(Reuters) – Small pickups fell short of the standards expected in protecting the passengers on the rear seat of the vehicle, tests conducted by Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) showed. In the crash test conducted, the passenger dummy on the rear seat came dangerously close to the front seat back, recording a risk of…
By Khalid Abdelaziz DUBAI (Reuters) – Thousands of men who worked as intelligence operatives under former president Omar al-Bashir and have ties to his Islamist movement are fighting alongside the army in Sudan’s war, three military sources and one intelligence source said, complicating efforts to end the bloodshed. The army and a paramilitary force have…
BRISBANE (Reuters) – NASA is looking to develop resources on the moon that initially include oxygen and water, and eventually may expand to iron and rare earths, and has already taken steps toward excavating moon soil in 2032, a scientist said on Wednesday. The U.S. space agency plans to return Americans to the moon as…
BEIJING (Reuters) -Annual profits at China’s industrial firms extended a double-digit decline in the first five months as softening demand squeezed margins, reinforcing hopes of more policy support to bolster a stuttering post-COVID economic recovery. The 18.8% year-on-year slump in profits came on top of the 20.6% contraction in January-April, and added to evidence of…
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea on Wednesday announced new sanctions on two individuals and two entities over their alleged involvement in North Korea’s weapons programmes, Seoul’s foreign ministry said. The sanctions target Choi Chon Gon, a former South Korean national who acquired Russian citizenship, two companies Choi owns and a North Korean who supported Choi,…
By Anthony Deutsch THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Eastern European NATO countries on Tuesday warned that a move of Wagner’s Russian mercenary troops to Belarus would create greater regional instability, but NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said the alliance is ready to defend itself against any threat. “If Wagner deploys its serial killers in Belarus, all neighbouring countries…
(Reuters) -Alphabet-owned Google on Tuesday said it is cutting jobs at mapping app Waze as it merges the app’s advertising system with Google Ads technology, without giving details on the number of layoffs. “In order to create a better, more seamless long-term experience for Waze advertisers, we’ve begun transitioning Waze’s existing advertising system to Google…
LONDON (Reuters) – British shop price inflation slowed this month, offering a bit of respite for households hit by a surge in the cost of living and higher borrowing costs, a survey showed on Tuesday. The British Retail Consortium said prices in supermarkets and retail chains rose by 8.4% in June compared with the same…
By Stella Qiu SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s consumer inflation slowed to a 13-month low in May, driven by a sharp pullback in fuel, while a measure of core inflation also cooled in a sign interest rates might not have to rise again in July. Data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics on Wednesday showed its…
By Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) – A prolonged heat wave kept its grip on the U.S. South on Tuesday as dangerously high temperatures rising well above 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 Celsius) and oppressive humidity were on tap across a wide swath of the region through the holiday weekend. Meanwhile, in Chicago, children, the elderly and people…
