By Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON, Dec 26 (Reuters) – Moscow is likely stationing new nuclear-capable hypersonic ballistic missiles at a former airbase in eastern Belarus, a development that could bolster Russia’s ability to deliver missiles across Europe, two U.S. researchers have found by studying satellite imagery. The researchers’ assessment broadly aligns with U.S. intelligence findings, said…
By Georgina McCartney HOUSTON, Dec 26 (Reuters) – Oil prices settled more than 2% lower on Friday as investors weighed a looming global supply glut, while also keeping an eye on a potential Ukraine peace deal ahead of talks this weekend between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and U.S. President Donald Trump. Brent crude futures settled…
(Refiles to fix typo in headline to business from busines) Dec 26 (Reuters) – Jeff Bezos-founded Blue Origin said on Friday it has hired Tory Bruno, the longtime CEO of United Launch Alliance, as president of its newly formed national security-focused unit. Bruno will head the National Security Group and report to Blue Origin CEO…
Dec 26 (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday that Russia was using ordinary apartment blocks on the territory of its ally Belarus to attack Ukrainian targets and circumvent Kyiv’s defences. The Kremlin used Belarusian territory to launch its February 2022 invasion of Ukraine and Belarus remains a steadfast ally, though longstanding President Alexander…
By Hyunjoo Jin and Jungmin Ryu SEOUL, Dec 26 (Reuters) – A South Korean investigation into the Jeju Air crash that killed 179 people is set to miss a one-year deadline to release a progress report, two officials said, as frustrated relatives of the victims continue to demand answers about what went wrong. The country’s…
Dec 26 (Reuters) – Myanmar’s military-led administration will hold a multi-phased general election starting on Sunday, even as a civil war rages across large parts of the Southeast Asian country. WHY IS MYANMAR HOLDING AN ELECTION? The military ousted the elected government of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi in a February 2021 coup, just…
SAO PAULO, Dec 23 (Reuters) – Apple will allow other app stores besides its own in the tech giant’s iOS operating system in Brazil to settle a three-year case with the country’s antitrust regulator CADE, both parties said on Tuesday. An internal panel at CADE formed a majority to accept Apple’s proposal of an agreement,…
BEIJING, Dec 25 (Reuters) – Shipments of foreign-branded mobile phones, including Apple’s iPhones, rose 128.4% in China in November from the same month last year, according to Reuters calculations based on data released by a government-affiliated research firm on Thursday. Overall phone shipments in China were up 1.9% year-on-year to 30.16 million units in November,…
COPENHAGEN, Dec 22 (Reuters) – Greenland’s Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said on Tuesday he was “sad” about U.S. President Donald Trump’s renewed expression of interest in acquiring the Arctic territory. Nielsen shared his comments on Facebook after Trump reasserted on Monday that the United States needs Greenland for its national security and said a special…
By Blake Brittain Dec 22 (Reuters) – An investigative reporter best known for exposing fraud at Silicon Valley blood-testing startup Theranos sued Elon Musk’s xAI, Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta Platforms and Perplexity on Monday for using copyrighted books without permission to train their artificial intelligence systems. New York Times reporter and “Bad Blood” author John Carreyrou filed the…
