News

September 28, 2021 CHICAGO (Reuters) – United Airlines said on Tuesday more than 99% of its U.S.-based employees have been vaccinated against COVID-19. In a staff memo, the airline said it will begin the separation process for the less than 1% of employees who decided not to get vaccinated. In early August, United became the […]

September 28, 2021 By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA (Reuters) – Thousands of Colombian protesters returned to the streets of major cities on Tuesday to once again demand that Congress approve union-backed social policies to benefit the poorest. The marchers – their numbers much reduced from a peak earlier this year – also demonstrated against a […]

September 28, 2021 SEOUL (Reuters) – The missile North Korea fired off its east coast on Tuesday was a newly developed hypersonic missile, state news media KCNA reported on Wednesday. North Korea fired the missile towards the sea off its east coast, South Korea’s military said, as Pyongyang called on the United States and South […]

September 28, 2021 By Julie Gordon and Steve Scherer OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday he will swear in his new cabinet next month, with Chrystia Freeland returning as his finance minister and deputy, after his Liberals were re-elected https://ift.tt/3tWwkr7 for the third time. Trudeau, speaking with reporters in Ottawa at […]

September 28, 2021 By Jose Torres TAPACHULA (Reuters) – Around 1,000 migrants flocked to a sports stadium in southern Mexico on Tuesday to claim appointments for requesting asylum in the country as the national refugee agency grapples with surging demand that has overwhelmed capacity. Thousands of other migrants have amassed in the city of Tapachula […]

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hello and welcome back to Daily Crunch for September 28, 2021. A big thanks to y’all for the response to yesterday’s TechCrunch+ rebrand. It was a real treat. Next up from TechCrunch […]

Roham Gharegozlou has been betting on the potential success of NFTs for years. This year, it happened. Gharegozlou and the team at his startup, Dapper Labs, shipped the blockchain world’s first popular game, CryptoKitties, back in 2017. The startup then launched NBA Top Shot late last year, and it promptly caught fire and brought worldwide […]

September 28, 2021 By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, had a detailed discussion about the war in Yemen on Tuesday in a meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, a senior administration official said. The war, in which a Saudi-led coalition has been battling the […]

September 28, 2021 By Mimosa Spencer PARIS (Reuters) – French fashion house Yves Saint Laurent returned to the runway for an in-person fashion show under the Eiffel Tower on Tuesday, sending models down a catwalk after dusk with the glittering monument as a backdrop. For the first show of the Kering-owned label on its home […]

September 28, 2021 By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed a bill to permanently end the sentencing disparities between crack cocaine and powder, a policy that has led to the disproportionate incarceration of African Americans. In a bipartisan vote of 361-66, the House approved the EQUAL […]

September 28, 2021 By Daniel Ramos and Monica Machicao LA PAZ (Reuters) – Bolivia’s coca farmers are battling for control of the leaf’s main market in the highland city of La Paz, a conflict which has seen producers and police clash in the streets with slingshots and tear gas, and even a building set on […]

September 28, 2021 By Miguel Pereira and Marco Trujillo LA PALMA, Spain (Reuters) -Spain classified La Palma as a disaster zone on Tuesday, a move that will trigger financial support for the island where a volcanic eruption has wrecked buildings and destroyed crops over the past nine days. The government announced a first package of […]

September 28, 2021 WARSAW (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s proposed three-month working visa for European truckers just isn’t a sweet enough deal to convince 35-year-old Polish truck driver Jakub Pajka to go back to Britain. And he’s not alone. A post-Brexit shortage of lorry drivers – estimated to be around 100,000 – as the […]

September 28, 2021 By Marcelo Rochabrun LIMA (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Tuesday said that evidence of criminality in the extradition case against former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo is “sufficient,” all but clearing the way for his extradition back to Peru on corruption charges. Peruvian authorities allege that Toledo, while serving as president between […]

September 28, 2021 By Stephen Jewkes and Giulio Piovaccari MILAN (Reuters) -Greta Thunberg and fellow youth campaigners struck a sceptical tone for this week’s climate talks in Italy, saying much has been promised but little done to tackle global warming in almost three decades since the landmark Earth Summit. Fears that climate change is worsening […]

September 28, 2021 By John Irish PARIS (Reuters) -France’s Armed Forces minister defended her country’s counterterrorism role in Mali and accused the military junta of hypocrisy, bad faith and wanting to delay a transition to democracy after the African country’s prime minister said Paris was abandoning it. Relations between France and its former colony have […]

September 28, 2021 (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp said on Tuesday it will allow Epic Games Inc, Amazon.com Inc and other firms to integrate their app stores into the technology giant’s marketplace, giving more options to third-party developers. The Redmond, Washington-based company also said it would not take a cut from app developers’ revenue, when the […]

September 28, 2021 By Hyunjoo Jin CASA GRANDE, Ariz. (Reuters) – Lucid Group Inc said on Tuesday it will start delivering its luxury electric sedans with a Tesla-beating driving range in late October, in a major challenge to the market leader whose sales of premium models have stagnated. The California-based startup began production of its […]

September 28, 2021 By Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) – The world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock Inc, has said it is dipping its toes back in to Chinese equity markets following their heavy falls this year, and on bets that Beijing will soon start providing stimulus again. Some of China’s biggest stocks are on course for […]

September 28, 2021 By David Morgan and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Senate Republicans blocked an attempt on Tuesday by President Joe Biden’s Democrats to head off a potentially crippling U.S. credit default, raising questions about whether partisan tensions will threaten the nation’s economy. With federal government funding due to expire on Thursday and borrowing […]