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By Siddharth Cavale NEW YORK (Reuters) – Walmart Inc shareholders will be asked to vote on a number of new proposals including revealing its exposure to China and conducting an independent review of its safety practices related to gun violence at its annual general meeting next month, a securities filing on Thursday showed. Investors will have until the end of May 30 to vote on seven shareholder proposals, the company […]

SYDNEY (Reuters) – More than 100,000 current and former customers have joined a class action lawsuit against Australian telecommunications giant Optus over a cybersecurity breach last year that compromised roughly 1.2 million customers, lawyers said on Friday. Starting with the Optus breach in September, a spate of cyber attacks on Australia’s corporate sector has exposed data from tens of millions of customers online and led the government to set up […]

(Refiles to fix garble in paragraph 3) By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea’s position as a nuclear weapons state will remain undeniable and it will “continue legitimate action” until military threats from the United States and its allies are eliminated, state media KCNA said on Friday. North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui issued a statement criticising the United States and other Group of Seven countries. The G7 foreign […]

(Reuters) – Canadian police on Thursday said they are investigating the theft of a C$20 million ($14.84 million) cargo of gold and other valuables that was stolen from a holding facility at Toronto Pearson International Airport. The cargo was reported missing on Monday after arriving on an aircraft early in the evening, Peel Regional Police Inspector Stephen Duivesteyn told a news conference. ($1 = 1.3476 Canadian dollars) (Reporting by Nia […]

ROME (Reuters) – Stephan El Shaarawy and Lorenzo Pellegrini scored in extra time to earn hosts AS Roma a spot in the Europa League semi-finals after defeating Dutch side Feyenoord 4-1 on Thursday for a 4-2 aggregate win. El Shaarawy converted a cross from Tammy Abraham after 101 minutes and captain Pellegrini, who missed a penalty in last week’s first leg, sealed the win seven minutes later when he slotted […]

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Thursday urged Mexico to help make the case in Latin America for his peace plan for Ukraine, even as tensions persist within the country’s ruling party about offering support to Kyiv. Mexico’s government has said it wants to remain neutral in Ukraine’s war with Russia. Some Ukraine supporters have criticized leftist President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador for finding fault with European […]

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Thursday urged Mexico to help make the case in Latin America for his peace plan for Ukraine, even as tensions persist within the country’s ruling party about offering support to Kyiv. Mexico’s government has said it wants to remain neutral in Ukraine’s war with Russia. Some Ukraine supporters have criticized leftist President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador for finding fault with European […]

By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Mike Lindell, a prominent ally of former U.S. President Donald Trump, has been ordered to pay $5 million to a man who debunked Lindell’s false claims of election fraud, the plaintiff’s law firm said on Thursday. An arbitration panel ordered Lindell, the founder of pillow manufacturer My Pillow and a well-known election conspiracy theorist, to pay cyber expert Robert Zeidman after he won a […]

(Reuters) – Clorox Co on Thursday said it would cut about 200 positions, or 4% of its non-production workforce, as it looks to keep a lid on costs amid worries of an economic slowdown. The Pine-Sol manufacturer joins a list of companies – from tech firms to retailers such as Bed Bath & Beyond Inc and Wayfair Inc – that have reduced their workforce in the face of growing recessionary […]