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(Corrects first paragraph to remove reference to Hydro One Ltd) (Reuters) -Rogers Communications Inc said on Thursday its customers in various parts of Canada are being impacted by electricity outages caused by the recent ice storm. “Our wireless customers remain connected, however, some may notice a degradation of service with fewer available sites due to power outages,” Rogers said in a tweet. (Reporting by Arunima Kumar in Bengaluru; Editing by […]

By Andrew Chung (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday refused to let West Virginia enforce a state law banning transgender athletes from female sports teams at public schools, one of many Republican-backed measures across the country targeting LGBTQ rights. The justices denied West Virginia’s request to lift an injunction against the law that a lower court had imposed while litigation continues over its legality in a challenge brought by […]

By Michel Rose and Laurie Chen BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s Xi Jinping expressed willingness to speak to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the head of the EU said on Thursday, after French President Emmanuel Macron urged Beijing to talk sense to Russia over the war in Ukraine. In closely watched talks, European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen and Macron met with Xi in Beijing. Macron said the West must engage China […]

(Reuters) – Rogers Communications Inc said on Thursday its customers in various parts of Canada are being impacted by power outages caused by a recent ice storm. More than a million people went without power on the day after an ice storm hit Canada’s two most populated provinces ahead of a holiday weekend, bringing freezing rain and strong winds that toppled trees and weighed down power lines. “Our wireless customers […]

By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) -A Ugandan court charged a minister on Thursday with several corruption offences connected to accusations of diverting metal roofing sheets meant to help residents in the restive northeastern Karamoja region, court documents showed. Prosecution of ministers for corruption is rare in Uganda, where stealing and the misuse of public funds and materials is routine. Karamoja, in a remote region bordering Kenya and South Sudan, is […]

By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Internal Revenue Service plans to hire nearly 30,000 new employees and deploy new technology over the next two years as it ramps up an $80 billion investment plan to improve tax enforcement and customer service, it said on Thursday . The tax agency, in its long-awaited Strategic Operating Plan, said it will obligate about $8.64 billion of the new funding during the […]

BLUMENAU (Reuters) – Residents of Blumenau, a city in Southern Brazil, gathered on Thursday at a cemetery to attend the burial of one of the four children killed by a man armed with a small axe in a local daycare center. As the coffin was carried to the burial site, it was met by an emotional atmosphere. A religious mass was held and several wreaths of flowers with messages of […]

By Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) – An Australian government-backed service for victims of identity theft blasted a plan to toughen privacy laws amid an explosion of online data theft, saying it would spur compromised companies to pay ransom and invite more hacking. IDCare, a non-profit that helps internet crime victims, said by making it easier for regulators to fine companies for poor data security and failing to criminalise ransom payment, […]

By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) -A Ugandan court charged a minister on Thursday with several corruption offences connected to accusations of diverting metal roofing sheets meant to help residents in the restive northeastern Karamoja region, court documents showed. Prosecution of ministers for corruption is rare in Uganda, where stealing and the misuse of public funds and materials is routine. Karamoja, in a remote region bordering Kenya and South Sudan, is […]