Search and rescue teams operate in the Potomac River. Handout via REUTERS
Washington plane crash
Investigators plan to push forward with efforts to retrieve the two aircraft involved in a crash in Washington that killed 67 people and raised questions about air safety in the US capital.
Planes approaching Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport must navigate a narrow flight path and near-misses worried pilots well before Wednesday's crash. Aerospace and Defense Editor Joe Brock explains the issues on the Reuters World News podcast.
In other news
Kash Patel, President Donald Trump's nominee for FBI director, vowed to protect FBI employees against "political retribution" even as the Trump administration has begun to fire and sideline Justice Department officials who were involved in investigations into the president.
Russian forces are slowly tightening the noose around the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, a key logistical hub whose main supply lines are under threat nearly three years after Moscow invaded its neighbor.
Germany's parliament could pass a law thanks to far-right support for the first time in the country's post-war history today, if an opposition motion on tightening immigration controls passes with the backing of the Alternative for Germany party.
Syria's new Islamist leaders are undertaking a radical overhaul of the country's broken economy, including plans to fire a third of all public sector workers and privatising state-run companies dominant during half a century of Assad family rule.
US economic growth slowed in the fourth quarter as a strike at Boeing depressed business investment in equipment, but consumer spending increased at its fastest pace in nearly two years, underscoring strong domestic demand that probably keeps the Federal Reserve on a slow interest rate cut path this year.
The European Central Bank cut interest rates and policymakers guided for a further reduction in March as concerns over lackluster economic growth supersede worries about persistent inflation.
Samsung warned of sluggish sales of its artificial intelligence chips in the current quarter due to US export restrictions to China.
Apple executives forecast relatively strong sales growth, a sign the company will recover from a dip in iPhone sales as it rolls out artificial intelligence features.
Intel posted December-quarter results that beat analysts' low expectations, while its forecast for current-quarter revenue missed estimates as the chipmaker grapples with tepid demand for its data center chips and as investors wait for a new CEO.
Marco Rubio arrives in Latin America this weekend on his first foreign trip as Trump's secretary of state, as the region reels from the new administration's shock-and-awe approach to diplomacy.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with Trump at the White House on Tuesday amid the fragile Gaza ceasefire.
Japanese get creative to fight soaring food prices
Kazuki Nakata looks at his indoor farm at his home in Kawasaki, Japan. REUTERS/Tom Bateman
For Japanese YouTuber Kazuki Nakata, soaring food prices have proved to be a boon.
Having started indoor farming at home as a hobby during the pandemic, the 37-year-old now has nearly 90,000 subscribers eager to learn how to stretch out store-bought vegetables and grow new ones in containers of water, without soil.
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