(Reuters) – At least 14 people, including two children and a teenager, were shot in a drive-by shooting in western Chicago on Halloween night on Monday, but there were no immediate reports of fatalities, police said. The injured were in various conditi…
South Korea vows tough action, moving to quell anger over Halloween crush
By Soo-hyang Choi and Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea moved to calm public outrage on Tuesday over a Halloween party crush that killed more than 150 people, most of them young, promising a speedy and intensive inquiry and calling for tough ne…
Modi seeks detailed inquiry as India bridge toll rises to 135
By Shivam Patel and Sumit Khanna MORBI, India (Reuters) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi demanded lessons be learned as he visited the site of a bridge collapse that killed 135 people and met some of the injured in hospital on Tuesday. Army, navy …
Elon Musk, who runs four other companies, will now be Twitter CEO
(Reuters) -Tesla Inc boss Elon Musk said on Monday he will serve as chief executive of Twitter, the social media company he just bought for $44 billion, a move that Wall Street analysts have said could stretch the billionaire thin. Musk, who also runs …
Trump’s company ‘cheated’ tax authorities, prosecutor says at trial
By Karen Freifeld and Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Former President Donald Trump’s real estate company cheated tax authorities for 15 years, a prosecutor said on Monday in her opening statement in the Trump Organization’s criminal tax fraud trial, whi…
Russia orders wider evacuation of occupied southern Ukraine
By Pavel Polityuk and Jonathan Landay KYIV/MYKOLAIV, Ukraine (Reuters) -Russia told civilians on Tuesday to leave an area along the eastern bank of the Dnipro River in the Ukrainian province of Kherson, a major extension of an evacuation order that Kyi…
Brazil’s Bolsonaro stays silent on Lula election victory until Tuesday
By Ricardo Brito and Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) – President Jair Bolsonaro will not publicly address his defeat in Brazil’s presidential election until Tuesday, a minister said, amid doubts over whether the far-right nationalist will accept the …
U.S. charges former Montenegro boxer over 22-ton, $1 billion cocaine seizure
By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – A former heavyweight boxer from Montenegro was charged by the U.S. Department of Justice on Monday with trafficking in 22 tons of cocaine worth over $1 billion, most of which was part of one of the largest cocai…
U.S. resumes ‘on-site’ inspections to keep track of weapons in Ukraine
By Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States has restarted on-site inspections in Ukraine to help keep track of the billions of dollars of weapons being provided to Kyiv, a senior U.S. official said on Monday. Moving large amounts of weaponry…
Fearing COVID, workers flee from Foxconn’s vast Chinese iPhone plant
By Ryan Woo BEIJING (Reuters) – After enduring days of lock-in at Foxconn’s vast facility in central China with 200,000 other workers, Yuan finally climbed the fences on Saturday night and escaped the complex, joining others fleeing what they feared wa…