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By Bill Trott WASHINGTON, Oct 28 (Reuters) – Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the United Farm Workers (UFW) with Cesar Chavez and fought legislators and powerful growers in the US to improve the lives of a previously powerless constituency, died on Wednesday at the age of 96, her family said in a statement. Huerta was one of the foremost women in US labor history, serving the UFW as chief negotiator, strike […]

By Sayed Sheasha , Ahmad Al Kerdi and Dawoud Abu Alkas CAIRO/BEIRUT/GAZA, Oct 28 (Reuters) – Israelis voted in record numbers in Tuesday’s wartime election billed as a major turning point in the nation’s history. Others across the Middle East were merely filled with more pessimism after a nationalist veteran prime minister and a former hawkish military chief competed for Israel’s leadership. Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, won the […]

By Mark Trevelyan Oct 28 (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin hailed Elon Musk as a genius on Wednesday, acknowledging Russia is only beginning to roll out its answer to his Starlink satellite internet system. The admission was all the more striking because a version of Starlink, developed by Musk’s SpaceX, has been used by Ukraine’s military throughout the war with Russia as a key component of drone operations and battlefield […]

Oct 28 (Reuters) – The US health department will temporarily allow pharmacies and physicians to compound drugs using a range of peptide ingredients, while regulators decide whether the substances should be formally permitted for use in compounded medicines. The peptides that are allowed to be manufactured are among the ones that an FDA advisory panel recommended be subject to fewer restrictions. The panel had in July voted to loosen compounding […]

Oct 28 (Reuters) – Sergio Perez has signed a multi-year contract extension with Cadillac that will keep the Mexican driver with the American Formula One team until 2029, the team said on Wednesday. Perez celebrates a milestone 300th Grand Prix start at the 36-year-old’s home race in Mexico City this weekend. A six-times Grand Prix winner, Perez moved to Cadillac for their debut season on the grid. “Joining Cadillac from […]

By Greg Bensinger SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 28 (Reuters) – Amazon cut about 250 jobs on Wednesday in its devices and services unit after weeks of product rollouts including new Kindle e-readers and tablet computers. The company confirmed the cuts after a Reuters inquiry. “We’ve made the difficult decision to eliminate a small number of roles,” a spokesperson said without elaborating. The cuts affected no more than 250 jobs, said a person […]

By Liz Hampton and Georgina McCartney DENVER, Oct 28 (Reuters) – US crude and distillate inventories fell due to higher demand, while gasoline stockpiles rose last week, the Energy Information Administration said on Wednesday. Crude inventories fell by 1.9 million barrels to 410.6 million barrels in the week ended October 23, the EIA said, compared with analysts’ expectations in a Reuters poll for a 15,000-barrel rise. Crude stocks at the […]

LONDON, Oct 26 (Reuters) – British anti-Islam activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, better known as Tommy Robinson, was on Wednesday convicted of harassing two journalists during nationwide rioting two years ago. Robinson said before his trial began that billionaire X owner Elon Musk, who often reposts Robinson and allowed him to return to the social media platform, was supporting his defence. Musk also last year paid for Robinson’s defence when he was […]

By Alan Baldwin MEXICO CITY, Oct 28 (Reuters) – Alberto Ascari was a boyhood hero for US motor racing great Mario Andretti, now 86, but few of Kimi Antonelli’s compatriots were around when Italy’s last Formula One world champion was making headlines. Antonelli, 20, is set this weekend to become the only living Italian who knows what it feels like to take the chequered flag and win the Formula One championship. He would […]