By Anna Mehler Paperny and David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) -Police in Canada’s national capital have seized thousands of liters of fuel and removed an oil tanker as part of a crackdown to end an 11-day-old protest against the federal government’s heal…
Jury selection began in U.S. hate-crime trial of Arbery killers
By Rich McKay Atlanta (Reuters) -Jury selection began on Monday in the U.S. federal hate-crimes trial of the three white men who murdered Ahmaud Arbery, a Black jogger who was chased and shot while running through a mostly white Georgia neighborhood. T…
Exclusive-U.S. climate envoy Kerry names Rick Duke as deputy
By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Special Climate Envoy John Kerry has nominated one of his senior advisors, Rick Duke – the architect behind an international deal last year to reduce emissions of the greenhouse gas methane – to be his d…
Wall Street mixed as Amazon gains and Meta weighs
By Bansari Mayur Kamdar and Noel Randewich (Reuters) – Wall Street was mixed on Monday, as investors digested recent quarterly results from megacaps Amazon and Facebook owner Meta Platforms, while Peloton jumped following reports of interest from poten…
Tesla receives subpoena from U.S. securities regulator over 2018 settlement
By Subrat Patnaik and Akash Sriram (Reuters) -Tesla Inc said on Monday it received a subpoena from the U.S. securities regulator related to a settlement that required Chief Executive Elon Musk’s tweets on material information about the company to be ve…
Macron tells Putin he seeks to avoid war and build trust
By Michel Rose and Dmitry Antonov MOSCOW (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron, the top Western leader to visit Moscow since Russia began massing troops on the border with Ukraine, told Vladimir Putin at the start of talks in the Kremlin on Monda…
Traders scour markets for protection amid Ukraine tensions
(This Feb. 4 story was refiled to change name to Garnry in 15th and 17th paragraph, clarifies designation in 15th paragraph) By Saikat Chatterjee and Danilo Masoni LONDON (Reuters) – Unnerved by the sabre-rattling between Russia and the West over Ukrai…
Toshiba now plans to split into two, bumps up shareholder return targets
By Makiko Yamazaki TOKYO (Reuters) -Toshiba Corp announced on Monday that it now aims to break up into two companies instead of three, while also unveiling a big boost to planned shareholder returns in an effort to appease angry investors. Its revised …
Israel ramps up scrutiny of police as NSO scandal spreads
By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel announced it was setting up a national inquiry on Monday after a newspaper reported illicit use by police of powerful spyware against confidants of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other public fi…
Factbox-Who was Ahmaud Arbery?
By Rich McKay (Reuters) – Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, was jogging through a mostly white neighborhood on Feb. 23, 2020, when he was chased by three white men in two trucks, and shot and killed about two miles (3.2 km) from his mother’s hous…