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SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s economy in the first quarter expanded by 0.3% over the previous three-month period, official advance estimates showed on Tuesday, compared with a median 0.2% rise tipped in a Reuters survey. It follows a 0.4% contraction of Asia’s fourth-largest economy during the final quarter of 2022, which was the first decline in 2-1/2 years. Economists usually define a recession as two consecutive quarters of contraction. A […]

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump is already the first former American president to face criminal charges. Jurors are expected to soon decide in an unrelated civil case whether he lied about committing rape. A trial is scheduled to begin on April 25 in one of former Elle magazine advice columnist E. Jean Carroll’s two lawsuits against Trump over his denials that he raped her in the mid-1990s. […]

KATHMANDU/DUBAI (Reuters) – A flydubai flight from Kathmandu to Dubai experienced a bird strike during takeoff but returned to the United Arab Emirates, the company said on Monday. “Our experienced flight crew followed standard operating procedure and continued the onward journey after determining that the engine was within normal operating parameters,” a spokesperson for the UAE company said. Jagannath Niroula, spokesperson for the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal, said in a […]

By David Shepardson and Heekyong Yang WASHINGTON/SEOUL (Reuters) -General Motors Co and Samsung SDI are expected to announce as early as Tuesday that they plan to build a new joint-venture battery manufacturing plant in the United States, sources told Reuters. Reuters reported in January that GM and LG Energy Solution would not move forward with a fourth U.S. battery manufacturing plant. GM and LG Energy Solution are building a $2.6 […]

TOKYO (Reuters) – All Japanese people who wished to leave Sudan have been evacuated, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Tuesday, part of an international exodus from an eruption of violence in the African nation. In addition to the 45 who left late Monday night on a Japanese military flight, eight more have left with the help of France and other groups, Kishida told reporters. It was not immediately clear […]

By Ted Hesson and Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States on Monday sent its first deportation flight to Cuba since 2020, months after Cuba agreed for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic to accept flights carrying Cubans caught at the U.S.-Mexico border. “On April 24, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) resumed normal removals processing for Cuban nationals who have received final orders of removal,” a Department of […]

CHICAGO (Reuters) – JBS USA is ending contracts with a U.S. company fined for hiring kids to clean meat plants, the unit of Brazilian meatpacker JBS SA said on Monday, adding it is bringing the work in-house at some facilities. The changes show how a U.S. government investigation into food-safety sanitation company Packers Sanitation Services Inc (PSSI) is prompting adjustments by major meat companies. JBS said it does not tolerate […]

By Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden met three Tennessee lawmakers at the White House on Monday after they faced expulsion for participating in gun control protests at their statehouse, calling the decision to remove two of them “shocking” and “undemocratic.” “You’re standing up for our kids, you’re standing up for our communities,” Biden told state Representatives Justin Pearson, Justin Jones and Gloria Johnson during an Oval Office meeting. […]

By Blake Brittain (Reuters) -Tax-preparation giant H&R Block Inc and Block Inc , the company formerly known as Square, have jointly agreed to dismiss H&R Block’s lawsuit over Block’s name change, according to a Friday filing in Missouri federal court. The companies asked the court to dismiss the case with prejudice, which means it cannot be refiled. H&R Block said in a statement Monday that the companies had “amicably resolved” […]