Music lovers enjoy opera and picnics with the sheep at Glyndebourne
By Dylan Martinez and David Milliken GLYNDE, England (Reuters) - Nestled in the English countryside 50 miles (80 km) south of London, the Glyndebourne opera festival's setting is a world away from the city-centre opera houses which dominate the art...
May 31, 2024
Bitter spring frosts decimate apple crop in Crimea
KURSKOE, Crimea (Reuters) - At the foot of soaring white cliffs on the Crimean Peninsula lies an orchard whose apple trees should be growing heavy with fruit this time of year. But nearly all of the blossom on the 165-hectare farm was killed off by...
May 31, 2024
International reaction to Donald Trump's criminal conviction
(Reuters) - A New York jury found Donald Trump guilty of falsifying business records to cover up a hush-money payment to a porn star, making him the first former U.S. president to be convicted of a crime. Here are some international reactions to th...
May 31, 2024
At least 15 dead in eastern India over 24 hours as temperatures soar
By Jatindra Dash BHUBANESWAR, India (Reuters) - At least 15 people have died of suspected heatstroke in India's eastern states of Bihar and Odisha on Thursday, authorities said, with the region gripped in a debilitating heatwave expected to continu...
May 31, 2024
Queensland outlaws carbon storage in Australia's biggest aquifer
By Peter Hobson CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia's Queensland state will ban carbon capture and storage in a giant aquifer that spans much of its territory, the state government said on Friday, after an outcry from farmers who said such projects coul...
May 31, 2024
South Korea plans 70% carbon-free power generation by 2038, draft shows
By Joyce Lee SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea plans to generate 70% of its electric power from carbon-free energy sources such as renewables and nuclear power by 2038, up from less than 40% in 2023, a draft blueprint of its energy mix for the next 15 ...
May 31, 2024
Two Minneapolis cops shot, two other people dead, local media report
(Reuters) - Two civilians were killed and two Minneapolis police officers were wounded on Thursday when a gunman opened fire in a neighborhood south of downtown, KMSP television reported, citing unnamed law enforcement sources. One of the officers ...
May 31, 2024
Ex-Deutsche Bank investment banker gets 41 months prison in crypto fraud
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former Deutsche Bank investment banker was ordered by a U.S. judge on Thursday to spend 41 months in prison, after pleading guilty to a Ponzi-like fraud in which he promised investors guaranteed returns fr...
May 30, 2024
Trump is a convicted felon. Now what?
By Jack Queen (Reuters) - Donald Trump, the first former U.S. president to be convicted of a crime, will remain a free man while he awaits sentencing and could avoid a prison term entirely for falsifying business records to cover up a hush money pa...
May 30, 2024
California approves community solar program backed by utilities
(Reuters) - The California Public Utilities Commission on Thursday approved a new solar energy program that the industry said did not go far enough to incentivize smaller community projects. The CPUC voted to expand two existing programs and create...
May 30, 2024
Instant view: Jury finds Trump guilty on all counts in hush money trial
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump became the first U.S. president to be convicted of a crime on Thursday when a New York jury found him guilty of falsifying documents to cover up a payment to silence a porn star ahead of the 2016 election. After de...
May 30, 2024
Reaction to the historic verdict in the Trump hush money case
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York jury on Thursday found Donald Trump guilty of falsifying business records to cover up a hush-money payment to a porn star, making him the first former U.S. president to be convicted of a crime. Here are some reaction...
May 30, 2024
Biden expected to sign migration order next week, sources say
By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order on migration in an attempt to take greater control of the U.S. southern border with Mexico, two sources familiar with the plans said on Thursday. Biden's ...
May 30, 2024
Explainer-Trump soon to be unmuzzled as hush money trial nears an end
By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After the jury in Donald Trump's New York criminal trial returns a verdict, the judge likely will lift his gag order barring the Republican presidential candidate from speaking publicly about witnesses, juro...
May 30, 2024
Canada to assess toxicity of compound found in oil sands tailings
By Nia Williams (Reuters) - Canada has agreed to assess whether naphthenic acids found in northern Alberta's oil sands tailings ponds should be classed as toxic under federal law, a move that could pave the way for stricter regulations, environment...
May 30, 2024
Italian local govts must identify suitable areas for renewables projects, draft decree says
ROME/MILAN (Reuters) - The Italian government will order regional authorities to identify suitable areas for renewable energy projects within six months, a draft decree showed on Thursday, in a long-awaited regulation to speed up green energy devel...
May 30, 2024
Rising seas force Panama Indigenous families to leave island homes
PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - Rising sea levels due to climate change have forced an Indigenous Guna community to leave their homes on an island off Panama's coast that is fast disappearing. Some 300 families - 1,351 people - based in Gardi Subdug, a sma...
May 30, 2024
Waterborne illness now threaten flood-ravaged southern Brazil
By Diego Vara PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil (Reuters) - Waterborne diseases are now a risk in Brazil's southernmost state, authorities say, as residents begin to return to flooded homes and clean up after catastrophic floods that killed at least 169 people....
May 30, 2024
Republican mega donor Adelson to back major pro-Trump spending group
By Alexandra Ulmer (Reuters) - Casino billionaire and Republican mega donor Miriam Adelson will be the lead financier of a spending group backing U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump, in what could be a major financial boost in his rematch agai...
May 30, 2024
Bird flu infects third US dairy worker; Michigan set to expand testing
By Leah Douglas, Julie Steenhuysen and Tom Polansek (Reuters) -A third U.S. dairy worker tested positive for bird flu after exposure to infected cows, and was the first to suffer respiratory problems, U.S. officials said on Thursday. The infection was ...
May 30, 2024
U.S. FDA set to reorganize its food division starting October
(Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration(FDA) said on Thursday it plans to restructure its food division starting in October helping it to oversee human food supply chains and agricultural products more efficiently. The regulatory body had...
May 30, 2024
US Supreme Court's Roberts rebuffs meeting with Democratic senators over Alito
(Reuters) - U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts on Thursday rejected a request by two Democratic senators for a meeting to urge him to take steps to ensure fellow Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito recuses himself from pending cases related to the 2020...
May 30, 2024
Donald Trump can sue niece over NY Times article, NY appeals court rules
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York state appeals court said Donald Trump can sue his niece Mary Trump for giving the New York Times information for its Pulitzer Prize-winning 2018 probe into his finances and his alleged effort to a...
May 30, 2024
Dengue cases in Americas surpass last year's record high, WHO says
(Reuters) - Dengue cases have substantially increased in the Americas this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday, which indicates the mosquito-borne viral illness remains a high-risk threat to public health. The UN agency said ...
May 30, 2024
US Supreme Court boosts NRA in free speech fight with New York official
By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court gave a boost on Thursday to the National Rifle Association in its free speech dispute with a New York state official it accused of coercing banks and insurers to avoid doing business with...
May 30, 2024