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Ukrainian rockets hit Russian-held area as Kyiv readies southern counter-attack
Date: July 12, 2022
By Tom Balmforth and Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine said on Tuesday it had carried out a long-range rocket strike against Russian forces and military equipment in southern Ukraine, territory it says it is planning to retake in a counter-offensive using hundreds of thousands of troops. The strike hit an ammunition dump in the town...
EU backs global law pact which could partly plug UK legal gap
Date: July 12, 2022
By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) – The European Union on Tuesday signed up to a new international treaty for recognising and enforcing civil and commercial court rulings among its signatories to reduce costly cross-border litigation. “It will allow EU citizens and businesses to have rulings by a court in the EU recognised and enforced in...
Portugal and Spain swelter in heatwave, wildfire risk grows
Date: July 12, 2022
By Catarina Demony and Miguel Pereira LISBON (Reuters) -Soaring temperatures in Portugal forced authorities to place more than half the country on red alert on Tuesday and deploy hundreds of firefighters to combat blazes erupting in the central region in a heatwave that also swept across Spain. With temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit)...
Global airlines chief slams new Heathrow restrictions
Date: July 12, 2022
By Tim Hepher (Reuters) – The head of a body representing global airlines hit out at new restrictions at London’s Heathrow on Tuesday, saying the airport had under-estimated the speed of the recovery and was focused on profits at the expense of airlines that must now foot the bill. Willie Walsh, director general of the...
Hackers posing as Merkel target ECB’s Lagarde – German source
Date: July 12, 2022
FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Unidentified hackers attempted to trick European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde into letting them open a messaging app account in her name by posing as former German chancellor Angela Merkel, a German source said on Tuesday. The plot was quickly foiled without any information being compromised, an ECB spokesperson said. “We can confirm...
Amazon issued 13,000 disciplinary notices at single U.S. warehouse
Date: July 12, 2022
(Note: This story has strong language in paragraph 28) By Jeffrey Dastin NEW YORK (Reuters) – Amazon worker Gerald Bryson had hand-counted thousands of items in his warehouse’s inventory over three days when his manager showed him a “Supportive Feedback Document.” Bryson had made 22 errors, the 2018 write-up said, including tallying 19 products in...