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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Taliban have killed an Islamic State militant who was the “mastermind” behind a suicide attack at Kabul’s international airport in 2021 that killed 13 U.S. troops and scores of civilians during the United States’ chaotic evacuation from the country, U.S. officials said on Tuesday. The bombing occurred on Aug. 26, 2021, as U.S. troops were trying to help Americans and Afghans flee in the chaotic aftermath […]

By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts on Tuesday declined an invitation to appear at an upcoming hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee that is expected to focus on judicial ethics, according to a letter Roberts sent the committee chair. (Reporting by John Kruzel; Editing by Scott Malone) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican telecommunications giant America Movil reported on Tuesday a 2.1% dip in its first quarter net profit compared to a year earlier, landing at 30.15 billion pesos ($1.7 billion), mainly due to a reduction in exchange rate gains. The company’s revenues, meanwhile, rose about 2% to reach nearly 209 billion pesos, it said in a statement. Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA), or core […]

By Ross Kerber (Reuters) -Top U.S. bank investors gave only slim support on Tuesday to shareholder resolutions calling for the lenders to wind down new fossil fuel financing, setbacks for climate activists who had hoped for new constraints on the oil and gas industries. The resolutions won only about 10% support of votes cast at Citigroup Inc and 7% at Bank of America, bank executives said during their annual shareholder […]

By Manya Saini, David French and Saeed Azhar (Reuters) -First Republic Bank faces dwindling and tough options to turn around its business with the creation of a ‘bad bank’ or asset sales possibilities, a source familiar with the matter said, after the lender showed the extent of deposit flight during last month’s banking crisis. First Republic reported a more than $100 billion plunge in deposits in the quarter in the […]

By Tom Polansek CHICAGO (Reuters) – Cargill Inc will need months to fully sever ties with a U.S. company fined for hiring kids to do dangerous work cleaning meat plants, the head of the meatpacker’s North American protein business said on Tuesday. The timeline shows the challenges of quickly finding and implementing replacements for Packers Sanitation Services Inc (PSSI), which provides cleaning services at slaughterhouses. “We made the decision to […]

By Katie Paul, Krystal Hu, Stephen Nellis and Anna Tong (Reuters) – As the summer of 2022 came to a close, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gathered his top lieutenants for a five-hour dissection of the company’s computing capacity, focused on its ability to do cutting-edge artificial intelligence work, according to a company memo dated Sept. 20 reviewed by Reuters. They had a thorny problem: despite high-profile investments in AI research, […]

By Catarina Demony LISBON (Reuters) -Portugal’s President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said on Tuesday his country should apologise and take responsibility for its role in the transatlantic slave trade, the first time a leader of the southern European nation has suggested such a national apology. From the 15th to the 19th century, 6 million Africans were kidnapped and forcibly transported across the Atlantic by Portuguese vessels and sold into slavery, […]

By Luc Cohen, Jack Queen and Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -E. Jean Carroll’s accusation that Donald Trump raped her was not a “he said, she said” dispute, a lawyer representing the writer told jurors on Tuesday as a civil trial over the former U.S. president’s conduct nearly three decades ago got under way. Shawn Crowley, who represents the former Elle magazine advice columnist, said in her opening statement that […]