Japan's Suga vows to put growth ahead of fiscal reform, stay course on Abenomics - Reuters
TOKYO (Reuters) - Yoshihide Suga, on course to become Japan’s next prime minister, said he would maintain incumbent premier Shinzo Abe’s policy prioritizing economic growth over efforts to fix the country’s tattered finances.
Suga, Japan’s chief cabinet secretary
Yemen's Houthis say hit military objects in Saudi Arabia's Abha airport - Reuters
CAIRO (Reuters) - Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis targeted and hit military and sensitive objects in Saudi Arabia’s Abha international airport with drones early on Wednesday, the military spokesman for the group Yahya Sarea announced on Twitter.
There was no immediate confirmation of the incident from Saudi authorities.
Yemen has been mired in conflict since a Saudi-led coalition intervened in March 2015 to restore the Yemeni government ousted from power in the capital Sanaa by Houthi forces in late 2014.
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Trump will announce reduction in U.S. troops in Iraq on Wednesday - Reuters
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) - President Donald Trump will announce a further drawdown of U.S. troops
U.S. dollar slides from four-week high; euro rises - Reuters
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar slid from a four-week high on Wednesday, led by losses against the euro after a news report said European Central Bank officials have become more confident in their outlook for the region’s recovery.
Some analysts, however, expect the dollar to hold recent gains after a steep fall the last few months
SoftBank sheds $13 billion on U.S. tech stock rout - Reuters
TOKYO (Reuters) - SoftBank Group Corp ( 9984.T ) shares closed down almost 3% on Wednesday, extending this week’s slump that has wiped around $13 billion from its market capitalisation, as investors fretted about the conglomerate’s exposure to sliding U.S. tech stocks.
Ex-private equity executive pleads guilty to stealing SEC info - Reuters
A former chief compliance officer at a private equity firm pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor on Tuesday, obviating the need for a rare criminal bench trial expected to start this month on charges he stole information about a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigation before he left the agency.
Michael Cohn, 61, former chief compliance officer at GPB Capital Holdings, was charged in February 2019 with stealing information about a probe into New York-based GPB while he was still working for the SEC as a compliance
TV's 'Keeping Up with the Kardashians' to end after 14 years - Reuters
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The American television reality show that shot Kim Kardashian and her family to fame is ending in 2021 after 14 years, the E! network said on Tuesday.
“Keeping Up with the Kardashians,” which helped make Kim Kardashian and her siblings Kylie, Kendall, Khloe and Kourtney household names and launched their careers in the fashion and beauty business, will air its last season early next year, the network and the extended family said.
“It is with heavy hearts that
Republican senators propose reform to key U.S. tech liability shield - Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Three Republican U.S. senators on Tuesday introduced the latest legislation targeting a federal law that largely exempts tech platforms such as Facebook and Twitter from legal liability for the material their users post.
The
Slack's quarterly billing growth slows due to COVID-19 concessions - Reuters
(Reuters) - Slack Technologies Inc’s ( WORK.N ) billing growth, a key indicator of future revenue, slowed in the second quarter and the workplace messaging app owner said it took a $11 million hit in the first half due to
Trump's ex-lawyer Cohen links Falwell’s endorsement in 2016 to suppression of racy photos - Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In his book released today, Michael Cohen, the former fixer for U.S. President Donald Trump, ties for the first time the 2016 presidential endorsement of Trump by American evangelical leader Jerry Falwell Jr to Cohen’s own role in helping to keep racy “personal” photographs of the Falwells from becoming public.