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GENEVA (Reuters) – Smoke from wildfires in Australia has drifted across the Pacific and affected cities in South America, and may have reached the Antarctic, the U.N. World Meteorological Organization … Read More

By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK (Reuters) – Wall Street’s major indexes declined on Tuesday as investor caution persisted amid a dispute between the United States and Iran, while energy shares … Read More

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump has been briefed on reports of an attack on U.S. facilities in Iraq and is monitoring the situation, White House spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham … Read More

By Yilei Sun and Brenda Goh SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Elon Musk raised an online storm by dancing on stage at the launch of Tesla’s <TSLA.O> Model Y electric sports utility … Read More

TOKYO/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Japanese prosecutors on Tuesday issued an arrest warrant for Carlos Ghosn’s wife for alleged perjury, as officials stepped up efforts to bring the fugitive car industry boss … Read More

By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives committee said on Tuesday it had called Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to testify on Iran next week, … Read More

By Herbert Lash NEW YORK (Reuters) – The dollar gained, helped by better-than-expected data in the U.S. non-manufacturing sector, and oil prices retreated on Tuesday as caution kept investors alert … Read More

By Joey Roulette (Reuters) – NASA is opening an independent investigation with Boeing over a software glitch that prevented its unmanned astronaut capsule from reaching the International Space Station in … Read More

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York state’s highest court will consider whether U.S. President Donald Trump must face a defamation lawsuit by a former contestant on “The … Read More

LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Boris Johnson will tell European Commission Chief Ursula von der Leyen that Britain will not extend its transition out of the European Union beyond Dec. … Read More