Category: World News

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – A federal judge in Manhattan on Friday dismissed a lawsuit claiming that Woody Guthrie’s iconic 1940 folk song “This Land is Your Land” … Read More

By Sinéad Carew New York (Reuters) – The S&P 500 fell for the seventh straight day on Friday and the benchmark index suffered its biggest weekly drop since the 2008 … Read More

By Elizabeth Pineau and Richard Lough PARIS (Reuters) – Roman Polanski cast a shadow over France’s Cesar Awards on Friday even as he won best directing for his film “An … Read More

By Julie Steenhuysen and Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York health officials are trying to get their own coronavirus testing kits up and running after getting stuck with … Read More

By Allison Lampert MONTREAL (Reuters) – Canadian National Railway Co has started calling back many of the 450 workers it laid off earlier this month in eastern Canada, when blockades … Read More

By Rodrigo Campos NEW YORK (Reuters) – Coronavirus panic sent world stock markets tumbling again on Friday, with an index of global stocks setting its largest weekly fall since the … Read More

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Federal Communications Commission confirmed on Friday it voted to propose fining four major U.S. wireless carriers more than $200 million for failing to … Read More

PARIS (Reuters) – Roman Polanski, who faces accusations of rape, won France’s Cesar Award for best directing for his film “An Officer and a Spy” on Friday, prompting several actresses … Read More

By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump is willing to hold a summit with the leaders of Russia, China, Britain and France – the five permanent members … Read More

NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. crude oil and natural gas production pulled back in December from record highs reached a month earlier, according to monthly government data released Friday. U.S. … Read More