Greece convicts six and clears 15 over deadly blaze, victims' families protest
ATHENS (Reuters) - A man was convicted of involuntary arson on Monday for his role in Greece's deadliest wildfire in memory, and five former fire officials found guilty of misdemeanours linked to their response to the 2018 blaze, judicial sources s...
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G7 discussing 2035 end date for coal-fired power plants, source says
TURIN (Reuters) - Energy ministers from the Group of Seven wealthy countries meeting in Italy are discussing setting a common target date of 2035 to shut down their coal-powered power plants, a source close to the matter told Reuters on Monday. An ...
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Two people die in southern India as heatwave scorches region
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India (Reuters) - At least two people have died in India's southern state of Kerala of suspected heat stroke, media reported on Monday, as the country battles a sweltering summer that has seen temperatures soar to record levels....
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VP Harris seeks to energize Black voters with economic opportunity tour
By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday will launch a multistate tour to tout economic opportunities for Black Americans in an effort to mobilize a critical voting base for Democrats ahead of November's el...
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African leaders seek record World Bank financing to combat climate change
By Duncan Miriri NAIROBI (Reuters) - African leaders on Monday called for rich countries to commit record contributions to a low-interest World Bank facility for developing nations that they rely on to help fund their development and combat climate...
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Kenya postpones start of school term due to heavy floods
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's education ministry on Monday postponed the start of a new school term by one week due to heavy rains and flooding which have killed at least 76 people since last month. The floods have also displaced more than 131,000 pe...
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US lawmakers strike deal to boost aviation safety, will not hike pilot retirement age
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House and Senate negotiators said early Monday they have reached a deal to boost air traffic controller staffing and boost funding to avert runway close call incidents, but will not hike the airline pilot retirement age ...
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Philippines' 'dangerous' heat prompts shift to online classes, power crunch
By Neil Jerome Morales MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines has cancelled in-person public school classes for the next two days and said the power grid on its main island could be strained as the country grapples with a heatwave that is also affectin...
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Philippine students suffer in wilting heat, thwarting education efforts
By Adrian Portugal MANILA (Reuters) - Sweltering heat in the Philippines can curb farm production, disrupt water and power and weigh on businesses, but it also takes a toll on students, hampering the Southeast Asian nation's efforts to catch up to ...
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Norway wealth fund falls short on its climate ambitions, NGO says
OSLO (Reuters) - Norway's $1.6 trillion sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest, falls short on its climate ambitions by failing to back multiple shareholder proposals pushing oil companies to cut their greenhouse gas emissions, an NGO report sa...
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Taylor Swift's 'Tortured Poets Department' dominates US sales and Billboard charts
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Pop megastar Taylor Swift sold 2.61 million album and streaming units of "The Tortured Poets Department" during its first week of release in the U.S., Billboard reported on Sunday, calling it "a gigantic debut at No. 1" on t...
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Three dead after dozens of tornadoes strike Oklahoma; scores injured
By Rich McKay (Reuters) - At least three people died, including a four-month-old baby, and scores were injured in Oklahoma this weekend after dozens of twisters swept the U.S. Southern Plains, while weather alerts on Sunday put more than 7 million ...
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Pro-Palestinian protests keep roiling US college campuses
By Rich McKay (Reuters) - Pro-Palestinian protests at U.S. universities showed no sign of slowing as they spread coast-to-coast over the weekend and police crackdowns and arrests continued into another week while students vowed to stay in tent enc...
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US senator questions whether State Dept properly assessing Israel conduct
By Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Democratic senator on Sunday questioned whether the Biden administration was properly assessing whether Israel was complying with international law, following a Reuters report that some senior U.S. official...
Apr 28, 2024
Bangladesh reopens schools amid scorching heatwave
By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) - Schools in Bangladesh reopened on Sunday despite a heatwave continuing to sweep the South Asian nation, with temperatures expected to climb above 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) in the days ahead, according to the...
Apr 28, 2024
Explainer-Who are some of the people and groups involved in US college protests?
(Reuters) - In the days since police arrested more than 100 pro-Palestinian demonstrators at Columbia University on April 18, a protest encampment has been re-established on the New York campus and hundreds of protesters have been arrested at schoo...
Apr 28, 2024
Police arrest scores of pro-Palestinian protesters on US university campuses
By Brad Brooks (Reuters) - Pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested on a handful of U.S. university campuses on Saturday, as activists vowed to keep up the movement seeking a ceasefire in Israel's war with Hamas among other demands. The Indiana Uni...
Apr 27, 2024
Biden to speak at White House Correspondents' Dinner, protests planned
By Stephanie Kelly WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will speak on Saturday night at the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner, with protests against his staunch support for Israel's war against Hamas expected to follo...
Apr 27, 2024
Tornado in China's Guangzhou kills five and injures 33, Xinhua says
(Reuters) - A tornado that struck the city of Guangzhou in southern China killed five people and left 33 injured, state news agency Xinhua said on Saturday, citing local authorities. The tornado hit the city's Baiyun district on Saturday afternoon,...
Apr 27, 2024
Earthquake of magnitude 6.3 rocks Indonesia's Java, GFZ says
(Reuters) - A 6.3 magnitude earthquake rocked the Indonesian island of Java on Saturday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences said. The quake was at a depth of 65 km (40.39 miles), GFZ said. (Reporting by Utkarsh Shetti in Bengaluru, Editin...
Apr 27, 2024
As solar capacity grows, some of America's most productive farmland is at risk
By P.J. Huffstutter and Christopher Walljasper JASPER COUNTY, INDIANA (Reuters) - Dave Duttlinger's first thought when he saw a dense band of yellowish-brown dust smearing the sky above his Indiana farm was: I warned them this would happen. About 4...
Apr 27, 2024
Trump trial tests his campaign strategy of embracing bad publicity
By Nathan Layne NEW YORK (Reuters) - Meetings with foreign dignitaries at Trump Tower. A staged visit to a convenience store in the New York City Democratic stronghold of Harlem. Daily remarks broadcast on national cable television from outside the...
Apr 27, 2024
For some Columbia students, protest encampment is living history lesson
By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Before students set up a pro-Palestinian protest encampment on a Columbia University lawn last week, some of them took an optional course called "Columbia 1968" about protests against the Vietnam War, a simila...
Apr 27, 2024
Canada's First Nation declares emergency due to excessive chemicals emission
By Wa Lone (Reuters) - Canada's Aamjiwnaang First Nation declared a state of emergency due to the excessive release of harmful chemicals from INEOS Styrolution's plastic manufacturing plant, the Indigenous group said. The Frankfurt-based company wa...
Apr 27, 2024
Ex-McKinsey partner sues firm, claims he was made opioids 'scapegoat'
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) - A former McKinsey & Co partner sued the global consulting firm on Friday and accused it of defaming him and making him a "scapegoat" to distract attention from its work advising OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma and other ma...
Apr 27, 2024