Paris aims to drive out large SUVs by increasing parking fees (www.reuters.com)
Nestle, Volvo among 130 companies urging COP28 agreement to ditch fossil fuels (www.reuters.com)
Nestle, Volvo among 130 companies urging COP28 agreement to ditch fossil fuels::Companies including Nestle , Unilever , Mahindra Group and Volvo Cars are urging political leaders to agree a timeline at the upcoming U.N. climate summit to phase out fossil fuels.
Interception of Canadian military plane by Chinese jets was unacceptable -Ottawa (www.reuters.com)
Taliban to join China's Belt and Road forum, elevating ties (www.reuters.com)
The Taliban will attend China’s Belt and Road Forum next week, a spokesman said on Saturday, underscoring Beijing’s growing official ties with the administration, despite its lack of formal recognition by any government....
US poor face economic hit as shutdown, childcare cliff, student loans converge (www.reuters.com)
About 12.4%, some 41 million, of the U.S.'s 333 million people live at or below the poverty line, the Census Bureau calculates, which is set at about $29,678 for a household of two adults and two chidren....
Turkey could part ways with EU if necessary, Erdogan says (www.reuters.com)
California moves closer to historic caste discrimination ban (www.reuters.com)
California moved closer to becoming the first U.S. state to ban caste discrimination after a bill to outlaw the practise passed the California Assembly late on Monday....
France to ban disposable e-cigarettes, PM says (www.reuters.com)
So-called “puff” devices generate habits among young people that can lead to tobacco addiction, she added....
Russia says genetic tests confirm Prigozhin died in plane crash (www.reuters.com)
Blinken says Ukraine has taken back 50% of territory that Russia seized (www.reuters.com)
Focus: United Airlines grapples with pilots avoiding the captain's chair (www.reuters.com)
US plans to supply Ukraine with cluster munitions, officials say (www.reuters.com)
Intel discloses $7 billion operating loss for chip-making unit. (www.reuters.com)
Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years for multi-billion dollar FTX fraud (www.reuters.com)
Julian Assange wins temporary reprieve from extradition to US (www.reuters.com)
Kremlin says Putin didn't threaten to use nuclear weapons, U.S. took him out of context (www.reuters.com)
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday that Putin had merely been answering a journalist’s questions on the subject and restating the already well known circumstances in which Russia would theoretically be forced to use nuclear weapons....
At least 50 hurt as LATAM's Boeing 787 to Auckland "just dropped" mid-flight (www.reuters.com)
At least 50 people were hurt when a Boeing 787 operated by LATAM Airlines dropped abruptly mid-flight from Sydney to Auckland on Monday, according to the airline and a New Zealand health service organisation that treated the injured....
US should block cheap Chinese auto imports from Mexico, US makers say (www.reuters.com)
The U.S. government should block the import of low-cost Chinese autos and parts from Mexico, a U.S. manufacturing advocacy group said on Friday, warning they could threaten the viability of American car companies.
Australia to allow workers to ignore after-hours calls from bosses (www.reuters.com)
Hewlett Packard Enterprise to buy Juniper Networks in $14 bln deal (www.reuters.com)
Jan 9 (Reuters) - Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE.N) will buy networking gear maker Juniper Networks (JNPR.N) for $14 billion in an all-cash deal, in an attempt to spruce up the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) offerings.
Israeli strike on Lebanon kills senior commander in elite Hezbollah unit (www.reuters.com)
An Israeli strike on south Lebanon on Monday killed a senior commander in Hezbollah’s elite Radwan force, three security sources told Reuters....
Xi told Biden Taiwan is biggest, most dangerous issue in bilateral ties (www.reuters.com)
Chinese President Xi Jinping told U.S. President Joe Biden during their four-hour meeting on Wednesday that Taiwan was the biggest, most dangerous issue in U.S.-China ties, a senior U.S. official told reporters....
Colorado cannot ban unproven abortion pill reversal treatment, judge says (www.reuters.com)
U.S. District Judge Daniel Domenico said in an opinion on Saturday that a Colorado law banning so-called medication abortion reversal treatment likely violates the U.S. Constitution’s guarantee of religious freedom. His order stops the state from enforcing the law against Bella Health and Wellness, which sued to block it, or...
Donald Trump turns up at New York fraud trial, complains it distracts from campaign (www.reuters.com)
Automakers blast US plan to hike fuel efficiency rules (www.reuters.com)
The Alliance for Automotive Innovation said the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) proposal was unreasonable and requested significant revisions....
