Booby-traps plague north Iraq as Islamic State targets returning civilians
FILE PHOTO: A member of the Iraqi Federal Police runs for cover on the frontline in the Old City, June 28, 2017. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights SHEIKH AMIR, Iraq (Reuters) - As people return home to Mosul and other areas of northern Iraq freed from Islamic State, homemade bombs and explosives laid on an industrial scale by the insurgents are claiming hundreds of victims
Scientists dim sunlight, suck up carbon dioxide to cool planet
[1/5]A facility for capturing CO2 from air of Swiss Climeworks AG is placed on the roof of a waste incinerating plant in Hinwil, Switzerland July 18, 2017. Picture taken July 18, 2017. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann Acquire Licensing Rights OSLO (Reuters) - Scientists are sucking carbon dioxide from the air with giant fans and preparing to release chemicals from a balloon to dim the sun's rays as part of a
Roomba vacuum maker iRobot betting big on the 'smart' home
iRobot CEO Colin Angle is pictured at iRobot Shanghai office in Shanghai, China, May 16, 2017. Picture taken on May 16, 2017. Courtesy iRobot/Handout via REUTERS Acquire Licensing Rights (Reuters) - The Roomba robotic vacuum has been whizzing across floors for years, but its future may lie more in collecting data than dirt. That data is of the spatial variety: the dimensions of a room as well as d
Moscow warns new U.S. sanctions take ties into uncharted waters
FILE PHOTO: Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov at the United Nations offices in Geneva October 15, 2013. REUTERS/Fabrice Coffrini/Pool/Files Acquire Licensing Rights MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia warned on Wednesday that new U.S. sanctions against Moscow approved by the House of Representatives take already battered ties into uncharted waters and said it was close to taking retaliatory mea
Japan PM Abe denies favouritism amid falling support | Reuters Video
for-phone-onlyfor-tablet-portrait-upfor-tablet-landscape-upfor-desktop-upfor-wide-desktop-up Most PopularJapan PM Abe denies favouritism amid falling supportPosted Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe denies favouritism in the approval of a school for his long-time friend, as the leader's ratings sink.
Panama opens embassy in Beijing after break with Taiwan
PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - Panama has opened an embassy in China, the Central American country's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday, deepening its links with the world's No. 2 economy after its diplomatic break with longtime ally Taiwan. Panama established diplomatic ties with China in June and broke with Taiwan in a major victory for Beijing, as it lures away the dwindling number of countries that hav
Myanmar reports outbreak of H5N1 bird flu on poultry farm: OIE
PARIS (Reuters) - Myanmar has reported an outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu on a farm in the southern Tanintharyi Region, the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) said on Tuesday, citing a report from Myanmar's livestock ministry. The virus was detected on July 16 on a farm of 5,000 Lohmann layers in Dawei where it killed 1,806 birds, the ministry said, pointing to a la
Adobe to pull plug on Flash, ending an era
FILE PHOTO: An Adobe Systems Inc software box is seen in Los Angeles, California, U.S., March 13, 2017. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/File Photo Acquire Licensing Rights SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Adobe Systems Inc's Flash, a once-ubiquitous technology used to power most of the media content found online, will be retired at the end of 2020, the software company announced Tuesday. Adobe, along with partner
INSIGHT-Prospect of Trump tariff casts pall over U.S. solar industry
By Nichola Groom LOS ANGELES, July 25 (Reuters) - U.S. solar companies are snapping up cheap imported solar panels ahead of a trade decision by the Trump administration that could drive up costs and cloud the fortunes of one of the economy's brightest stars. Domestic consumers and businesses have been embracing solar energy at a furious pace - thanks to a big assist from China. Low-cost photovolta
Arab states add groups, people to terror lists in Qatar row
FILE PHOTO: Flags of Arab states are seen along the Nile river ahead of a meeting of the foreign ministers of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Bahrain, in Cairo, Egypt July 5, 2017. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany Acquire Licensing Rights DUBAI (Reuters) - Four Arab countries have added 18 more groups and individuals that they say are linked to Qatar to their "terrorist" lists, Saudi state news agency S
Chinese officials to enforce mainland laws in Hong Kong train station
