"An ongoing workers' strike at General Motors Co could cost the automaker about $1.5 billion, brokerage Credit Suisse said on Friday, throwing the U.S. automaker's cost reduction plans off the track and forcing key suppliers to cut their 2019 outlook."
Posted by Reuters on 10/11/2019 2:36:12 PM
"Three people were stabbed at a shopping center in the northern English city of Manchester and police said counter-terrorism detectives were leading the investigation. https://reut.rs/2M7lCd5"
Posted by Reuters on 10/11/2019 2:44:23 PM
"Jesse Lipscombe was in our studio this morning to share his favourite books to read with his kids."
Posted by CTV Morning Live Edmonton on 10/11/2019 2:41:49 PM
"South African former President Jacob Zuma will stand trial on corruption charges relating to a $2 billion arms deal after a high court on Friday denied him a permanent stay of prosecution."
Posted by Reuters on 10/11/2019 3:06:13 PM
"General Motors Co took the unusual step of appealing directly to employees in a blog post on Friday that laid out the terms of the automaker's latest offer aimed at ending a month-long strike."
Posted by Reuters on 10/11/2019 3:36:15 PM
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Posted by CTV Morning Live Edmonton on 10/11/2019 3:41:01 PM
"Wall Street rose for the third straight session on Friday, as investors expected top-level trade talks between the United States and China to result in a partial trade deal and delay planned U.S. tariff increases. For the latest stories delivered to your Facebook Messenger, try our new morning briefing: m.me/reuters"
Posted by Reuters on 10/11/2019 4:06:39 PM
"Portraying a single mother whose teenage daughter suddenly disappears in "American Woman" was a "grueling" role for Sienna Miller that forced the British-American actress to imagine her worst nightmare."
Posted by Reuters on 10/11/2019 4:36:00 PM
"The five-year-old daughter of jailed British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has arrived back in Britain to attend school after living in Tehran since her mother's arrest there in 2016."
Posted by Reuters on 10/11/2019 5:06:38 PM
"Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge's attempt to run an historic but unofficial sub-two hour marathon will take place at 0815 local time (0615 GMT) on Saturday in a bid to attract a bigger crowd, race organisers said on Friday."
Posted by Reuters on 10/11/2019 5:36:11 PM
"Jessica Laird and Hedy Schonberger with Kathy's Run - Race HQ joined Rob Williams to talk about this year's event."
Posted by CTV Morning Live Edmonton on 10/11/2019 5:38:21 PM
"U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday likened China's treatment of more than one million Uighur Muslims to George Orwell's "1984" novel, saying the Communist Party was detaining and abusing them in internment camps."
Posted by Reuters on 10/11/2019 6:06:33 PM
"The Pentagon said on Friday that Ankara's military incursion into northeastern Syria was damaging U.S.-Turkey relations, adding that the United States was not abandoning its Kurdish partners."
Posted by Reuters on 10/11/2019 6:36:03 PM
"Retired subway and bus driver Stanley De Freitas had just celebrated his 70th birthday when he started coughing, tiring easily and feeling short of breath. He was diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis, a severe scarring of the lungs, and put on the wait list for a transplant."
Posted by Reuters on 10/11/2019 7:07:24 PM
"International donors pledged around $14 billion to fight AIDS on Thursday, French President Emmanuel Macron told a donors' conference in city of Lyon."
Posted by Reuters on 10/11/2019 7:36:21 PM
"U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Friday that President Donald Trump had authorized U.S. officials to draft "very significant" new sanctions to target Turkey after it launched an offensive in northeast Syria, adding that banks were being notified. Get a morning update of the latest business, politics or international stories with Reuters Messenger briefing: m.me/reuters"
Posted by Reuters on 10/11/2019 8:06:29 PM
"Trump said the U.S. and China agreed to the first phase of a trade deal covering currency, agricultural purchases and some aspects of intellectual property protections, averting a threatened tariff hike."
Posted by Reuters on 10/11/2019 8:35:05 PM
"The United States announced on Friday a new, large deployment of forces to Saudi Arabia to help bolster the kingdom's defenses following the Sept. 14 attack on its oil facilities, which Washington and Riyadh have blamed on Iran."
Posted by Reuters on 10/11/2019 8:44:50 PM
"One of the two Florida businessmen who helped U.S. President Donald Trump's personal attorney investigate his political rival, Democrat Joe Biden, also has been working for the legal team of a Ukrainian oligarch who faces bribery charges in the United States, according to attorneys for the businessmen and the oligarch."
Posted by Reuters on 10/11/2019 9:06:54 PM
"The Federal Reserve said on Friday that it will start buying about $60 billion per month in Treasury bills to ensure "ample reserves" in the banking system, but emphasized the new program does not mark a change in monetary policy."
Posted by Reuters on 10/11/2019 9:36:09 PM
"Stratolaunch Systems Corp, the space company founded by late billionaire and Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen, said on Friday it was continuing operations after transitioning ownership, but did not name the new owner."
Posted by Reuters on 10/11/2019 10:06:50 PM
"The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration had insufficient personnel to oversee the certification of new Boeing airplanes and should make significant reforms in how it approves new aircraft, an international aviation panel said Friday."
