By Julia Harte (Reuters) – A South Carolina judge on Friday temporarily blocked the state’s new law that bans most abortions after about six weeks, ruling that it should be considered by the state Supreme Court before taking effect. State Circuit Judge Clifton Newman granted reproductive rights groups’ motion to block the legislation, which Republican…
By Mike Scarcella (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Thursday approved Apple Inc’s $50 million class-action settlement resolving consumer claims over certain defective MacBook keyboards, in a ruling that spurned challenges to the deal. U.S. District Judge Edward Davila in San Jose, California, federal court in his ruling called the settlement “fair, adequate and reasonable.”…
By Makiko Yamazaki and Daniel Leussink TOKYO (Reuters) -Proxy adviser Glass Lewis has recommended that shareholders of Toyota Motor Corp vote against the re-election of Chairman Akio Toyoda as a board director at an upcoming meeting, citing his responsibility for the lack of a sufficiently independent board. Glass Lewis made the recommendation against the chairman…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen spoke about the U.S. economy’s resilience in the face of global headwinds in a meeting Friday with International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, according to a Treasury Department statement. Yellen and Georgieva also discussed recent banking sector stress, the outlook for the U.S. economy as well…
By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) -A senior ally of President Vladimir Putin said on Friday the conflict in Ukraine could last for decades and that negotiations with Ukraine were impossible as long as Ukraine’s Western-backed President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was in power. Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine has triggered the deadliest European conflict since World War…
By Rajesh Kumar Singh, Doyinsola Oladipo, David Shepardson (Reuters) -After two successive summers of travel chaos, U.S. airlines are going all out to prevent large-scale flight disruptions in the face of rising demand. Carriers have trimmed flight schedules, beefed up staffing, and invested in airport infrastructure and technology to be ready for the busiest travel…
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Friday he had a phone call with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and reaffirmed his willingness to establish peace talks with both sides of the war in Ukraine. Lula tweeted he had also thanked Putin for an invitation to attend an economic forum…
THE HAGUE (Reuters) – The Netherlands is “seriously considering” sending F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine but has not taken any final decision yet, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said on Friday. Earlier this week the Netherlands said it wanted to start training Ukrainian pilots in flying F-16’s as soon as possible. Asked if the Netherlands…
TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese startup ispace inc’s failed Hakuto-R moon landing mission last month was caused by an altitude miscalculation that meant the spacecraft ran out of fuel, the company said on Friday. Tokyo-based ispace lost connection with the Hakuto-R Mission 1 lander after the spacecraft attempted what would have been the world’s first commercial soft-landing…
By John Revill ZURICH (Reuters) -Credit Suisse was ordered to pay $926 million to Georgia’s former prime minister on Friday for losing part of his fortune, in a Singapore court ruling that represents one of the biggest legal awards made against the bank. Singapore’s International Commercial Court said a unit of Credit Suisse had not…
