FILE PHOTO: TV Chef Gary Rhodes (C) launches Manchester United’s own label champagne with models Emma Hartley (L) and Gaynor Smith at Old Trafford, Britain, July 9, 1997. REUTERS/Dan Chung/File Photo LONDON (Reuters) – British chef and TV presenter Gary Rhodes has died at the age of 59, prompting tributes from Gordon Ramsay, Jamie Oliver
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Wednesday agreed to impose a temporary delay on her ruling requiring former White House Counsel Don McGahn to testify to lawmakers as part of the Democrat-led impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump. FILE PHOTO: White House Counsel Don McGahn listens to Judge Brett Kavanaugh as he testifies before
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Public support for impeaching President Donald Trump has tracked steadily higher over the past few weeks while a U.S. House of Representatives committee held a series of televised impeachment hearings, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Tuesday. FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a signing ceremony for
FILE PHOTO: German Chancellor Angela Merkel gestures as she speaks at the opening of the 2019 Internet Governance Forum in Berlin, Germany, November 26, 2019. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel called on European countries on Wednesday to agree a common approach towards China and the rollout of the next generation 5G
DUBAI/ABU DHABI (Reuters) – The sovereign wealth funds of Abu Dhabi and Kuwait plan to invest in the initial public offering (IPO) of Saudi Aramco, which is relying mainly on Saudi and Gulf investors to raise up to $25.6 billion, sources familiar with the matter said. FILE PHOTO: The logo of Aramco is seen as
FILE PHOTO: A view through a fence decorated with the Olympic rings shows a building of the federal state budgetary institution which houses a laboratory accredited by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), in Moscow, Russia on November 11, 2015. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia will fully cooperate with the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and
NGHE AN, Vietnam (Reuters) – With tears in their eyes and white roses in their hands, friends and relatives of the 39 Vietnamese people who were found dead in the back of a British truck last month sobbed as the first bodies to be repatriated arrived in rural Vietnam on Wednesday. Ambulances from Ha Tinh
Britain’s opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn appears on BBC TV’s The Andrew Neil Interviews in London, Britain, November 26, 2019. Jeff Overs/BBC/Handout via REUTERS LONDON (Reuters) – The leader of Britain’s main opposition Labour Party said on Tuesday that if he won a national election on Dec. 12 he would use government reserves and
HALLOCK, Minn. (Reuters) – Weather during harvest season in the U.S. Red River Valley, a fertile sugar beet region in Minnesota and North Dakota, has to farmers felt like a series of plagues. Sugar beets covered in snow at a processing facility in East Grand Forks, Minnesota, U.S., November 22, 2019. REUTERS/Nicholas Pfosi Rain and
LONDON (Reuters) – Among the most hotly contested topics at international climate change talks in Madrid on December 2-13 will be the role of market-based mechanisms for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases, such as carbon offsets. FILE PHOTO: A man rides his bicycle past the cooling tower and chimneys from a coal-burning power station in
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee on Tuesday invited President Donald Trump to its first impeachment hearing, scheduled for Dec. 4, starting a new phase of the inquiry that could lead to formal charges against the president within weeks. FILE PHOTO: A protester holds placard outside of the Longworth building as
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday suggested that Ukraine should be investigated over allegations that it interfered in the 2016 election, a debunked theory advanced by President Donald Trump that witnesses told the congressional impeachment inquiry was spread by Russian spy agencies. FILE PHOTO: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo holds
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Justice Department lawyers asked a U.S. judge on Tuesday to put on hold a ruling requiring former White House Counsel Don McGahn to testify to lawmakers as part of the Democratic-led impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump. U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on Monday rejected the Trump administration’s claim of broad
FILE PHOTO: Mark Sandy, official of the Office of Management and Budget, arrives for a closed-door deposition as part of the House of Representatives impeachment inquiry into U.S. President Trump on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., November 16, 2019. REUTERS/Yara Nardi WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An attorney for the White House’s budget office resigned in part
BOSTON (Reuters) – Activist investor Blackwells is pushing to remove Tom Barrack, a billionaire friend of President Donald Trump, as CEO of Colony Capital, saying his mismanagement of the real estate and investment firm has cost shareholders billions of dollars in lost gains. FILE PHOTO: Tom Barrack, CEO of Colony Capital, speaks at the Republican
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. lawmakers behind a bill to stop a large federal retirement pension plan from investing in a fund that includes China-listed shares said the pension plan’s administrators are being misleading about what their bill entails. FILE PHOTO: Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) questions U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo during a