By Jonathan Allen (Reuters) – A man on death row in Texas who had expected to be executed on Thursday night is now set to testify next week before the state lawmakers who believe he may have been wrongly convicted of murdering his 2-year-old daughter and secured him an extraordinary reprieve. Robert Roberson, 56, had …
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(Reuters) -Telecom operator AT&T on Friday ratified agreements with the Communications Workers of America in the Southeast and West, which covers about 23,000 employees across eleven states. The union said workers in the West will receive wage increases of at least 15% over the course of the new four-year collective bargaining agreement while those in …
(Reuters) – Prosecutors in Arizona have dismissed charges against a Black man who is deaf and has cerebral palsy, and who was violently arrested by police earlier this year. Bodycam footage of Tyron McAlpin’s arrest in August sparked outrage after it was released this week. Video showed police using a Taser on McAlpin and punching …
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By Dave Sherwood HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba’s national grid collapsed on Friday, leaving the entire population of 10 million people without electricity and underscoring the precarious state of the Communist-run country’s infrastructure and economy. Restoration of service is under way but long-term challenges will remain. WHY DID THE GRID COLLAPSE? Cuba’s electrical grid and oil-fired …
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By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA (Reuters) -Colombian land dedicated to the cultivation of coca leaves, a raw ingredient for cocaine, jumped 10% last year to reach the largest area in over two decades, a report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) found on Friday. Some 253,000 hectares were planted with coca …
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By David Shepardson (Reuters) -A union representing striking machinists at Boeing said on Friday it is “actively engaged in indirect discussions” with the planemaker that are being facilitated by Acting U.S. Labor Secretary Julie Su. “We are fully committed to these talks. It is our responsibility to attempt to reach a resolution,” said the International …
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he would impose additional tariffs on China if China were to “go into Taiwan,” the Wall Street Journal reported. “I would say: If you go into Taiwan, I’m sorry to do this, I’m going to tax you, at 150% to 200%,” the former U.S. …
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By Blake Brittain -Data storage provider Western Digital must pay $315.7 million in damages for violating a patent owner’s rights in data security technology, a jury in California federal court said on Friday. The jury determined that several Western Digital self-encrypting hard drive products infringe a SPEX Technologies patent covering data encryption innovations, a SPEX …
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By Volodymyr Pavlov and Vitalii Hnidyi KUPIANSK, Ukraine (Reuters) – Yuliia Baibak could not bear another Russian air strike on her neighbourhood before complying with the order to evacuate her parents from the besieged Ukrainian city of Kupiansk. A plea for mass evacuation was also issued on Friday for the city of Pokrovsk further south, …
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By Candelaria Grimberg and Will Russell BUENOS AIRES/WOLVERHAMPTON, England (Reuters) – Argentine fans of former One Direction singer Liam Payne, who died in a dramatic fall from his hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, gathered on Thursday afternoon around the city’s central obelisk monument to remember the troubled boy band icon. Payne, 31, who shot to …
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