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LONDON (Reuters) - Global shipping companies are exploring ways to boost safety in transporting cargoes as risks grow from fires erupting inside containers or in cars at sea, officials said on Wednesd...

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea launched a task force on Wednesday to study ways to improve business practices and pay schemes at banks, days after the country's president called on lenders to help curb...

By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - Seattle became the first U.S. city to outlaw caste discrimination on Tuesday, after its local council voted to add caste to the city's anti-discrimination laws. The move ...

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The remains of 28 human bodies buried at least four hundred years ago in Mexico indicate the comingling of pre-Hispanic and Catholic cultures that Spanish colonizers introduced...

PEORIA, Ill. – A grand jury in Peoria County filed charges in a number of cases during their weekly meeting Tuesday. The grand jury charged Val Burks (pictured above), 30, three times with False...

By Karen Freifeld (Reuters) - The House Foreign Affairs Committee will hold a hearing next Tuesday with top officials on China policy to identify gaps in pursuing what it called a "more holistic appro...

By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) - A Texas federal judge on Tuesday refused to set an accelerated trial schedule for a lawsuit by anti-abortion groups seeking to end U.S. sales of the abortion pill mifepr...

By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) - Big manufacturers in Japan remained gloomy in February and the service-sector mood slid for a second straight month, a Reuters' poll showed, a sign that the glob...

By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - Societe Generale SA agreed to pay $157 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the French bank and several other banks of contributing to imprisoned Ponzi schemer Allen St...

(Reuters) - Telecom Italia (TIM) said on Tuesday U.S. fund KKR & Co Inc has extended the non-binding offer for its prized landline grid by four weeks to March 24 following a government request. TIM sa...