By Max Hunder KARYSHKIV, Ukraine (Reuters) – As a crowd gathered outside the white-brick Orthodox church in the village of Karyshkiv in western Ukraine, raised voices quickly turned to shouting. Soon old women were crying. The villagers were quarrelling over the affiliation of their parish church, which belonged to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC)…
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – A former Argentine businessman who pleaded guilty in the sprawling FIFA corruption probe will not have to spend time in prison, after his testimony contributed to the U.S. convictions of South American soccer officials and a television executive. Alejandro Burzaco, the former head of Argentine sports marketing company…
By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Ari Rabinovitch GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A Palestinian armed group on Friday fired rockets towards Jerusalem for the first time in fighting this week, and Israel killed another militant leader with its air strikes in Gaza, while Egypt tried to forge a ceasefire. Rocket sirens sounded in the town of Beit Shemesh…
MUNICH (Reuters) – Software AG Foundation, the largest shareholder in German business software developer Software AG, said on Friday that it continues to support private equity firm Silver Lake Management’s offer to buy the company. The foundation’s management is “convinced that Silver Lake is the right long-term partner” for Software AG, it said in a…
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Energy Department on Friday said it intends to loan California startup CelLink $362 million to help finance construction of a U.S. manufacturing facility to improve key vehicle wiring components. The conditional commitment from the government’s Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing loan program is for the development of lighter,…
By Aftab Ahmed NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s annual retail inflation eased to 18-month low in April, staying well below the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) upper tolerance limit for the second consecutive month, as food prices eased. Annual retail inflation eased to 4.7% in April from 5.66% in the previous month, government data showed…
(This May 11 story has been corrected to remove reference to more weight in paragraph 1) By Belén Carreño MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez will ask U.S. President Joe Biden in Washington on Friday to listen to the opinions of non-NATO members such as China and Brazil on the war in Ukraine,…
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Postal Service said on Friday it is taking steps to crack down on rising mail theft, robberies of carriers, change-of-address fraud and counterfeit postage. The postal service said it is installing 12,000 high-security blue collection boxes nationwide to make access more difficult for criminals and is evaluating replacing…
By Jessie Pang HONG KONG (Reuters) -China on Friday condemned a U.S. congressional report that called for sanctions against 29 Hong Kong judges involved in the city’s national security cases, given their role in “weakening” the rule of law. The report by the U.S. Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) – which advises Congress – said…
(Reuters) – A man accused of killing a doctor and wounding five other people in a shooting at a Taiwanese-American church banquet in California has been indicted on dozens of federal hate, weapons and explosive crimes, the U.S. Department of Justice said. The suspect, David Chou, 69, opened fire at the Geneva Presbyterian Church in…