Posted by Reuters on 10/11/2019 10:26:18 PM
"Kosovo Albanians and their Serb neighbors, who have lived apart in their tiny village for decades, united on Friday to protest against the building of a hydropower plant which they say will deprive them of water and all-important raspberry crop."
Posted by Reuters on 10/11/2019 10:36:41 PM
"A senior adviser to U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has resigned, with the State Department mired in a controversy over the Trump administration's dealings with Ukraine that has prompted an impeachment inquiry targeting the president."
Posted by Reuters on 10/11/2019 10:46:00 PM
"Facebook Inc's efforts to establish a global digital currency called Libra suffered major setbacks on Friday, as EBay Inc , Stripe Inc, Mastercard and Visa Inc all said they were leaving a group of companies aiding the project."
Posted by Reuters on 10/11/2019 11:06:35 PM
"WeWork said on Friday it will shut down its WeGrow private school in New York City after the current school year, as the company focuses on its main office-sharing business."
Posted by Reuters on 10/11/2019 11:25:55 PM
"Shepard Smith, the chief news anchor of Fox News and a sometime critic of U.S. President Donald Trump, abruptly quit the network on Friday after 23 years."
Posted by Reuters on 10/11/2019 11:36:41 PM
"Another U.S. senator has joined a chorus against Pennsylvania-based NonLethal Technologies Inc for selling riot gear to Hong Kong that is being used against pro-democracy protesters."
Posted by Reuters on 10/11/2019 11:45:53 PM
"The chairman of one of the Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives committees leading the impeachment probe of President Donald Trump said on Friday the committee would continue and "accelerate" its efforts. For the latest stories delivered to your Facebook Messenger, try our new morning briefing: m.me/reuters"
Posted by Reuters on 10/12/2019 12:06:46 AM
"U.S. regulators on Friday gave the green light for genetically modified cotton to be used for human consumption, paving the way for a protein-packed new food source - edible cottonseed that tastes a bit like chickpeas - that its developers said could help tackle global malnutrition."
Posted by Reuters on 10/12/2019 12:26:05 AM
"Haiti, the poorest country in the Americas, has been rocked by violent protests in the last month that have led schools, public offices and businesses to close and forced non-governmental organizations to suspend aid distribution."
Posted by Reuters on 10/12/2019 12:36:09 AM
"OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP won a court order on Friday briefly pausing the sprawling opioid litigation against the company so it can try to make headway on its proposed legal settlement that it says is worth $10 billion."
Posted by Reuters on 10/12/2019 12:46:10 AM
"Half a continent away from the auto plants of Detroit, U.S. strikes at General Motors (GM) have sent shivers through the central Mexican city of Silao, where the local GM factory furloughed 6,000 workers last week when parts from the United States ran out."
Posted by Reuters on 10/12/2019 1:06:15 AM
"Boeing Co said on Friday it was separating the roles of chairman and chief executive officer to allow CEO Dennis Muilenburg to focus full time on running the planemaker as it works to return the 737 MAX safely to service."
Posted by Reuters on 10/12/2019 1:26:01 AM
"PG&E Corp rejected a $2.5 billion offer from San Francisco to buy the bankrupt Californian company's power lines and other infrastructure within the city, calling the offer inadequate."
Posted by Reuters on 10/12/2019 1:36:01 AM
"American double Olympic champion Conor Dwyer on Friday said he was retiring from swimming on the day he was handed a 20-month doping ban that ruled him out of next year's Tokyo Olympics."
Posted by Reuters on 10/12/2019 1:46:05 AM
"U.S. power company Sempra Energy is near an agreement to sell its Chilean business to State Grid Corporation of China for close to $3 billion, the latest deal in its bid to shed non-core assets, people familiar with the matter said on Friday."
Posted by Reuters on 10/12/2019 2:06:24 AM
"California moved to end the use of private, for-profit lockups in America's largest state prison system as well as in federal immigration detention centers in the state under a measure signed into law on Friday by Governor Gavin Newsom."
Posted by Reuters on 10/12/2019 2:26:00 AM
"Stop with the "50 Bs." Start with the 60."
Posted by Reuters on 10/12/2019 2:35:52 AM
"The U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) has praised the decision to shut down the Nike Oregon Project (NOP), saying on Friday it was a necessary step after the elite distance running program's leader, Alberto Salazar, was suspended for doping violations."
Posted by Reuters on 10/12/2019 2:46:12 AM
"Hundreds of thousands of households in Japan were advised to evacuate due to fears of flooding as a powerful typhoon was set to make landfall late on Saturday, bringing with it the heaviest rain and winds in 60 years."
Posted by Reuters on 10/12/2019 3:06:47 AM
"A director of Brazilian development bank BNDES responsible for divestments has resigned, the bank said on Friday, in a move that may set back the bank's privatizations and asset sales."
Posted by Reuters on 10/12/2019 3:26:13 AM
"U.S. farmers cheered the Trump administration's announcement of a potentially dramatic increase in U.S. agricultural sales to China on Friday but warned they needed to see a follow-through of actual purchases."
Posted by Reuters on 10/12/2019 3:36:00 AM
"British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will ask parliament to back any Brexit deal that he secures from the European Union within 24 hours of the European summit next week, the Times reported on Saturday."
Posted by Reuters on 10/12/2019 3:46:23 AM