[ad_1] SEOUL (Reuters) – A South Korean exhibition offering a glimpse into the life of the reclusive North opened on Saturday with a replica of a middle-class home in Pyongyang where the property market is booming, despite UN sanctions over its weapons programs. By all indications, cash is continuing to flow into ventures that are
Month: September 2017
[ad_1] ROMA – Dopo Barcellona è stata eseguita in Italia un’operazione dell’antiterrorismo che ha portato la Polizia a controllare, tra il 28 e il 30 Agosto, 27.043 furgoni in prossimità dei centri storici delle città. Sono stati 24 gli arresti (la maggior parte per reati connessi alla droga) e 114 le persone denunciate, tra le
[ad_1] HOUSTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump travels to Houston and Lake Charles, Louisiana on Saturday to meet victims of catastrophic storm Harvey, one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history that is presenting a test of his administration. While Trump visits, attention will also be focused on Minute Maid Park, where baseball’s Houston
[ad_1] (Reuters) – California Governor Jerry Brown on Friday issued an emergency declaration for a wildfire burning in the northern part of the state, the same day the man accused of starting the blaze was charged with arson. The so-called Ponderosa Fire has burned 3,715 acres (1,503 hectares) and destroyed 30 homes in Butte County,
[ad_1] HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnam has found faults with the central State Bank of Vietnam, including poor supervision of credit organizations and inefficiency in preventing corruption, the government said on Saturday. The announcement, which was published on the government’s website, came amid an intensifying crackdown on corruption that has pushed many state executives and government
[ad_1] (Reuters) – California Governor Jerry Brown on Friday issued an emergency declaration for a wildfire burning in the northern part of the state, the same day the man accused of starting the blaze was charged with arson. The so-called Ponderosa Fire has burned 3,715 acres (1,503 hectares) and destroyed 30 homes in Butte County,
[ad_1] ORANGE, Texas/HOUSTON (Reuters) – Rescuers searched painstakingly through flooded neighborhoods across southeastern Texas on Friday for people stranded by Hurricane Harvey’s deluge as President Donald Trump asked Congress for $7.85 billion in federal disaster relief. The storm, one of the costliest to hit the United States, has displaced more than 1 million people, with
[ad_1] (Reuters) – Serena Williams has given birth to a baby girl, the first child for the former world number one tennis player, her coach Patrick Mouratoglou said on Twitter on Friday. The 35-year-old American, who is engaged to Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, has not competed since winning the Australian Open in January but has
[ad_1] BRUSSELS (Reuters) – A 60 billion euro (£54.95 billion) gulf between the European Union and Britain over how much London owes when it quits the bloc may be the biggest obstacle to a deal on an orderly Brexit in March 2019, officials said after talks this week. There are sharply differing legal interpretations of
[ad_1] VENICE (Reuters) – Jane Fonda wishes the sex scene in her new movie with Robert Redford lasted longer, the 79-year-old American actress said as their latest screen collaboration “Our Souls at Night” premiered at the Venice film festival on Friday. “I live for sex scenes with him,” Fonda told journalists in Venice. “He’s a
[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Friday nominated Columbia University law professor Robert Jackson, an advocate for public disclosure of political spending by companies, for a vacant seat on the five-member U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. If the nomination is approved by the U.S. Congress, Jackson would fill a spot reserved for a
[ad_1] MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) – Suspected Boko Haram militants killed 18 people in northeast Nigeria on Friday, according to local witnesses and officials, the latest in an escalating number of lethal attacks in the region. The knife-wielding attackers, moving under cover of night, targeted people in the town of Banki, 80 miles (130 km) southeast
[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – For a man who prefers to project a glowering brusqueness, Donald Trump’s trip to Houston on Saturday provides him with the opportunity to show a warmer, more empathetic side — and perhaps connect with some Americans critical of his presidency. Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama, became known as the “comforter-in-chief” for his
[ad_1] (Reuters) – Harry Potter’s magical world is coming alive like never before. Fans of the best-selling books and films can now fly through the boy wizard’s Hogwarts School and its quidditch pitch, in an immersive digital experience. The Hogwarts Experience was launched on the fan website Pottermore.com on Friday to coincide with the Sept.
