TikTok sues Trump administration over U.S. ban, calls it an election ploy - Reuters

(Reuters) - TikTok and one of its employees on Monday separately sued U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration over his executive order banning transactions in the United States with the popular short-form video-sharing app, calling it a pretext to fuel anti-China rhetoric as he seeks re-election.

Culver City, California-based TikTok and its Chinese parent ByteDance Ltd rejected what they called the White House’s position that it was a national security threat, saying they had taken “extraordinary measures


Zoom says service restored after U.S. users hit by partial outage - Reuters

(Reuters) - Video-conferencing company Zoom Video Communications Inc ( ZM.O ) said on Monday it had restored service to its U.S. users after a partial outage left many unable to log in to work meetings or attend school classes remotely.

FILE PHOTO: Ben Mulcahy, founder of Darlinghurst Life Drawing studio, organises a life drawing class for art students over a Zoom internet livestream due to social gathering restrictions implemented to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at Darlinghurst Life

Brazil congresswoman charged with murdering husband - Reuters

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian Congresswoman Flordelis de Souza was charged with ordering the execution of her husband, pastor Anderson do Carmo, who was shot more than 30 times at their home in June 2019, according to a police statement on Monday.

The Rio de Janeiro state police said a total of 11 people have been charged in connection with the crime.

Souza did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent by email. The telephone numbers for her office and her lawyer were not


Tesco to create 16,000 more permanent jobs in online boom - Reuters

(Reuters) - Britain’s largest supermarket Tesco on Monday said it will create an additional 16,000 permanent jobs to support the exceptional growth in its online business and may even increase the number of roles as the lockdown boosted its sales.

“The supermarket expects the majority of these roles to be filled by colleagues who joined on a temporary basis at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, but who now want to stay with the business permanently,” the company said.

Tesco said the


Exclusive: ByteDance investors seek to use stakes to finance TikTok bid - Reuters

(Reuters) - ByteDance investors are in talks to use their stakes in the Chinese technology firm to help finance their bid for its popular short-video app TikTok, according to people familiar with the matter.

FILE PHOTO: TikTok logos are seen on smartphones in front of a displayed ByteDance logo in this illustration taken November 27, 2019. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration

ByteDance has been in talks to divest TikTok’s North America, Australia and New Zealand operations to potential acquirers, including Microsoft Corp


Newly-listed ChiNext shares surge in historic reform - Reuters

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Shares of 18 companies surged on their ChiNext debut on Monday, kicking off a historic reform that will see Shenzhen officially challenge Shanghai for tech listings, while adding fuel to a “technology war” with the United States.

Investors piled into the first batch of companies that list on Shenzhen’s tech-focused start-up board under a streamlined system for initial public offerings (IPOs) that will help make the process less bureaucratic. Trading restrictions will also be loosened.

The biggest gainer among


Tech rally has further to run, J.P. Morgan says - Reuters

FILE PHOTO: A J.P. Morgan logo is seen in New York City, U.S., January 10, 2017. REUTERS/Stephanie Keith

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The enormous rally in tech stocks has further to run, according to analysts at investment bank J.P. Morgan, who recommend staying invested across the sector for its growth potential.

Stocks across the industry, from hardware to software, have outperformed the market by miles this year as the COVID-19 crisis


Brazil coronavirus cases pass 3.6 million, death toll at 114744 - Reuters Africa

FILE PHOTO: A man walks near a graffiti made in tribute to health workers during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at Hospital das Clinicas in Sao Paulo, Brazil August 18, 2020. REUTERS/Amanda Perobelli

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil reported 23,421 new cases of the novel coronavirus and 494 deaths from the disease caused by the virus in the past 24 hours, the health ministry said on Sunday.

Brazil has registered 3,


Firefighters, military planes, troops arrive in California to fight massive blazes - Reuters Africa

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Crews from across the U.S. West, military planes and National Guard troops poured into California on Sunday to join the fight against two dozen major wildfires burning across the state, as officials warned of more dry lightning storms approaching.

Fire retardant is dropped on a lightning complex fire in Berryessa Estates, along Wagon Wheel road, in California, U.S., August 21, 2020 in this still image obtained from a social media video. Newport Beach Fire Department

Navalny will survive 'poison attack', Bizilj tells Bild - Reuters

FILE PHOTO: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny delivers a speech during a rally to demand the release of jailed protesters, who were detained during opposition demonstrations for fair elections, in Moscow, Russia September 29, 2019. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov -/File Photo

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who is being treated in a German hospital after what his allies say was a poison attack, will survive, Jaka Bizilj, founder of the Cinema for Peace Foundation, told mass tabloid Bild.