New York police say investigating 2004 claim of Weinstein sex assault
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The New York City Police Department said on Thursday it is investigating an allegation of sexual assault by movie producer Harvey Weinstein in 2004.
UK gas prices to remain elevated this winter, prone to spikes
LONDON (Reuters) – British wholesale winter gas prices this winter should remain at the elevated levels seen so far this year due to high coal prices, uncertainty about French nuclear outages and low storage inventories.
Palestinian rivals Fatah, Hamas sign reconciliation accord
GAZA/CAIRO (Reuters) – Rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah signed a reconciliation deal on Thursday after Hamas agreed to hand over administrative control of Gaza, including the key Rafah border crossing, a decade after seizing the enclave in a …
British jihadi ‘White Widow’ killed by U.S. drone – Sun report
LONDON (Reuters) – Sally Jones, a British jihadi who recruited online for the Islamic State group, has been killed in Syria by a U.S. drone along with her 12-year-old son, The Sun newspaper reported on Thursday.
Royal Mail wins temporary block on strike with injunction
(Reuters) – Royal Mail blocked a strike by Communications Workers Union members on Thursday, winning a High Court injunction preventing action during the crucial pre-Christmas delivery period.
Spaniards use national holiday to show unity amid Catalan crisis
MADRID (Reuters) – Spaniards lined the streets of Madrid and Barcelona on Thursday and national flags hung from balconies across the capital as unionists used a public holiday to demonstrate unity in the face of moves by Catalonia to declare independen…
U.S. withdraws from U.N.’s cultural agency UNESCO
PARIS (Reuters) – The United States announced on Thursday it was withdrawing from UNESCO, the U.N.’s cultural and educational agency, complaining about how it is run and about what Washington described as bias against Israel.
CC Certificates spring into action
In order to better teach open tools and practices to communities around the world, Creative Commons has developed open educational resources and a certification program called the CC Certificate.
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May has “full confidence” in Hammond
LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May has full confidence in Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond, her spokesman said on Thursday, following criticism from former Chancellor Nigel Lawson.
Myanmar army chief says Rohingya Muslims “not natives”, numbers fleeing exaggerated
YANGON (Reuters) – Rohingya Muslims are not native to Myanmar, the army chief told the U.S. ambassador in a meeting in which he apparently did not address accusations of abuses by his men and said media was complicit in exaggerating the number of refug…