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By Sarah Young and Muvija M LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s BBC on Friday named former television executive John Hardie to review its social media guidance for freelancers, after a row over impartiality involving its highest paid presenter Gary Lineker. The BBC, which has a mandate to be neutral, temporarily suspended Lineker this month for criticising the government’s immigration policy. When he was reinstated, the BBC said it would review how sport […]

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Donald Trump has been indicted by a New York City grand jury, his lawyer said on Thursday, after the prosecutor who filed the charges came under political pressure for not bringing them against the former U.S. president sooner. While the charges against Trump were not immediately released – the first ever against a U.S. president – they come after Manhattan District Attorney Alvin […]

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 […]

DAMASCUS (Reuters) -Israel carried out an air strike near the Syrian capital early Friday, Syrian state media reported, the second attack near Damascus in two days in a sign of intensifying Israeli efforts to counter Iran’s foothold in the country. Citing a military source, state media reported that Israel fired “sprays of missiles” just after midnight that hit “a site in the Damascus countryside,” without specifying further. “Syrian air defences intercepted […]

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 Eimi Yamamitsu, Tom Bateman and Issei Kato TEN-EI, Japan (Reuters) – – As Eita Sato and Aoi Hoshi walked towards their junior high school graduation ceremony, their footsteps echoed in polished halls once crowded and noisy with students. The two were the only graduates of Yumoto Junior High in a mountainous part of northern Japan – and the last. The 76-year-old school will shut its doors for good when […]

By William Schomberg and Andy Bruce LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s economy avoided a recession as it grew in the final months of 2022, according to official data which showed a boost to households’ finances from state energy bill subsidies but falling investment by businesses. With the economy still hobbled by high inflation and worries about a weak growth outlook, gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 0.1% between October and December after […]

By Jonathan Allen and Brad Brooks NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) -Protesters flooded Tennessee’s statehouse on Thursday to demand lawmakers stiffen gun laws following a school shooting in Nashville that left six people dead, three of them 9-year-old children. More than a thousand people joined the protest organized by local mothers, packing the building’s rotunda and forcing highway patrol troopers to clear paths in the crowd for lawmakers to walk through. Demonstrators […]

By Victoria Waldersee and Christina Amann BERLIN (Reuters) -BMW is betting on efficient design and recycling to bring down battery costs and is steering clear of investing in mines, its finance chief said on Friday, setting it apart from some competitors digging deep into the supply chain. “We don’t think it is right to invest in mines. We view it as more important to get back raw materials from cars […]