(Reuters) -China will control exports of some metals used in the semiconductor industry, ramping up a technology war with the United States and potentially causing more disruption to global supply chains. Here’s what people are saying about the measure: LUCY CHEN, VICE PRESIDENT AT TAIPEI-BASED ISAIAH RESEARCH: “We believe that gallium and germanium are indeed…
By Steve Gorman and Gabriella Borter LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Thousands of Los Angeles-area hotel workers went on strike on Sunday demanding pay hikes and improved benefits in a region where high housing costs make it difficult for low-wage earners to live close to where they hold jobs, union officials said. Unite Here Local 11, which…
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ryanair (RYA.I) flew a record 17.4 million passengers in June, its highest for a single month and a 9% increase from a year earlier, the low-cost carrier said on Tuesday. The previous traffic record of 17 million was set in May. The Irish airline, Europe’s largest by passengers carried, cancelled more than…
By Layli Foroudi PARIS (Reuters) -Sports teacher Benjamin Belaidi held a banner reading “no justice, no peace” as he marched in memory of the teenager shot dead by French police, weary of what he described as repressive policing and an absent state in city suburbs. The 38-year-old Belaidi, who grew up in one of the…
PARIS (Reuters) -Defiant gatherings were held outside town halls across France on Monday following a wave of rioting triggered by the fatal police shooting of a teenager of north African descent. Here is some key information about the unrest: WHERE ARE THE RIOTS? There was very little rioting overnight on Sunday and police made fewer…
By Lucy Papachristou (Reuters) – Sofia Gominova wanted to be a lawyer from age 11. Born after the fall of the Soviet Union, she grew up in a Russia blighted by organised crime and watched police dramas on TV, wanting to “fight evil like they did.” Now, at 29, Gominova believes she is doing just…
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Ankur Banerjee: It looks like we might be getting the Mark Zuckerberg v Elon Musk fight after all, just not in a cage. Meta Platforms plans to launch a microblogging app, Threads, challenging Musk just days after the Twitter executive chair announced a…
(Reuters) – Russia’s only aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, which has suffered a series of repair delays, may re-enter service by the end of next year, the country’s TASS state news agency reported on Tuesday. The ship, launched in 1985, had been due to undergo a refit that would have seen it operational in 2023….
By Nick Carey (Reuters) – E-commerce giant Amazon will deploy its first European vans from U.S. electric vehicle (EV) maker Rivian in Germany over the coming weeks as part of long-term plans to electrify its transportation network, it said on Tuesday. Amazon said 300 electric vans will hit the roads in the Munich, Berlin, and…
(Reuters) – Reuters said on Monday it has appealed a Turkish court order to remove a news article on the agency’s website that said U.S. and Swedish prosecutors are studying a graft complaint naming a son of President Tayyip Erdogan. In the court ruling, a copy of which was seen by Reuters, the news agency…
