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By Jonathan Allen and Joseph Ax NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) – The former student of a Christian grade school in Nashville who killed three 9-year-olds and three adults in a shooting spree there was under a doctor’s care for an “emotional disorder” and had amassed a collection of guns, the city’s police chief said on Tuesday. New details about assailant Audrey Elizabeth Hale, 28, emerged hours after police released harrowing video […]

(Reuters) -Medibank Private Ltd was slapped with a second class action lawsuit related to its disclosures on its cyber security systems leading up to a data breach last year, Australia’s largest health insurer said on Wednesday. Last October, Medibank disclosed that a hacker had gained data of 9.7 million current and former customers and released the data on the dark web. The company breached its disclosure obligations by not revealing […]

(Reuters) – El Salvador condemned on Tuesday the action of detention center staff in Mexico during a fire that killed at least 38 migrants, including “several” Salvadorans, and demanded a thorough investigation. The migrants from Central and South America were killed in the fire that broke out late on Monday at the migrant center in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, apparently after a protest over deportations. A video […]

(Reuters) – Russia said on Wednesday that Washington’s decision to stop sharing some data on its nuclear forces under the New START arms control treaty will not prompt Moscow to review its own decision to suspend its participation in the pact. The United States announced on Tuesday it would stop exchanging some information on its nuclear forces after President Vladimir Putin ordered Moscow to suspend its own participation in February. […]

By John Revill ZURICH (Reuters) -UBS Group AG has rehired Sergio Ermotti as CEO to steer its massive takeover of neighbour Credit Suisse – a surprise move that seeks to take advantage of his experience in rebuilding the bank after the global financial crisis. The trader turned corporate problem fixer faces the tough challenge of laying off thousands of staff, cutting back Credit Suisse’s investment bank and reassuring the world’s […]

By Fabian Hamacher and Bernard Orr TAOYUAN, Taiwan/BEIJING (Reuters) -External pressure will not stop Taiwan engaging with the world, President Tsai Ing-wen said on Wednesday as she left for the United States, hitting a defiant note 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 Tsai, viewing it as support […]

BOGOTA (Reuters) – Demonstrators in Colombia’s capital Bogota protested bull fighting and bull running on Tuesday, calling on lawmakers to ban the practice. Dozens of protesters – including eight half-naked demonstrators painted in fake blood while wearing just shorts and bull masks – gathered outside the country’s Congress in Bolivar Square. “We’re here to scream in a united voice that Colombia is in the process of building peace and that […]

By Blake Brittain (Reuters) -Sportswear maker Adidas AG on Wednesday reversed course and said it was withdrawing a request to the U.S. Trademark Office to reject a Black Lives Matter application for a trademark featuring three parallel stripes. “Adidas will withdraw its opposition to the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation’s trademark application as soon as possible,” a spokesperson for the German company said, without giving a reason for the […]

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Electronic billboards in Moscow tell the public what to pack for a nuclear emergency, and President Vladimir Putin periodically warns darkly that Russia is ready to use its ultimate deterrent – but Muscovites seem to be taking it all in their stride. “I don’t think anything will happen, if you mean a nuclear threat,” said Andrey, 47, who declined to give his surname, standing under one of […]