An oil tanker sails on Lake Maracaibo, in Cabimas, Venezuela October 14, 2022. REUTERS/Issac Urrutia |
- US President Donald Trump ordered a "blockade" of all sanctioned oil tankers entering and leaving Venezuela, escalating pressure on Nicolas Maduro's government, striking its key income source. Texas Democrat Joaquin Castro called the move "unquestionably an act of war."
- A man who allegedly opened fire on a Jewish Hanukkah celebration on Sydney's Bondi Beach, killing 15 people, has been charged with 59 offences, including murder and terrorism, Australian police said.
- The younger son of Hollywood filmmaker and political activist Rob Reiner was formally charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing deaths of his parents, after they were found dead in their home over the weekend.
- Trump expanded a list of countries subject to a full travel ban, prohibiting citizens from an additional seven countries, including Syria, from entering the United States. Trump’s latest travel ban blocks citizens from Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, South Sudan, Syria, Laos, Sierra Leone, and holders of Palestinian Authority documents.
- Combative videographers are fuelling Britain’s asylum hotel protests, turning confrontational videos into viral content that stirs anti-immigrant anger and drives record demonstrations. .
- The EU's parliament will vote on a scheme that would enable women from nations restricting abortion to terminate pregnancies in another member state free of charge.
- Pakistan’s powerful army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, is under pressure from Washington to deploy troops to a Gaza stabilisation force, a move analysts warn could spark domestic backlash.
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- British inflation fell much more sharply than forecast in November to 3.2%, its lowest since March, from 3.6% in October, cementing market expectations that the Bank of England will cut interest rates in December.
- Warner Bros Discovery's board rejected Paramount Skydance's $108.4 billion hostile bid, saying it failed to provide adequate financing assurances.
- Amazon is negotiating a potential $10 billion investment in ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, in a deal that could value the AI firm at over $500 billion, sources say.
- Ford is taking a $19.5 billion hit and killing several of its electric vehicle models as Trump administration policies on EV subsidies drive a hard bargain. Brian Thevenot tells the Reuters World News podcast why Ford has to make this pivot, despite robust European and Chinese demand for EVs.
- The recent crypto market bust has left some investors more cautious, after hitting some of the hottest and most-hyped corners of the industry the hardest. It may also provide a boon to emerging strategies that seek to more actively manage risks.
- American Airlines is betting big on luxury to regain altitude. From lie-flat seats and Bollinger champagne to Lavazza coffee and ultra-fast Wi-Fi, the carrier is rolling out a premium makeover to claw back ground lost to Delta Air Lines and United Airlines.
- The Trump administration is drafting an executive order to limit dividends, buybacks, and executive pay for defense firms with over-budget, delayed projects, aiming to speed up weapons production.
- MetaX Integrated Circuits jumped 700% in its Shanghai market debut as the Chinese AI chipmaker tapped into strong momentum triggered by Beijing's push to reduce reliance on chips from US firms Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices
- OpenAI, Google and Perplexity have begun an unprecedented fight for artificial intelligence users in India, rolling out freebies in a strategy seen as a way to harvest troves of multilingual training data in the world's most populous nation.
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They prosecuted the January 6 US Capitol rioters. Now the rioters and the DOJ are after them. |
Pro-Trump protesters storm into the US Capitol in Washington, January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton/File Photo |
After Trump’s mass pardons of the US Capitol rioters, some have gained influence inside the Justice Department, meeting with officials to push for prosecutions of the federal lawyers who once helped convict them, Reuters found. The January 6 prosecutors describe mounting threats, harassment and fear of lasting damage to the US justice system. |
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Yurina Noguchi at the Magritte wedding venue in Okayama, Japan, October 27, 2025. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon |
Music played in a wedding hall in western Japan as Yurina Noguchi, wearing a white gown and tiara, dabbed away her tears, taking in the words of her husband-to-be: an AI-generated persona gazing out from a smartphone screen. At first, Klaus was just someone to talk with, but we gradually became closer,” the 32-year-old call centre operator said, referring to the artificial intelligence persona. "I started to have feelings for Klaus. We started dating and after a while he proposed to me. I accepted, and now we’re a couple." |
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