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DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland on Saturday almost doubled its budget surplus forecast for 2022 to 0.9% of gross domestic product thanks to booming corporate tax revenues, giving it extra resources …

(Reuters) – Reuters is withdrawing a Sept. 8 article that compared carbon emissions from U.S. ethanol plants and oil refineries because of its flawed interpretation of data on ethanol-plant pollution …

By Flavia Marreiro SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Prominent Brazil environmentalist Marina Silva, who was environment minister under ex-President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva before breaking with his party, told Reuters she …

By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) – Elijah McClain, an unarmed Black man killed in 2019 after an encounter with police in Aurora, Colorado, died of an overdose of the powerful …

(Corrects paragraph 16 to show Cheniere is not the only LNG company subject to the EPA rule) By Nichola Groom and Valerie Volcovici (Reuters) -Top U.S. LNG exporter Cheniere Energy …

By David French (Reuters) – Wall Street’s main indexes slumped to close well down on Friday, as rattled investors continued repositioning themselves to reflect fears the U.S. Federal Reserve’s hawkish …

By Valerie Volcovici and Timothy Gardner PITTSBURGH/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senator Joe Manchin on Friday warned that bipartisan opposition to his bill to overhaul energy permitting could derail his plan to …

By David Ljunggren (Reuters) -Ukraine said on Friday it would downgrade diplomatic ties with Iran over Tehran’s decision to supply Russian forces with drones, a move President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called …

By Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Only a third of Americans – including half of Republicans and one in six Democrats – say it’s OK for state officials to fly …

(Reuters) – Beyond Meat Inc said on Friday it would eliminate the role of chief supply chain officer after Bernie Adcock notified he would step down from the role, effective …

By Steve Scherer OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol on Friday agreed to deepen cooperation on critical minerals used in electric vehicles …

(Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman met on Friday with U.S. Senior Advisor for Energy Security Amos Hochstein and the White House National Security Council’s Middle East …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden challenged Democratic voters on Friday that if they elect at least two more senators in November elections, it would open the possibility of Democrats …

By Edward McAllister DAKAR (Reuters) – The world’s longest-standing leader, President Teodoro Obiang of Equatorial Guinea, will run for office again in November elections, his party announced on Friday, likely …

(Fixes typo in headline) By Medha Singh (Reuters) -The blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled to its lowest level since November 2020 on Friday, but narrowly missed ending more than …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States is prepared to impose additional economic costs on Russia in conjunction with U.S. allies if Moscow moves forward with annexing portions of Ukrainian territory, the …

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said his office was replacing some election equipment in a south Georgia county where former officials allegedly allowed …

By Don Burgess and Eric Martyn HAMILTON, Bermuda/HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (Reuters) -Hurricane Fiona pounded the Atlantic island of Bermuda with heavy rain and winds on Friday as it tracked northward …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden said on Friday that Russian referendums aimed at annexing four occupied regions of Ukraine are a sham and said Washington “will never recognize …

By Daphne Psaledakis and Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Countries on the front lines of the climate crisis are fed up. During the annual gathering of world leaders at …

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – Deutsche Bank AG agreed to pay $26.25 million to settle a U.S. shareholder lawsuit accusing the German bank of lax oversight while doing …

By Hannah Lang (Reuters) – Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has no plans to delist tokens the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has labeled as securities, or to register with the agency …

(Reuters) -Shares of retail brokerage Robinhood Markets Inc and market maker Virtu Financial jumped following a media report that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will stop short of …