By Simon Lewis KREMENCHUK, Ukraine (Reuters) -Firefighters on Tuesday searched the rubble of a Ukrainian shopping mall where authorities said 36 people were missing after a Russian missile strike that killed at least 18, as a regional governor reported…
Ghislaine Maxwell sentenced to 20 years for ‘horrific’ sex trafficking
By Luc Cohen and Brendan Pierson NEW YORK (Reuters) -Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Tuesday for helping the sex offender and globetrotting financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls, in what a judge called a “horri…
Russian shelling kills five civilians in Ukraine’s Kharkiv – governor
By Vitalii Hnidyi KHARKIV, Ukraine (Reuters) – Russian forces shelled central districts of the city of Kharkiv on Monday, hitting apartment buildings and a primary school and killing five people and wounding 22, the regional governor said. Five childre…
Bill-by-bill talks loom as fragmented French parliament kicks off
By Elizabeth Pineau and Ingrid Melander PARIS (Reuters) -France’s most fragmented parliament in decades sat for the first time on Tuesday, as President Emmanuel Macron faced the prospect of having to negotiate each reform with opposition parties who wi…
Factbox – The issues surrounding a Scottish independence vote
By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) – Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced plans on Tuesday for a second referendum to be held on Scottish independence in October 2023. In a referendum in 2014, Scots voted 55%-45% to remain in the United …
EY to pay $100 million to settle U.S. charges of staff cheating on accountant exams
By Katanga Johnson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Big Four accounting firm Ernst & Young will pay $100 million to settle U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charges that its auditors cheated on certified public accounting (CPA) exams and that it misle…
Finland’s Nokian Tyres starts ‘controlled exit’ from Russia
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Finland’s Nokian Tyres said on Tuesday it would initiate a “controlled exit” from the Russian market, having already scaled down the production of its Russian tyre plant after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. “As part of the process…
Jailed Egyptian blogger entering danger zone in hunger strike – mother
CAIRO (Reuters) – The mother of jailed Egyptian-British activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah says she is worried there could be a rapid deterioration in his health after nearly 90 days on hunger strike, despite some improvements in his prison conditions. Abd el…
Microsoft faces investor call to publish global tax affairs
LONDON (Reuters) – Investors managing more than $350 billion of assets have demanded that Microsoft publish more transparent tax and financial information, as tech giants face growing scrutiny globally over their tax affairs. A shareholder resolution o…
Fifty migrants dead in sweltering Texas truck, more hospitalized
By Jason Buch, Evan Garcia and Ted Hesson SAN ANTONIO (Reuters) -The death toll from a human trafficking incident on Monday in which migrants suffered under extreme Texas heat inside a truck rose to 50, U.S. and Mexican officials said on Tuesday, in on…