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Analysis: U.S. food labels seen heating up North America meat war

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WINNIPEG, Manitoba/CHICAGO (Reuters) - The United States is poised to introduce stricter rules on the labeling of meat imports this week, a move that is likely to heat up a simmering trade dispute with Canada and Mexico.Created 2 minutes ago
Exclusive: EU says Chinese FTA possible, but wants market opening

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union is willing to deepen trade ties with China but wants to see concessions from Beijing first, documents seen by Reuters on Tuesday showed.Created 3 minutes ago
Intel CEO shakes up units, creates 'new devices' group

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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Intel Corp's new chief executive, Brian Krzanich, has launched a sweeping company reorganization and created a unit aimed at growing its market share in future mobile technologies.Created 5 minutes ago
World Bank boosts funds for Syria refugees, Africa



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GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Bank plans substantial new funds to help Jordan cope with the influx of refugees from the civil war in Syria, and hopes new funds for central Africa will cement a peace deal there, the bank's President Jim Yong Kim said on Tuesday.Created 6 minutes ago
U.S. court studies wiretaps in ex-Goldman director's insider case

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lawyers for former Goldman Sachs Group Inc board member Rajat Gupta sought to reverse his insider-trading conviction on Tuesday, arguing that wiretap evidence used by the prosecution should not have been introduced at trial.Created 17 minutes ago
EU leaders look to end Apple-style tax avoidance schemes

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BRUSSELS/PARIS (Reuters) - Growing concern in European capitals about aggressive tax avoidance by high-profile corporations such as Amazon, Google and Apple looks set to steal the agenda of a European Union summit in Brussels on Wednesday.Created 18 minutes ago
Exclusive: Wanxiang, VL Auto bid on Fisker; others eye DOE buyout

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DETROIT (Reuters) - A boutique carmaker led by former General Motors Co executive Bob Lutz and China's largest auto parts supplier made an offer to buy cash-strapped "green" car company Fisker Automotive this month, people familiar with the matter said.Created 19 minutes ago
IRS officials deny misleading Congress on targeting

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top Internal Revenue Service officials told Congress on Tuesday they were unaware of the agency's targeting of conservative groups for extra tax scrutiny until recently and did not deliberately mislead lawmakers last year when they did not reveal the practice.Created 21 minutes ago
PayPal to be in all RadioShack stores starting in May

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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - PayPal, the online payment operation owned by eBay Inc, announced a new partnership on Tuesday with RadioShack Corp that will introduce PayPal into all of the electronics retailer's stores starting this month.Created 24 minutes ago
World Bank to announce funds for Syria refugee influx

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GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Bank plans to announce substantial new funds to help Jordan cope with the influx of refugees from the civil war in neighbouring Syria, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim told Reuters on Tuesday.Created 30 minutes ago
Nigeria says to free all female Boko Haram suspects



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LAGOS, Nigeria, May 21 - Nigeria said on Tuesday it would free a number of detained Islamists, including all female ones, in what a senior security source called a move to build popular support for its offensive against Boko Haram militants entrenched in the north.Created 31 minutes ago
Jodi Arias tells Arizona jury she can be productive in prison if spared death

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PHOENIX (Reuters) - Convicted killer Jodi Arias testified on Tuesday that she can effect positive change in prison if jurors sentence her to a life term and spare her the death penalty for brutally killing her ex-boyfriend in Arizona five years ago.Created 33 minutes ago
Surgery offers mixed benefits for kids' sleep apnea



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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new study has confirmed that removing the tonsils and adenoids of children with obstructive sleep apnea can reduce sleepiness and improve the quality of life, but putting off the surgery might not hurt either.Created 34 minutes ago
Beckham junior trains with QPR academy

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LONDON (Reuters) - David Beckham's eldest son Brooklyn has trained at the junior academy of London club Queens Park Rangers and bookmakers are already offering short odds that the 14-year-old will emulate his father by playing for England.Created 37 minutes ago
Egyptian army blocks Sinai roads in hunt for kidnappers

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SHEIKH ZUWAID, Egypt (Reuters) - Egyptian army and police forces stepped up roadblocks in north Sinai in a hunt for militant Islamists who kidnapped seven security officers last week, a security source said on Tuesday.Created 46 minutes ago
H7N9 bird flu outbreak costs more than $6.5 billion so far -U.N

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GENEVA (Reuters) - The H7N9 bird flu outbreak in China has caused economic losses of more than $6.5 billion so far, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization's chief veterinary officer said on Tuesday.Created 49 minutes ago
Syrian foes move towards talks but fighting rages

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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's opposition and the government of President Bashar al-Assad seem to be preparing to take part in an international peace conference against a background of some of the worst fighting this year.Created 51 minutes ago
Rafsanjani, Ahmadinejad ally disqualified from Iran election: report

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DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's electoral watchdog has barred former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and a close aide to president Mahmoud Ahadinejad from running in the June 14 presidential election, state media reported on Tuesday.Created about an hour ago
Judge warns bin Laden's son-in-law on lawyer choices

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The son-in-law of Osama bin Laden and former spokesman for al Qaeda, who has pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiring to kill Americans, was warned on Tuesday that his three chosen lawyers may not get clearance to review classified evidence in the case.Created about an hour ago
Exclusive: Chinese supplier, VL Automotive bid for Fisker - sources

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DETROIT (Reuters) - A boutique carmaker led by a former General Motors Co executive Bob Lutz and China's largest auto parts supplier submitted an offer to buy cash-strapped "green" car company Fisker Automotive, people familiar with the matter said.Created about an hour ago
