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…
Dec 23 (Reuters) – The United States and Iran traded barbs at the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday over conditions for reviving nuclear talks, with the U.S. saying it remains ready for direct negotiations and Iran rejecting Washington’s terms. The two countries held five rounds of nuclear talks prior to a 12-day war between…
By Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK, Dec 22 (Reuters) – U.S. stocks closed higher to kick off the holiday-shortened trading week on Monday, buoyed partly by a continued rebound by technology stocks in a broad advance that saw gains among almost all of the 11 S&P 500 sectors. The bounce in tech names began late last…
By Jody Godoy Dec 22 (Reuters) – Instacart is ending price tests that resulted in different shoppers being shown different prices for groceries, the online retail platform said on Monday after criticism of its artificial intelligence-driven pricing tool. The company faced an outcry after a study by Consumer Reports and two other nonprofits showed some…
By Jonathan Landay, Erin Banco and John Irish WASHINGTON/PARIS, Dec 19 (Reuters) – U.S. intelligence reports continue to warn that Russian President Vladimir Putin has not abandoned his aims of capturing all of Ukraine and reclaiming parts of Europe that belonged to the former Soviet empire, six sources familiar with U.S. intelligence said, even as…
