By Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) – Before COVID-19 sent one-third of the global workforce home, the Melbourne property surveyor that employs drone operator Nicholas Coomber called its 180-strong staff into the office every day at 9 a.m. to hand out assignments. Now that they work from home, the surveyors travel straight to the field as…
By Jack Queen (Reuters) – Donald Trump was charged on Tuesday with four felonies over his efforts to undo his 2020 election loss to U.S. President Joe Biden. Here is a look at the federal charges and how Trump might defend himself. CONSPIRACY TO DEFRAUD THE U.S. This is a very broad law that covers…
(Reuters) -The Bahamian government on Tuesday welcomed Kenya’s decision to lead a multinational force in Haiti and committed 150 people to support the effort if the United Nations authorizes the force. The announcement from the Bahamas’ foreign ministry follows a request on Monday from U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres that Haiti’s neighbors join forces with…
By Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) -North Korea has offered a very brief response to the United Nations Command about a U.S. soldier who dashed over the heavily-guarded border with South Korea on July 18 and was immediately taken into custody, the Pentagon said on Tuesday. However, Pentagon spokesperson Brigadier General Patrick Ryder…
NEW YORK (Reuters) -A body found in a New York City creek has been identified as missing John Castic, a Goldman Sachs staffer, the New York City Police Department said. Castic was a member of Goldman’s controllers team working closely with its asset and wealth management business, the Wall Street firm said. “The Office of…
By Jihoon Lee SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea’s consumer inflation cooled more than expected in July to its slowest in 25 months, official data showed on Wednesday, supporting market views that the monetary tightening cycle was over contrary to the central bank’s hawkish rhetoric. The consumer price index stood 2.3% higher in July than a year…
By Layli Foroudi and Zhifan Liu PARIS (Reuters) – France began the evacuation of hundreds of French and European citizens from Niger on Tuesday, a day after neighbours Mali and Burkina Faso said any outside intervention to restore the ousted government would be seen as a declaration of war. A military junta overthrew Niger’s democratically…
(Corrects last name of KPMG partner to Bellangero, not Belangero, throughout the story) By Carolina Pulice and Andre Romani SAO PAULO/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Brazilian retailer Americanas’ management received several notices of accounting deficiencies and inadequate internal controls, a partner at accounting firm KPMG said on Tuesday, issues at the heart of fraud that became…
(Reuters) – One person was killed and 56 were injured when a bus rolled over near the Grand Canyon in Arizona, officials said. Eight of those injured were flown to hospitals and others who suffered non-critical injuries were taken by ground transportation, the Hualapai tribe’s emergency operations said in a statement. A tour bus collided…
By Daina Beth Solomon MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -A labor dispute at Grupo Mexico’s San Martin mine in Mexico’s Zacatecas state, where the U.S. raised concerns over alleged worker rights abuses, does not meet the criteria for review under a regional trade deal, Mexico said on Tuesday. Mexico’s rejection of the U.S. complaint filed in June…
