By Ricardo Brito BRASILIA (Reuters) -Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s future in office hung in the balance on Thursday, as the country’s federal electoral court (TSE) began a trial that could leave him in the political wilderness for nearly a decade. Bolsonaro, a far-right nationalist who in October narrowly lost Brazil’s most fraught election in…
By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) – As New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins prepares to lead a trade delegation to China seeking greater access for both the country’s primary exports and emerging sectors such as gaming, producers are diversifying away from their biggest market. Beijing’s attempts to punish neighbouring Australia through trade for perceived intransigence…
By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Wednesday struck down a Florida rule and a statute that banned state Medicaid payments for transgender healthcare, marking the second defeat in two weeks for anti-transgender legislation in the state. U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle declared the state’s practices invalid, saying they violated the constitutional right…
ZURICH (Reuters) -A group of Credit Suisse AT1 bondholders has filed a class action suit accusing former executives at the Swiss bank, including three past CEOs, of being responsible for the bank’s downfall. A lawsuit filed in a New York court on Tuesday accused former bosses Thomas Gottstein, Tidjane Thiam and Brady Dougan, and several…
By Leah Douglas WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Congress may need to pass a short-term extension of the country’s current farm bill, the largest food and nutrition spending package, amid delays drafting the next one, the top lawmakers on the Senate and House farm committees said on Thursday. The farm bill funds U.S. nutrition, conservation…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. agency will launch a public working group on generative artificial intelligence (AI) to help address the new technology’s opportunities while developing guidance to confront its risks, the Commerce Department said on Thursday. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a nonregulatory agency that is part of the Commerce Department,…
(Reuters) – Meta Platforms’ Oversight Board has asked the social media firm to evaluate efforts to prevent promotion of political violence on its platforms, after it allowed a video calling for violence post the 2022 Brazilian election to stay online. The board said on Thursday that Meta’s original decision to leave up the Facebook video,…
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell proposed steps to end weeks of violence in predominantly Serb areas of northern Kosovo to the leaders of Kosovo and Serbia on Thursday, but there were no signs of an immediate breakthrough. Violence flared in four northern Kosovo municipalities late last month after ethnic Albanian mayors…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden said on Thursday he did not think his comment referring to Chinese President Xi Jinping as a dictator had undermined or complicated the U.S. relationship with China, while declining to walk back the sentiment. “The idea of my choosing and avoiding saying what I think is the facts with…
(This June 13 story has been corrected to clarify that Trump and Nauta were ordered not to talk with potential witnesses about the case in paragraphs 4 and 5) By Jack Queen and Jacqueline Thomsen MIAMI (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to federal criminal charges that he unlawfully…
