[ad_1] (Reuters) – A tree trimming company has been handed the largest penalty imposed in a United States immigration case, totaling $95 million, after pleading guilty to employing illegal immigrants, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. Immigration reform is a major political issue in the U.S., with President Donald Trump saying he will crack down on
Month: September 2017
[ad_1] LONDON (Reuters) – House prices in London have fallen for the first time since 2009 and prices across Britain overall rose at their slowest pace in more than four years in September, mortgage lender Nationwide said on Friday. In a latest sign of the slowdown in Britain’s housing market since last year’s Brexit vote,
[ad_1] HANOI (Reuters) – A Vietnam court sentenced to death a former chairman of state -run PetroVietnam on Friday after finding him guilty in the mass trial of 51 officials and bankers accused of graft and mismanagement that led to losses of $69 million. The ex-PetroVietnam chairman Nguyen Xuan Son was the second of the
[ad_1] (Reuters) – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Thursday it reached an agreement with the U.S. Marine Corps to bring water systems at Camp Pendleton near San Diego up to code after the remains of small animals were found in the drinking water. The agreement came three months after inspectors also found that
[ad_1] MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A judge in Mexico ordered on Thursday that bank accounts linked to businesses owned by soccer star Rafa Marquez be unfrozen, following a designation in August by the U.S. government that the sportsman was linked to a suspected drug trafficker. Last month, the U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned Marquez, who is
[ad_1] WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Twitter (TWTR.N) said on Thursday it had suspended about 200 Russian-linked accounts as it probes online efforts to meddle with the 2016 U.S. election, but an influential Democratic senator slammed its steps as insufficient. Senator Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, summoned Twitter officials to testify
[ad_1] SYDNEY (Reuters) – Asian shares regained some poise on Friday after a tough week in which the gathering risk of a U.S. rate rise lifted Treasury yields toward nine-year highs and boosted borrowing costs across the region. Activity was mainly confined to book-squaring for the end of the month and quarter, and moves in
[ad_1] (Reuters) – A team of scientists won approval from Hawaii officials on Thursday to build a $1.4 billion telescope atop a volcano indigenous people consider sacred, but opponents vowed to continue fighting. The Hawaii Board of Land and Natural Resources voted 5-2 to allow construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) on the summit
[ad_1] MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Spending cuts and a failure by Mexico’s president to upgrade an earthquake alert system hurt life-saving prevention programs and amplified recovery costs after two major temblors this month, current and former government officials said. Although President Enrique Pena Nieto is eager to show a prompt and competent response to the
[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump and top aides have urged conservative Republicans in Congress to craft legislation protecting “Dreamers” brought illegally to the United States as children, a move that could jeopardize efforts to work with Democrats on the issue. Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and
[ad_1] (Reuters) – Apple Inc (AAPL.O) has received more than four times as many national-security related requests from the U.S. government in the first half of this year versus a year ago, according to a company report on Thursday. Apple said it had received between 13,250 and 13,499 national security requests affecting between 9,000 and
[ad_1] SEOUL (Reuters) – The man who called Donald Trump “President Evil” last week at the U.N. General Assembly is actually a genteel intellectual who studies the memoirs of former U.S. presidents and has taste for fine whiskey, according to ten people who know him. North Korea’s Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho made headlines in
[ad_1] LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Kim Kardashian has confirmed reports that she and husband Kanye West are having a third baby, with the couple expected to use a surrogate for the birth. Kardashian’s confirmation, in a trailer released on Thursday for the new series of reality show “Keeping Up With the Kardashians,” means that three
[ad_1] LONDON (Reuters) – Confidence among British consumers unexpectedly edged up to a four-month high in September, although they became gloomier about the state of their finances, a monthly GfK survey showed. Market research firm GfK’s monthly consumer sentiment index edged up to -9 in September from -10, against predictions for a fall to -11
[ad_1] OSTUNI (BR). Proseguono gli eventi nella città di Ostuni: martedì 3 ottobre 2017, a partire dalle ore 18 presso le Officine Tamborrino, si terrà il secondo appuntamento con “LibrInFabbrica” organizzato da Librinfaccia e Officine Tamborrino. Ospite sarà Dario Franceschini, Ministro per i Beni Culturali e il Turismo, che torna al suo mondo di narratore
