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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Owners of 143,000 recalled Volkswagen Atlas vehicles should not let people sit in front passenger seats until the occupant-detection systems in these vehicles have been fixed, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said on Tuesday. The recall covers 2018-2021 model year Atlas and 2020 model year Atlas Cross Sport vehicles, and relates to potential faulty occupant-detection systems in front passenger seats. The passenger […]

BEIJING (Reuters) – China is seriously concerned about Japanese export restrictions on chip manufacturing equipment and called on it to correct its “wrong practice”, the Chinese commerce ministry said on Tuesday. “China will take decisive measures to safeguard its rights and interests if Japan insists on obstructing the chip industry cooperation between the two countries,” it said in a statement. Japan said last week it would restrict exports of 23 […]

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Chinese authorities have appointed a new bishop to Shanghai, the Vatican said on Tuesday, in an apparent violation of a bilateral pact between the two states. The Holy See was informed “a few days ago” of the decision by China to transfer Bishop Shen Bin from Haimen, in the Jiangsu province, to the diocese of Shanghai, the Vatican said. It added that it had learned of […]

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – President Tayyip Erdogan will put his two-decade rule on the line on May 14 when he faces opposition challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu in Turkey’s landmark elections, which surveys suggest will be tight. Erdogan’s Islamist-rooted AK Party counts the nationalist MHP as its main ally. The secularist CHP and five other parties form an opposition alliance that is expected to get support from the main Kurdish party HDP, giving […]

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. government on Tuesday filed criminal charges accusing Charlie Javice, the founder of the since-shuttered college financial planning platform Frank, of defrauding JPMorgan Chase & Co into buying her startup for $175 million in 2021. Javice, 31, was accused by the U.S. Department of Justice of repeatedly fabricating claims that Frank had lined up 4.25 million student customers, when in fact she […]

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – President Tayyip Erdogan will put his two-decade rule on the line on May 14 when he faces opposition challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu in Turkey’s landmark elections, which surveys suggest will be tight. Erdogan’s Islamist-rooted AK Party counts the nationalist MHP as its main ally. The secularist CHP and five other parties form an opposition alliance that is expected to get support from the main Kurdish party HDP, giving […]

(Reuters) – Chinese regulators have slowed down their merger reviews of a number of proposed acquisitions by U.S. companies, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people to the process. The potential slowdown, seen as a response to Washington’s curbs on China’s tech industry, includes deals such as Intel Corp’s $5.2 billion takeover of Tower Semiconductor Ltd and chipmaker MaxLinear Inc’s $3.8 billion purchase of Silicon Motion Technology Corp. […]

By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber and Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -The United Nations Human Rights Council overwhelmingly voted in favour on Tuesday of extending the mandate of an investigative body probing possible war crimes committed since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Twenty-eight countries voted in favour of extending the mandate of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine by a year. Seventeen abstained and two voted against the body, which Ukraine says […]

By Karen Freifeld and Jody Godoy NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump, the former U.S. president and front-runner for the 2024 Republican nomination, will appear in court on Tuesday to be fingerprinted, photographed and formally charged in a watershed moment ahead of next year’s presidential election. Trump, 76, is the first sitting or former president to face criminal charges. He was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury last week in a […]