By Emilio Parodi and Giulio Piovaccari MILAN (Reuters) -Italy bade farewell to four-times prime minister Silvio Berlusconi on Wednesday at a funeral befitting the business tycoon’s colourful life, with mourners bellowing football chants and politicians arguing over a day of national mourning. Crowds waving the flags of the AC Milan soccer club Berlusconi used to…
By Siddharth Cavale NEW YORK (Reuters) – Walmart’s Flipkart marketplace and PhonePe payments business in India could be $100 billion businesses buoyed by strong growth, the retailer’s chief financial officer said on Wednesday at an investor conference. Walmart does not break out sales of Flipkart and PhonePe but over the past few months, executives have…
(This June 12 story has been refiled to say Republican supporters, not Trump supporters in paragraph 3) By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A vast majority of Republicans believe federal criminal charges against Donald Trump are politically motivated, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll completed on Monday that also showed him far ahead of his nearest…
By Julie Zhu HONG KONG (Reuters) -Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp’s co-founder, is set to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday during his visit to China, two people with knowledge of the matter said. The meeting will mark Xi’s first meeting with a foreign private entrepreneur in recent years. The people said the encounter may…
By Leah Douglas WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Agriculture will temporarily close a damaged laboratory building at its flagship Maryland research site, a spokesperson told Reuters, shortly after employees filed a federal complaint alleging unsafe work conditions there. Reuters exclusively reported on May 19 that employees at the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (BARC),…
By Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Biden administration will strive to step up cooperation with China to halt the flow of the synthetic opioid fentanyl into the United States, a U.S. counter-narcotics official said ahead of a visit by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to Beijing. Efforts could include negotiations with China over…
By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The top Republican on the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee said on Wednesday he was blocking a $735 million arms sale to Hungary because its government has refused to approve Sweden’s bid to join NATO. “Given promises that were made to me and others last year that this vote…
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said on Wednesday it is requiring that new passenger airplanes have a secondary barrier to the flight deck to prevent intrusions. The final rule, which was first proposed in July, requires aircraft manufacturers to install a second physical barrier on planes used in commercial passenger…
By Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE (Reuters) – A lawyer for Russia on Wednesday dismissed Ukraine’s account of the downing of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 in World Court hearings earlier this week as “fiction”. Ukraine accuses Russia before the U.N.’s top court of violating a U.N. anti-terrorism treaty by equipping and funding pro-Russian forces,…
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Acting U.S. Labor Secretary Julie Su remained in San Francisco on Wednesday for ongoing meetings with West Coast port employers and unions representing 22,0000 workers with the goal of moving contract talks toward a resolution, a Department of Labor official said. Workers at ports stretching from California to…
