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Ships get older and slower as emissions rules bite
Date: July 11, 2022
By Sarah McFarlane LONDON (Reuters) – If shipping is the beating heart of global trade, its pulse is about to get slower. Faced with uncertainty about which fuels to use in the long term to cut greenhouse gas emissions, many shipping firms are sticking with ageing fleets, but older vessels may soon have to start...
Google offers concessions to avoid U.S. antitrust lawsuit -WSJ
Date: July 8, 2022
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Alphabet Inc’s Google has offered concessions to avoid a potential U.S. antitrust lawsuit alleging that the company abuses its clout in the advertising technology business, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. Google has proposed spinning off parts of its business that auctions and places ads on...
Biden signs executive order on abortion, declares Supreme Court ‘out of control’
Date: July 8, 2022
By Jeff Mason and Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden said the Supreme Court decision overturning the right to an abortion was an exercise in “raw political power” and signed an executive order on Friday to ease access to services to terminate pregnancies. Biden, a Democrat, has been under pressure from his own...
Protests block North Macedonia’s capital over Bulgaria, EU compromise
Date: July 8, 2022
By Fatos Bytyci SKOPJE (Reuters) – Streets in Skopje, North Macedonia, were brought to a standstill on Friday because of protests against a proposed compromise deal with Bulgaria that would finally allow the Balkan country to begin long-awaited European Union membership talks. On Friday hundreds of people parked their vehicles around government buildings in central...
Jobs blowout cements case for another big Fed rate hike
Date: July 8, 2022
By Howard Schneider and Ann Saphir WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Another blowout jobs number will likely stiffen resolve at the Federal Reserve for a three-quarter-point interest rate increase at the central bank’s July meeting, as the welcome news of a still-strong job market clashes with concern that it will eventually have to cool to ease inflation....
More Russian men look to avoid military service, some lawyers and rights groups say
Date: July 8, 2022
LONDON (Reuters) – Danila Davydov said he left Russia within weeks of the Kremlin sending troops into Ukraine because he feared having to fight in a war he doesn’t support. The 22-year-old digital artist who had been living in St Petersburg said that as the conflict dragged on he was concerned that Russia could place...