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LONDON (Reuters) – British former prime minister Boris Johnson has accepted he misled parliament over the answers he gave about parties held in government buildings during coronavirus pandemic lockdowns, but denied having done so “intentionally or recklessly”. Here are some of his main defence for why he believes he did not mislead parliament from his oral and written evidence he gave to a committee of lawmakers investigating him. SOCIAL DISTANCING […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday its staff is seeking information on cloud computing companies business practices including details on their market power, competition and potential security issues. Commission staff are seeking information about competitive dynamics of cloud computing. FTC staff are also interested in the impact of cloud computing on industries including “healthcare, finance, transportation, e-commerce, and defense.” The U.S. cloud computing business is dominated by […]

By Valerie Insinna WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Boeing Co. will take additional charges to the KC-46 tanker program due to a supplier quality issue with the center fuel tank, the company’s finance chief said Wednesday. Boeing Chief Financial Officer Brian West did not disclose the precise value of the additional charges, which will be announced as part of the company’s first quarter earnings, but margins at Boeing’s defense business would be negative […]

(A) By Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday seemed unlikely to revive a proposed class action lawsuit accusing the National Football League of allowing teams to over-prescribe painkillers to players so they could stay on the field while injured. Judges on a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel in Pasadena, California, repeatedly pressed a lawyer for the eight retired players who filed the lawsuit on […]

BEIJING (Reuters) -China has approved its first domestically developed mRNA vaccine against COVID-19, CSPC Pharmaceutical Group Ltd said on Wednesday, a major achievement in a country that has declined to use Western COVID shots to support domestic research. China, whose home-grown vaccines are seen as less effective than the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA shots, has been racing to develop vaccines using messenger RNA (mRNA) technology since early 2020. The long-awaited […]

(Reuters) – A Congressional committee issued a subpoena to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), alleging that employees of the labor body mishandled union elections at Starbucks Corp cafes in ways that favored unionizing workers, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing a letter. The report added the House Committee on Education and the Workforce asked a regional NLRB official to provide documents as to whether the labor body […]

(Reuters) – Iga Swiatek has withdrawn from the Miami Open due to a rib injury, the world number one and defending champion said on Wednesday. Top seed Swiatek was due to begin her campaign against American Claire Liu in the second round on Thursday after being given a bye in the first round. “You know that in and after Doha I was struggling with a strong infection,” Swiatek said. “I […]

MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s Constitutional Court has dismissed a challenge by far-right party Vox against a euthanasia law approved in 2021, dealing a second blow to Vox on Wednesday as its no-confidence motion against the government failed in parliament. By a wide margin of nine votes in favour and two against, the court’s justices upheld the bill that legalised euthanasia and assisted suicide for people with incurable or debilitating diseases […]

By Will Dunham (Reuters) – Using five locks of hair, scientists have sequenced the genome of one of history’s greatest musical composers – Ludwig van Beethoven – nearly two centuries after his death, gaining insight into his fatal liver disease but not his hearing loss. Researchers said on Wednesday his genome showed the German composer was both genetically predisposed to liver disease and had hepatitis B virus infection. An autopsy […]