By David Shepardson, Valerie Insinna and Tim Hepher (Reuters) – Safety checks on some Boeing jets hit a snag over paperwork on Sunday, as U.S. authorities searched for a missing panel that blew off a new Boeing 737 MAX 9 jet in midair on Friday. The Federal Aviation Administration on Saturday ordered the temporary grounding …
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(This Jan. 5 story has been refiled to remove a picture) By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – The late financier Jeffrey Epstein invoked his constitutional right against incriminating himself about 600 times in testimony for a lawsuit brought by Virginia Giuffre, who accused him of sexual abuse. Epstein’s refusal to answer questions in Giuffre’s …
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(Reuters) -Honda Motor Co is considering building an electric vehicle plant in Canada in a near-2-trillion-yen ($13.83 billion) project that could possibly include in-house production of batteries, Japan’s Nikkei news group reported on Sunday. The project could be one of Honda’s largest investments, the report said. Honda declined to comment on the report, saying there …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -An Israeli air strike on a car near Rafah in southern Gaza on Sunday killed two Palestinian journalists who were reporting, according to health officials in Gaza and the journalists’ union there. Hamza Al-Dahdouh and Mustafa Thuraya were both freelancers. Al-Dahdouh had done freelance work for Al Jazeera and was …
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By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) – Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa, forced into a bomb shelter by an air alert in Kyiv on Sunday, pledged millions of dollars to NATO to help Ukraine avert Russian drone strikes and announced donations of generators and transformers. “Russia has continued threats and attacks with missiles and drones in …
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By Joseph Ax and Brendan O’Brien NEW YORK (Reuters) -New York City’s historic, two-year snow drought may not come to an end this weekend, despite the arrival of a winter storm system that began passing through the most populous U.S. city and across the East Coast on Saturday. The city’s 8.5 million residents have not …
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By Sudipto Ganguly and Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) – A fire swept through a Rohingya refugee camp in southeastern Bangladesh in the early hours of Sunday, destroying about 800 shelters and rendering thousands homeless, officials said. Fire service officials and Rohingya volunteers brought the blaze under control around three hours after it hit Camp 5 …
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By David Shepardson, Valerie Insinna and Tim Hepher (Reuters) -U.S. regulators on Saturday temporarily grounded 171 Boeing 737 MAX 9 jetliners for safety checks following a cabin panel blowout that forced a new Alaska Airlines jet carrying passengers to make an emergency landing. A piece of fuselage tore off the left side of the jet …
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LONDON (Reuters) – More than 40 pro-low tax lawmakers from Britain’s ruling Conservative Party have accused official forecasters of making errors that influenced policymaking and called on the government to ensure they were not “holding back the country’s recovery”. In the latest attack on the watchdog, the Conservatives urged finance minister Jeremy Hunt to fix …
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By Ari Rabinovitch, Simon Lewis and Nidal al-Mughrabi JERUSALEM/AMMAN/CAIRO (Reuters) -Top U.S and European diplomats campaigned in the Middle East on Sunday to keep the Gaza war from spreading across the region, but three months into the conflict, more bloodshed underlined the challenge as Israel presses ahead with its operations. U.S. Secretary of State Antony …
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