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(Reuters) -Russia has protested to the American-led coalition against the Islamic State militant group about “provocative actions” by U.S. armed forces in Syria, Tass news agency said on Friday. Tass cited a senior Russian official as saying the incidents had occurred in the northeastern province of Hasakeh. The United States has been deploying troops in Syria for almost eight years to combat ISIS. Hundreds of ISIS fighters are camped in […]

(Reuters) -General Electric Co has settled all its outstanding wind turbine technology patent disputes in the United States and Europe with Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy S.A, the companies said on Friday. Terms of the settlement, which was described as amicable, were not disclosed. Under the deal, the companies and their subsidiaries will receive cross licenses for the patents in question. Siemens Gamesa had sued GE for patent infringement in 2020 […]

(Reuters) -Russia has protested to the American-led coalition against the Islamic State militant group about “provocative actions” by U.S. armed forces in Syria, Tass news agency said on Friday. Tass cited a senior Russian official as saying the incidents had occurred in the northeastern province of Hasakeh. The United States has been deploying troops in Syria for almost eight years to combat ISIS. Hundreds of ISIS fighters are camped in […]

By Brendan O’Brien and Steve Gorman CHICAGO (Reuters) -A powerful spring storm system was sweeping across the United States on Friday, menacing the country’s midsection with the threat of dangerous tornadoes, blizzards and freezing rains, forecasters said. Tens of millions of Americans across the Great Plans, Midwest, South and East could expect to be under weather watches and warnings on Friday afternoon and evening, and into the weekend, the National […]

(Reuters) – Twitter on Friday made public parts of the computer code that decides how the social media site recommends content, allowing users and programmers a peak into its workings and the ability to suggest modifications to the algorithm. The company said it uploaded the code in two repositories on code-sharing platform Github. They include the source code for many parts of Twitter, including the recommendations algorithm which controls the […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. and Mexico on Friday announced an agreement to address a U.S. labor trade complaint at the VU Manufacturing auto parts plant in northern Mexico that requires the firm to allow free association rights for the factory’s workers. The U.S. Department of Labor said in a statement the agreement “includes a commitment by VU to create a climate that promotes respect for workers’ choice of union […]

By Michael S. Derby WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Boston Federal Reserve President Susan Collins said on Friday that wherever the U.S. central bank stops with its interest rate rises, maintaining that level for some time will be critical in helping to lower high inflation back to the 2% target. Collins, speaking to Reuters after the release of a report showing a key gauge of inflationary pressures eased last month, cautioned that […]

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Friday said it was approving California’s plans to require a rising number of zero-emission heavy-duty trucks as the state pushes to cut pollution. California Governor Gavin Newsom said as a result of the plan, “half of all heavy duty trucks sold in CA will be electric by 2035.” “Time to stop playing small ball,” he added. Under an […]

By Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK (Reuters) – A gauge of global stocks was poised for its biggest weekly percentage gain in two months on Friday, with the two-year U.S. Treasury yield set for its first quarterly decline in the past nine, as U.S. inflation data fueled hopes the Federal Reserve may be reaching the end of its rate hiking cycle. U.S. consumer spending rose moderately in February, and while inflation […]