LONDON (Reuters) – Britain was heading towards a December election on Tuesday after Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s bet on breaking the Brexit deadlock with an early vote gained support from opposition parties. Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves Downing Street to head for the Houses of Parliament in London, Britain October 28, 2019. REUTERS/Toby Melville
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MARIUPOL, Ukraine (Reuters) – Ukrainian officials will not testify in the U.S. Congress in the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump because Kiev does not want to get involved in the internal affairs of another country, Ukraine’s foreign minister said on Tuesday. FILE PHOTO: Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko attends a news conference with his
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union should revise its fiscal rules to allow governments to spend more on policies to fight climate change and infrastructure, an independent advisory body said on Tuesday. FILE PHOTO: European Flags flutter outside the European Commission’s headquarters in Brussels, Belgium October 17, 2019. REUTERS/Yves Herman/File Photo With the euro zone’s
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Naomi Osaka’s struggles at the WTA Finals continued on Tuesday as the world no. 3 was forced to withdraw from this year’s tournament in Shenzhen with a shoulder injury. Tennis – WTA Tour Finals – Shenzhen Bay Sports Center – Shenzhen, Guangdong province, China – October 29, 2019 Japan’s Naomi Osaka
(Reuters) – AT&T Inc (T.N) executives on Tuesday are expected to reveal new details about pricing, programming and distribution of the company’s forthcoming HBO Max streaming video service as they plot the phone giant’s entrance into the streaming war. The logo for WarnerMedia’s new HBO Max service is seen in this handout photo obtained on
FILE PHOTO: Solar panels are seen on the roof of a public housing block in Singapore September 23, 2018. Picture taken September 23, 2018. REUTERS/Thomas White SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Natural gas will continue to play a dominant role in generating electricity in Singapore while the city-state plans to scale up the use of renewable energy,
FILE PHOTO: A sign is pictured outs a Google office near the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, U.S., May 8, 2019. REUTERS/Dave Paresh (Reuters) – Australia’s consumer regulator filed a lawsuit against Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google on Tuesday, alleging it misled consumers about how it was collecting, storing and using personal location data. The
(Reuters) – A North Carolina court on Monday temporarily blocked the state from using its congressional map in next year’s elections and strongly suggested it would eventually rule the districts were illegally gerrymandered to favor Republicans. FILE PHOTO: Diptych images show the east and west side of the boundary line between Congressional Districts 6 and
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. telecommunications regulator plans to vote in November to designate China’s Huawei Technologies and ZTE Corp (000063.SZ) as national security risks, barring their U.S. rural carrier customers from tapping an $8.5 billion government fund to purchase equipment or services. FILE PHOTO: The Huawei logo is pictured at the IFA consumer tech
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrats in Congress, answering Republican complaints that their impeachment investigation of U.S. President Donald Trump is being conducted in secret, plan a vote on Thursday on a format for going public with their inquiry, marking a significant new stage in the probe. Trump and his fellow Republicans have for weeks branded as
CHELMSFORD, England (Reuters) – A court heard on Monday that a global ring had been involved in smuggling the 39 people whose bodies were found in a truck near London, as the driver faced charges of manslaughter and people-trafficking. The discovery of the bodies last week in a refrigerated truck on an industrial estate near
BEVERLY HILLS (Reuters) – Olivia Newton-John’s black leather jacket and very tight pants from “Grease”, complete with a broken zipper, go up for auction this week as the top item in a sale to help raise money for her cancer treatment center in Australia. FILE PHOTO: Cast members John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John dance at
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A fast-moving wildfire on Monday destroyed at least five multimillion-dollar homes in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Los Angeles and forced celebrities to flee in the middle of the night. Among neighborhoods under evacuation orders was the posh area of Brentwood, a section on the west side of the city
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A large ancient wetlands region spanning northern Botswana – once teeming with life but now dominated by desert and salt flats – may represent the ancestral homeland of all of the 7.7 billion people on Earth today, researchers said on Monday. FILE PHOTO: Vanessa Hayes speaks with Headman ǀkun ǀkunta, from an
LONDON (Reuters) – Oil prices rose on Monday on hopes for a Sino-American trade deal but gains were capped by weak Chinese industrial data. FILE PHOTO: An oil pump is seen just after sunset outside Saint-Fiacre, near Paris, France September 17, 2019. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann Brent crude was up 26 cents, or 0.4%, at $62.28 a
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanese banks said on Monday they would ensure public sector workers were paid their salaries as they remain closed by a wave of protests against politicians blamed for corruption and steering Lebanon toward economic collapse. A demonstrator burns tires blocking a road in the port city of Sidon, Lebanon, October 28, 2019.