By Nora Buli, Nina Chestney and Christoph Steitz OSLO/LONDON/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Saboteurs target a nation leading the world in clean energy. They hack into vulnerable wind and solar power systems. They knock out digitalized energy grids. They wreak havoc. It’s the stuff of nightmares for European power chiefs. Henriette Borgund knows attackers can find weaknesses…
By Ross Kerber (Reuters) – A U.S. congressional leader on Wednesday issued a subpoena seeking information from climate activists over antitrust issues, joining other Republicans who have criticized companies’ growing concern for environmental, social and governance (ESG) matters. Jim Jordan, chair of the House Judiciary Committee, wrote in a letter to a lawyer for Boston-based…
By Cassandra Garrison MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexican farmers on Thursday ended a protest at an airport in the northern state of Sinaloa and agreed to meet with the local governor after Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said he would not negotiate with the demonstrators. Baltazar Valdez, president of the United Farm Workers of Sinaloa,…
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – New York’s top state court on Thursday endorsed a broad application of a law prohibiting convicted sex offenders on parole from being within 1,000 feet of schools, rejecting challenges in two lawsuits by men convicted of sex crimes. In a 4-3 ruling, the New York Court of Appeals said the…
CARACAS (Reuters) -The president of Venezuela’s National Electoral Council Pedro Calzadilla on Thursday announced he would resign along with seven other members, ahead of a 2024 presidential election. The country’s opposition has long alleged that the council is biased toward President Nicolas Maduro’s ruling party. A majority of the council’s 15 members, including Calzadilla and…
By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The outlook from U.S. Federal Reserve officials at their meeting this week sees interest rate cuts beginning next year, relief, it would seem, from the ratcheting up of borrowing costs that has been underway since the spring of 2022 and left consumers and businesses grousing about their mortgages and…
By Nafisa Eltahir and Khalid Abdelaziz CAIRO/DUBAI (Reuters) – The conflict in Sudan hit the two-month mark on Thursday with no sign of a resolution as diplomatic peace efforts hit roadblocks and the risk of a broader ethnic war rises. Fighting between the army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which a U.S. diplomat earlier…
By Andrew Gray and Sabine Siebold BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Top U.S. defence officials said on Thursday Ukraine faces a tough fight in its counter-offensive against Russian forces and urged Kyiv’s allies to “dig deep” to provide more arms and ammunition. “Ukraine has begun their attack and they are making steady progress. This is a very difficult…
By Francesco Canepa and Balazs Koranyi FRANKFURT (Reuters) -The European Central Bank raised borrowing costs to their highest level in 22 years on Thursday and left the door open to more hikes, extending its fight against inflation that remains stubbornly high even as the euro zone economy flags. The ECB increased its key interest rate…
By Elizabeth Piper and William James LONDON (Reuters) -Boris Johnson deliberately misled the British parliament in an unprecedented way over rule-breaking parties at his office during COVID-19 lockdowns, a committee said on Thursday in a damning verdict that further tarnished the former prime minister Almost a year ago, Johnson was talking about remaining prime minister…
