Brookfield eyes $5 billion for UAE-backed climate fund
LONDON (Reuters) - Brookfield Asset Management is looking to raise $5 billion for a fund backed by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that aims to scale up climate finance in emerging markets, the Canadian company said on Thursday. The fund, dubbed the...
Jun 13, 2024
Environmental studies show Serbian lithium project is safe, Rio says
BELGRADE (Reuters) - Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto said on Thursday newly published environmental studies showed that its Serbia lithium project, which was stopped in 2022 after massive protests, would be safe for the environment. If implemented...
Jun 13, 2024
In new forecasts, Fed appears to bow out of the election cycle
(Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve may have just ducked out of the presidential campaign spotlight with a fresh set of forecasts showing no interest rate cuts are likely until after Election Day. Central bank policymakers on Wednesday kept their ...
Jun 13, 2024
Republicans hope for unity message in Trump visit to Congress
By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans hope that a pair of visits from former President Donald Trump on Thursday will bring unity to their sometimes bitterly divided caucuses in the Senate and House of Representatives, as the party head...
Jun 13, 2024
Biden advisers, Trump to discuss competing economic visions with top US business leaders
By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and key advisers to Democratic President Joe Biden will lay out their dramatically divergent economic views in a series of conversations with America's top ...
Jun 13, 2024
Largest US oil trade group to sue to block Biden's EV push
By Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) - The nation's largest oil trade group, which includes Exxon Mobil and Chevron , will file a federal lawsuit on Thursday seeking to block the Biden administration's efforts to reduce planet-warming emissions from cars ...
Jun 13, 2024
Microsoft president to testify before House panel over security lapses
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Microsoft President Brad Smith will testify before a House of Representatives panel on homeland security on Thursday, fielding questions about the company's security practices after Russian and Chinese hackers breached its sy...
Jun 13, 2024
Wild horses return to Kazakhstan's Golden Steppe after some 200 years
By David W. Cerny ALTYN DALA, Kazakhstan (Reuters) - Przewalski's horses have returned to the steppes of Kazakhstan after nearly 200 years, part of an ambitious scheme to reintroduce the world's last wild horses to their original habitats. The enda...
Jun 13, 2024
Analysis-Climate change funding talks stuck ahead of COP29 summit
By Kate Abnett BONN (Reuters) - With just five months to go before this year's U.N. climate summit, countries cannot agree on the size of a global funding bill to help the developing world fight climate change - let alone how to split it. The decis...
Jun 13, 2024
About 4% of US adults age 65 and older have a dementia diagnosis, survey finds
By Christy Santhosh (Reuters) - Some 4% of U.S. adults aged 65 and older say they have been diagnosed with dementia, a rate that reached 13% for those at least 85-years old, according to a report of a national survey released on Thursday. The repor...
Jun 13, 2024
From northwest to east China, parched and baking regions face drought
By Liz Lee BEIJING (Reuters) - Weeks of scarce rainfall in parts of China, coupled with sweltering heat, has brought drought to several provinces, prompting alerts and actions from authorities to minimise impacts on agriculture, and water and energ...
Jun 13, 2024
Japan's beloved cats get healthcare help from AI
By Irene Wang and Rocky Swift TOKYO (Reuters) - Mayumi Kitakata frets about the health and wellbeing of Chi, her stoic housemate who enjoys treats, indulges a bit too much in the catnip, and about 14 is getting on in years for a feline. Kitakata, 5...
Jun 13, 2024
Oklahoma top court rejects case by 'Black Wall Street' race massacre survivors
By Nate Raymond (Reuters) - Oklahoma's highest court on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit by the last two known living survivors of the Tulsa race massacre in 1921 seeking reparations for the violence and destruction that resulted in the deaths of hund...
Jun 13, 2024
U.S. East Coast port union strike threat to test shippers' nerves
(Reuters) - - Labor talks at U.S. ports on the East Coast and Gulf of Mexico are a looming risk for retailers, manufacturers and other shippers already grappling with longer transit times and higher costs. The International Longshoremen's Associati...
Jun 13, 2024
Older Arizona voters strongly favor Trump over Biden in AARP poll
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Voters over age 50 in the key battleground state of Arizona strongly favor Donald Trump in November's election rematch, a new poll from the U.S.'s largest organization for older Americans shows, highlighting a potential new w...
Jun 13, 2024
Brazil's Pantanal wetlands face worst fires
CORUMBA, Brazil (Reuters) - Fatima Brandao goes looking for her chickens in the backyard amidst a veil of smoke from the spreading fires that are engulfing the world's largest tropical wetland faster than ever before. "There never used to be smoke ...
Jun 12, 2024
Democrat Sarah McBride could become first transgender member of US House
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Sarah McBride could be elected the first transgender member of the U.S. House of Representatives in the Nov. 5 election, after her primary rival in deeply Democratic Delaware dropped out of the race on Wednesday. A m...
Jun 12, 2024
Study details huge emissions resulting from Russia's invasion of Ukraine
By Max Hunder KYIV (Reuters) - Russia's invasion of Ukraine has directly caused or paved the way to the emission of 175 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere, a joint report said on Thursday. The report, published by Ukraine's ...
Jun 12, 2024
ACLU sues to block Biden asylum ban at US-Mexico border
By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON(Reuters) - A U.S. civil rights group sued the Biden administration over a new policy that bars most migrants caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally from claiming asylum, threatening to derail the far-reaching enfo...
Jun 12, 2024
Arizona man charged with trafficking guns to kill Black people, start race war
By Jonathan Allen (Reuters) - An Arizona man has been indicted on four counts of gun-trafficking crimes after federal prosecutors said an undercover sting operation revealed that he planned to kill Black people in a mass shooting to "incite a race ...
Jun 12, 2024
Female stunt drivers take on obstacles to working in Hollywood
By Rollo Ross ROSAMOND, California (Reuters) - For stunt women, Hollywood does not have a good track record, particularly when it comes to driving. That has prompted a group of women to form the Association of Women Drivers, the first ever stunt gr...
Jun 12, 2024
Member of famous Motown group Four Tops sues hospital for racial discrimination
By Joseph Ax (Reuters) - The lead singer of the celebrated Motown group the Four Tops has sued a Michigan hospital, claiming he was put into restraints and denied treatment for a serious heart problem after medical personnel did not believe that he...
Jun 12, 2024
More consumer data safeguards needed, watchdog tells US Congress
By Douglas Gillison (Reuters) - The head of the top U.S. watchdog agency for consumer finance on Wednesday called on lawmakers to adopt greater protections against the collection and use of consumers' data from payment processing and so-called buy-...
Jun 12, 2024
What to watch for in the Biden-Trump presidential debate
By James Oliphant (Reuters) - The two oldest candidates ever to run for U.S. president meet on June 27 for a televised debate unlike any other. One accuses his rival of being unhinged and a danger to democracy, while the other accuses his opponent ...
Jun 12, 2024
US Southern Baptists effort to enshrine ban on women pastors falls short
By Brad Brooks (Reuters) - The Southern Baptist Convention on Wednesday fell just short of the two-thirds majority vote needed to enshrine in its constitution a ban on women as church pastors. Issues impacting women are prominent at this year's ann...
Jun 12, 2024