WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government on Friday said it would increase tariffs on aircraft imported from the European Union to 15% from 10%, ratcheting up pressure on Brussels in a nearly 16-year transatlantic dispute over aircraft subsidies. FILE PHOTO: The logo of Airbus is pictured at the aircraft builder’s headquarters of Airbus in Colomiers
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Demonstrators graffitied the phrase “femicide state” in blood-red on Mexico’s presidential palace on Friday, before marching under heavy rain to the offices of newspaper La Prensa to protest the publication of a gruesome image of a murder victim. People take part in a protest against gender-based violence in downtown of Mexico
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) – The Alaska Supreme Court on Friday cleared the way for a campaign seeking to oust the state’s embattled governor to proceed with plans to collect enough signatures to place a recall initiative on the 2020 ballot. In the latest legal setback for Governor Mike Dunleavy, a first-term Republican and ally of
The Jonas Brothers are on tour in Europe right now, but an evening concert gave Nick Jonas plenty of time to take his wife Priyanka Chopra out on a lunch date this Valentine’s Day. The ever-stylish couple was photographed out in Milan today. The two complemented each other in black pieces: Chopra had on a
(Reuters) – Singer R. Kelly, already facing trial in three states on sexual abuse, child pornography, kidnapping and obstruction of justice charges, has been hit with an updated indictment in Chicago stemming from a newly-identified victim, court documents showed on Friday. FILE PHOTO: R. Kelly walks inside the Criminal Court Building as he arrives for
Here is a wrap-up of all the news you need to know from Friday, February 14, 2020. BBC America’s Killing Eve is getting a later than usual start. Killing Eve Season 3 is slated to debut Sunday, April 26, at 8/7c. It will be simulcast on AMC. If you watch Killing Eve online, you know
FILE PHOTO – A closed Apple store is seen as the country is hit by an outbreak of the novel coronavirus, in Shanghai, China February 10, 2020. REUTERS/Aly Song (Reuters) – Apple Inc (AAPL.O) said on Friday it would reopen one of the seven retail stores it has in Shanghai from Feb. 15 with reduced
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department is closing its criminal investigation into whether former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe lied to investigators about his communications with the media, without bringing any charges against him, his attorneys said in a statement on Friday. FILE PHOTO: Former acting FBI director Andrew McCabe speaks during a forum
MEXICO CITY/HAVANA (Reuters) – Venezuela’s state energy firm PDVSA has been shipping more oil this month to close ally Cuba, as tighter U.S. sanctions have worsened fuel shortages on the Caribbean island, according to sources and internal company documents seen by Reuters. FILE PHOTO – The corporate logo of state oil company PDVSA is seen
Breaking News Newport Police Dept Josh Turner — famous for his work on “The Walking Dead” – is behind bars in Tennessee after getting busted on an out of state warrant. The actor was busted Wednesday night in Newport, Tenn. on an outstanding warrant from Oregon for an alleged assault … this according to the
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Scientists examining the genomes of West Africans have detected signs that a mysterious extinct human species interbred with our own species tens of thousands of years ago in Africa, the latest evidence of humankind’s complicated genetic ancestry. FILE PHOTO: Yinka Sotomi stands atop Oluma Rock, a spiritual site for the Yoruba tribe,
FILE PHOTO: The logo of Samsung Electronics is seen at its office building in Seoul, South Korea, Jan. 7, 2019. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji/File Photo SEOUL (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) said on Friday that board chairman Lee Sang-hoon, who was sentenced to jail in December for sabotaging union activities, had offered to resign, without elaborating on
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. Democratic presidential candidates took aim on Thursday at a rival whose name has not yet appeared on the ballot in the early voting states but whose television ads have blanketed the airwaves: billionaire former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts,
(Reuters) – The coronavirus-hit Chinese economy will grow at its slowest rate since the financial crisis in the current quarter, according to a Reuters poll of economists who said the downturn will be short-lived if the outbreak is contained. Workers wearing face masks rope a container ship at a port in Qingdao, Shandong province, China
BEIJING (Reuters) – There were no doctors, nurses or medical equipment at the Wuhan hotel converted into a temporary quarantine facility for suspected coronavirus patients when brothers Wang Xiangkai and Wang Xiangyou arrived two weeks ago. A medical worker puts on a protective suit before entering a sports centre which has been converted into a
(Reuters) – A flyer in Los Angeles’ Carson area, with a fake seal of the World Health Organization, tells residents to avoid Asian-American businesses like Panda Express because of a coronavirus outbreak. A Los Angeles middle schooler is beaten and hospitalized after students say he is as an Asian-American with coronavirus. A passerby wearing mask