By Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE (Reuters) – A lawyer for Russia on Wednesday dismissed Ukraine’s account of the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 in World Court hearings earlier this week as “fiction”. Ukraine accuses Russia before the U.N.’s top court of violating a U.N. anti-terrorism treaty by equipping and funding pro-Russian forces,…
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Acting U.S. Labor Secretary Julie Su remained in San Francisco on Wednesday for ongoing meetings with West Coast port employers and unions representing 22,0000 workers with the goal of moving contract talks toward a resolution, a Department of Labor official said. Workers at ports stretching from California to…
By Leah Douglas (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Agriculture will take steps to better verify antibiotic-free labels on meat and poultry products after receiving petitions challenging its existing process for not being rigorous enough, the agency announced Wednesday. Consumer, food safety and environmental groups have long warned that the overuse of antibiotics in livestock…
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A bipartisan group of six senators and two members of the House of Representatives on Wednesday introduced legislation to protect Americans’ data from being used by U.S. adversaries. The bill is the latest in a series of proposals aimed at addressing concerns about the data of Americans using foreign-owned…
MILAN (Reuters) – The body of former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will be cremated and his ashes taken to the family mausoleum in the grounds of his villa in the northern town of Arcore, a source close to the family told Reuters. After a state funeral on Wednesday, the coffin will be returned to…
By Stephen Nellis SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Amazon Web Services, the world’s largest cloud computing provider, is considering using new artificial intelligence chips from Advanced Micro Devices Inc, though it has not made a final decision, an AWS executive told Reuters. The remarks came during an AMD event where the chip company outlined its strategy for…
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. economy should avoid a recession this year while inflation will fall closer to target, implying “a positive outlook for capital flows to emerging markets,” a global banking trade group said in a Wednesday report. Latin America as a whole is expected to be among foreign money’s favorite destinations among…
ZURICH (Reuters) – Switzerland’s parliament announced on Wednesday the 14 members of a special commission that will look into Credit Suisse’s collapse and its subsequent rescue engineered by Swiss authorities. The appointments, decided by the offices of the Swiss lower and upper houses of parliament, marked one of the final steps needed for the panel…
(Refiles with correct dateline spelling) By Vitalii Hnidyi STOROZHEVE, Ukraine (Reuters) -The road into the newly liberated Ukrainian village of Storozheve is lined with the corpses of Russian soldiers and burnt-out armoured vehicles. The grisly scenes bear witness to the ferocity of fighting as Ukrainian troops recaptured Storozheve and several other villages in the past…
BENGALURU (Reuters) – U.S. private equity firm Bain Capital is looking to sell a 0.7% stake in India’s Axis Bank worth as much as $267 million, CNBC-TV18 reported on Wednesday, citing sources. The stake sale would likely be at an offer price range of 964.00 rupees to 977.70 rupees per share, the report added. Bain…
