By Daina Beth Solomon MEXICO CITY/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States has asked Mexico to probe alleged worker rights violations at an auto-parts plant owned by Italian-French carmaker Stellantis, the fourth such complaint under a revised trade de…
Teacher, 14-year-old among hundreds of Americans hit by gunfire over weekend
By Brendan O’Brien CHICAGO (Reuters) – A Philadelphia school teacher, an Arizona teenager and a Chicago police officer were among hundreds of people struck by gunfire over the weekend, part of a relentless wave of shootings that has forced the United S…
Meta names Guy Rosen chief information security officer
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc has named a company vice president as chief information security officer (CISO), the first person to fill that role at the social media company. Guy Rosen, who has been at Facebook since 2013 an…
U.S. wins authority to seize Russian oligarch’s planes
By Luc Cohen and Karen Freifeld NEW YORK (Reuters) -A U.S. court on Monday issued warrants for the seizure of two luxury planes owned by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich under U.S. measures imposed after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, court records …
Yellen faces grilling in Congress over ‘wrong’ inflation forecast
By Andrea Shalal, Trevor Hunnicutt and David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen faces a gauntlet of tough questions about how the Biden administration has handled the economy in Congress this week, after admitting she wa…
Dominican environment minister shot dead in his office
SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) -The Dominican Republic’s environment minister, Orlando Jorge Mera, was shot dead in his office on Monday, authorities said. A spokesman for the president’s office, Homero Figueroa, said in a video posted to Twitter on Monday af…
Ryanair forces South Africans to prove nationality with Afrikaans test
By Padraic Halpin and Siyabonga Sishi DUBLIN/JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -Ryanair is requiring South African passengers to prove their nationality before travelling by completing a test in Afrikaans, a language used by just 12% of the population that has lo…
Ukraine will fight for all territory, stalemate ‘not an option’, Zelenskiy says
By Pavel Polityuk and Abdelaziz Boumzar KYIV/DRUZHKIVKA, Ukraine (Reuters) -Ukraine will fight to recover all its territory occupied by Russian forces, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday, as his troops battled street-to-street in Sievierodon…
U.S. Supreme Court rules Southwest Airlines cannot force wage suit into arbitration
By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – Southwest Airlines Co cannot force a baggage handler’s class action lawsuit over overtime pay into private arbitration, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday in a decision with costly potential implications for companies…
Lawsuits target illegal plastic bag sales in California
By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) – An environmental group said Monday it had sued two major Californian retailers to stop them selling thicker plastic bags that are supposed to be recyclable but cannot be recycled in the state. The plaintiff, …