[ad_1] NEW YORK (Reuters) – A potential standoff over the U.S. federal debt ceiling is raising alarm bells among fund managers who fear a repeat of 2011 when a protracted showdown over increasing the government’s borrowing limit and subsequent downgrade of U.S. credit quality led to a more than 15 percent slump in the S&P
[ad_1] ORANGE, Texas/HOUSTON (Reuters) – Rescuers searched painstakingly through flooded sections of southeastern Texas on Friday for people stranded by Hurricane Harvey’s deluge as Houston’s mayor warned residents of the city’s west their homes may not dry out for weeks. The storm, one of the costliest to hit the United States, has displaced more than
[ad_1] (Reuters) – Apple Inc (AAPL.O) has transferred responsibility for Siri, its voice assistant, from content chief Eddy Cue to operating systems chief Craig Federighi, a sign that the company is looking to embed the voice assistant more deeply into its core systems amid rising competition from Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google and Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O).
[ad_1] (Reuters) – Video streaming device maker Roku Inc filed for an initial public offering on Friday, as the company looks to cash in on the booming demand for such services. The Los Gatos, California-based company said it applied to list its Class A common stock on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “ROKU”. Connected
[ad_1] NEW YORK (Reuters) – William Dudley, a tough-talking U.S. regulator who heads the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, violated a code of conduct by failing to disclose that his half-sister worked at Wells Fargo & Co (WFC.N), according to an investigation into potential conflicts of interest. The two-month probe, which the New York
[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan urged President Donald Trump on Friday not to rescind an Obama-era program that protects immigrants who entered the United States illegally as children, as more Republicans lined up against the move. White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said Trump will announce on Tuesday whether he will
[ad_1] BEIRUT (Reuters) – A convoy of Islamic State fighters and their families being evacuated into jihadist territory in east Syria remained in government-held areas of Syria on Friday, U.S.-led forces said. “It has not managed to link up with any other ISIS elements in eastern Syria,” Colonel Ryan Dillon, spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition
[ad_1] VENICE (Reuters) – Rudimentary iPhone shots of people huddled in rubber boats approaching a Greek island was what led to the creation of refugee epic “Human Flow” which Chinese artist Ai Weiwei premiered at the Venice film festival on Friday. “I was on vacation with my son in Lesbos, we saw the boat approaching,
[ad_1] (Reuters) – More than four million records of users of Time Warner Cable’s MyTWC app were found unsecured on an Amazon server last month, digital security research center Kromtech Security Center said in a blog post on Friday. The files — more than 600 gigabytes in size containing sensitive information such as transaction ID,
[ad_1] ORANGE, Texas/HOUSTON (Reuters) – Rescuers searched flooded sections of southeastern Texas for people trapped by Hurricane Harvey’s deluge on Friday, and Houston’s mayor warned residents of the city’s west that their neighborhoods may remain underwater for two weeks. The storm, one of the costliest to hit the United States, has displaced more than 1
[ad_1] BERLIN (Reuters) – Audio specialist Harman International wants to nearly treble annual sales by 2025 by partnering with tech groups such as Amazon (AMZN.O), Google (GOOGL.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.O), as well as its new owner, Samsung (005930.KS), its chief executive said on Friday. CEO Dinesh Palliwal, in an interview at the IFA consumer electronics
[ad_1] ORANGE, Texas/HOUSTON (Reuters) – A week after Hurricane Harvey came ashore in Texas, rescuers pressed their marathon search for survivors on Friday in large pockets of land that remained flooded by one of the costliest natural disasters to hit the United States. The storm has displaced more than 1 million people, with 44 feared
[ad_1] (The Sports Xchange) – Manny Pacquiao has pulled out of his proposed November rematch with Jeff Horn for the WBO welterweight title because of government duties. Pacquiao, a senator in the Philippines, is unavailable for the proposed Nov. 12 bout due to the conflict, the Australian promoters of the fight announced Friday. Horn upset
[ad_1] di MARIAGRAZIA DI RAIMONDO – Negli Stati Uniti le lotte contro i simboli sudisti continuano, ad essere preso di mira adesso è l’esploratore Cristoforo Colombo. Il Consiglio comunale di Los Angeles ha stabilito che la figura di Colombo non dovrà più essere elogiata, in quanto si festeggia un uomo che ha provocato il genocidio
[ad_1] MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Trade negotiators from Canada and the United States gathered under rainy skies in Mexico City on Friday to discuss the North American Free Trade Agreement, with the mood darkened by U.S. President Donald Trump’s persistent threats to pull out. Teams from the three countries were due to kick off a
[ad_1] LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Damien Chazelle, the Oscar-winning director of hit movie “La La Land,” has another musical in the works, this time a multilingual television series set in Paris. Streaming company Netflix (NFLX.O) said on Friday it was teaming up with Chazelle on “The Eddy,” an eight-part series that will be shot in