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(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 […]

By Joe Cash BOAO, China (Reuters) – The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) will stick to its mandate as an apolitical multilateral lender and won’t get dragged into political disputes, even as multilateralism is severely tested, its president, Jin Liqun, said on Friday. The lender is not going to become “disorientated” by geopolitical crises, he told Reuters on the sidelines of the Boao Forum in southern China’s Hainan province, whether […]

By Karen Freifeld, Luc Cohen and Tyler Clifford NEW YORK (Reuters) -Donald Trump, the ex-president and frontrunner to be Republican nominee in 2024, is set to face a mug shot, finger-printing and court appearance next week after being indicted over a probe into hush money paid to a porn star in a historic U.S. first. The possible spectacle of Trump’s appearance in Manhattan on Tuesday before a judge as the […]

DAMASCUS/DUBAI (Reuters) -An Israeli attack in Syria on Friday killed an officer in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, the Guards said, as the second strike near Damascus in two days pointed to intensifying Israeli efforts to counter Tehran’s foothold in the country. There was no immediate statement from Israel, which usually declines to comment on reports of strikes in Syria. “The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has announced the martyrdom of guardsman Milad […]

By Wendell Roelf, Anait Miridzhanian and Siyabonga Sishi JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Oscar Pistorius, the former Paralympic champion jailed in 2016 for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, was on Friday seeking an early release from prison at a parole board hearing. Once the darling of the Paralympic movement for pushing for greater recognition and acceptance of disabled athletes, South African Pistorius shot dead Steenkamp, a model and law student, in his […]

(Corrects headline to make clear firm is not a partner of Trump) JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesian property firm PT MNC Land launched on Friday a 1,040 hectare (2,570 acre) tourism complex on Java island, where former U.S. President Donald Trump’s company will operate a hotel and a golf course. Indonesian President Joko Widodo also inaugurated a special economic zone within MNC’s tourism project, which is called Lido City and located […]

(Reuters) – Shares of companies tied to former U.S. President Donald Trump gained in premarket trading on Friday, drawing interest from retail investors after the ex-president was indicted in a historic first. Trump, the frontrunner to be Republican nominee in 2024, was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury after an investigation into hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels during the 2016 campaign. “It might seem counter intuitive … […]

By Anna Mehler Paperny TORONTO (Reuters) – The numbers of babies born with syphilis in Canada are rising at a far faster rate than recorded in the United States or Europe, an increase public health experts said is driven by increased methamphetamine use and lack of access to the public health system for Indigenous people. While syphilis has made a global resurgence over the last five years, Canada is an […]

By Stefanno Sulaiman NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) – Central bank governors and finance ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meeting in Bali have agreed to strengthen cooperation between them to better withstand future global crises, chair Indonesia said on Friday. The gathering of finance leaders of ASEAN, a region of about 650 million people, comes amid a backdrop of recent global banking turmoil after the collapse of […]