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BENGALURU (Reuters) – Apple Inc is set to open its first official retail store in India’s financial hub of Mumbai, the iPhone maker said on Wednesday. The Cupertino, California-based company launched an online retail store in India in 2020. Its 2021 plans for the launch of an offline retail store in the country were delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Apple products have been sold in India for years on […]

By Jack Queen and Luc Cohen (Reuters) – For prosecutors to win their unprecedented case against Donald Trump unveiled on Tuesday, they must meet the heavy burden of proving that the former U.S. president knowingly tried to cover up a crime by hiding a hush money payment. It’s a question of intent, legal experts said. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said that Trump made false records in his family real […]

(Reuters) -Amazon.com Inc said it would reduce employee stock awards, a part of its compensation plan, as the e-commerce giant navigates an uncertain economy. “We made the decision to reduce RSU (restricted stock units) awards in the final outlook year by a small amount (other years are not impacted),” an Amazon spokesperson said in an emailed statement, without specifying the period of the final outlook year. The news comes weeks […]

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea on Thursday accused the U.S. and South Korea of escalating tensions to the brink of nuclear war through their joint military drills, vowing to respond with “offensive action,” state media KCNA reported. KCNA released a commentary by Choe Ju Hyon, whom it called an international security analyst, criticising the exercises as “a trigger for driving the situation on the Korean peninsula to the […]

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. investigators opened a civil rights probe into last month’s fatal shooting of a Black teenager by a U.S. Park Police officer in Washington, they said on Wednesday, a day after body camera footage prompted the victim’s family to call for the shooter to be prosecuted and fired. Dalaneo Martin, 17, was shot after officers from the Park Police and D.C. Metro Police responded […]

By Rami Ayyub WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday called on his fellow Republicans in Congress to slash funding for the U.S. Justice Department and the FBI, one day after pleading not guilty in New York to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Trump, who is seeking to regain the presidency in 2024, took aim at federal law enforcement authorities even though the criminal charges against him […]

By Michael Martina and David Brunnstrom SIMI VALLEY, California (Reuters) – U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy hosted Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen in California on Wednesday, becoming the most senior U.S. figure to meet a Taiwanese leader on U.S. soil in decades and stressed the need to accelerate arms deliveries to Taiwan in the face of rising threats from China. McCarthy – the third highest ranking official in the U.S. leadership […]

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea on Thursday accused the U.S. and South Korea of escalating tensions to the brink of nuclear war through their joint military drills, vowing to respond with “offensive action,” state media KCNA reported. KCNA released a commentary by Choe Ju Hyon, whom it called an international security analyst, criticising the exercises as “a trigger for driving the situation on the Korean peninsula to the […]

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea on Thursday accused the U.S. and South Korea of escalating tensions to the brink of nuclear war through their joint military drills, vowing to respond with “offensive action,” state media KCNA reported. KCNA released a commentary by Choe Ju Hyon, whom it called an international security analyst, criticising the exercises as “a trigger for driving the situation on the Korean peninsula to the […]