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KAMPALA (Reuters) -Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni supports a bill containing some of the world’s harshest anti-LGBTQ legislation but sent it back to parliament on Thursday for “strengthening”, the ruling party chief whip said. A group of lawmakers from Museveni’s ruling National Resistance Movement discussed the bill with the president and agreed in principle to sign the bill into law, chief whip Denis Hamson Obua said. “Before that is done we […]

By Alan Baldwin LONDON (Reuters) – Haas boss Guenther Steiner has famously not watched the Netflix ‘Drive to Survive’ docu-series that made him a cult hero for a new wave of Formula One fans, but he has read every word of ‘Surviving to Drive’. The ghost-written book, published in Britain on Thursday and with a foreword by Formula One chief executive Stefano Domenicali, records Steiner’s 2022 season in typically unfiltered […]

By Alan Baldwin LONDON (Reuters) – Haas boss Guenther Steiner has famously not watched the Netflix ‘Drive to Survive’ docu-series that made him a cult hero for a new wave of Formula One fans, but he has read every word of ‘Surviving to Drive’. The ghost-written book, published in Britain on Thursday and with a foreword by Formula One chief executive Stefano Domenicali, records Steiner’s 2022 season in typically unfiltered […]

By David Lawder and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. seeks “constructive and fair” economic ties with China, but will protect its national security interests and push back against Chinese actions to dominate foreign competitors, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Thursday. Speaking at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, Yellen laid out the Biden administration’s principal objectives for what she called an “essential” economic relationship between the […]

By David Lawder and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. seeks “constructive and fair” economic ties with China, but will protect its national security interests and push back against Chinese actions to dominate foreign competitors, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Thursday. Speaking at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, Yellen laid out the Biden administration’s principal objectives for what she called an “essential” economic relationship between the […]

By Joe Skipper and Steve Gorman BOCA CHICA, Texas (Reuters) -Elon Musk’s SpaceX on Thursday launched its next-generation Starship cruise vessel for the first time atop the company’s powerful new Super Heavy rocket, but the uncrewed test flight ended minutes later with the vehicle exploding in the sky. While the two-stage rocket ship failed to make it beyond an altitude of 20 miles (32 km), SpaceX officials cheered the outcome […]

By Joe Skipper and Steve Gorman BOCA CHICA, Texas (Reuters) -Elon Musk’s SpaceX on Thursday launched its next-generation Starship cruise vessel for the first time atop the company’s powerful new Super Heavy rocket, but the uncrewed test flight ended minutes later with the vehicle exploding in the sky. While the two-stage rocket ship failed to make it beyond an altitude of 20 miles (32 km), SpaceX officials cheered the outcome […]

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – Donald Trump is free to skip a New York trial over accusations he raped a writer nearly 30 years ago, but jurors will not be told his absence was meant to spare them and the city snarled traffic and heavy security, a federal judge ruled on Thursday. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan also called it premature to grant Trump’s request that […]

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – Donald Trump is free to skip a New York trial over accusations he raped a writer nearly 30 years ago, but jurors will not be told his absence was meant to spare them and the city snarled traffic and heavy security, a federal judge ruled on Thursday. U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan also called it premature to grant Trump’s request that […]