By Rich McKay and Ivelisse Rivera SAN JUAN (Reuters) -Puerto Ricans were without electricity on New Year’s Eve after a grid failure left nearly all of the island without power. Around 87% of clients were without power at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, according to a statement from energy distribution company LUMA Energy. Puerto Rico has …
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By Raphael Satter and AJ Vicens WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Chinese state-sponsored hackers breached the U.S. Treasury Department’s computer security guardrails this month and stole documents in what Treasury called a “major incident,” according to a letter to lawmakers that Treasury officials provided to Reuters on Monday. The hackers compromised third-party cybersecurity service provider BeyondTrust and were …
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By Michael Erman NEW YORK (Reuters) – Drugmakers plan to raise U.S. prices on at least 250 branded medications including Pfizer COVID-19 treatment Paxlovid, Bristol Myers Squibb’s cancer cell therapies and vaccines from France’s Sanofi at the start of 2025, according to data analyzed by healthcare research firm 3 Axis Advisors. Nearly all of the …
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By Emily Rose JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu got up from his hospital bed to call on unruly coalition partners to fall in line and back his government’s 2025 budget after hardline rebels threatened to pull support for the bill. Netanyahu, recovering from prostate surgery, came to the Knesset against the recommendation …
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(Reuters) -Yemen’s Houthi spokesperson Mohammed Abdulsalam said that the country would continue to defend itself after several U.S. strikes targeted facilities in the capital Sanaa on Tuesday. The U.S. military said that it carried out strikes against Houthi targets in Sanaa and coastal locations in Yemen on Monday and Tuesday. “On Dec. 30 and 31, …
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s public security minister vowed on Tuesday to deepen international cooperation in the area of drug control, state media Xinhua reported. Wang Xiaohong, who is also the director of the national narcotics control committee, called for “eradicating the soil that breeds and spreads the drug problem” in a meeting, according to Xinhua. …
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By Ju-min Park and Dogyun Kim MUAN COUNTY, South Korea (Reuters) – Empty desks and a calendar marking days off after Christmas sit in a South Korean office where five co-workers once planned a holiday to Thailand which ended in tragedy on Sunday when their return Jeju Air flight crashed. The five female colleagues, who …
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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) -Three suspects were arrested on Monday in the death of a Mexican migration agent who was found earlier in the day with no signs of life, state security and migration officials said. The death of the agent marked a rare case of deadly violence against agents weeks before an expected crackdown …
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By Josh Smith and Joyce Lee SEOUL (Reuters) -A South Korean court gave authorities approval on Tuesday to detain impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol in a criminal investigation into his martial law decree, marking the first time that a sitting president of the country has faced arrest. The Corruption Investigation Office for High-ranking Officials (CIO) …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – U.S. billionaire Elon Musk’s support for Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is a “logical and systematic” play for a weak Europe that will not be able to regulate as strongly, Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck said in his New Year’s address. The calls by Musk are not made out of ignorance, said …
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