Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Autonomous trucking startup Waabi raises $200 million
By Zaheer Kachwala (Reuters) - Waabi has raised $200 million in a Series B funding round, led by existing investors Uber Technologies and Khosla Ventures, to support the rollout of its fully autonomou...
Jun 18, 2024
Australia's prime minister raises journalist incident with China's Li
By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has raised with China's Premier Li Qiang an incident at parliament house where Chinese officials tried to obstruct a jo...
Jun 18, 2024
China accuses U.S. of "malign intention" to discredit its COVID vaccines
MANILA (Reuters) - China's embassy in the Philippines accused the U.S. military of "hypocrisy, malign intention and double standards" in response to a report of secret U.S. campaign to undermine confi...
Jun 18, 2024
EU says to delay core element of Basel bank capital rules
LONDON (Reuters) - The European Union will peg back implementation of a core element in the final leg of global rules governing bank capital by one year to January 2026, citing a "highly likely" delay...
Jun 18, 2024
Biden offers path to citizenship to spouses of US citizens in election-year gambit
By Ted Hesson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden on Tuesday will announce a program offering a path to citizenship to hundreds of thousands of immigrants in the U.S. illegally who are married ...
Jun 18, 2024
Oil and corn groups team up in lawsuit to halt Biden truck emissions rules
(Reuters) - The top U.S. oil and corn industry lobby groups said on Tuesday they were suing the administration of President Joe Biden over its plan to slash planet-warming emissions from heavy-duty ve...
Jun 18, 2024
German home building permits nosedive in April as slump continues
By Tom Sims FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Building permits for apartments in Germany fell 17% in April from a year earlier, government data showed on Tuesday, underscoring a continued downturn in demand in th...
Jun 18, 2024
Four missing in China's Xinjiang after flash floods, mudslides
BEIJING (Reuters) - Flash floods in China's Changji on Tuesday engulfed a car, and four people are missing, Chinese state media reported, as heavy rains and mudslides in several parts of the country c...
Jun 18, 2024
Far-right leader Bardella says he needs absolute majority to govern France effectively
PARIS (Reuters) - Far-right party leader Jordan Bardella called on French voters on Tuesday to give his party an absolute majority in upcoming parliamentary elections so that it is able to govern effe...
Jun 18, 2024
Thailand passes landmark bill recognising marriage equality
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's Senate passed the final reading of a marriage equality law on Tuesday, paving the way for the country to become the third territory in Asia to recognise same-sex couples...
Jun 18, 2024
