By Valerie Insinna (Reuters) -Spirit Aerosystems has reached a tentative four-year contract agreement with the 6,000-member machinists union employed at its Wichita, Kansas plant, the union said Friday in a statement. The agreement means the company will likely avoid a costly strike that would have rippled through the aircraft supply chain, as Spirit is a…
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. rights groups plan protests next week against Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s state visit to Washington over what they call India’s deteriorating human rights record, even though experts do not expect Washington to be publicly critical of New Delhi. The Indian American Muslim Council, Peace Action, Veterans for Peace…
(Reuters) -A dangerous heat wave that helped spawn deadly tornadoes in Texas and Florida threatened on Friday to bring more extreme weather to the U.S. South, prompting the National Weather Service to warn Americans to limit time outdoors over the long Juneteenth weekend. At least four people were killed in twisters that touched down on…
By Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – There has been no sign of improvement in the political situation in Myanmar since the 2021 coup, Singapore Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan said following a meeting in Washington with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who said he shared his counterpart’s pessimism. Singapore is a member of the Association…
By Anna Mehler Paperny TORONTO (Reuters) – Canada’s Supreme Court on Friday upheld an asylum-seeker pact between Canada and the United States but sent the case back to a lower court to determine whether the contested agreement violates equality rights. The verdict is a partial victory for the Canadian government, keeping the pact in place…
By Daina Beth Solomon MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -U.S. labor officials on Friday asked Mexico to investigate alleged worker rights abuses at a Grupo Mexico mine in the central state of Zacatecas, the 11th U.S. labor complaint in Mexico under a 2020 trade pact. The U.S. request follows a petition from a Mexican union, Los Mineros,…
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States has imposed visa restrictions on Uganda officials after the African nation passed an anti-LGBTQ law that was condemned by many countries and the United Nations, the U.S. State Department said on Friday. The law, considered one of the harshest in the world, was enacted in May and…
By Sruthi Shankar and Noel Randewich (Reuters) – U.S. stocks were mixed on Friday, while Nvidia hit a record high, as signs of easing price pressures and slowing economic growth fueled expectations the Federal Reserve is nearing the end of its aggressive interest rate hikes. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq hovered near 14-month highs after…
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, will not have to sit for a second deposition in the U.S. Virgin Islands’ lawsuit over the bank’s work for Jeffrey Epstein, the late financier and sex offender. U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan on Friday denied “in its entirety”…
By Tim Hepher PARIS (Reuters) – Airbus has signed orders this month including 60 A320-family jets with a lessor and 10 A350s with a major airline, said the planemaker’s Chief Commercial Officer Christian Scherer. The deals come on top of any business to be announced at next week’s Paris Airshow and will be booked at…
