BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s northern province of Hebei asked 10 major cities to issue second-level, or “orange”, pollution alerts due to expected smog, the provincial environment bureau said in a statement on Wednesday. That marks the second orange warnings issued by the region in the last two weeks. Cities in Hebei, which include the top
Month: October 2018
The Soyuz rocket is launched with Expedition 57 Flight Engineer Nick Hague of NASA and Flight Engineer Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan October 11, 2018. NASA/Bill Ingalls/Handout via REUTERS MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Soyuz rocket launch failure this month was caused by a faulty sensor, Russian news agencies reported citing an
Britain’s Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt arrives in Downing Street, London, Britain October 16, 2018. REUTERS/Hannah McKay LONDON (Reuters) – Britain is to hire nearly 1,000 more diplomatic staff as it looks to expand its links with countries around the world after Brexit, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt will announce on Wednesday. They will comprise 335 new
PITTSBURGH (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump, shrugging off thousands who protested his visit as unwelcome, offered condolences on Tuesday at the Pittsburgh synagogue where 11 Jewish worshipers were shot to death during Sabbath prayers. The presidential visit, which sources said congressional leaders of both parties declined to join, came as thousands of mourners attended
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel dismissed concerns that resigning as leader of her Christian Democrats would leave her a lame duck premier unable to deal effectively with world leaders like the U.S. President Donald Trump or Turkey’s Tayyip Erdogan. German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends a news conference with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi
(Reuters) – Facebook Inc (FB.O) on Tuesday beat profit estimates but missed targets for growing monthly users and reported its slowest revenue growth in about six years in a quarter some investors feared would be hit harder by defections from the social media site. FILE PHOTO: Figurines are seen in front of the Facebook logo
FILE PHOTO: Nick Sampson, senior vice president of product R&D and engineering at Faraday Future, speaks during an unveiling event for the Faraday Future FF 91 electric car in Las Vegas, Nevada January 3, 2017. REUTERS/Steve Marcus (Reuters) – Chinese electric vehicle developer Faraday Future said on Tuesday its co-founder Nick Sampson has resigned, a
(Reuters) – James “Whitey” Bulger, who lived a double life as one of Boston’s most notorious mobsters and as a secret FBI informant before going on the run for 16 years, was killed at a federal prison in West Virginia, sources said on Tuesday. The Federal Bureau of Investigation was looking into Bulger’s death and
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A bill that would make it easier for companies to raise capital and go public appears to be going nowhere in the U.S. Senate, a top Republican lawmaker told Reuters on Tuesday, in what would be a blow to corporate lobbyists pushing for the legislation. FILE PHOTO: Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC) speaks
CAIRO (Reuters) – An Egyptian government program to pay traders to buy rice straw from farmers at the end of harvest has helped to combat one of Cairo’s ugliest features – a huge black cloud that hangs over the capital during the burning season. Cairo is the world’s second most polluted megacity, the World Health
ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) – The Kepler space telescope has run out of fuel and will be retired after a 9-1/2-year mission in which it detected thousands of planets beyond our solar system and boosted the search for worlds that might harbor alien life, NASA said on Tuesday. An artist’s conception of the Kepler Space telescope
FILE PHOTO: 72nd Annual Tony Awards – Arrivals – New York, U.S., 10/06/2018 – Kerry Washington. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid/File Photo NEW YORK (Reuters) – Actress Kerry Washington, best known for her Emmy-nominated role over seven seasons on television drama “Scandal,” returns to the Broadway stage this month in the new play “American Son.” The four-character story,
FILE PHOTO: Uber’s logo is displayed on a mobile phone in London, Britain, September 14, 2018. REUTERS/Hannah Mckay LONDON (Reuters) – Uber defended its business model at the Court of Appeal on Tuesday in the latest stage of a long-running battle over the classification of its drivers as self-employed, a designation that entitles them to
FILE PHOTO: The logo of Swiss private bank Julius Baer at the bank’s headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, February 1, 2017. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann/File Photo ZURICH (Reuters) – Swiss private bank Julius Baer does not expect the U.S. sentencing of one of its former Latin America executives to have any bearing on the bank’s U.S. legal issues,
BEIJING/PARIS (Reuters) – The wife of former Interpol chief Meng Hongwei has hired two law firms to help track down her husband, who has been missing since traveling back to his native China more than a month ago, but China said she had refused offers to talk to him by telephone. FILE PHOTO: INTERPOL President
Director Kensei Takahashi (R) and cast members from “Sea”, Seijyuro Mimori, Arisa Sato and Satoshi Abe and producer Taichi Tamura (L) attend a post-screening Q&A session after the film’s world premiere at the 31st Tokyo International Film Festival in Tokyo, Japan, October 27, 2018. REUTERS/Chris Gallagher TOKYO (Reuters) – A young man suffers years of
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