Residents react at the site of an apartment building damaged during a Russian strike, in Kyiv, Ukraine, June 17, 2025. REUTERS/Thomas Peter/File Photo |
- A top aide to President Donald Trump accused India of effectively financing Russia's war in Ukraine by purchasing oil from Moscow, after the US leader escalated pressure on New Delhi to stop buying Russian oil.
- A Ukrainian drone attack damaged a power line and sparked a fire at a railway station building in Russia's southern region of Volgograd overnight, the regional administration said.
- Hamas said it was prepared to coordinate with the Red Cross to deliver aid to hostages it holds in Gaza, if Israel meets certain conditions, after a video it released showing an emaciated captive drew sharp criticism from Western powers.
- Los Angeles County has a new task taking care of dogs and cats after their owners were detained or deported in immigration raids that picked up this summer under the Trump administration. From June 10, the county has taken in 28 animals, 22 of whom are dogs.
- South Korean authorities began removing loudspeakers blaring anti-North Korea broadcasts along the country's border, Seoul's defence ministry said, as the new government of President Lee Jae Myung seeks to ease tensions with Pyongyang.
- Hundreds of thousands of people under siege in the Sudanese army's last holdout in the western Darfur region are running out of food and coming under constant artillery and drone barrages, while those who flee risk cholera and violent attacks.
- Armed men on motorbikes raided a village in northwestern Nigeria and kidnapped more than 60 people including women and children, witnesses said, adding to a surge of mass abductions in the region.
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A BP logo is seen at a petrol station in London, January 15, 2015. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor/File Photo |
- BP said it has made its largest oil and gas discovery in 25 years in Brazil's Santos basin, a so-called pre-salt area in deep water offshore which is believed to be a large reservoir of oil and gas.
- Tesla disclosed in a filing it has awarded CEO Elon Musk 96 million shares of the company, worth about $29 billion. Musk must pay Tesla $23.34 per share of restricted stock that vests, which is equal to the exercise price per share of the 2018 CEO Award.
- More than 3,200 union members who assemble Boeing's fighter jets in the St. Louis area and Illinois went on strike after rejecting a second contract offer on Sunday. Boeing Defense said it was ready for the work stoppage and it will implement a contingency plan that uses non-labor workers.
- Italy's competition authority imposed a 1 million euro fine on China founded fast fashion online retailer Shein for misleading customers on the environmental impact of its products.
- Spotify said it would increase the monthly price of its premium individual subscription in select markets, including South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Latin America and the Asia-Pacific region, from September, as the Swedish streaming giant looks to improve margins.
- Online weight-loss company Noom said it would sell copies of Novo Nordisk's Wegovy at an introductory price of $119 for up to a quarter of the branded drug's standard dose, giving patients a less costly way to try the medication.
- A Japanese Labour Ministry panel has proposed a 6% increase in the national average minimum wage for this fiscal year, the biggest such jump since at least 2002, the Nikkei business newspaper reported.
- India thought it had done a trade deal with the US but then it was hit by a surprise tariff rate. Sanjeev Miglani joins the daily Reuters World News podcast to look at what went wrong. For more tariff news, sign up for the newsletter.
- China's independent oil companies are ramping up operations in Iraq, investing billions of dollars in OPEC's number two producer even as some global majors have scaled back from a market dominated by Beijing's big state-run firms. For more, watch our daily rundown on financial markets.
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Tesla's brand loyalty collapsed after Musk backed Trump, data shows |
Trump talks to the media next to Elon Musk, at the White House, March 11, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo |
Tesla for years had more repeat US customers than any other major automotive brand but its loyalty has plunged since CEO Elon Musk endorsed Trump last summer, according to data from research firm S&P Global Mobility shared exclusively with Reuters. The data, which has not been previously reported, shows Tesla's customer loyalty peaked in June 2024, when 73% of Tesla-owning households in the market for a new car bought another Tesla, according to an S&P analysis of vehicle-registration data in all 50 states. |
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A man sells tomatoes, potatoes and other vegetables at a market in Lima, Peru, April 28, 2017. REUTERS/Mariana Bazo/File Photo |
The potato is one of the world's food staples, first cultivated thousands of years ago in the Andes region of South America before spreading globally from the 16th century. But despite its importance to humankind, the evolutionary origins of the potato have remained puzzling - until now. A new analysis has revealed that the potato lineage originated through natural interbreeding between a wild tomato plant and a potato-like species in South America about 9 million years ago. |
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