By Jody Godoy (Reuters) – Cryptocurrency companies that have resisted U.S. regulatory oversight, arguing digital assets are not securities, won a court victory this week. On Thursday Ripple Labs got…
(Reuters) – Toyota Motor said this week it will adopt a technology Tesla pioneered known as “Gigacasting” as part of a strategy by the Japanese automaker to improve the performance…
(Reuters) – Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell at his press conference on Wednesday is likely to get asked – again – what contingencies he plans for in the event of…
By Julie Ingwersen CHICAGO (Reuters) – Nearly all corn and soybean acres in the world’s largest exporting countries are seeded with genetically modified varieties, but that is not the case…
By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK (Reuters) – Investors are piling into shorter-dated options contracts, boosting trading volumes in the options market to new highs while sparking concerns about a…
By Tim Kelly TOKYO (Reuters) – The United States plans to shake up its marine force on Japan’s Okinawa islands as Tokyo undertakes its biggest military build up since World…
NPRISTINA (Reuters) – Kosovo will begin on Thursday a two-month implementation period for a controversial move to oblige Serbs, mainly those living in the northern part of the Balkan nation,…
By Ahmed Aboulenein and Julie Steenhuysen WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) – The United States plans to roll out an updated COVID-19 booster vaccine to include Omicron subvariants of the coronavirus. Regulators are…
By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO – The United States declared monkeypox a public health emergency last week, an effort to bolster the U.S. response to contain the outbreak. The virus continues…
JERUSALEM – Israeli officials say air strikes on Gaza have targeted the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) movement rather than Hamas, the militant group which rules the enclave. What is the…
MOSCOW – Tension over giant turbines that Moscow blames for the reduction of flows via the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline has put the focus on the equipment it needs…
BAGHDAD – A power struggle in Iraq between the influential Shi’ite cleric Moqtada Sadr and Iran-backed Shi’ite rivals has escalated with his supporters breaking into parliament and beginning an open-ended…
By Stephanie Kelly NEW YORK – U.S. crude shippers are exporting huge amounts of oil to meet strong demand from Europe following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and subsequent sanctions against…
By Mark Trevelyan LONDON – A budding courtship between Russia and Iran is an unwelcome development for the West that the United States will watch with concern, but it falls…
By Devjyot Ghoshal and Alasdair Pal (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s economic crisis looks to have finally toppled President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Rajapaksa fled the country early on Wednesday, likely headed to…
By Elaine Lies TOKYO – Japan will vote in upper house elections on Sunday that have implications for Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s grip on the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)…
By Susanna Twidale LONDON – Benchmark European and British gas prices are on course for gains of more than 50% this week after Russia said capacity of its Nord Stream…
By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS – European Union countries are struggling to agree oil sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, nearly four weeks after the European Commission proposed them.…
By Vera Eckert FRANKFURT – A bill to guarantee minimum gas storage levels in Germany, whose underground facilities account for a quarter of the EU bloc’s total capacity, will kick…
By Rocky Swift TOKYO – Japan’s government has severed banking and trade ties with Russia over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, but a tobacco company in which it owns a one-third…
BEIJING – The Russian athletes taking part at this month’s Beijing Olympics will be competing without their flag and national anthem because of doping sanctions. Here is why sanctions were…