Town Hall News

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Early on Thursday Moshe Peretz and his team of volunteers gathered outside his Tel Aviv apartment block for what has become a regular activity – flag-making. The group say they have made more than half a million of them, distributed to protesters marching against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul drive, and production is not stopping, despite Netanyahu putting legislation on ice. “Israel won’t be a dictatorship. […]

By Katie Paul (Reuters) – Meta Platforms Inc said on Thursday it is now rolling out a long-promised system for advertisers to determine where their ads are shown, responding to their demands to distance their marketing from controversial posts on Facebook and Instagram. The system offers advertisers three risk levels they can select for their ad placements, with the most conservative option excluding placements above or below posts with sensitive […]

By Amruta Khandekar and Ankika Biswas (Reuters) -U.S. stocks were set to open higher on Thursday as fears of a banking crisis eased, while investor focus turned to key consumer spending data for cues on the Federal Reserve’s policy path. The banking turmoil, which started earlier this month with the collapse of two regional U.S. lenders, had sparked concerns about a broader financial crisis and led to a dramatic shift […]

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s Meizu on Thursday unveiled its first smartphone products since it was taken over by a venture belonging to Zhejiang Geely Holding’s founder, with the firms saying it marked their first step to integrating consumer electronics and travel. A company run by Geely Chairman Eric Li took a majority stake in Meizu last year, making the Volvo owner the first established carmaker to enter the premium smartphone […]

By Sarah Marsh BERLIN (Reuters) – King Charles highlighted the historic ties between Britain and Germany while lauding their current unity in the face of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in a landmark address to the Bundestag on Thursday. The king, on the second day of a three-day trip to Germany, alternated between German and English for the half-hour speech, which won a standing ovation from lawmakers. The address made no […]

By Michael Martina and Douglas Higginbotham NEW YORK (Reuters) -Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen arrived in New York on a sensitive U.S. stopover on Wednesday, vowing en route not to let external pressure prevent the island from engaging with the world after China threatened retaliation if she met U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. China, which claims democratically ruled Taiwan as its own territory, has repeatedly warned U.S. officials not to meet […]

By Diadie Ba DAKAR (Reuters) – Senegal’s leading opposition politician and presidential aspirant Ousmane Sonko on Thursday received a two-month suspended prison sentence for libel in a case involving the tourism minister, the minister’s lawyer El Hadji Diouf said. The sentence will not prevent him from running in elections next year – an apparent effort by authorities to defuse a stand-off with his supporters, who have repeatedly taken to the […]

(Reuters) -The governor of Kentucky said on Thursday fatalities were expected after two U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopters crashed during a routine training mission over the state late on Wednesday. The status of the crew members was not immediately known, the U.S. Army’s Fort Campbell said in a statement to Reuters, without providing the number of people who were on board. “We’ve got some tough news out of Fort Campbell, […]

By Amy Tennery NEW YORK (Reuters) – With a blockbuster 2023 that shows no sign of slowing down, United States forward Mallory Swanson has shed her early “wunderkind” image and unveiled what she calls a ‘Mal 3.0’ version of herself ahead of this year’s Women’s World Cup. The 24-year-old flicked her seventh goal of the year into the net at the SheBelieves Cup last month in an astonishing run that […]