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LONDON (Reuters) – As the need for climate action intensifies, governments and industries are exploring how to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. The U.S. government has offered $3.5 …

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea says it has tested a new solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), its first known use of the propellant in a longer-range projectile, …

By Rowena Edwards and Ahmed Rasheed (Reuters) – An international arbitration ruling on March 23 prompted the shutdown of Iraq’s northern crude oil exports through Turkey and sent oil prices …

By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Congress is voting this week on legislation to repeal the 1991 and 2002 Authorizations for the Use of Military Force, or AUMFs, …

By Hannah Lang (Reuters) – The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC) and its flagship deposit insurance fund have been active since the Great Depression to provide an orderly resolution for …

By Victoria Waldersee and Kate Abnett BERLIN/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Germany has declared last-minute opposition to a landmark European Union law to end sales of CO2-emitting cars in 2035, demanding that …

(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp-backed startup OpenAI began the rollout of GPT-4, a powerful artificial intelligence model that succeeds the technology behind the wildly popular ChatGPT. GPT-4 is “multimodal”, which means …

By Brad Brooks (Reuters) – Ahead of U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s visit on Thursday to the site of a toxic train derailment in Ohio, here is what we know …

By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An unprecedented spate of mysterious flying objects over North America – including a Chinese spy balloon shot down on Feb. 4 after floating over …

By Hannah Lang and Elizabeth Howcroft (Reuters) – Crypto companies offering their customers eye-popping yields through so-called “staking” products are earning the ire of the U.S. securities regulator who says …

By Marcela Ayres BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil and Argentina sparked some excitement on Sunday over the possibility of a potential “currency union”, though the two countries are unlikely to ditch …

By Gloria Dickie MONTREAL (Reuters) – Tangled expanses of Amazon rainforest, high mountains of the Himalayas, and cloud-shrouded forests are just some of the unique landscapes contained within the world’s …

By Jake Spring SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil’s presidential election on Sunday may determine the fate of the Amazon jungle, the world’s largest rainforest, after deforestation soared in the past …

By Joseph Ax (Reuters) – Challenges to election results are not new in the United States. But former President Donald Trump and his allies took things to an extreme in …

By Luc Cohen and Jacqueline Thomsen (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Donald Trump is facing legal scrutiny from state, congressional and federal investigators on a range of issues – from …

By Josh Smith (Reuters) – From the war in Ukraine to North Korea’s recent missile testing spree, tactical nuclear weapons are being debated and developed in a way not seen …

By Guy Faulconbridge LONDON (Reuters) – Repeated shelling of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine has raised the possibility of a grave accident just 500 km (300 miles) …

By Bernardo Caram BRASILIA (Reuters) – Both of Brazil’s presidential candidates, President Jair Bolsonaro and former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, have proposed changes to the constitutional spending limit …

By Bernardo Caram BRASILIA (Reuters) – Both of Brazil’s presidential candidates, President Jair Bolsonaro and former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, have proposed changes to the constitutional spending limit …

By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. legislation that could open members of oil producing group OPEC+ to antitrust lawsuits has emerged as a possible tool to tackle high fuel …

By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) – The Bank of England intervened in the UK government bond market to rein in gilt yields, which rocketed after Britain unveiled a welter of …

By Gram Slattery RIO DE JANEIRO(Reuters) – Brazilians go to the polls on Sunday to vote in one of the world’s most closely watched elections this year. Right-wing incumbent Jair …

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Donald Trump, three of his adult children and their family company were sued by New York state Attorney General Letitia James on Wednesday …

By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday ordered Russia’s first mobilisation since World War Two after suffering a major battlefield reversal in Ukraine, an attempt to …

By Laila Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) – Hurricane Fiona knocked out electrical power to the entire commonwealth of Puerto Rico starting on Sunday, reviving memories of Hurricane Maria, the deadly …