(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…
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…
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 Ricardo Brito BRASILIA (Reuters) -Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was staring into the political abyss on Tuesday when a federal electoral court (TSE) justice voted to bar him from office until 2030 for anti-democratic abuse of power during last year’s fraught election. The vote by Benedito Goncalves, the lead justice in the case against…
By James Davey LONDON (Reuters) – One in seven people in the United Kingdom faced hunger last year because they did not have enough money, according to a report published on Wednesday by food bank charity the Trussell Trust. It said this equates to 11.3 million people, more than double the population of Scotland, and…
By Khushi Mandowara (Reuters) – U.S. health regulators on Tuesday declined to approve a higher-dose version of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals’ drug Eylea for treatment of a disease that is leading cause of blindness among the elderly, the company said as shares fell on the setback to its effort to defend the blockbuster treatment against a fast-gaining…
(Reuters) -UBS Group is looking to cut more than half of Credit Suisse’s workforce from next month as a result of the bank’s takeover, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday. Bankers, traders, support staff in Credit Suisse’s investment bank in London, New York, and in some parts of Asia are expected to bear the brunt, with…
By Raphael Satter (Reuters) – The cl0p ransomware gang is claiming a new set of victims from its hack of the MOVEit file transfer protocol, taking credit on Tuesday for having stolen data from the University of California, Los Angeles, Siemens Energy, Abbvie Inc and Schneider Electric, among others. The total number of recent victims…
By Susanna Twidale LONDON (Reuters) – A standard to assess companies’ claims about progress towards internal climate targets and their use of carbon offset credits was launched on Wednesday by a global initiative seeking to bring transparency and confidence to an unregulated market. Many companies have set net zero emission targets but acknowledge they will…
