By Makiko Yamazaki TOKYO (Reuters) – Toshiba Corp’s shareholders are expected to endorse all proposed directors, including two from its hedge fund investors, on Tuesday in a move that could mark a crossroads for the 146-year-old Japanese conglomerate a…
Credit Suisse faces verdict in cocaine-cash trial
By Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi and John O’Donnell ZURICH (Reuters) – Swiss judges are set to rule on Monday whether Credit Suisse failed to prevent money laundering linked to an alleged cocaine trafficking gang in Switzerland’s first criminal trial of one o…
West pledges unwavering support for Ukraine as missiles strike shopping centre
By Pavel Polityuk, Max Hunder and Simon Lewis KREMENCHUK (Reuters) -Western nations on Monday pledged unwavering support for Ukraine in the war with Russia, including more sanctions on Moscow and air-defence systems, as Ukrainian officials said two Rus…
NATO to pledge aid to Baltics and Ukraine, urge Turkey to let in Nordics
By Robin Emmott and Humeyra Pamuk MADRID (Reuters) – NATO leaders will urge Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan to lift his veto over Finland and Sweden’s bid to join the military alliance when they meet for a three-day summit on Tuesday, as the West stri…
Russia’s Putin to make first foreign trips since launching Ukraine war
LONDON (Reuters) -Vladimir Putin will visit two small former Soviet states in central Asia this week, Russian state television reported on Sunday, in what would be the Russian leader’s first known trip abroad since ordering the invasion of Ukraine. Rus…
Ghislaine Maxwell reported jail staff threatened her safety, prompting suicide watch
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Ghislaine Maxwell reported Brooklyn jail staff threatened her safety, prompting employees to place her on suicide watch, prosecutors said on Sunday, arguing there was no need to delay her sentencing on sex trafficking …
At U.S. Pride parades, revelry turns to resistance after Roe reversal
By Randi Love and Nathan Frandino NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Pride celebrations hosted by LGBTQ communities across the United States this weekend took on a tone of outrage following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the constitutional ri…
At least 22 young people die in South African tavern
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) -South African authorities are investigating the deaths of at least 22 young people found inside a popular tavern in the coastal town of East London, provincial health officials and the presidency said on Sunday. State broadcaster S…
Democratic women call on Biden, Congress to protect federal abortion rights
By David Morgan and David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Leading Democratic women called on President Joe Biden and Congress on Sunday to protect abortion rights nationwide after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, in a ruling that has height…
Leaders at G7 mock bare-chested horseback rider Putin
SCHLOSS ELMAU, Germany (Reuters) – Leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy nations mocked the macho image of their absent adversary Vladimir Putin on Sunday, at a meeting in Germany dominated by the Russian President’s invasion of Ukraine. As the besuite…