Altria faces first trial over claims it helped market Juul to teens
By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – Tobacco giant Altria Group Inc is set to face trial Monday in a lawsuit by…
April 21, 2023
Kevin Spacey appears remotely in UK court ahead of sex offences trial
LONDON (Reuters) – Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey appeared by videolink for a brief hearing at a London court on Friday…
Strikes cripple German rail network, four airports
BERLIN (Reuters) – Rail workers went on strike across Germany on Friday, mostly bringing national operator Deutsche Bahn’s services to…
Fox settlement leaves key question unanswered: What’s Dominion really worth?
By Jack Queen (Reuters) – The eye-popping $787.5 million settlement Fox made to resolve the Dominion Voting Systems defamation lawsuit…
French prosecutors accuse Lebanon central bank chief of hiding fraud
BEIRUT/PARIS (Reuters) – French prosecutors have told Lebanon’s central bank governor Riad Salameh they plan to press preliminary fraud and…
Sri Lanka consumer inflation dips to 49.2% y/y in March
By Uditha Jayasinghe (Reuters) -Sri Lanka’s National Consumer Price Index (NCPI) eased to 49.2% year-on-year in March, after a 53.6%…
China’s exports to North Korea rise sharply in March
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s overall exports to North Korea in March rose sharply compared with the same month last year…
Explainer-Tax cuts, balanced budget: What’s not in Republican McCarthy’s debt plan?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy has floated a plan that would pair $4.5 trillion in…
UK economy shows signs of recovery despite inflation’s drag
By Suban Abdulla and William Schomberg LONDON (Reuters) -British businesses reported their busiest month in a year and consumers turned…
ECB must guard against early exit from restrictive policy -Rehn
HELSINKI (Reuters) – The European Central Bank should maintain a tightening monetary policy that restricts demand, Finnish central bank Governor…