By Pavel Polityuk and Natalia Zinets KYIV (Reuters) -Russia resumed its assault on the last Ukrainian defenders holed up in a giant steel works in Mariupol on Saturday, days after Moscow declared victory in the southern city and said its forces did not…
EU agrees on internet rulebook for Google, Facebook, other tech giants
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Union countries and EU lawmakers on Saturday clinched a deal on new rules requiring tech giants to do more to police illegal content on their platforms and to pay a fee to regulators monitoring their compli…
U.S. FAA apologizes for failing to alert Capitol police over parachute jump
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) apologized late Friday for failing to provide advance notification to the U.S. Capitol Police of a small airplane flight that prompted a security scare earlier this wee…
Indonesia’s Indrawati says palm oil export ban will hurt other countries, but necessary
By David Lawder and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Indonesia’s new palm oil export ban will hurt other countries but is necessary to try to bring down the soaring domestic price of cooking oil driven up by Russia’s war in Ukraine, Indonesia’s fina…
Canada draws 1 million travelers in one week for first time since pandemic
By Jenna Zucker TORONTO (Reuters) – Canada attracted more than one million travelers in a week for the first time since the pandemic, government data showed on Friday, as easing of COVID-19 border restrictions encouraged visitors back into the country….
Voting rights groups sue over new Florida congressional maps
By Jonathan Allen (Reuters) – Several voting rights groups filed a lawsuit on Friday challenging Florida’s new congressional map, saying it unfairly diluted the voting power of Black residents to benefit Republicans. The new map is backed by Florida Go…
Indonesia bans palm oil exports as global food inflation spikes
By Fransiska Nangoy JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia, the world’s top palm oil producer, announced plans to ban exports of the most widely used vegetable oil on Friday, in a shock move that could further inflame surging global food inflation. The halting …
Macron tells voters: Now choose the France you want
By Layli Foroudi and Elizabeth Pineau AUXERRE, France (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron and far-right challenger Marine Le Pen made final appeals on Friday to undecided voters weighing fears of what a Le Pen presidency could bring against the…
Florida governor signs bill stripping Disney of self-governing authority
By Maria Caspani and Dawn Chmielewski (Reuters) – Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Friday signed a bill that strips Walt Disney Co of self-governing authority at its Orlando-area parks in retaliation for its opposition to a new law that limits the teac…
Washington police hunt for gunman who wounded 4 near elite prep school
By Chris Gallagher and Steve Gorman WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Police issued a bulletin seeking a man they identified as a “person of interest” in a shooting that left four people wounded near an elite prep school in the nation’s capital on Friday as invest…