Emmanuel Macron shakes hands with Donald Trump at the White House, February 24, 2025. REUTERS/Brian Snyder |
- The stark rift between the US and Europe was under the spotlight as French President Emmanuel Macron pushed back against President Donald Trump's position on Ukraine. Listen to Andrea Shalal on the Reuters World News podcast as she weighs in on their meeting.
- The US government's human resources agency is rushing to shut down and drastically shrink entire departments in what sources familiar with the actions say will serve as a template for a second wave of mass layoffs in the federal bureaucracy. Here's when mass government firings will show up in data.
- A threat by Elon Musk warning that federal employees will be given "a second chance" to respond to his email asking them to justify their jobs or risk termination is likely to spark another round of confusion.
- The leading candidates vying to replace Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spent considerable time during a televised debate discussing the need to stand up to Donald Trump.
- Accused Mexican drug kingpin Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada is willing to plead guilty in a deal with prosecutors in the US if the arrangement spares him from the death penalty, his lawyer told Reuters.
- Israeli bulldozers have demolished large areas of the now virtually empty Jenin refugee camp and appear to be carving wide roadways through its once-crowded warren of alleyways, echoing tactics already employed in Gaza as troops prepare for a long-term stay.
- Syria's interim president said his country had a "historic opportunity" to rebuild, addressing a national dialogue summit billed by Syria's Islamist rulers as a key milestone after decades of Assad-family rule.
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A DeepSeek AI sign is seen at the Chinese start-up's office in Beijing, China, February 19, 2025. REUTERS/Florence Lo |
- DeepSeek is accelerating the launch of the successor to January's cut-price AI reasoning R1 model, according to three people familiar with the company.
- Chinese companies are ramping up orders for Nvidia's H20 artificial intelligence chip due to booming demand for DeepSeek's low-cost AI models, six people familiar with the matter said.
- Newfound crypto enthusiasts in India have helped grow cumulative trading volumes of bitcoin, ethereum and other cryptocurrencies on four of its largest exchanges more than two-fold quarter-on-quarter to $1.9 billion in the October-December quarter.
- Unilever stunned investors by moving to replace chief executive Hein Schumacher with finance chief Fernando Fernandez, who will take on the tough task of reviving the consumer group's performance.
- A JPMorgan executive told thousands of employees he wanted "more hustle" days after the bank's CEO Jamie Dimon scorned staff pushback against its five-day return-to-office policy.
- South Korea's business leaders are taking action to offset the threat posed by Trump's aggressive trade policies, hiring his former aides and lobbying Republican states out of frustration with delays by their own government which is mired in a political crisis.
- The US president has slapped tariffs on Mexico, Canada, steel, aluminium, and is threatening more. Few have come into force, though. In this episode of The Big View podcast, Sam Lowe of Flint Global explains the different types of levies, and what they mean for global trade.
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Fringe parties surge in German national election |
Co-party leaders of Germany's left-wing party The Left (Die Linke) Heidi Reichinnek, Jan van Aken and Ines Schwerdtner, February 24, 2025. REUTERS/Lisi Niesner |
Omar Alkadamani, a Syrian-born, naturalised German citizen, used to support Germany's centre-left Social Democrats. Unsettled by its increasingly tough stance on migration, however, he cast his vote for the far-left Left Party. The successor to East Germany's Communist Party scored 8.8% in Germany's federal election. Its resurgence, as well as a historic result for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) at 20.8%, demonstrates growing support for the extremes as the outlook for Europe's largest economy darkens and the arrival of millions of migrants polarises society. |
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Representatives arrive in the Svalbard's global seed vault with new seeds, Longyearbyen, Norway February 25, 2020. NTB Scanpix/Lise Aserud via REUTERS |
A "doomsday" vault storing food crop seeds from around the world in man-made caves on a remote Norwegian Arctic island will receive more than 14,000 new samples on, a custodian of the facility said. |
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