By Ali Sawafta RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) -Clashes erupted after Israeli forces raided the city of Ramallah in the West Bank early on Thursday in what the military said was an operation to demolish the house of a Palestinian accused of a Jerusalem double-bombing last year. The Palestinian health ministry said at least 35 people…
KHARTOUM (Reuters) -A massive fire broke out on Wednesday near a military complex containing an arms factory in southern Khartoum that Sudan’s army has battled to defend in some of the fiercest fighting for weeks in its conflict with a rival faction, witnesses said. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), in the eighth week of…
By Lisa Baertlein LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Unions hope a $30 million grant to electrify tractors in a Long Beach, California, port terminal’s final push to become the world’s first zero-emissions facility will serve as a bulwark against lost jobs in an era of energy transition and increasing automation. The money from U.S. President Joe…
MADRID (Reuters) – U.S. electric car manufacturer Tesla is in talks with the leaders of the regional government of Valencia in Spain to build a car factory, newspaper Cinco Dias reported on Thursday, citing unidentified sources close to the discussions. The company’s total investment in the factory could surpass 4.5 billion euros ($4.83 billion), the…
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – U.S. luxury electric vehicle (EV) maker Lucid Group is preparing to enter the world’s largest auto market, its head of China operations Zhu Jiang said on Thursday. Lucid will sell imported cars in China while also considering local production in the country, according to a person familiar with the matter who was…
By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK (Reuters) – Worries that have dogged U.S. stocks for months are fading, pushing some Wall Street firms to raise their outlooks for equities and beckoning investors who have remained on the sidelines. Signs of strength in the economy, relief over a deal to raise the U.S. debt ceiling and an…
BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China on Thursday announced a nationwide campaign to promote automobile purchases in a major push to shore up demand in the world’s largest auto market. The announcement from the Ministry of Commerce came shortly after data showed passenger vehicle sales in China rose 7.3% in May from April, higher on the month but…
By Takaya Yamaguchi TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan aims to reform labour law, easing the way for couples to work and share household chores, in a bid to avert an expected sharp fall in the number of its young people by the 2030s, three government sources with direct knowledge of the matter said. Prime Minister Fumio…
By Gabriel Burin BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – An expected fall in Mexico’s peso will likely be cushioned by its favorable interest rate spread, although there is a wide range of views on the currency’s prospects over the coming year, a Reuters poll of foreign exchange strategists showed. This week the peso extended a winning run…
By David Shepardson (Reuters) -Some flights into the New York City area and Philadelphia on Wednesday were delayed and others briefly halted because of reduced visibility from wildfire smoke from Canada. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) was slowing traffic but lifted a groundstop on flights from the upper Midwest and East Coast bound for New…
