BEIJING (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the spy balloon incident with China “should be closed” in an interview with MSNBC posted online on Tuesday. “We did what we needed to do to protect our interests, we said what we needed to say and made clear what needed to make clear in…
By Douglas Gillison and Kanishka Singh (Reuters) -A U.S. judge in Florida on Monday ordered defense lawyers for former President Donald Trump not to release evidence in the classified documents case to the media or the public, according to a court filing. The order from U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart also put strict conditions on…
By Sharon Bernstein BERKELEY, California (Reuters) – In the 25 years since California voters banned all consideration of race in college admissions, the state has spent more than $500 million to help create diverse student bodies across the University of California system – with some success. Yet in classes at the University of California at…
By Rich McKay (Reuters) – Months after a grand jury declined to indict eight police officers in Akron, Ohio, who shot dead Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old Black man, his family is seeking at least $45 million in a federal lawsuit – $1 million for each bullet that hit him, the lawsuit says. The case, filed…
(Reuters) – Alibaba Group said on Tuesday its CEO and chairman Daniel Zhang will step down from those roles to focus on its cloud division as the Chinese e-commerce giant moves ahead with a plan to split into six business units. The CEO role will be handed over to Eddie Yongming Wu, chairman of Alibaba’s…
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore for the first time became the most expensive city for goods and services for wealthy people, overtaking Hong Kong, London and New York, according to a report on Tuesday. Cars and essential health insurance in Singapore are 133% and 109% more expensive than the global average, among 12 consumer goods and…
By Andrew MacAskill and Muvija M LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s parliament delivered another blow to the political career of former prime minister Boris Johnson on Monday when it endorsed a report that concluded that he deliberately lied over rule-breaking parties. Johnson abruptly resigned from parliament earlier this month after seeing an advance copy of the findings…
By Tim Hepher, Joanna Plucinska and Aditi Shah PARIS/DELHI (Reuters) -Europe’s Airbus secured a historic deal on Monday involving the most jets ever bought by a single airline, with an order for 500 narrowbody jets from Indian budget carrier IndiGo on the opening day of the Paris Airshow. The multibillion-dollar deal eclipses Air India’s combined…
By Kate Holton OXFORD, England (Reuters) – For Ros Deegan, the thrill of raising $100 million to expand a biotech firm among the dreaming spires of Oxford was soon tempered: unable to find a bigger laboratory, she routinely had to work at home. Not far away in the rival academic centre of Cambridge, biochemist Catherine…
By Tom Balmforth NEAR KYIV, Ukraine (Reuters) – At a glance on a clear summer’s afternoon, the U.S.-made Avenger air defence system is barely visible in the shadow of trees at the end of a dirt track outside Kyiv. The short-range unit is an important part of a three-layered air defence network that Ukraine is…
