Music labels sue Internet Archive over digitized record collection. (www.reuters.com)
Universal Music Group (UMG.AS), Sony Music Entertainment (6758.T) and other record labels on Friday sued the nonprofit Internet Archive for copyright infringement over its streaming collection of digitized music from vintage records.
Argentina won't use 'one dollar' of reserves to repay IMF, says Massa (www.reuters.com)
More Wagner fighters move closer to Polish border, Poland PM says (www.reuters.com)
A group of a hundred soldiers from the Russian Wagner group have moved closer to the Belarusian city of Grodno near the Polish border, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Saturday....
Reuters: Tesla’s secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints (www.reuters.com)
Putin, Lukashenko to meet after Russia warns about aggression against Belarus (www.reuters.com)
Papal arch enemy Archbishop Vigano found guilty of schism and excommunicated (www.reuters.com)
Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, a fierce ultra-conservative critic of Pope Francis, has been found guilty of schism and excommunicated, the Vatican’s doctrinal office said on Friday. Vigano, the papal envoy in Washington from 2011-2016, went into hiding in 2018 after alleging that the pope knew for years about sexual...
Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks (www.reuters.com)
How the far-right gained traction with Europe's youth (www.reuters.com)
From Germany and France to Poland and Spain, the far-right made inroads into the youth vote in key states in this EU election - as a generation that has grown up amid constant crises seeks new answers and follows politicians fluent in TikTok and YouTube....
Hamas says it accepts UN-backed Gaza truce plan, US cites 'hopeful sign' (www.reuters.com)
TEL AVIV/CAIRO, June 11 (Reuters) - Hamas accepts a U.N. resolution backing a plan to end the war with Israel in Gaza and is ready to negotiate details, a senior official of the Palestinian militant group said on Tuesday in what the U.S. Secretary of State called “a hopeful sign”....
Israel keeps pounding central Gaza as Palestinian death toll in hostage rescue raid rises to 274 (www.reuters.com)
Biden says US will withhold weapons from Israel if it invades Rafah (www.reuters.com)
May 8 (Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Wednesday publicly warned Israel for the first time that the U.S. would stop supplying it weapons if Israeli forces make a major invasion of Rafah, a refugee-packed city in southern Gaza....
US Rep. Cuellar hit with bribery charges tied to Azerbaijan, Mexican bank (www.reuters.com)
Representative Henry Cuellar and his wife were indicted for allegedly accepting close to $600,000 in bribes in two schemes meant to benefit an Azerbaijani state-owned energy company and an unnamed bank based in Mexico, court papers showed....
US designates PFAS chemicals as Superfund hazardous substances (www.reuters.com)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Friday designated a pair of widely used industrial chemicals as hazardous substances under the country’s Superfund program, accelerating a crackdown on toxic compounds known as “forever chemicals.”...
Shell says landmark climate ruling obstructs fight against climate change (www.reuters.com)
Shell on Tuesday told a Dutch court a 2021 order that it should drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions lacks a legal basis and risks obstructing the fight against climate change....
Sam Bankman-Fried deserves 40-50 years in prison for FTX fraud, prosecutors say (www.reuters.com)
NEW YORK, March 15 (Reuters) - Sam Bankman-Fried should spend between 40 and 50 years in prison after being convicted for stealing $8 billion from customers of his now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange, prosecutors said on Friday. … “Even now Bankman-Fried refuses to admit what he did was wrong,” prosecutors wrote in a...
Israel appropriates 650 acres of West Bank land near big settlement (www.reuters.com)
EU warns Israel against "catastrophic" Rafah offensive (www.reuters.com)
BRUSSELS, Feb 19 (Reuters) - The European Union on Monday warned Israel against launching an offensive in Rafah that ministers said would create a disaster for the roughly 1.5 million refugees crammed into the city on the southern edge of Gaza. “An attack on Rafah would be absolutely catastrophic … it would be...
'More and more hunger': Argentina's soup kitchens on brink of collapse from high inflation (www.reuters.com)
A week ago, 20 kilograms (44 pounds) of pasta was enough to feed the dozens of families who visit the Sal de la Tierra soup kitchen in Villa Fiorito, a poor Buenos Aires suburb beset by the economic crisis ravaging Argentina. But with monthly inflation topping 20%, the number of hungry residents has soared. This week, the soup...
Boeing withdraws bid for safety exemption for Boeing 737 MAX 7 (www.reuters.com)
Boeing withdraws bid for safety exemption for Boeing 737 MAX 7::Boeing confirmed late on Monday it is withdrawing a request it made to the Federal Aviation Administration last year seeking an exemption from a safety standard for its 737 MAX 7 that is awaiting certification.
Hamas fires rockets at central Israel, army intercepts some of them (www.reuters.com)
JERUSALEM, Jan 29 (Reuters) - The militant Palestinian group Hamas fired a barrage of rockets at Tel Aviv and nearby cities on Monday, displaying long-range fire power after weeks of relative quiet in central Israel, though there were no reports of casualties.
Russia accuses Ukraine of killing 65 of its own POWs by shooting down plane (www.reuters.com)
Erdogan accuses U.S., Britain of trying to turn Red Sea into 'sea of blood' (www.reuters.com)
More than 20 countries now part of US-led Red Sea coalition, Pentagon says (www.reuters.com)
A total of more than 20 countries have agreed to participate in the new U.S.-led coalition safeguarding commercial traffic in the Red Sea from attacks by Yemen’s Houthi movement as more nations join the effort, the Pentagon said on Thursday....