By Dawn Chmielewski, Anna Tong and Greg Bensinger (Reuters) -As the weekend deadline for TikTok to find a buyer approaches, bidders for the short-video social media site are piling up. Amazon and, separately, a consortium led by OnlyFans founder Tim Stokely are the latest to throw their hats into the ring for TikTok. The site …
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By Satoshi Sugiyama and Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Thursday he was disappointed that his country did not win an exemption from President Donald Trump’s new tariffs and promised measures to help domestic industry deal with the fallout. Japanese officials gave no indication on possible retaliation but questioned …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s presidency said on Thursday that the new U.S. tariffs underscore the need to negotiate a new bilateral trade deal with Washington to ensure long-term trade certainty. U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled global reciprocal tariffs on most goods imported to the United States on Wednesday. Trump imposed a 30% rate on …
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By Alexander Villegas (Reuters) -Almost 2,000 container ships carrying illegally harvested timber from the Brazilian Amazonian state that will host this year’s U.N. climate summit has reached Europe and the U.S. in recent years, showed an investigative report by an environmental NGO. The report released on Thursday by London-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) featured satellite …
By Brad Brooks (Reuters) – Tornadoes ripped across a wide swath of central and southern United States on Wednesday, destroying homes and businesses and bringing down power lines and trees. The National Weather Service said there had been at least 15 reports of tornadoes in at least four states by late Wednesday. Eight people have …
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By Yves Pierre Surin PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Thousands of Haitians took to the streets in Port-au-Prince on Wednesday to express their anger against armed gangs that control nearly all of the capital and surrounding areas and the government’s failure to hold them off. Violent armed groups have united behind a coalition known as Viv Ansanm …
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By Emily Green and David Ljunggren MEXICO CITY/OTTAWA (Reuters) -Mexico and Canada avoided fresh tariffs on Wednesday with President Donald Trump exempting the United States’ top trading partners from his new 10% global tariff baseline, although previous duties remain in place. Goods from Mexico and Canada that comply with the USMCA trade agreement between the …
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(Reuters) – Russian forces unleashed an hour-long barrage of drones on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second city, late on Wednesday, triggering a number of fires but causing no casualties in the second such attack in the course of the day, the regional governor said. “In the space of just one hour, the enemy deployed 17 (Iranian-designed) Shahed …
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By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Democratic senators on Wednesday urged Energy Secretary Chris Wright to follow the laws that require his department to fund clean energy projects included in laws passed before Donald Trump became president, including four hydrogen hubs. Wright’s department is weighing funding cuts to four of seven of the hubs in …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg said on Wednesday that the planemaker is focused on improving safety and not pressuring workers to speed up production after a 2024 mid-air 737 MAX 9 emergency. “I’m not pressuring the team to go fast. I’m pressuring the team to do it right,” Ortberg said at …
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