LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Janet Jackson finally won her place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Thursday when the pop singer was named as one of seven music acts to be getting a place in music history. FILE PHOTO: Singer Janet Jackson makes a heart symbol after receiving the Global Icon award
Month: December 2018
BRASILIA (Reuters) – A consortium led by Electricité de France SA is ready to fill the reservoir of a hydroelectric dam built in Brazil’s soy belt, but could be delayed by a year over removal of trees from the area to be flooded, the company and state officials said. FILE PHOTO: Virgin Amazon rain forest
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Dutch fudge is off the summit table as EU lawyers look closer to home in Belgium for a model of what leaders can offer Prime Minister Theresa May in the way of reassurances to help her sell a Brexit deal at home in Britain. FILE PHOTO: British Prime Minister Theresa May is
TOKYO (Reuters) – SoftBank Group Corp plans to replace 4G network equipment from China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd with hardware from Nokia and Ericsson, Nikkei reported on Thursday, without citing sources. FILE PHOTO – A pedestrian holding a mobile phone walks past a logo of SoftBank Corp in front of its branch in Tokyo December
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May survived a confidence vote by the Conservative Party on Wednesday, but a mutiny by more than a third of her lawmakers indicated parliament was heading towards deadlock over Brexit. While 200 Conservative lawmakers voted in support of May as leader, 117 dissented, indicating opposition not only from
Kyrie Irving hit a tiebreaking, 31-foot 3-pointer with 17 seconds remaining in overtime, and the visiting Boston Celtics held off the Washington Wizards 130-125 on Wednesday night. Dec 12, 2018; Washington, DC, USA; Boston Celtics guard Kyrie Irving (11) dribbles the ball as Washington Wizards center Thomas Bryant (13) defends in the fourth quarter at
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Canada should distance itself from U.S. “hegemonism” and grant unconditional freedom to Meng Wanzhou, a Chinese executive detained in Vancouver on Washington’s request, the state-owned tabloid Global Times said in a Thursday editorial. Meng Wanzhou, Huawei Technologies Co Ltd’s chief financial officer (CFO), is seen in this undated handout photo obtained by
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland on Wednesday warned the United States not to politicize extradition cases, a day after President Donald Trump said he could intervene in the affair of a Chinese executive detained in Canada at Washington’s request. Canada’s Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland speaks during a news conference in Ottawa, Ontario,
(Reuters) – Rescuers on Wednesday found alive three people who had been lost in a West Virginia mine for four days after crawling in through a ventilation shaft, and brought them to the surface, a state spokeswoman said. Erica Treadway, 31, Kayla Williams, 25, and Cody Beverly, 21, were all being taken to a hospital
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Smog in northern China worsened in October and November compared to a year earlier, environmental group Greenpeace said on Thursday, as the government eases the pace at which it ramps up air quality controls at a time when the economy is slowing. FILE PHOTO – A man wearing a mask walks in
LONDON (Reuters) – The return of Mary Poppins to the big screen brings some much needed magic to the world in uncertain times, the cast of the new film about the beloved nanny said on Wednesday as they premiered the highly anticipated movie in London. Actor Emily Blunt attends the European premiere of “Mary Poppins
FILE PHOTO: U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at a conference of the German Marshall Fund of the United States on “Reforming the Rules-Based International Order”, in Brussels, Belgium, December 4, 2018. REUTERS/Yves Herman UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Washington will push the U.N. Security Council to toughen its stance against Iran working on ballistic
VANCOUVER (Reuters) – A top executive of Chinese telecoms giant Huawei Technologies Co Ltd was granted bail by a Canadian court on Tuesday, 10 days after her arrest in Vancouver at the request of U.S. authorities sparked a diplomatic dispute. Meng Wanzhou, Huawei’s chief financial officer and the daughter of its founder, faces U.S. claims
FILE PHOTO: The building in which an apartment contained cash, art works and personal belongings of Carlos Ghosn is pictured in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil December 10, 2018. REUTERS/Ricardo Moraes/File photo SAO PAULO (Reuters) – A Brazilian court decided on Wednesday that ousted Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn or his daughter should have the right to
LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May vowed to win a vote of no confidence triggered by angry Brexit supporters in her Conservative Party on Wednesday, but said she would step down as leader before the next election in four years time. Less than four months before the United Kingdom is due to leave the
CONCORD, N.H. (Reuters) – A former physician assistant in New Hampshire put his own greed ahead of medical obligations by taking kickbacks from Insys Therapeutics Inc to prescribe patients its highly addictive fentanyl spray, a federal prosecutor said on Wednesday. Christopher Clough, a former physician assistant, arrives at the federal courthouse in Concord, New Hampshire,
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