By Steve Gorman (Reuters) -A European-built orbital satellite was launched to space on Saturday from Florida on a mission to shed new light on the mysterious cosmic phenomena known as dark energy and dark matter, unseen forces scientists say account for 95% of the known universe. The telescope dubbed Euclid, named for the ancient Greek…
By Brendan O’Brien CHICAGO (Reuters) – Half of the U.S. population was urged on Friday to take precautions when they are outdoors, either due to a relentless heat wave or poor air quality caused by Canadian wildfires ahead of the long Fourth of July weekend. Some 80 million people living in California, the Deep South…
(This June 29 story has been corrected to clarify that the entity involved is not an Alberta government agency in the headline and paragraphs 1 and 2) By Divya Rajagopal and Xie Yu TORONTO/HONG KONG (Reuters) – An Alberta industrial development body has ended a partnership with a Chinese private equity fund that targeted $10…
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain, Australia and Canada have called on Israel’s government to reverse a decision to approve new settlement units in the West Bank, saying they are “deeply concerned” by an ongoing cycle of violence. This week, Israel approved over 5,700 new settlement units in the West Bank and earlier this month instituted changes…
By Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK (Reuters) – The dollar index was lower on Friday following two straight days of gains, after economic data showed a cooling in consumer spending, raising some doubt about the potential aggressiveness of the Federal Reserve in fighting inflation. U.S. Treasury yields were also mostly lower after the data. The Commerce…
By Daphne Psaledakis and Arshad Mohammed WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will discuss political, security and humanitarian crises in Haiti with Prime Minister Ariel Henry next week, a State Department official said on Friday. Blinken will travel to Guyana and neighboring Trinidad and Tobago on July 5-6, the State Department said….
By Jan Lopatka PRAGUE (Reuters) – Cyanide maker Draslovka is considering an equity fundraising worth hundreds of millions of dollars support the roll out of new technology that could help miners slash use of cyanide, its CEO said in an interview on Friday. The privately-held Czech company is the world’s leading sodium cyanide maker. The…
By Steve Scherer and Ismail Shakil OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canadian businesses still see inflation running high before edging down slowly, the Bank of Canada said on Friday in a second quarter survey at a time when labor market and wage pressures are seen easing. Most businesses expect to hire over the next year, but fewer…
By Ismail Shakil and Nivedita Balu OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canada’s economy regained momentum in May after stalling in April, Statistics Canada data showed on Friday, leaving the door open for the Bank of Canada to hike interest rates in July. The economy was unchanged in April from March, missing forecasts, in what economists said was the…
By Ismail Shakil OTTAWA (Reuters) -Google said on Thursday it plans to block Canadian news on its platform in Canada, joining Facebook in escalating a campaign against a new law requiring payments to local news publishers. Alphabet-owned Google will remove links to Canadian news from search results and other products in Canada when the law…
