LONDON (AP) — Temu was hit with a 200 million euro ($232 million) fine Thursday after a European Union investigation found the Chinese online retailer failed to protect consumers from illegal products like toxic or hazardous toys and unsafe electronics. The 27-nation EU’s fine follows preliminary findings last year that Temu was exposing consumers to …
MOSCOW, May 28 (Reuters) – Russia said on Thursday it had summoned the ambassador to Luxembourg to protest against the exhumation of the remains of Andriy Melnyk, a Ukrainian nationalist leader during World War Two whom Moscow described as a “Nazi collaborator.” Melnyk, who sided with Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union, was reburied with …
By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterTHURSDAY, May 28, 2026 (HealthDay News) — People of color are less likely to have access to asthma inhalers, a new study says. Lack of access to specialists likely is at the root of this disparity, driven by socioeconomic factors, researchers said. The results were surprising, given that many more people …
BOGOTA, May 28 (Reuters) – Leftist Colombian activist and Senator Ivan Cepeda, whose youth was marked by exile and his father’s murder at the hands of right-wing paramilitaries, is heading into Sunday’s presidential vote with a pledge to deepen his predecessor’s economic and social reforms. Cepeda, 63, is leading in public opinion polls but is unlikely …
Italy said Thursday it was seizing more than 200 million euros ($232 million) in assets belonging to late Mafia boss Matteo Messina Money derived from drug trafficking and reinvested in Europe and beyond. The “vast fortune” of the ruthless Cosa Nostra boss — a legendary figure finally captured in 2023 in Palermo after three decades …
BOGOTA, May 28 (Reuters) – Right-wing Colombian lawyer and senator Paloma Valencia is running to become her country’s first female president in a Sunday presidential contest, promising to strengthen security and revive the economy, which she says have deteriorated under the current leftist government. Valencia, 48, a scion of two powerful conservative families, is backed …
WASHINGTON (AP) — A roughly $70 billion bill to fund immigration enforcement through the remainder of President Donald Trump’s term was supposed to be an easy lift for Republicans. But progress stalled over concerns about the inclusion of White House ballroom security funding in the package and the creation of a $1.8 billion fund to …
May 28 (Reuters) – A combined German-Dutch army corps will take command of NATO land forces in Estonia and Latvia later this year to strengthen the alliance’s eastern flank against a potential Russian attack, the countries said on Thursday. The so-called 1 German-Netherlands Corps (1GNC), based in the German city of Muenster, will become a …
TOKYO (AP) — Mechanical hands dexterous enough to thread a needle, childlike dancing robots and adult-sized ones to help with deliveries were on display Thursday as the Humanoids Summit Tokyo opened. Chinese newcomers, like Booster Robotics and LimX Dynamics, took the technology initially developed in Japan and the U.S. and fine-tuned it, often for cheaper …
By Alexander Dziadosz, Nazih Osseiran and Catherine Cartier SIDON/BEIRUT, May 28 (Reuters) – The ceasefire agreed in Lebanon last month has brought little respite for civilians, who are being driven from a steadily expanding swathe of the country by a relentless Israeli campaign of evacuations and air strikes. The U.S.-brokered truce announced on April 16, …