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By Laila Kearney (Reuters) -A shortage of West Coast port workers has forced the busiest U.S. ocean trade gateway to shut on Friday, after months of strained labor negotiations between the dock workers union and their employers. Workers at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach on Thursday began withholding labor, which was needed to load and unload cargo, as part of a coordinated action by the International Longshore […]

(Reuters) – Moscow formally protested to Canada on Friday after the country’s U.N. envoy described a murdered Russian blogger as “a vitriolic propagandist” and a hate-monger, the foreign ministry said. Bob Rae, Canada’s permanent representative to the United Nations, made the remarks after Vladlen Tatarsky – a cheerleader for Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine – died in a bomb blast in St Petersburg last Sunday. In a statement, Russia’s foreign […]

LISBON (Reuters) – Portuguese party Chega will hold a world summit in Lisbon with several far-right party leaders in May, including former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and Italian deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini, the president of Chega said on Friday. In a video statement, the president of Chega, Andre Ventura, said Bolsonaro and Salvini “already accepted the invitation to the great right-wing world summit” on the 13th and 14th of […]

(Reuters) – WeWork Inc. on Friday said it has adopted a “poison pill” to limit its shareholders from increasing stakes, which would make it difficult for the company to use its net operating loss (NOL) carryforwards to reduce tax. As of Dec. 31, 2021, WeWork had about $6.9 billion of U.S. federal NOLs and $6.6 billion of state NOLs that could be available to offset its future federal taxable income […]

By Eimi Yamamitsu TOKYO (Reuters) – The bankruptcy filing by Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit Holdings Inc has dealt a blow to Japan’s hopes of building a domestic space industry, with plans for a Kyushu-based spaceport designed to attract tourism on hold for lack of funding. Oita prefecture, home to Japan’s largest number of hot springs, partnered with Virgin Orbit in 2020 to create its first Asian spaceport at Oita Airport […]

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – One person was killed and several were wounded in a Tel Aviv terror attack, Israel’s Foreign Ministry said on Friday. The Magen David Adom ambulance service said it had treated at least one person with a gunshot wound. Israeli police said there also may have been a car that rammed into people in the same area. (Reporting by Ari Rabinovitch; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne and Diane Craft) […]

By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) -A former model has filed a lawsuit claiming a one-time executive at movie studio Miramax raped her after luring her to a hotel with the promise of a meeting with the company’s then-Chief Executive Harvey Weinstein. The lawsuit was filed in New York state court on Thursday by Sara Ziff, who says the alleged assault by Fabrizio Lombardo, the former head of Miramax in Italy, took […]

(Reuters) – Russian legislators on Friday proposed tougher sentences for those convicted of terrorism and sabotage, domestic news agencies reported, a move officials have been cited as saying was prompted by the war in Ukraine. The maximum sentence for carrying out “a terrorist act” – defined as a deed which endangered lives and was aimed at destabilizing Russia – would be raised to 20 years, from 15 years at present. […]

By Elvira Pollina and Emilio Parodi MILAN (Reuters) -Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is “better than he was”, his friend Fedele Confalonieri said on Friday after visiting him in hospital, where he is being treated for a lung infection caused by chronic leukaemia. The 86-year-old billionaire media tycoon was rushed to Milan’s San Raffaele hospital on Wednesday, triggering speculation that his life might be in danger and drawing a […]