TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Toshiba Corp <6502.T> said on Thursday it is buying back a 10 percent stake in Westinghouse Electric Co from minority shareholder Kazatomprom for 59 billion yen ($522 million), taking full ownership of the bankrupt U.S. unit. The move comes as Westinghouse is exploring selling itself, with a deal likely valuing it […]
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By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) – A seasonal flu vaccine that would be the first in the world to fight all types of the virus is to be tested in a two-year clinical trial involving more than 2,000 patients by researchers in Oxford. The so-called universal vaccine was developed by Oxford University’s Jenner Institute and […]
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By Ahmed Aboulenein CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt has arrested 22 people in the past three days as part of a crackdown on gays after a rainbow flag was raised at a concert, activists and rights groups said on Monday. At least 33 people have been arrested since Sept. 23, after a group of people were […]
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By Ahmed Aboulenein CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt has arrested 22 people in the past three days as part of a crackdown on gays after a rainbow flag was raised at a concert, activists and rights groups said on Monday. At least 33 people have been arrested since Sept. 23, after a group of people were […]
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By Paresh Dave and Liana B. Baker SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The board of Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL], including two new appointees of former Chief Executive Travis Kalanick, will meet on Tuesday to consider proposals that diminish the co-founder’s influence, strip early investors of supervoting power and secure a multibillion-dollar investment, sources said. Proponents of […]
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By Salvador Rodriguez SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Oracle Corp <ORCL.N> Co-Chief Executive Mark Hurd on Monday said he does not understand Trump administration immigration policies that make it difficult for foreigners to work in the United States after earning an education here. “I don’t understand how we let somebody into this country go to our […]
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By Laila Kearney and Robin Respaut NEW YORK/SALINAS, Puerto Rico (Reuters) – The hurricane that leveled Puerto Rico last month has given fresh impetus to a decades-old argument on the island: that the U.S. territory would fare better financially as a U.S. state. For Fermin Seda, 68, a retiree in the southern city of Salinas, […]
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By Niklas Pollard and Ben Hirschler STOCKHOLM/LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. scientists Jeffrey Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael Young won the 2017 Nobel prize for medicine on Monday for unraveling molecular mechanisms that control our internal body clocks. These help explain how people experience jet lag when their internal circadian rhythms get out of sync, while […]
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By Meng Meng and Josephine Mason XIAOZHANGWAN, China (Reuters) – As freezing winds whip across northern China this winter, Yao Guanghui is happy he’ll have one less chore to do: feeding the coal furnace that has long heated his small house on the outskirts of Beijing. Traipsing outside on freezing nights to haul coal for […]
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By David Ingram NEW YORK (Reuters) – Some 10 million people in the United States saw politically divisive ads on Facebook that the company said were purchased in Russia in the months before and after last year’s U.S. presidential election, Facebook said on Monday. Facebook, which had not previously given such an estimate, said in […]
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Senate on Monday confirmed Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai for another five-year term on the telecommunications regulatory panel where he faces decisions over dismantling Obama-era internet protections and a major television station merger. Pai won confirmation by 52-41 over objections from Democrats, who criticized him for […]
Read More By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Less than one in three U.S. hospitals can find, send, and receive electronic medical records for patients who receive care somewhere else, a new study suggests. Just 30 percent of hospitals had achieved so-called interoperability as of 2015, the study found. While that’s slight improvement over the previous year, […]
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