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EU leaders set course for tougher policy to send back irregular migrants

By Jan Strupczewski BRUSSELS (Reuters) -European Union leaders agreed on Thursday to use all their leverage, including trade, development aid and visa policy, to speed up returns of migrants illegally entering the bloc and asked the European Commission to urgently draft a law. Immigration is a highly sensitive topic in most of the bloc’s 27 …

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White House warns China using overproduction for global dominance

By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States will use restrictive tools like tariffs to push back against China’s practice of making far more goods than it needs in order to dominate global markets, White House official Daleep Singh said on Thursday. Singh, deputy national security adviser for international economics, said the Asian giant …

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Exclusive-Global coral bleaching event expands, now the largest on record

By Alison Withers and Gloria Dickie (Reuters) – The mass bleaching of coral reefs around the world since February 2023 is now the most extensive on record, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) told Reuters this week. A staggering 77% of the world’s coral reef areas – from the Atlantic to the Pacific to …

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US FTC probing Deere over customers’ ‘right to repair’ equipment

By Jody Godoy NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is probing farm equipment maker Deere over the company’s repair policies, according to a filing made public on Thursday. The investigation, authorized on Sept. 2, 2021, focuses on repair restrictions manufacturers place on hardware or software, often referred to by regulators as impeding …

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