(Reuters) – Canada’s Northern Dynasty Minerals said on Monday the Alaska district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has extended a deadline to comment on future plans regarding the Pebble copper mine to June 29. U.S.-listed shares rose 1.6% in premarket trading, after the second extension of the deadline. The Pacific Ocean Division…
By Lefteris Papadimas and Karolina Tagaris ATHENS (Reuters) – Kyriakos Mitsotakis promised to rebuild Greece’s credit rating, create jobs, raise wages and boost state revenues after he was sworn in for a second term as prime minister on Monday following a resounding election win. His centre-right New Democracy party got 158 seats in the 300-seat…
By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected Ohio State University’s bid to dismiss lawsuits brought by alleged sexual abuse victims of a now-deceased doctor who was employed by the school’s athletic department and medical staff for nearly two decades. The justices turned away Ohio State’s appeal of a lower court’s…
By Tom Balmforth KYIV (Reuters) – An abortive mutiny in Russia has shown the risks the Kremlin faces from a long, grinding conflict in Ukraine even though it has not handed Kyiv an immediate breakthrough on the battlefield. Many questions still swirl after Russian mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner forces returned to base after Friday’s…
By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) – Tornadoes and thunderstorms hit the U.S. Midwest and South on Sunday, leaving dozens of homes damaged and at least three people dead in Indiana and Arkansas, authorities said on Monday. The National Weather Service said multiple tornadoes and severe storms were reported on Sunday in central Indiana and Arkansas. Emergency…
BERLIN (Reuters) -A far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) candidate won a vote on Sunday to become a district leader in Europe’s biggest economy for the first time, a breakthrough for the party which has hit record highs in national polls. The 10-year old AfD, with which Germany’s mainstream parties officially refuse to cooperate due to…
By Dave Graham MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Urbane, socially progressive and eager to put Mexico on the world stage, Marcelo Ebrard presents a sharp contrast to the popular, sharp-tongued defender of the country’s impoverished hinterlands he hopes to succeed as president. Having followed once in the footsteps of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador as mayor…
By Deena Beasley SAN DIEGO (Reuters) – Novo Nordisk on Sunday said a late-stage trial found that a high-dose oral version of its drug semaglutide helped overweight or obese adults lose 15% of their body weight, which is in line with recent results for other experimental obesity pills. Novo plans to seek U.S. and European…
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden’s path to NATO membership remains blocked by Turkey and Hungary ahead of a July summit in Vilnius where it hopes to join Nordic neighbour Finland as a full member of the alliance. Finland, which applied together with Sweden, joined NATO in April, but Turkey continues to block Swedish membership citing security…
By David Gauthier-Villars (Reuters) – Anti-corruption authorities in the United States and Sweden are reviewing a complaint alleging that the Swedish affiliate of a U.S. company pledged to pay tens of millions of dollars in kickbacks if a son of Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan helped it secure a dominant market position in the country….
