Australian weather bureau sees 50% chance of La Nina this year
CANBERRA (Reuters) - There are early signs that a La Nina weather event may form in the Pacific Ocean later this year, Australia's weather bureau said on Tuesday. A La Nina would have significant consequences for global agriculture because it typic...
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Lidar maker Hesai sues US government, denies alleged link to China's military
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - China-based Hesai Group sued the U.S. government on Monday for adding the maker of lidar light sensors to a list of companies allegedly working with Beijing's military. Hesai, whose lidars help self-driving cars and driver...
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Death toll from floods in Indonesia's West Sumatra rises to 50
JAKARTA (Reuters) - The number of people killed by flash floods and mud slides in Indonesia's West Sumatra province has risen to 52 and more than 3,000 people were evacuated, authorities said on Tuesday. Torrential rain on Saturday evening triggere...
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Missouri man pleads guilty to crashing truck into White House security barriers
(Reuters) - A Missouri man pleaded guilty on Monday to crashing a rented truck into metal barriers surrounding the White House in May 2023, admitting that he had been "fueled by the ideology of Nazi Germany" and hoped to overthrow the U.S. governme...
May 14, 2024
Gucci takes over London's Tate Modern for cruise line catwalk show
By Marie-Louise Gumuchian LONDON (Reuters) - Gucci turned London's Tate Modern art gallery into a catwalk on Monday, as the Italian luxury label presented its cruise 2025 line in the British city that once inspired its founder. Creative director Sa...
May 13, 2024
RFK Jr and super PAC sue Meta, claiming election interference
By Stephanie Kelly NEW YORK (Reuters) - Independent U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr and a super PAC supporting him filed a lawsuit on Monday against Facebook parent Meta Platforms, alleging the tech giant interfered in the election...
May 13, 2024
Canadian firefighters battle wildfire sweeping towards B.C. town
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Firefighters in western Canada on Monday battled a large wildfire just outside the largely-evacuated remote town of Fort Nelson in British Columbia, a local official said. Fort Nelson is in the line of one of the season's first m...
May 13, 2024
Persistent Brazil floods raise specter of climate migration
By Lisandra Paraguassu MUCUM, Brazil (Reuters) - Devastating and ongoing flooding in southern Brazil is forcing some of the half million displaced residents to consider uprooting their lives from inundated towns to rebuild on higher ground. Two wee...
May 13, 2024
Abuses documented in FDIC sexual misconduct report unacceptable, Yellen says
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Monday said abuses documented in a report on workplace problems at the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation were "totally unacceptable" and not in line with the Biden administrati...
May 13, 2024
Collapsed Baltimore bridge to be blasted into pieces, removed from crippled ship
(Reuters) - U.S. crews in Baltimore plan to set off controlled explosions on Monday to allow them to remove a portion of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge from the bow of the massive container ship that toppled the span in March. The detonatio...
May 13, 2024
Four dead, several feared trapped under billboard in freak accident during Mumbai rainstorm
MUMBAI (Reuters) - At least four people are dead, 61 injured and more than 40 feared trapped after a massive billboard fell during a rainstorm in India's financial capital of Mumbai on Monday, local officials said. The rainstorm was accompanied by ...
May 13, 2024
Polish farmers begin hunger strike over EU Green Deal
WARSAW (Reuters) - Five Polish farmers have gone on hunger strike over European Union environmental regulations they say are driving them out of business. Farmers in Poland and elsewhere in the bloc have been protesting in recent months against che...
May 13, 2024
Yellen to tout broadband investments in trip to rural Virginia
By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will travel to Stafford County, Virginia on Monday to tour a broadband infrastructure project funded by the $1.9 trillion COVID-era American Rescue Plan and underscore the...
May 13, 2024
FERC to overhaul US electric transmission system
By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is expected to issue a final rule on Monday that could set new requirements for moving electricity across states and covering the costs of new transmission project...
May 13, 2024
US Senator Robert Menendez's corruption trial to get underway
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jury selection is expected to begin on Monday in the corruption trial of U.S. Senator Robert Menendez, a case that could affect the Democrat's reelection prospects and help determine which party controls the Senate next year. M...
May 13, 2024
Major airlines sue Biden administration over fee disclosure rule
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Major U.S. airlines are suing the U.S. Transportation Department (USDOT) over a new rule requiring upfront disclosure of airline fees, the latest clash between air carriers and the Biden administration. Airline...
May 13, 2024
Farmers in southern Mexico rescue bees as drought grips region
SANTA ANA ZEGACHE, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexican farmer Floriberto Matias carefully picks up a honeycomb teeming with bees, as he and fellow activists in southern Mexico carry the delicate structures to a nearby apiary for the buzzing creatures. In th...
May 13, 2024
Aggrieved former lawyer Michael Cohen to testify against Trump at hush money trial
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump's estranged former fixer Michael Cohen is expected to begin giving testimony on Monday that could determine whether jurors convict the former U.S. president of illegally hiding a payment to silence a p...
May 13, 2024
Illegal wildlife trafficking is stubbornly prevalent, U.N. report says
VIENNA (Reuters) - Illegal trafficking of plant and animal wildlife remains stubbornly prevalent, according to a U.N. report on Monday, and it is critical governments focus on more than just "iconic" species like elephants, where progress had been ...
May 13, 2024
Malaysian carbon exchange to host first local carbon credit auction in July
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's voluntary carbon market exchange will host an auction of its first Malaysian carbon credits on July 25, stock exchange operator Bursa Malaysia said on Monday. The auction by the Bursa Carbon Exchange (BCX) would ...
May 13, 2024
US auto workers union seeks tough victory at Mercedes plant in Alabama
By Nora Eckert DETROIT (Reuters) - Workers at a Mercedes-Benz plant in Alabama began voting Monday on whether to join the United Auto Workers union, a significant test of whether the labor group can maintain momentum in the historically anti-union ...
May 13, 2024
Massachusetts takes Uber, Lyft to trial over status of gig workers
By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) - Uber Technologies and Lyft are set to face trial on Monday in a U.S. lawsuit by Massachusetts' attorney general alleging the ride-share companies misclassified their drivers as independent contractors rather than ...
May 13, 2024
Floods kill 37 in Indonesia's West Sumatra, 17 missing
TANAH DATAR (Reuters) - Flash floods and mud slides in Indonesia's West Sumatra province killed at least 37 people this weekend while the search for 17 missing people is still ongoing, authorities said on Monday. Torrential rain on Saturday evening...
May 13, 2024
Glencore seeks Australian carbon capture approval amid farmer protests
By Peter Hobson CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia's Queensland state will decide this month whether to give Glencore a key approval to bury liquefied carbon dioxide in the country's largest aquifer, a plan farm groups say must be blocked because it ri...
May 13, 2024
Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul may have more record level flooding
By Lisandra Paraguassu PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil (Reuters) - Less than two weeks after floods devastated Brazil's southern Rio Grande do Sul state leaving at least 143 dead, the state is again on alert this Sunday with the risk of water rising once more...
May 12, 2024