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By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Amazon, Alphabet’s Google, Microsoft and other non-European Union cloud service providers looking to secure an EU cybersecurity label to handle sensitive data can only do so via a joint venture with an EU-based company, according to an EU draft document seen by Reuters. U.S. tech giants and others involved in the joint venture can only have a minority stake, and employees that have […]

By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Amazon, Alphabet’s Google, Microsoft and other non-European Union cloud service providers looking to secure an EU cybersecurity label to handle sensitive data can only do so via a joint venture with an EU-based company, according to an EU draft document seen by Reuters. U.S. tech giants and others involved in the joint venture can only have a minority stake, and employees that have […]

By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, 89, will return to Washington on Tuesday after a months-long absence due to illness, her spokesman said, restoring Democrats’ 51-49 majority to full strength. The trailblazing lawmaker had been sidelined since February as she recovered from a bout of shingles, which had led to calls from some fellow Democrats to step aside and allow someone else to take her place. “I’m […]

By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, 89, will return to Washington on Tuesday after a months-long absence due to illness, her spokesman said, restoring Democrats’ 51-49 majority to full strength. The trailblazing lawmaker had been sidelined since February as she recovered from a bout of shingles, which had led to calls from some fellow Democrats to step aside and allow someone else to take her place. “I’m […]

By Herbert Lash and Alun John NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) -A gauge of global equities fell on Tuesday as investors grew cautious ahead of key data on U.S. consumer prices, while the impasse over the U.S. debt ceiling sparked a sharp sell-off in short-dated Treasury bills. Disappointing forecasts from companies such as PayPal and Apple supplier Skyworks weighed on sentiment as markets awaited a meeting between President Joe Biden and top […]

By Herbert Lash and Alun John NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) -A gauge of global equities fell on Tuesday as investors grew cautious ahead of key data on U.S. consumer prices, while the impasse over the U.S. debt ceiling sparked a sharp sell-off in short-dated Treasury bills. Disappointing forecasts from companies such as PayPal and Apple supplier Skyworks weighed on sentiment as markets awaited a meeting between President Joe Biden and top […]

By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Amazon, Alphabet’s Google, Microsoft and other non-European Union cloud service providers looking to secure an EU cybersecurity label to handle sensitive data can only do so via a joint venture with an EU-based company, according to an EU draft document seen by Reuters. U.S. tech giants and others involved in the joint venture can only have a minority stake, and employees that have […]

By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Amazon, Alphabet’s Google, Microsoft and other non-European Union cloud service providers looking to secure an EU cybersecurity label to handle sensitive data can only do so via a joint venture with an EU-based company, according to an EU draft document seen by Reuters. U.S. tech giants and others involved in the joint venture can only have a minority stake, and employees that have […]

EL PASO, Texas (Reuters) – U.S. border agents in El Paso, Texas, on Tuesday urged hundreds of migrants amassing on city streets to surrender to authorities as illegal crossings rose in the run-up to the end of COVID-19 border restrictions known as Title 42. At the same time, migrants were gathering on the Mexican side at different points along the U.S. southern border in anticipation of crossing when border policy […]