WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is leading a multistate investigation into Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google unit, said on Wednesday he has not taken any possible punishment off the table, including breaking up the search and advertising giant. FILE PHOTO: An illuminated Google logo inside an office building in Zurich, Switzerland, December
FILE PHOTO: Ford logo is pictured at the 2019 Frankfurt Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt, Germany September 10, 2019. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay/File Photo WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Ford Motor Co said Wednesday Canadian officials have opened a preliminary investigation into the automaker’s emissions certification process. Ford said in its annual report Environment and Climate Change Canada has
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain plans to pass emergency legislation by Feb. 27 to prevent convicted terrorists automatically being released from prison half-way through their sentence, a government source said on Wednesday. FILE PHOTO: A police officer is seen near a site where a man was shot by armed officers in Streatham, south London, Britain, February
BEIJING (Reuters) – Fatalities from the coronavirus epidemic are overwhelmingly concentrated in central China’s Wuhan city, which accounts for over 73% of deaths despite having only one-third the number of confirmed infections. FILE PHOTO: Funeral parlour staff members in protective suits help a colleague with disinfection after they transferred a body at a hospital, following
MUNICH (Reuters) – Germany’s Siemens (SIEGn.DE) on Wednesday reported weaker-than-expected industrial profit during its first quarter as a downturn in the manufacturing sector hit its flagship digital industries business and its wind power unit suffered losses. FILE PHOTO: The logo of German industrial group Siemens is seen in Zurich, Switzerland, January 30, 2019. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann/File
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) – An iguana-like creature with a needle-sharp snout has been confirmed from a fossilized skeleton as a species of the marine reptile thalattosaur previously unknown to science that roamed the coast of what is now Alaska some 200 million years ago. Dating from the Triassic period and identified from a lone fossil
FILE PHOTO: Switzerland’s national flag flies below a logo of Swiss bank Credit Suisse at its headquarters at the Paradeplatz square in Zurich, July 31, 2019. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann ZURICH (Reuters) – Credit Suisse (CSGN.S), which has faced a scandal related to spying on senior executives, also conducted espionage against Greenpeace, Swiss newspaper SonntagsZeitung reported. Then-Chief
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Ride-hailing company Beat hopes rival Uber (UBER.N) will return to Colombia, but meanwhile, it will capitalize on the void it left and try to fill it, the company said. Mauricio Lopez, General Manager of Beat in Colombia, poses for a picture in Bogota, Colombia February 3, 2020. Picture taken February 3, 2020.
ITO, Japan (Reuters) – Sinking into the steamy hot springs, the giant rodents of Izu Shaboten Koen flick their ears and close their eyes against the camera clicks of fascinated onlookers, drifting into a hazy midday nap. Capybaras sit inside a hot tub full of apples at Izu Shaboten Zoo in Ito, Japan February 1,
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will ban the sale of new petrol, diesel and hybrid cars from 2035, five years earlier than planned, in an attempt to reduce air pollution that could herald the end of over a century of reliance on the internal combustion engine. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is seeking to use the announcement
FILE PHOTO: Soccer Football – Premier League – Watford v Manchester United – Vicarage Road, Watford, Britain – December 22, 2019 General view of Sky Sports microphones before the match. REUTERS/David Klein/File Photo LONDON (Reuters) – European pay-TV group Sky has pledged to go net zero carbon by 2030 by cutting the emissions created by
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson outlines his government’s negotiating stance with the European Union after Brexit, during a speech at the Old Naval College in Greenwich, in London, Britain February 3, 2020. Frank Augstein/Pool via REUTERS LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2035, five years earlier
FILE PHOTO: A sign is seen above the entrance to the WeWork corporate headquarters in Manhattan, New York, U.S., November 21, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Segar/File Photo (Reuters) – Softbank-backed (9984.T) WeWork named real estate industry veteran Sandeep Mathrani as its new chief executive, tasking him with turning around the embattled office-sharing startup after its botched attempt
LONDON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union and Britain clashed over a post-Brexit trade deal on Monday with Prime Minister Boris Johnson insisting he need not sign up to the bloc’s rules and Brussels warning of tariffs and quotas unless he did. Britain wants to negotiate a trade deal by the end of 2020, though EU
Skiers visit a restaurant in the “plastic free zone” of Pejo 3000, the first ski resort in Italy to ban single-use plastic, in Peio, Trentino, Italy, January 30, 2020. REUTERS/Yara Nardi PEIO, Italy (Reuters) – “Abandon plastic all ye who enter here,” reads a sign at the Pejo 3000 ski resort, which says it is
Investors look at an electronic board showing stock information at a brokerage house in Shanghai, China, March 7, 2016. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY – S1AETJYOONAA SHANGHAI/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Chinese stock and commodity markets fell heavily at the open on Monday, in the first trading session after an extended Lunar New Year
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