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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday overturned the conviction of a former Chinese diplomat and head of U.S. operations for a Chinese construction company for engaging in forced labor, while upholding his convictio…

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – The trial of a former Goldman Sachs banker accused of helping loot Malaysia’s 1MDB sovereign wealth fund will be paused due to late disclosure of some evidence by prosecutors to the defense, the judge in the case ruled…

By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) -The trial of a white former Kentucky police officer charged with wanton endangerment during the 2020 shooting death of Breonna Taylor began on Wednesday, casting a spotlight on another case in the United States that sparked …

By Pavel Polityuk and Polina Nikolskaya KYIV/DONETSK (Reuters) -Ukraine declared a state of emergency on Wednesday and told its citizens in Russia to come home, while Moscow began evacuating its Kyiv embassy in the latest ominous signs for Ukrainians w…

By Omar Younis ADELANTO, Calif. (Reuters) -Taking a cue from demonstrations that paralyzed Canada’s capital city, Ottawa, for weeks, U.S. truckers on Wednesday plan to embark on a 2,500-mile (4,000-km) cross-country drive toward Washington to protest c…

By Muvija M and William James LONDON (Reuters) -Britain accused Russian news channel RT on Wednesday of being a tool of a Kremlin disinformation campaign and asked the UK media regulator to take action if needed after Russia recognised two rebel region…

DONETSK (Reuters) – Andrey Turchak, a senior member of Russia’s ruling party, said on Wednesday that the Russian military would only enter two breakaway regions in Ukraine recognised by Moscow as independent states if it was asked to do so by separatis…

By Toby Sterling AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -A man who was arrested in Amsterdam after holding a person hostage at gunpoint for several hours in an Apple flagship store on Tuesday night had explosives on his body, Amsterdam police said on Wednesday. “We are i…

By Gloria Dickie LONDON (Reuters) – Indonesia’s peatlands, California’s forests, and, now, vast swathes of Argentine wetland have all been ravaged by extreme wildfires, heralding a fiery future and the dire need to prevent it. With climate change trigg…

By Karin Strohecker and Megan Davies LONDON/NEW YORK (Reuters) -The U.S. government broadened restrictions on trading of Russian government debt on Tuesday in a bid to punish Moscow for ratcheting up its conflict with Ukraine, a move that analysts said…