LONDON, (Reuters) – NatWest pleaded guilty today to failing to prevent the laundering of nearly 400 million pounds ($544 million) and faces a heavy fine after becoming the first bank in Britain to admit to a criminal offence of this sort.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A federal judge yesterday temporarily blocked a near-total ban on abortion in Texas, the toughest such law in the United States, in a challenge brought by President Joe Biden’s administration after the U.S.
(Reuters) – Democratic members of Congress from California seized on the oil spill off the state’s coast to call for investigations into why it took several hours before a pipeline operator reported the spill to federal authorities – and the subsequent lag before the public was notified of the danger of the spill.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate appeared near to a temporary deal to avert a federal debt default in the next two weeks, after Democrats said on Wednesday they might accept a Republican proposal to defuse the partisan standoff that threatens the broader economy.
OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canada will place unvaccinated federal employees on unpaid leave and require COVID-19 shots for air, train and ship passengers, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said yesterday, as he unveiled one of the world’s strictest vaccine mandate policies.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers pounded Facebook yesterday, accusing CEO Mark Zuckerberg of pushing for higher profits while being cavalier about user safety, and they demanded regulators investigate whistleblower accusations that the social media company harms children’s mental health and stokes divisions.
STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – Japanese-born American Syukuro Manabe, German Klaus Hasselmann and Italian Giorgio Parisi won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physics yesterday for work that helps understand complex physical systems such as Earth’s changing climate.
LOS ANGELES, Calif., (Reuters) – A section of the oil pipeline that burst off the Southern California coast was displaced 105 feet (32 meters) across the ocean floor, officials said yesterday, fueling speculation that a ship’s anchor may have caused the environmental disaster.
CROZIER, La., (Reuters) – Bruce Westley stood outside his wrecked mobile home, pointing to a small lime green tent, two patio chairs and a 30-quart aluminum pot atop a single propane burner.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India’s top court ordered state authorities to pay $672 (50,000 rupees) as compensation for each death caused by COVID-19, as a way to help families cope with the loss, according to its order reviewed by Reuters today.
TAIPEI, (Reuters) – Taiwan falling to China would trigger “catastrophic” consequences for peace in Asia, President Tsai Ing-wen wrote in a piece for Foreign Affairs published today, and if threatened Taiwan will do whatever it takes to defend itself.
(Reuters) – Facebook Inc blamed a “faulty configuration change” for a nearly six-hour outage yesterday that prevented the company’s 3.5 billion users from accessing its social media and messaging services such as WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger.
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif., (Reuters) – More oil from a massive offshore spill landed on the southern California shore yesterday, with beaches closed and dead fish and birds washing up on shore as officials investigated whether a ship anchor striking a pipeline could have triggered the leak.
LONDON, (Reuters) – OPEC+ said yesterday it would stick to an existing pact for a gradual increase in oil output, sending crude prices to three-year highs and adding to inflationary pressures that consuming nations fear will derail an economic recovery from the pandemic.
SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Chilean police have dismantled a crime ring that helped smuggle hundreds of children of Haitian migrants, sometimes without their parents, from Chile north to Mexico and the United States, Interpol said yesterday.
(Reuters) – Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp at least partially reconnected to the global internet late this afternoon Eastern time, nearly six hours into an outage that paralyzed the social media platform.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Demand for coal and natural gas has exceeded pre-COVID-19 highs with oil not far behind, dealing a setback to hopes the pandemic would spur a faster transition to clean energy from fossil fuels.
HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif., (Reuters) – A large oil spill off the southern California coast left fish dead, birds mired in petroleum and wetlands contaminated, prompting local officials to call it an environmental catastrophe.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A massive leak of financial documents was published by several major news organizations yesterday that allegedly tie world leaders to secret stores of wealth, including King Abdullah of Jordan, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis and associates of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
MANCHESTER, England, (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said yesterday he would not return to “uncontrolled immigration” to solve fuel, gas and Christmas food crises, suggesting such strains were part of a period of post-Brexit adjustment.