By Aidan Lewis KHARTOUM (Reuters) – A conflict in Sudan that erupted on April 15 has wrought havoc in the capital Khartoum, unleashed ethnic violence in Darfur, and uprooted more than three million people, including over 700,000 who have fled into neighbouring countries. WHAT TRIGGERED THE VIOLENCE? Tension had been building for months between Sudan’s…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court on the West Coast opened a docket on Thursday on the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s effort to overturn its loss trying to stop Microsoft from buying “Call of Duty” maker Activision. A federal judge in California had ruled for Microsoft on Tuesday, saying the agency had failed to show…
By Noele Illien and John Revill BERN (Reuters) -A Swiss parliamentary investigation into the role played by state institutions in the collapse and emergency rescue of Credit Suisse will take 12 to 15 months to complete, its president said on Thursday. UBS agreed to buy Credit Suisse for 3 billion Swiss francs ($3.48 billion) in…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States will not pay reparations to developing countries hit by climate-fueled disasters, John Kerry, the U.S. special envoy on climate change, told a congressional hearing on Thursday. Kerry, a former U.S. secretary of state, was asked during a hearing before a House of Representatives foreign affairs oversight subcommittee whether the U.S….
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A group on Thursday sued the state of Texas, claiming that research and teaching have been compromised by the state’s ban on public university employees using Chinese-owned short video app TikTok on state-owned devices or networks. The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University filed suit in U.S. District Court…
(Reuters) -The Associated Press is licensing a part its archive of news stories to OpenAI under a deal that will explore generative AI’s use in news, the companies said on Thursday, a move that could set the precedent for similar partnerships between the industries. The news publisher will gain access to OpenAI’s technology and product…
(Reuters) – NextDecade Corp shares fell 23% on Thursday on investor worries over the terms of $18.4 billion financing the U.S. liquefied natural gas developer obtained to go ahead with the long-delayed Phase 1 of Rio Grande LNG export facility. The company had on late Wednesday said it was one of the largest greenfield energy…
By Chibuike Oguh NEW YORK (Reuters) – Shares in Viasat plunged by as much as 36% to about a one-year low on Thursday after the U.S. satellite communications firm disclosed that one of its key satellites malfunctioned during deployment in space. The company’s ViaSat-3 Americas satellite developed an unexpected fault during its deployment – an…
By Gayatri Suroyo, David Brunnstrom and Simon Lewis JAKARTA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken held “candid and constructive” talks with top Chinese diplomat Wang Yi on Thursday in Indonesia’s capital, an official said, the latest in a series of interactions Washington says are aimed at managing competition between the rival superpowers. In…
By Vera Eckert and Susanna Twidale FRANKFURT/LONDON (Reuters) – Energy majors BP and TotalEnergies have won a 7 gigawatt (GW) offshore wind site auction in Germany worth a record 12.6 billion euros ($14.1 billion), allowing them entry to the central European market without a partnership. Previous auctions have been won by consortia, as happened in…
