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…
Billionaire Steve Cohen quits Twitter, citing threats in GameStop uproar
BOSTON (Reuters) – Billionaire investor Steve Cohen, seen by small investors as an enemy in the GameStop stock drama this…
Trump parts ways with impeachment lawyers: sources
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Donald Trump abruptly parted ways on Saturday with the two lead lawyers working on…
Analysis: Robinhood and Reddit protected from lawsuits by user agreement, Congress
(Reuters) – Robinhood Markets Inc’s user agreement is likely to protect the brokerage app from a barrage of lawsuits filed…
New Whale Species Discovered in the Gulf of Mexico — But It’s Already Going Extinct
According to an article published by Marine Mammal Science, the species — initially thought to be the Bryde’s whale — is…
China toughens language, warns Taiwan that independence ‘means war’
BEIJING (Reuters) – China toughened its language towards Taiwan on Thursday, warning after recent stepped up military activities near the…
Yemen ‘Arab Spring’ unity torn asunder by hunger and war
SANAA/TAIZ, Yemen (Reuters) – Ten years after joining an uprising in Yemen against autocratic rule and an economy in shambles,…
Syrian businessman Haswani denies links to Beirut blast chemicals
DAMASCUS (Reuters) – Syrian businessman George Haswani denied any links on Wednesday to last year’s explosion that killed 200 people…
UK could become ‘a failed state’ without reform, former UK PM Brown says
LONDON (Reuters) – Unless the United Kingdom is fundamentally reformed it could swiftly become a failed state as many people…
‘We can’t wait:’ Biden administration fights for $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Officials in President Joe Biden’s administration tried to head off Republican concerns that his $1.9 trillion pandemic…
Tropical cyclone Eloise makes landfall in Mozambique, loses strength
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Tropical cyclone Eloise made landfall in Mozambique early on Saturday, hitting the coastal city of Beira with…
Police round up more than 350 at Russia protests backing jailed Kremlin foe Navalny
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Police detained more than 350 people across Russia on Saturday and broke up rallies around the country…
‘Choose – I kill you or rape you’: abuse accusations surge in Ethiopia’s war
HAMDAYET, Sudan (Reuters) – The young coffee seller said she was split from family and friends by an Ethiopian soldier…
Navalny, anticipating arrest, planned protests to force Kremlin to release him, ally says
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Before he returned to Russia, opposition politician Alexei Navalny and his supporters had anticipated he would be…
Biden to tackle coronavirus pandemic on first full day in White House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden will launch an array of initiatives on Thursday to rein in the raging coronavirus…
Proud Boys member in latest wave of arrests over U.S. Capitol riots
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The FBI on Wednesday arrested a Florida-based member of the right-wing Proud Boys group on charges of…
‘We must end this uncivil war,’ Biden says, taking over a U.S. in crisis
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Joe Biden was sworn in as president of the United States on Wednesday, offering a message of…
Factbox: Here’s how Biden plans to roll back Trump’s immigration policies
(Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Joe Biden is set to issue several measures on Wednesday aimed at rolling back some of…
Thai royalists launch political party to protect monarchy
BANGKOK (Reuters) – An ultra royalist group in Thailand launched a new political party on Wednesday to defend King Maha…
Trump pardons ex-aide Bannon but not himself or family
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump granted clemency to former White House aide Steve Bannon as part of a…
Uganda accuses U.S. of subversion after envoy tries to visit Wine’s house
KAMPALA (Reuters) – Uganda’s government spokesman accused the United States on Tuesday of trying to subvert last week’s presidential elections…
Trump clemency likely for Lil Wayne, no pardons for Giuliani or Bannon: sources
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump is likely to grant clemency to rapper Lil Wayne on Tuesday in a…