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By Nia Williams (Reuters) – In early February, Chief Allan Adam of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation in northern Alberta started fielding calls from community members after the provincial regulator revealed toxic wastewater had been leaking for months from a tailings pond at Imperial Oil’s Kearl oil sands mine. Many in the community hunt and fish downstream of Canada’s huge bitumen mines, and wanted to know if the game meat […]

By Yiannis Kourtoglou and Michele Kambas LARNACA, Cyprus (Reuters) – Britain had evacuated around 900 of its citizens from Sudan through Cyprus as of early afternoon Thursday and urged those remaining in the conflict-riven country to grasp an opportunity to leave during the final hours of a cease fire. Hundreds of people have been killed in the capital Khartoum in nearly two weeks of conflict between the army and a […]

By Emily Rose JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Thursday brushed off legal action taken against him by Walt Disney Co, describing it as politically motivated and accusing the global entertainment giant of lacking accountability and transparency. Disney, in a lawsuit filed this week, accused the DeSantis administration of “weaponizing its power to inflict political punishment” in a dispute over special provisions for the Disney World theme park in […]

By Ted Hesson and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States will expand a family-reunification parole program currently available to Cubans and Haitians to include additional nationalities, U.S. officials said on Thursday, as part of a suite of measures aimed at curbing record border crossings. The program will be expanded to nationals of Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras in an effort to create new lawful pathways for migrants, the […]

By Ismail Shakil OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada has conducted its first evacuation flight from Sudan, and is working toward extracting more Canadians from the war-torn North African country as soon as possible, Defence Minister Anita Anand said on Thursday. Countries globally have rushed to extract foreign diplomats and citizens from Sudan after a conflict between the Sudanese army and a paramilitary group called the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) killed hundreds […]

By Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) – Queen Elizabeth knew that Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers had been spying on her family and their friends, and authorised her staff to “draw a line” under the issue, according to an email released on Thursday in a lawsuit by her grandson Prince Harry. Harry is suing Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers for hacking into mobile phones and other unlawful acts he says were committed against him […]

By Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) – Queen Elizabeth knew that Rupert Murdoch’s newspapers had been spying on her family and their friends, and authorised her staff to “draw a line” under the issue, according to an email released on Thursday in a lawsuit by her grandson Prince Harry. Harry is suing Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers for hacking into mobile phones and other unlawful acts he says were committed against him […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court on Thursday refused to revive a lawsuit filed by states against Meta’s Facebook that alleged the company had broken antitrust law. Dozens of states led by New York asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia last year to reinstate the lawsuit, which U.S. District Judge James Boasberg of the District of Columbia rejected, saying they had waited too long to […]

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Embattled property developer China Evergrande Group said on Thursday that holders of more than 77% of its Class A offshore debt by value submitted support for its restructuring proposal, and it would extend the deadline for receiving an incentive to 5:00 p.m. Hong Kong time on May 18. Term sheets published last month showed creditors would receive a 0.25% consent fee based on the outstanding principal […]