[ad_1] (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Theresa May said the London transport regulator’s decision to strip Uber Technologies Inc of its license to operate in the capital was “disproportionate” and has put thousands of jobs at risk, according to a BBC report on Thursday. Regulator Transport for London said last Friday that the U.S.-based taxi
[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – People living on the Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean long had spoken of a big, tree-dwelling rat called vika that inhabited the rainforest, but the remarkable rodent managed to elude scientists — until now. After searching for it for years with cameras mounted in trees and traps, scientists said they
[ad_1] (Reuters) – A toddler shot and wounded two 3-year-old children with a handgun at a Michigan home where a woman was babysitting several youngsters, police and local media said on Thursday. The shooting on Wednesday in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn occurred after the toddler got access to a handgun, Dearborn police said in
[ad_1] UNITED NATIONS/YANGON (Reuters) – U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley on Thursday called on countries to suspend providing weapons to Myanmar over violence against Rohingya Muslims until the military puts sufficient accountability measures in place. It was the first time the United States called for punishment of military leaders behind the repression,
[ad_1] di BEATRICE GALLUZZO – Il ddl sui Piccoli Comuni è ora legge dello Stato, dopo un percorso travagliato passato attraverso tre legislature e che si conclude, finalmente, con un “si” praticamente unanime a Palazzo Madama: 205 favorevoli e 2 astenuti. La legge Raelacci, dal nome del primo firmatario, il presidente della Commissione Ambiente della
[ad_1] MONZA – E’ deceduto all’ospedale San Gerardo di Monza, dove era ricoverato in gravi condizioni nel reparto di terapia intensiva e rianimazione, un ragazzino di 13 anni colpito da meningococco di tipo C. A far scattare l’allarme i test che hanno confermato che il giovane di Robecco sul Naviglio, in provincia di Milano, aveva
[ad_1] JERSEY CITY, New Jersey (Reuters) – Another Presidents Cup, another poor start by the Internationals as the United States won the first foursomes match on the opening day at Liberty National on Thursday. The International team has lost the opening session at the past five stagings of the biennial event, and it seemed destined
[ad_1] LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Florida corrections officials said on Thursday they had no indication from O.J. Simpson that he would move to the state after his upcoming release from a Nevada prison, amid speculation about the former “Trial of the Century” defendant’s post-incarceration plans. Simpson, 70, had told Nevada parole commissioners that he planned
[ad_1] SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) – The Pentagon appointed a senior general to oversee military relief operations in hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico, even as President Donald Trump’s administration faced calls from lawmakers for a far more robust response to the disaster. The U.S. territory of 3.4 million people is reeling from Hurricane Maria, which struck
[ad_1] (Reuters) – Wall Street edged higher on Thursday, as the S&P 500 eked out a record on gains in McDonald’s and healthcare names, while investors continued to hope President Donald Trump will be able to make progress on tax reform. Shares in the world’s biggest fast food chain (MCD.N) rose 2.23 percent, their biggest
[ad_1] NEW YORK (Reuters) – Equifax has been cooperating with regulators on issues resulting from the credit reporting agency’s massive data breach and has addressed many of them, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office said on Thursday. Schneiderman was one of several state attorneys general to launch formal investigations of Equifax after the firm
[ad_1] ROMA – Annuncio del ministro degli Esteri, Angelino Alfano, che oggi sarà in visita a Tripoli. “Incontrerò i vertici delle istituzioni e avrò un’intensa giornata di appuntamenti e incontri che spero possano rafforzare il senso di una funzione ampiamente riconosciuta anche nel corso dell’Assemblea generale dell’Onu”, ha spiegato il titolare della Farnesina intervenendo a
[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republican senators John McCain and Mike Lee introduced a bill on Thursday to permanently waive shipping restrictions on Puerto Rico, saying a temporary waiver from the Trump administration is “insufficient” to help the island rebuild from Hurricane Maria. President Donald Trump’s administration earlier on Thursday waived the restriction known as the
[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Genetic data from the skeletal remains of seven people who lived centuries ago in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal Province is offering intriguing new evidence that our species, Homo sapiens, is older than previously believed. Scientists said on Thursday they sequenced the genomes of the seven individuals including a boy who lived as
[ad_1] LONDON (Reuters) – The lead Brexit negotiator for the European Parliament poked fun at British Prime Minister Theresa May on Thursday, quipping that she gave her Brexit speech in Florence because she was familiar with the city’s 15th century politics of betrayal. In a speech to students at the London School of Economics, Guy
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