By Eva Mañez ELS POBLETS, Spain, Oct 19 (Reuters) – Helicopters rescued people stranded on rooftops as torrential rains swept across eastern Spain on Monday, as floods and storms killed at least three people and shelter-in-place orders remained in force for more than 80,000 residents.…
By Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI, Oct 19 (Reuters) – Indian tax officials are investigating whether liquor giants Pernod Ricard and Diageo wrongly classified some bulk Scotch imports, allowing them to pay lower tariffs introduced under the recently agreed India-UK trade pact, five industry sources familiar…
Erlangen, GERMANY, Oct 19 (Reuters) – AI could help preserve manufacturing jobs in high-wage countries such as Germany by boosting factory automation to as much as 80%, Siemens executive board member Cedrik Neike said on Monday. Speaking at the company’s electronics plant in Erlangen, Neike said…
WASHINGTON, Oct 19 (Reuters) – Meta apologized for suspending the Instagram account of the “No Kings” protest movement over the weekend, attributing the shutdown to a sharp increase in activity that looked like automated bot traffic rather than human exchanges. Demonstrators gathered at thousands of…
By John Kruzel WASHINGTON, Oct 19 (Reuters) – The US Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a bid by a Democratic-appointed member of the National Labor Relations Board to challenge the legality of her firing by President Donald Trump. The justices turned away former…
By Bianca Flowers, David Hood-Nuño and Ally Levine Oct 19 (Reuters) – The city of Memphis used to sit almost entirely in one congressional district. The new map splits residents from neighbors across the street, each now belonging to districts with voters halfway across the state…
WASHINGTON, Oct 19 (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order alongside first lady Melania Trump on Monday creating a task force and a National Institutes of Health division focused on women’s health, a White House official said. The task…
WARSAW, Oct 19 (Reuters) – Polish military police have detained a Polish-Ukrainian dual national suspected of spying who was attending an officer training course for reservists in the central city of Lodz, authorities said on Monday. “This individual obtained Polish citizenship some time ago, which…
Oct 19 (Reuters) – Myanmar’s military-backed government on Monday released rare photographs of the country’s imprisoned former leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, saying that officials had delivered her books and letters from Britain’s King Charles. • The government officials delivered two books — “The Land…
By Stephen Nellis SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 19 (Reuters) – Amazon.com is introducing a new tool that allows its custom AI chips to run code written in the most popular AI coding language without modification, seeking to erode the advantage that underpins Nvidia’s dominance in the AI computing…