[1/6]Laborers work on West Kowloon Terminus, under construction for the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link, in Hong Kong, China July 21, 2017. REUTERS/Bobby Yip Acquire Licensing Rights HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong announced on Tuesday a controversial plan to allow mainland officials to enforce Chinese laws inside a Hong Kong train station, an immigration set-up critics say will enc
Vietnam jails dissident nine years for propaganda against state
HANOI (Reuters) - A court in Vietnam jailed a prominent dissident for nine years and gave her five years probation for spreading propaganda against the state, her lawyer said on Tuesday, in what appeared to be the Communist-ruled country's latest crackdown on critics. Despite sweeping reforms to its economy and growing openness to social change, including gay, lesbian and transgender rights, Vietn
Trump and Putin held a second undisclosed meeting at the G20 summit | Reuters Video
for-phone-onlyfor-tablet-portrait-upfor-tablet-landscape-upfor-desktop-upfor-wide-desktop-up Top NewsTrump and Putin held a second undisclosed meeting at the G20 summitPosted U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a second, previously undisclosed conversation during a dinner for G20 leaders at a summit earlier this month in Germany, a White House official confirms. R
Unrest bubbles among Trump's key foreign policy aides: sources
[1/3]U.S. President Donald Trump and White House National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster board Air Force One as they depart Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, U.S., June 16, 2017, before their departure to Miami, Florida. REUTERS/Carlos Barria Acquire Licensing Rights WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Frustration is mounting among leading foreign policy officials in President Donald Trump's administration as th
China warns India not to harbour illusions in border stand-off
A man walks inside a conference room used for meetings between military commanders of China and India, at the Indian side of the Indo-China border at Bumla, in Arunachal Pradesh, November 11, 2009. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/Files Acquire Licensing Rights BEIJING (Reuters) - China's defence ministry on Monday warned India not to harbour any illusions about the Chinese military's ability to defend its ter
In Russia, state TV and the Internet tell a tale of two protests
Riot police detain a man during an anti-corruption protest organised by opposition leader Alexei Navalny, on Tverskaya Street in central Moscow, Russia. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov Acquire Licensing Rights MOSCOW (Reuters) - Some of the biggest anti-Kremlin protests in years swept across Russia on Monday with over 1,000 people detained by the police ahead of a presidential election next year. But anyon
Living healthily, learning more could cut dementia cases by a third
LONDON (Reuters) - Learning new things, eating and drinking well, not smoking and limiting hearing loss and loneliness could prevent a third of dementia cases, health experts said on Thursday. In a wide-ranging analysis of the risk factors behind dementia, the researchers highlighted nine as particularly important. These included staying in education beyond age 15, reducing high blood pressure, ob
Tobacco industry blocking anti-smoking moves - WHO
[1/3]A snack vendor smokes a cigarette as he waits for customers on a street in New Delhi, India, July 14, 2017. Picture taken July 14, 2017. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi Acquire Licensing Rights GENEVA (Reuters) - The tobacco industry continues to subvert government attempts to prevent tobacco-related deaths, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday in a fresh call to counter corporate lobbyi
Study finds slight autism risk link to antidepressants in pregnancy
LONDON (Reuters) - Children exposed to antidepressants during their mothers' pregnancies seem to have a slightly higher risk of autism than children whose mothers had psychiatric disorders but did not take antidepressants while pregnant, a study has found. But publishing their findings on Wednesday, researchers said the results should not cause alarm, since the absolute risk of a child developing
Tobacco companies diversify into ‘pharmaceuticals’
(Reuters Health) - Tobacco companies claim to be developing and selling merchandise to help cigarette smokers quit, but health researchers accuse the industry of trying to hook consumers on different – still dangerous – nicotine products. Writing in Annals of Internal Medicine, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) call the industry’s push into the smoking-cessation mar
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