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PARIS (Reuters) -French farmers maintained nationwide protests on Saturday and kept their threat of roadblocks around Paris, arguing government measures to quell the demonstrations did not go far enough to …

By Alexandra Ulmer, Peter Eisler and Linda So (Reuters) -Authorities responded to a fake emergency at the South Carolina home of Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley last month after a …

LONDON (Reuters) -Six European countries paused funding for the U.N. refugee agency for Palestinians (UNRWA) on Saturday, following allegations that some of its staff were involved in the Oct. 7 …

(Reuters) -Swiss building materials giant Holcim is nearing a deal to separate its North America business that could be worth more than $30 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on …

By Thomas Escritt BERLIN (Reuters) – Promising to rescue Germany from the far right, a new leftist party offered up a populist recipe of high pensions, low defence spending and …

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin castigated Europe on Saturday for “Russophobia” and criticized the Baltic States over human rights at the unveiling of a World War Two memorial. …

By Sheila Dang (Reuters) – Social media company X is in the process of hiring 100 content moderators for a new office in Austin, Texas that will focus on fighting …

By Chayut Setboonsarng, Liangping Gao and Trevor Hunnicutt BANGKOK/BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Top Chinese and U.S. officials held candid talks in Bangkok aimed at lowering tensions between the superpowers on Taiwan and …

By David Shepardson (Reuters) – United Airlines said it had resumed use of its Boeing 737 MAX 9 jets Saturday for passenger flights after U.S. regulators gave the green light …

By David Shepardson and Maria Martinez WASHINGTON/BERLIN (Reuters) – President Joe Biden will meet with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Washington on Feb. 9 in a bid to rally support …

By Jonathan Stempel and Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump was handed a stinging defeat on Friday by a Manhattan jury that ordered him to pay $83.3 million to …

(Reuters) -Alaska Airlines on Friday said it has completed inspections on the first group of its Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft, clearing the carrier to put the MAX 9 back …

(Reuters) -John Lewis Partnership, the owner of John Lewis and Waitrose, is considering cutting up to 11,000 staff jobs in the next five years, the Guardian reported on Saturday. A …

By Leonardo and Benassatto NEAR RE’IM, Israel (Reuters) – At the site of the bloodiest incident in Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel, foreigners and Israelis walk between placards …

By Jonathan Allen (Reuters) -Alabama offered assistance on Friday to other U.S. states seeking to carry out executions using asphyxiation by nitrogen gas, a few hours after pioneering the new …

By Stephanie van den Berg, Bassam Masoud and Nidal al-Mughrabi THE HAGUE/GAZA (Reuters) -The World Court ordered Israel on Friday to prevent acts of genocide against Palestinians and do more …

(Reuters) -Microsoft’s Teams services were restored on Saturday after a disruption blocked access to the messaging platform. “After extended monitoring and mitigation efforts, we’ve confirmed that our Microsoft Teams service …

By Kylie Madry MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -The U.S. government said on Friday it did not plan to renew the antitrust immunity that Delta Air Lines and Aeromexico currently operate a …

BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s major southern city of Guangzhou fully relaxed home purchase limits for some people on Saturday and said it would increase affordable housing supply, in a move …

(Reuters) – MacKenzie Scott, ex-wife of Amazon.com billionaire Chief Executive Jeff Bezos, sold 65.3 million shares in the ecommerce giant last year, Bloomberg News reported on Friday. The share sale …

By Liangping Gao and Ryan Woo BEIJING (Reuters) -Profits at China’s industrial firms fell 2.3% in 2023, their second straight yearly decline, due to sluggish demand at home and abroad, …

By Lisa Barrington (Reuters) – The first Boeing 737 MAX jet delivered to a Chinese airline since March 2019 landed in China on Saturday, ending an almost five-year import freeze …

By Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration on Friday formally informed Congress of its intention to proceed with the $23 billion sale of F-16 fighter jets to …