immediately. Trump faces a series of policy choices in the next few weeks
[ad_1] WUHAN, China (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Wednesday that lawmakers would be given official analysis on any Brexit deal before they are asked to approve it, dismissing a leaked document showing the economy would be worse off under all exit scenarios. Buzzfeed News on Monday reported that Britain’s economy would
[ad_1] LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. private equity firm Blackstone Group LP catapulted itself into the major leagues of Wall Street’s financial information industry on Tuesday with the acquisition of a majority stake in the Financial and Risk business of Thomson Reuters Corp. The $20 billion deal is Blackstone’s biggest bet since the financial crisis
[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Branding North Korea’s leadership “depraved,” President Donald Trump told Americans on Tuesday that Pyongyang’s pursuit of nuclear missiles could “very soon threaten our homeland” and vowed a continued campaign to prevent that. In his first State of the Union speech to the U.S. Congress, Trump’s tough rhetoric underscored persistent tensions despite
[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump urged lawmakers on Tuesday to work toward bipartisan compromises, but pushed a hard line on immigration, insisting on a border wall and other concessions from Democrats as part of any deal to protect the children of illegal immigrants. Ahead of Trump’s State of the Union speech, Democrats
[ad_1] SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea has uncovered cryptocurrency crimes worth 637.5 billion won ($594.35 million), which includes illegal foreign exchange trading, a statement released by the country’s customs service said on Wednesday. The statement said domestic investors bought 1.7 billion won worth of cryptocurrencies, which they sent to overseas partner companies through virtual wallets.
[ad_1] BEIJING (Reuters) – China is currently drawing up details of a new “battle plan” to curb pollution over the 2018-2020 period, an environment ministry official said on Wednesday. Liu Youbin, a spokesman at the Ministry of Environmental Protection, told a press briefing that officials are currently drawing up supporting regulations for major industrial regions
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