COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Details began to emerge in Sri Lanka yesterday of a band of nine, well-educated Islamist suicide bombers, including a woman, from well-to-do families who slaughtered 359 people in Easter Sunday bomb attacks.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Democratic chairman of the U.S. House Oversight Committee yesterday accused President Donald Trump of a “unprecedented, and growing pattern of obstruction” after he ordered federal employees not to comply with congressional investigations.
(Reuters) – Boeing Co yesterday abandoned its 2019 financial outlook, halted share buybacks and said lowered production due to the grounding of its fastest-selling 737 MAX jet after two fatal plane crashes in five months had cost it at least $1 billion so far.
HOUSTON (Reuters) – Oil and gas producer Occidental Petro-leum Corp yesterday made a $57 billion bid for Anadarko Petro-leum Corp, topping Chevron Corp’s $50 billion offer and sparking the first takeover battle for a major oil company in years.
(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp yesterday briefly topped $1 trillion in value for the first time after executives predicted continued growth for its cloud computing business.
MANAGUA, (Reuters) – Nicaragua will not hold early elections, the government announced yesterday, after holding a meeting with the Organization of American States (OAS), which had proposed moving the next vote forward to help resolve a simmering political dispute.
(Reuters) – A woman who accused R. Kelly of sexual abuse has won a civil case by default against the singer, after he failed to respond to her lawsuit and was a no-show in court.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump vowed today to fight all the way to the Supreme Court against any effort by congressional Democrats to impeach him, even though the U.S.
COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lankan housewife Fathima Fazla thought of her neighbours in the grand three-storey home across the street as the wealthy celebrities of her humble Colombo suburb.
HOUSTON (Reuters) – Oil and gas producer Occidental Petroleum Corp today made a $57 billion bid for Anadarko Petroleum Corp, topping Chevron Corp’s $50 billion offer and sparking the first takeover battle for a major oil company in years.
COLOMBO, (Reuters) – The scale and sophistication of the Easter Sunday attacks on churches and hotels in Sri Lanka suggested the involvement of an external group such as Islamic State, the U.S.
COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Islamic State claimed responsibility yesterday for the bomb attacks in Sri Lanka that killed 321 people in what officials believe was retaliation for assaults on mosques in New Zealand.
(Reuters) – Two Nigerian-American brothers wrapped up in Jussie Smollett’s Chicago hate-crime hoax sued the “Empire” actor’s lawyers on Tuesday, accusing them of defamation for insisting they had “criminally attacked” the actor even after police concluded otherwise.
NAIROBI/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc’s efforts to combat hate speech and other types of problematic content are being hampered by the company’s inability to keep up with a flood of new languages as mobile phones bring social media to every corner of the globe.
JUJUY, Argentina, (Reuters) – In an arid, lunar-like landscape in the sunny highlands of northern Argentina, South America’s largest solar farm is rising, powered by funding and technology from China.
JUJUY, Argentina, (Reuters) – In an arid, lunar-like landscape in the sunny highlands of northern Argentina, South America’s largest solar farm is rising, powered by funding and technology from China.
COLOMBO, (Reuters) – Sri Lankan intelligence officials were tipped off about an imminent attack by Islamist militants hours before a series of suicide bombings killed more than 300 people on Easter Sunday, three sources with direct knowledge of the matter said.
SAN FRANCISCO, (Reuters) – Chief Executive Elon Musk said Tesla Inc robotaxis with no human drivers would be available in some U.S.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. House Democrats are divided over whether to proceed directly to impeach President Donald Trump after Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe, but they can still hold Trump accountable without impeachment, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said yesterday.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – The death toll from a weekend landslide in the southwestern Colombian province of Cauca has risen to 28 people, the country’s disaster relief agency said yesterday.
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