By Guy Faulconbridge and Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) -A Moscow court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich to be freed from pre-trial detention, meaning he will stay in a former KGB prison until at least May 29 while a spying case against him is investigated. Gershkovich, a reporter for the Wall…
LONDON (Reuters) – WhatsApp and other messaging services have united to oppose Britain’s plan to force tech companies to break end-to-end encryption in private messages in its proposed internet safety legislation. Meta-owned WhatsApp, Signal and five other apps signed an open letter saying the law could give an “unelected official the power to weaken the…
By Susanna Twidale, Valerie Volcovici, Simon Jessop and Peter Henderson (Reuters) -The world is failing to cut carbon emissions fast enough to avoid disastrous climate change, a dawning truth that is giving life to a technology that for years has been marginal – pulling carbon dioxide from the air. Leading the charge, the U.S. government…
By Tom Wilson and Elizabeth Howcroft LONDON (Reuters) -The U.S. and Britain should make their rules for the crypto industry much clearer to prevent firms from developing in “offshore havens”, the chief of U.S. crypto exchange Coinbase Global Inc, Brian Armstrong, said on Tuesday. The failure last year of the Bahamas-based FTX exchange has highlighted…
(Reuters) – Chipmaker Intel Corp said on Tuesday it has discontinued production of its bitcoin mining chip series, just a year after its introduction. A rout in the cryptocurrency market hurt some chip companies including Nvidia Corp, whose high-end graphics chips became popular for crypto mining. Intel expects to stop taking orders for the series,…
By Herbert Lash and Samuel Indyk NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) – The dollar fell against most major currencies on Tuesday after better-than-forecast growth data from China, while strong pay figures from Britain supported the pound. China’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew 4.5% year on year in the first three months of the year, data showed, beating…
By Michael Martina WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China is increasing its Antarctic footprint according to new satellite imagery collected by a Washington-based think tank that shows construction has resumed for the first time since 2018 on the country’s fifth station in the southern polar region. Beijing has sought to develop new shipping routes in the Arctic…
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – A federal judge on Tuesday ordered JPMorgan Chase & Co CEO Jamie Dimon to set aside two days for depositions about what he knew about the bank’s relationship with sex offender and former client Jeffrey Epstein. The largest U.S. bank faces lawsuits seeking damages by women who claim…
By Hannah Confino and Rami Amichay Tel Aviv (Reuters) – Esther Paran navigated her way in a wheelchair through the throngs of Israelis marching through Tel Aviv in protest at government plans to overhaul the country’s judicial system. She was pushed by an aide. She did not bang on drums or yell along with the…
By Huw Jones (Reuters) -The European Union on Tuesday proposed making it harder for states to pour billions of euros of aid into an ailing bank, as Italy did with Monte dei Paschi di Siena six years ago. Proposals from the EU’s executive seek to ensure that banks hold enough resources, in particular debt that…
