Suspected missile assembly building under construction at "February 11 Plant" near Hamhung. Image obtained by Reuters on November 20, 2024. Planet Labs PBC |
- North Korea is expanding a key weapons manufacturing complex that assembles a type of short-range missile used by Russia in Ukraine, researchers at a US-based think tank have concluded, based on satellite images.
- India's parliament was suspended after opposition lawmakers disrupted it demanding a discussion over bribery allegations against the Adani Group. Meanwhile, Adani dollar bond prices fell to almost one-year lows as investors and lenders weighed the case.
- A DHL cargo plane crashed as it came into land at Lithuania's Vilnius airport, skidding into a house and killing one person on the aircraft.
- Thousands of Rohingya insurgents have emerged from camps housing over a million refugees in Cox's Bazar, where militant recruitment and violence have surged this year, according to four people familiar with the conflict and two internal aid agency reports seen by Reuters.
- US farm industry groups want President-elect Donald Trump to spare their sector from his promise of mass deportations, which could upend a food supply chain heavily dependent on immigrants in the United States illegally.
- Lebanon's Hezbollah movement fired heavy rocket barrages at Israel, and the Israeli military said houses had been destroyed or set alight near Tel Aviv. A powerful Israeli airstrike killed at least 29 people in Beirut the day before.
- A Romanian hard-right NATO critic and center-right opposition party leader will likely face each other in a Dec. 8 presidential run-off vote, results showed, in an unexpected outcome that threatens Romania's staunchly pro-Ukraine stance.
- The contentious $300 billion climate finance plan to help developing nations cope with the soaring costs of global warming was secured on the last day of a COP29 summit overshadowed by Trump's election and geopolitical issues. Listen to Valerie Volcovici on the Reuters World News podcast as she weighs in on why the deal has been greeted with anger and harsh criticism by some nations.
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- Trump's Republicans are promising to hit the gas next year when they assume full control of the US Congress, with little to stop them from executing the president-elect's promises to slash taxes and reorder the global trade landscape.
- Trump's transition team is putting together a wide-ranging energy package to roll out within days of his taking office that would approve export permits for new liquefied natural gas projects and increase oil drilling off the US coast and on federal lands.
- The trigger that ended more than 50 years of gas flows from Russian state energy giant Gazprom to OMV earlier this month was the Austrian group's seizure of Russian gas as payment to cover the value of an arbitration award, five sources told Reuters.
- More than 200,000 prescriptions for copies of Novo Nordisk's weight-loss drug Wegovy are getting filled by US patients each month, an industry group told the US drugs regulator in a letter, saying it should consider their role in alleviating the obesity drug supply crunch before barring them.
- In only a few years, Germans have become a nation of online shoppers, with most now turning to devices to buy clothes, groceries and medicines in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, despite Germans being more negative on technology trends than the European average.
- Heading into holidays some expect to disappoint, Wall Street investors like Goldman Sachs are using new ways to monitor shoppers' actions and intentions to help determine the season's winners and losers.
- Italy's UniCredit launched a surprise $11 billion bid for domestic peer Banco BPM, which CEO Andrea Orcel said would not get in the way of a potential deal for Germany's Commerzbank.
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Donald Trump Jr helps his father pick the most controversial cabinet of modern times |
Trump approaches to embrace Donald Trump Jr at his campaign rally, at PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh, November 4, 2024. REUTERS/Brian Snyder |
Donald Trump Jr. has emerged as the most influential Trump family member in the transition as the president-elect builds the most controversial cabinet in modern US history, according to a half dozen sources with knowledge of his role, elevating inexperienced loyalists over more qualified candidates for top positions in his administration. Trump, who fiercely prizes loyalty, has long relied on family members for political advice, but which relative has his ear is known to vary. |
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Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo attend a premiere for the film "Wicked" in London. REUTERS/Mina Kim |
The musical adaptation "Wicked" and action epic "Gladiator II" racked up a combined $270.2 million in global ticket sales over the weekend, a gift to cinemas heading into what may be a record-setting holiday season. |
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