GameStop rally builds after puzzling ice-cream cone tweet
GameStop Corp shares surged more than 50% in early deals on Thursday as amateur investors jumped back into the stock…
Special Report: In Germany’s Black Forest, Putin critic Navalny gathered strength and resolve
IBACH, Germany (Reuters) – Just over two weeks after his poisoning with a military-grade nerve agent in Siberia, Kremlin critic…
Singapore readies quarantine business bubble for in-person meetings
Singapore has been testing out a “bubble” business hotel that will allow quarantined executives arriving in the country to do…
Damage to United Boeing 777 engine consistent with metal fatigue: NTSB
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Damage to a fan blade on an engine that failed on a United Airlines Boeing 777 flight…
Strike grips Myanmar, anti-coup protesters defy junta’s lethal warning
Myanmar police began to disperse pro-democracy protesters on Monday as businesses around the country shut in a general strike called…
Facebook has ‘tentatively friended’ us again, Australia says
CANBERRA (Reuters) – Facebook Inc is back at the negotiating table, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Saturday after…
Diverse Myanmar protesters united in opposition to coup
(Reuters) – Opponents of Myanmar’s coup took to the streets again on Saturday with members of ethnic minorities, writers and…
Myanmar protester dies after 10 days on life support; pressure on army grows
(Reuters) – A young woman protester in Myanmar who was shot in the head last week as police dispersed a…
Winter storm pulls away from Texas, but millions still without power
LUBBOCK, Texas (Reuters) – The winter storm that crippled the Texas electrical grid is moving out of the state, but…
Facebook unfriends Australia: news sites go dark in content row
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australians woke to empty news feeds on their Facebook Inc pages on Thursday after the social media…
Ford’s Europe car lineup to be all-electric by 2030
LONDON (Reuters) – Ford Motor Co on Wednesday said its car lineup in Europe will be all-electric by 2030 as…
Trial of ‘Hotel Rwanda hero’ begins amid family’s fears of injustice
KIGALI (Reuters) – Paul Rusesabagina, the hotelier depicted as a hero in a Hollywood film about Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, was…
Cold snap leaves one dead, over 4 million without power in Texas
(Reuters) – At least one person was dead and more than 4 million were without power in Texas after a…
Oil hits 13-months highs on fears of Middle East tensions
TOKYO (Reuters) – Oil prices soared on Monday to their highest in about 13 months as fears of heightened tensions…
CDC chief warns it’s too soon in U.S. to lift COVID-19 mask mandates
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Sunday it is…
Spotify to allow employees to work from anywhere
(Reuters) – Spotify Technology SA will allow its employees to work from anywhere, the Swedish music streaming company said in…
Tens of thousands protest Myanmar coup after night of fear, security patrols
(Reuters) – Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets in Myanmar’s major cities for a ninth day of…
Mobile bank MoneyLion to go public via blank-check merger in $2.9 billion deal
(Reuters) – Mobile banking platform MoneyLion Inc said on Friday it has agreed to go public through a merger with…
Melbourne starts snap virus lockdown, no crowds at Australian Open
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Australia’s second most populous state Victoria entered a five-day lockdown on Saturday as authorities raced to prevent…
ByteDance explores sale of Indian TikTok assets to rival firm Glance: Bloomberg
TOKYO (Reuters) – China’s ByteDance is said to be exploring the sale of the India operations of TikTok to rival…
Analysis: Investors lukewarm on Tesla’s $1.5 billion bitcoin splurge
(Reuters) – Investors in high-flying electric carmaker Tesla Inc are questioning whether Elon Musk’s $1.5 billion outlay into bitcoin will…
Rescuers drill Indian tunnel to look for trapped workers; families get impatient
TAPOVAN, India (Reuters) – Indian authorities on Thursday began drilling inside a tunnel in the Himalayas in an attempt to…
Nigeria yet to detect South African virus variant, to stick with AstraZeneca vaccine
ABUJA/LAGOS (Reuters) – Nigeria has not yet found the South African variant of COVID-19 in its population and will continue…
Musk-fuelled bitcoin surge triggers cryptocurrency exchange glitches
(Reuters) – Major cryptocurrency exchanges experienced technical issues on Monday as trading volumes soared after billionaire Elon Musk’s Tesla Inc…
Exclusive: Congressional Democrats set to back more than $50 billion for transportation sector
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrats in the U.S. Congress are to release a sweeping plan on Monday to provide more than…
Himalayan glacier bursts in India, 100-150 feared dead in floods
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – As many as 150 people were feared dead in northern India after a Himalayan glacier broke…
Biden administration suspends Trump asylum deals with El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Biden administration said on Saturday it was immediately suspending Trump-era asylum agreements with El Salvador, Guatemala…
Protests sweep Myanmar to oppose coup, support Suu Kyi
(Reuters) – Tens of thousands of people rallied across Myanmar on Sunday to denounce last week’s coup and demand the…
Countdown to ‘catastrophe:’ Inside Europe’s fight for COVID shots
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – In a meeting last week in the Europa building in Brussels, home of the European Union’s political…
Wuhan or Wu-Tang? Canadian diplomat’s T-shirt logo angers China
BEIJING (Reuters) – Canada said it regretted a “misunderstanding” after China lodged a formal complaint over a diplomat’s order of…
German lawmakers turn sights on finance ministers in Wirecard fraud fiasco
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Fresh from toppling the head of Germany’s top financial regulator last week, lawmakers are turning their fire…