By Joyce Lee SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korean prosecutors will appeal to the Supreme Court after an appeals court found Samsung Electronics Chairman Jay Y. Lee not guilty on all charges stemming from a 2015 merger, prosecutors said. Lee has faced long-running legal risks from criminal cases at a time when Samsung Electronics, the world’s top …
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By Bing Hong Lok SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore’s disgraced former transport minister S. Iswaran, jailed last year for obstructing justice and receiving more than $300,000 of gifts, will serve the remainder of his sentence under house arrest, the prisons service said on Friday. Iswaran was the first former cabinet member to be jailed in Singapore …
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(Reuters) – Iran on Friday condemned Washington’s move to impose shipping-related sanctions, saying it would prevent it from legitimate trading with partners, the official IRNA news agency reported. The U.S. Treasury said on Thursday it was imposing new sanctions on a few individuals and tankers helping to ship millions of barrels of Iranian crude oil …
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(Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, Keith Kellogg, had a “thorough discussion” with Ukraine’s ambassador to Washington in their first official meeting on Thursday, the ambassador said. Ambassador Oksana Markarova, writing on Facebook, said this was her first meeting with Kellogg since his appointment, though the two had met …
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By Andrea Shalal and Daniel Trotta WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday attempting to exclude transgender girls and women from female sports, a directive that supporters say will restore fairness but critics say infringes on the rights of a tiny minority of athletes. The order directs the Department of …
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By Simon Lewis SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday oversaw the seizure of a Venezuelan government plane in the Dominican Republic. U.S. authorities had “determined that there is a basis to file a civil forfeiture action to recover the aircraft, based on violations of U.S. sanctions, export controls, and money …
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(Reuters) – Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg was at the White House on Thursday for meetings, according to a White House official. (Reporting by Nandita Bose; writing by Costas Pitas)
(Reuters) -The White House is working on an executive order to fire thousands of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services workers, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. White House on Thursday denied it is drafting an executive order to cut workers across federal health agencies. According to …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The top Democrat on the Senate Commerce Committee said she is asking U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to bar President Donald Trump’s adviser Elon Musk from involvement in efforts to reform air traffic control. Senator Maria Cantwell cited conflicts of interest and noted that Musk-led SpaceX was fined by the …
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SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Thursday that Gaza currently is “not habitable” due to dangers such as unexploded weapons, and that people would have to live elsewhere while the area is rebuilt. Rubio, answering a reporter’s question during a visit to the Dominican Republic, encouraged other countries to …
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