HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba put off a five-fold increase in gasoline prices planned for Feb. 1 due to a cyberattack, Economy Vice Minister Mildrey Granadillo said on Wednesday, a sudden about-face just hours before the controversial hike was due to take effect. “This decision is influenced by the occurrence of a cybersecurity incident in the …
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By Jana Choukeir and Nadine Awadalla DUBAI (Reuters) -Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi group said on Wednesday it would keep up attacks on U.S. and British warships in the Red Sea in what it called acts of self defence, stoking fears of long-term disruptions to world trade. In a statement, the group’s military spokesperson said all American …
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(This Jan. 30 story has been refiled to remove an extraneous word in paragraph 1) By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) – New Zealand will start talks on Wednesday with Australia about cooperating with the AUKUS trilateral defence partnership, Foreign Minister Winston Peters said, adding Washington needed to do more in the Pacific to counter other …
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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The United States said on Tuesday that the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees needs to make “fundamental changes” before Washington will resume funding that was halted over Israeli accusations that some agency staff took part in the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas militants. U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda …
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By Clark Mindock (Reuters) -Major U.S. business groups sued California on Tuesday seeking to overturn the state’s new sweeping climate disclosure laws that require companies to publicly report their greenhouse gas emissions and climate-related financial risks. The lawsuit was filed in Los Angeles federal court by the biggest U.S. business lobby, the U.S. Chamber of …
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By Raneen Sawafta, Fadi Shana and Nidal al-Mughrabi WEST BANK/GAZA/DOHA (Reuters) -Hamas said on Tuesday it had received and was studying a new proposal for a ceasefire and release of hostages in Gaza, presented by mediators after talks with Israel, in what appeared to be the most serious peace initiative for months. A senior Hamas …
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RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) -Israeli commandos disguised as Palestinians killed three gunmen in a hospital in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, the police and military said, accusing one of them of planning an imminent attack and the other two of involvement in recent violence. CCTV circulated online appeared to show around a dozen undercover …
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(Reuters) -The first human patient has received an implant from brain-chip startup Neuralink on Sunday and is recovering well, the company’s billionaire founder Elon Musk said. “Initial results show promising neuron spike detection,” Musk said in a post on the social media platform X on Monday. Spikes are activity by neurons, which the National Institute …
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By Peter Hobson CANBERRA (Reuters) – An Australian court on Tuesday heard closing arguments in a class action lawsuit alleging that a weedkiller produced by Bayer caused cancer, the first such case in Australia to reach this stage. Bayer has already paid billions of dollars to settle claims that exposure to its glyphosate herbicide, Roundup, …
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By Matt Spetalnick and Vivian Sequera WASHINGTON/CARACAS (Reuters) -The U.S. will reinstate sanctions on Venezuela’s oil sector if the Venezuelan government does not lift its ban on a leading opposition candidate running for president later this year, a White House official said on Monday. The Biden administration will allow a six-month suspension of energy-related sanctions …
