By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday blocked, for now, lower court orders that would have imposed new restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone while a lawsuit by anti-abortion groups and doctors seeking to ban it proceeds. But the legal fight over the drug is far from over. Here is what…
By Abhirup Roy, Dan Levine and Hyunjoo Jin LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -A California state court jury on Friday handed Tesla Inc a sweeping win, finding the electric vehicle maker’s Autopilot feature did not fail in what appeared to be the first trial related to a crash involving the partially automated driving software. Tesla has been…
By Abhirup Roy, Dan Levine and Hyunjoo Jin LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Jurors in what appears to be the first trial related to a crash involving Tesla’s Autopilot feature told Reuters after the verdict on Friday that the electric-vehicle maker clearly warned that the partially automated driving software was not a self-piloted system, and that…
By Catarina Demony and Miguel Pereira LISBON (Reuters) – Waving flags and holding photographs depicting conflict atrocities, Ukrainians gathered outside the Brazilian embassy in Lisbon on Friday to protest recent remarks about the Ukraine war made by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. Lula, who arrived in Portugal earlier on Friday for a five-day official…
By Steve Holland and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) – At a summit next week with South Korean leader Yoon Suk Yeol U.S. President Joe Biden will pledge “substantial” steps to underscore the U.S. commitment to deter a North Korean nuclear attack on South Korea, a senior U.S. official said on Friday. “We are working extraordinarily…
By Khalid Abdelaziz and Nafisa Eltahir KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sporadic shelling rang out late on Friday in Sudan’s capital even though warring factions announced a truce, while one force said it was willing to allow airports to reopen for the evacuation of foreign nationals. The United Nations, U.S., UK, Japan, Switzerland, South Korea, Sweden and…
(Reuters) -Paramount Global has agreed to a $167.5 million settlement of a case stemming from the 2019 merger of Viacom Inc and CBS Corp that created the entertainment company, a filing showed. The settlement, reached on Tuesday, provides for the dismissal of the case in exchange for the payment to Paramount, according to a Securities…
GENEVA (Reuters) -Inmates who have been held for years in the Guantanamo Bay U.S. detention facility in Cuba are showing signs of “accelerated ageing”, a senior official of the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Friday. “We’re calling on the U.S. administration and Congress to work together to find adequate and sustainable solutions…
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Air National Guardsman accused of leaking classified documents to a small group of gamers had been posting sensitive information months earlier than previously known and to a much larger chat group, the New York Times reported on Friday, citing online postings reviewed by the newspaper. In February 2022,…
By Carman Chew SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Chilean President Gabriel Boric said on Thursday he would nationalise the country’s lithium industry and create a state-owned company to produce the metal that is a key component of electric vehicle batteries. Boric said future lithium contracts would only be issued as public-private partnerships with state control. Chile holds…
