By Ricardo Brito and Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s national electoral authority is announcing moves to crack down harder on online disinformation in a fierce presidential campaign between far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro and leftist ch…
U.S. jury finds Credit Suisse did not rig forex market
By Jody Godoy NEW YORK (Reuters) -A U.S. jury found on Thursday that Credit Suisse Group AG did not conspire with the world’s largest banks to rig prices in the foreign exchange market between 2007 and 2013, handing the bank a win as it works to restru…
Kevin Spacey wins in civil sexual-abuse case brought by actor Rapp
By Jack Queen (Reuters) – Kevin Spacey on Thursday defeated a sexual abuse case against him after jurors in a Manhattan civil trial found his accuser didn’t prove his claim that the Oscar winner made an unwanted sexual advance on him when he was 14. Th…
Mnuchin takes stand at Trump ally Barrack’s foreign agent trial
By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin took the stand on Thursday as a witness for the defense of Tom Barrack, a onetime fundraiser for former U.S. President Donald Trump who is on trial on charges of illegally a…
Ukraine braces for more power outages after Russia bombs infrastructure
By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) – Ukrainians endured the first scheduled power outages since the war began on Thursday and braced for more after Russian air strikes destroyed infrastructure, as Kyiv’s forces pressed on towards the Russian-occupied cit…
Rishi Sunak to be UK prime minister: What you need to know
LONDON (Reuters) – Rishi Sunak will become Britain’s first prime minister of colour on Tuesday after he won the race to lead the Conservative Party. Following are latest events, comments and context: POLITICS * Sunak, the 42-year-old former finance min…
America’s new nuclear power industry has a Russian problem
By Sarah McFarlane, Timothy Gardner and Susanna Twidale WASHINGTON/LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. firms developing a new generation of small nuclear power plants to help cut carbon emissions have a big problem: only one company sells the fuel they need, and i…
Truss’s demise ends the revival of Thatcher’s libertarian economics
By Andrew MacAskill and Elizabeth Piper LONDON (Reuters) – Daniel Pryor, who lobbies for governments to shrink the state and cut taxes, feels Liz Truss’s brief, disastrous spell as prime minister has killed off his dream of a low-tax, deregulated Briti…
Russia’s Navalny says he faces new criminal case for ‘promoting terrorism’
LONDON (Reuters) -Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny said on Thursday that authorities had opened a new criminal case against him for promoting terrorism and extremism, potentially more than doubling his sentence. Navalny, the most pro…
Moscow says U.S. sanctions charges against 5 Russians are ‘cynical’ bid to intimidate
(Reuters) – Russia sees charges brought by the United States against five Russian nationals for alleged sanctions violations as an attempt to intimidate the business community in Russia and abroad, its foreign ministry said on Thursday. U.S. prosecutor…