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By Pesha Magid and Rami Ayyub QUSRA, West Bank, Aug 14 (Reuters) – Jewish settlers set up a tent outside a Palestinian home in the village of Qusra in the occupied West Bank on Friday before Israeli soldiers arrived and it was taken down, footage showed, as settlers pressed a siege which Palestinians say aims to drive them from their land. Settlers have been besieging homes in Qusra for almost a […]

By Akash Sriram and Suzanne McGee Aug 14 (Reuters) – Alphabet’s early bet on SpaceX has multiplied more than 100-fold, with the Google parent disclosing a stake worth about $94 billion at the end of June compared with the $900 million investment it said it made in Elon Musk’s rocket company in 2015. Alphabet has emerged as by far the largest single institutional holder of SpaceX following its $86 billion […]

By Rajesh Kumar Singh CHICAGO, Aug 14 (Reuters) – Airlines are getting grounded jets back into the air. The bills left by a years-long engine crisis are proving much harder to bring down. Air New Zealand offers a glimpse of how those costs can linger. Engine problems at one point left as much as 20% of its fleet unavailable, forcing it to lease extra aircraft and engines to protect its […]

By Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON, Aug 14 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump is set to showcase falling violent crime rates on Friday as evidence that his law-and-order agenda is working, seeking to shift attention away from economic concerns that have dented his approval ratings ahead of November’s midterm elections. Trump will visit the Nassau County Police Academy in New York to unveil 2025 data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation […]

By Jack Queen NEW YORK, Aug 14 (Reuters) – Luigi Mangione, the man accused of gunning down a health insurance executive on a Manhattan sidewalk, is due in federal court on Friday for a hearing where he could plead guilty to stalking or similar charges. A guilty plea would avert a trial in the closely watched case over the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a brazen crime that was […]

By Laura Matthews NEW YORK, Aug 14 (Reuters) – Investors head into next week weighing familiar concerns over interest rates, inflation and geopolitical tensions against another robust earnings season that continues to keep stocks supported. With little fresh guidance from policymakers and uncertainty brewing over the U.S. Federal Reserve’s next move, many investors are increasingly looking to corporate earnings — fueled in part by spending on AI infrastructure — to […]

BERLIN (AP) — A fire in a 21-story Berlin high-rise injured an estimated five people and made some residents consider jumping to escape the flames before it was brought under control Friday morning, local media reported. The severity of the injuries was not immediately known, German news agency dpa reported. All of the building’s residents were evacuated. One person was forced to jump into a firetruck’s aerial basket, dpa reported. […]

PARIS (AP) — Firefighters across France and in central England struggled against multiple fires Friday as a new wave of record-breaking heat baked a swath of Europe, their task further complicated by exceptionally parched landscapes. With France experiencing its driest year ever, a new fire raced through woodlands overnight in the Landes region on the southwest coast. The blaze forced more than 500 people to evacuate their homes in the […]

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — President Prabowo Subianto on Friday touted Indonesia’s strongest first-half economic growth in more than a decade, saying the country could achieve 6% growth by the end of this year despite global uncertainty, while stressing that economic expansion must translate into jobs and higher living standards. In his annual State of the Nation address before members of the Parliament in the capital Jakarta, Prabowo said Southeast Asia’s […]