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Thyssenkrupp needs new strategy, targets not enough: investor
Thyssenkrupp needs a broad overhaul in strategy carried about by a new external chief executive, as mid-term targets announced this week will not be enough to put the German group back on track, according to one of its investors.
Erdogan says U.S. 'wrong' to threaten Turkey after Trump doubles tariffs
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday said it was wrong of the United States to try to bring Turkey into line with threats, a day after President Donald Trump doubled tariffs on Turkish metal imports as the row between the two NATO allies deep...
U.S. airline worker steals plane, takes it for flight before crashing it
Federal authorities were searching on Saturday for what drove an airline worker to steal an empty airplane from Seattle's airport and crashing it into a nearby sparsely populated island, sparking a security scare that saw U.S. fighter jets scram...
Mechanic steals empty plane from Seattle's airport, crashes
An airline mechanic stole an airplane at Seattle–Tacoma International Airport on Friday and was chased by two U.S. military jets before crashing on a nearby sparsely populated island, the local sheriff said.
Prosecutors again attempt to strip Guatemala's president of immunity
Guatemala's attorney general and the U.N.-backed International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) moved on Friday to lift President Jimmy Morales' immunity so he can be investigated for alleged illicit campaign financing.
Erdogan tells Turks to buy crumbling lira as Trump turns the screws
President Tayyip Erdogan told Turks on Friday to sell their gold and U.S. dollars to support the country's currency which plunged after U.S. President Donald Trump escalated a feud with NATO ally Turkey by doubling tariffs on metals imports.
Monsanto ordered to pay $289 million in world's first Roundup cancer trial
A California jury on Friday found Monsanto liable in a lawsuit filed by a man who alleged the company's glyphosate-based weed-killers, including Roundup, caused his cancer and ordered the company to pay $289 million in damages.
Take Five: World markets themes for the week ahead
Following are five big themes likely to dominate thinking of investors and traders in the coming week and the Reuters stories related to them:
Two police officers among four fatally shot in Canada
Four people, including two police officers, were killed in a shooting in eastern Canada on Friday in the latest eruption of gun violence across the country that has led to calls for weapons bans in cities.
Cuba charges leading dissident with attempted murder
The leader of one of Cuba’s largest and most active opposition organizations was charged Friday with attempted murder after being held incommunicado for a week in eastern Cuba.
Judge encouraged by U.S. plan to reunite separated immigrant families
A federal judge on Friday said he was encouraged by a new U.S. plan to reunite parents and children who had been separated at the U.S.-Mexican border under President Donald Trump's now-abandoned "zero tolerance" policy toward illegal immigrants.
Jury orders Monsanto to pay $290 million in California Roundup cancer trial
A California jury on Friday found Monsanto liable in a lawsuit filed by a man who alleged the company's glyphosate-based weed-killers, including Roundup, caused him cancer, and ordered the company to pay $289 million in compensatory damages.
Iran test-fired anti-ship missile during drills last week: U.S. source
Iran test-fired a short-range anti-ship missile in the Strait of Hormuz during naval drills last week that Washington believes were aimed at sending a message as the United States reimposes sanctions on Tehran, a U.S. official said on Friday.
Turkish currency's freefall rocks world equity markets, euro
A plunge in the Turkish lira rocked global equities and emerging markets on Friday and fear of further fallout sent investors scurrying for safety in assets like the yen and U.S. government bonds.
U.N. says it has credible reports that China holds million Uighurs in secret camps
A U.N. human rights panel said on Friday that it had received many credible reports that 1 million ethnic Uighurs in China are held in what resembles a "massive internment camp that is shrouded in secrecy".
Colombia to ask U.N. for special envoy to manage Venezuelan migrant crisis
Colombia will ask the United Nations to designate a special envoy to coordinate humanitarian aid for the hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan migrants flooding into countries around the region, the foreign minister said on Friday.
Witness testifies that bank CEO was involved in Manafort loans
A former executive with Federal Savings Bank testified at ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's bank and tax fraud trial on Friday that the chief executive of the Chicago-based bank pushed for $16 million in loans made to Manafort.
Edinburgh festival authors face 'Kafkaesque' UK visa process
Foreign authors invited to Edinburgh to appear in the world's biggest arts festival are being put off by a British visa process which organizers say is humiliating and Kafkaesque.
U.S. census citizenship question panned by scientists, civil rights groups
As the U.S. government closed a public comment period on Wednesday on its plans for the 2020 census, scientists, philanthropists and civil rights groups used the occasion to again criticize plans to include a question about U.S. citizenship.
Erdogan tells Turks to buy plunging lira as Trump turns the screws
President Tayyip Erdogan told Turks on Friday to exchange their gold and dollars into lira, with the currency in free fall as President Donald Trump escalated a feud with Ankara by doubling tariffs on metals imports.