Town Hall News

By Michelle Nichols and David Ljunggren UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Russia signaled on Thursday that if demands to improve its grain and fertilizer exports are not met then it will not extend beyond July 17 a deal allowing the safe wartime export of the same products from three Ukrainian Black Sea ports. It made the same threat and demands in March. Moscow then agreed last week to renew for 60 […]

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A 103-year-old Chivas Guadalajara fan who went viral on social media was invited to the Akron stadium to watch the second leg of the Liga MX final against Tigres UANL. Chivas, one of Mexico’s oldest teams with a passionate and long-standing fan base, will return to play in the top-flight Mexican league final after six years following a crushing win over long-time rivals America at the […]

By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) – A Nepali climber who scaled Mount Everest for a record 28th time this week, the most by any mountaineer, said on Thursday he had no immediate plans to hang up his climbing boots. Kami Rita Sherpa, 53, who reached the 8,849-metre (29,032-foot) summit of the world’s highest mountain on Tuesday, returned to the Nepali capital of Kathmandu to a hero’s welcome. He was surrounded […]

By Nupur Anand (Reuters) -JPMorgan Chase & Co has notified nearly 1,000 First Republic Bank employees that they will no longer have a job as it integrates the failed lender it bought earlier this month, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday. JPMorgan, the largest U.S. bank, has offered employment to about 85% of First Republic’s almost 7,000 employees for transitional or full-time roles, the source said. […]

By James Pearson, Raphael Satter and Zeba Siddiqui (Reuters) -The U.S. State Department warned on Thursday that China was capable of launching cyber attacks against critical infrastructure, including oil and gas pipelines and rail systems, after researchers discovered a Chinese hacking group had been spying on such networks. A multi-nation alert issued Wednesday revealed the Chinese cyberespionage campaign had been aimed at military and government targets in the United States. […]

By Nupur Anand (Reuters) -JPMorgan Chase & Co has notified nearly 1,000 First Republic Bank employees that they will no longer have a job as it integrates the failed lender it bought earlier this month, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday. JPMorgan, the largest U.S. bank, has offered employment to about 85% of First Republic’s almost 7,000 employees for transitional or full-time roles, the source said. […]

By Nupur Anand (Reuters) -JPMorgan Chase & Co has notified nearly 1,000 First Republic Bank employees that they will no longer have a job as it integrates the failed lender it bought earlier this month, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday. JPMorgan, the largest U.S. bank, has offered employment to about 85% of First Republic’s almost 7,000 employees for transitional or full-time roles, the source said. […]

BERLIN (Reuters) -German authorities have serious indications of possible data protection violations by Tesla, Handelsblatt newspaper reported on Thursday, citing the data protection office in the state where the carmaker has its European gigafactory. Handelsblatt’s report said the U.S. electric car manufacturer has failed to adequately protect data from customers, employees and business partners, citing 100 gigabytes of confidential data leaked to the newspaper by a whistleblower. The data protection […]

By Svea Herbst-Bayliss NEW YORK (Reuters) -Carl Icahn secured a seat on Thursday for one of his three nominees to the board of gene sequencing machine maker Illumina Inc, a partial victory for the activist investor who is struggling to burnish his credentials following a shortseller attack on his company. Illumina said Icahn nominee Andrew Teno won enough shareholder votes for election, confirming an earlier Reuters report. He will take […]