By Simon Lewis and Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Secretary of State Antony Blinken pledged continued U.S. commitment to both Israel’s security and a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict on Monday, but said the expansion of Jewish settlements would be an obstacle to peace. In a speech to the pro-Israel lobby group the American Israel…
By Aditi Shah ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Japan’s All Nippon Airways (ANA) wants to grow its short and medium-haul fleet by 2030, especially expanding the Boeing 787 planes it has on order, CEO Shinichi Inoue said on the sidelines of an aviation conference in Istanbul on Monday. ANA is still not operating the number of aircraft…
(Reuters) – New orders for U.S.-made goods rose for a second straight month in April, boosted largely by defense spending, but the overall manufacturing industry continued to struggle under the weight of higher interest rates. Factory orders increased 0.4% after a 0.6% gain in March, the Commerce Department said on Monday. Economists polled by Reuters…
MILAN (Reuters) -UniCredit <CRDI.MI> Chief Executive Andrea Orcel said on Monday he would be “definitely up for more,” when asked about whether he would seek a new mandate at the helm of the Italian bank. The former UBS investment banking chief started in April 2021, and in December that year he presented his ‘UniCredit Unlocked’…
By Sam Tobin and Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) -Prince Harry is suing a British tabloid publisher to focus attention on alleged unlawful activities and not because of “some vendetta against the press”, his lawyer told London’s High Court on Monday. Harry, King Charles’ younger son, is one of more than 100 high-profile figures suing the…
MILAN (Reuters) -Ferrari has no plans to purchase other sports car makers, the company’s Chief Executive Benedetto Vigna said on Monday. “I don’t think it makes sense for us to buy other supercar makers,” Vigna said during a conference organized by Bloomberg, replying to a question about possible M&A operations by the Italian company. “Ferrari…
(Reuters) – KKR & Co Inc said on Monday it will buy industrial machinery maker Circor International Inc in a $1.6-billion deal and take it private, as the private equity firm looks to double down on investments in the flow-control market. Flow-control products help manage and control liquids and gases using equipment or services such…
By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) – China leads research in 19 of 23 technologies set as priorities by the AUKUS defence partnership of Australia, Britain and the U.S., including hypersonics, electronic warfare and undersea drones, highlighting the need for Western allies to pool research results, an Australian security think-tank says. The Australian Strategic Policy Institute…
By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) – The United States and several other countries have committed human rights violations against a Saudi man held in the Guantanamo prison and accused of organising the bombing of the USS Cole in the port of Aden in 2000, a U.N. report said. Abd al Rahim al Nashiri could face…
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Ukraine, fighting a devastating Russian invasion since February 2022, seeks to join NATO as quickly as possible but members of the Western military alliance are divided over how fast that step should be taken. While eastern European countries want some sort of a road map to be offered to Kyiv at a…
