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A Michigan prosecutor said a charge of second-degree murder was filed on Thursday against a white police officer who fatally shot a Black man during a traffic stop in Grand Rapids two months ago.

A Michigan prosecutor on Thursday will announce whether a white police officer will face criminal charges for shooting and killing a Black man during a traffic stop in Grand Rapids two months ago.

After 32 years in and out of prison for a variety of convictions, Kevin Fisk is trying to get his life on track.

A U.S. judge on Thursday said that the U.S. Justice Department's antitrust lawsuit against American Airlines Group Inc and JetBlue Airways Corp would go forward.

Blatter: Platini payment was 'gentleman's agreement'

Walt Disney Co Chief Executive Bob Chapek announced a major leadership shift on Thursday, promoting Dana Walden to chairman of general entertainment content as the company works to build its streaming television efforts.

Somalia president urges global community to help avert famine

The U.S. House of Representatives will weigh legislation next week to boost security for Supreme Court justices, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday, one day after an armed man was arrested near Brett Kavanaugh's home and charged with attempted murder.

Dozens treated in Chile for suspected pollutant exposure

Beijing has given tentative approval for Ant Group to revive its initial public offering (IPO) in Shanghai and Hong Kong, two sources told Reuters on Thursday, the biggest sign yet of a cooling of Beijing's tough stance on the technology sector.

PGA Tour bans LIV Golf rebels as new series launches

China's central leadership has given a tentative green light to Jack Ma's Ant Group to revive its initial public offering in Shanghai and Hong Kong, two sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Thursday.

Berlin car-ramming driver mentally ill: prosecutors

The International Monetary Fund expects to further cut its forecast for global economic growth in 2022 next month, an IMF spokesperson said on Thursday, following moves by the World Bank and Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to cut their own forecasts this week.

A panel of experts drafted by the World Health Organization to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and prepare a framework to investigate future outbreaks has published its first report.

The PGA Tour suspended longtime fan favourite Phil Mickelson and all other members who decided to join the Saudi-backed LIV Golf Invitational Series that began on Thursday and said anyone else who makes the jump will face the same fate.

The PGA Tour has suspended all current and future players who have decided to join the Saudi-backed LIV Golf Invitational Series that began on Thursday.

The battle for Sievierodonetsk is being waged house to house as Ukrainian fighters hope for the delivery of heavy weapons that might "turn the tide," a Ukrainian commander said on Thursday.

Brazilian police investigating the disappearance of a British journalist and an indigenous expert in the Amazon rainforest are focusing on people involved in illegal fishing and poaching in indigenous lands, three officers told Reuters.

Hot inflation is the Bank of Canada's primary focus as it raises interest rates, a senior central bank official told Reuters on Thursday, making it clear that the bank was willing to accept a housing market correction in order to curb consumer price gains.

Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem on Thursday said inflation would dictate how fast interest rates go up, reiterating that the bank might need to make more increases in a row or consider a move larger than 50 basis points.

The Bank of Canada on Thursday said the country's financial system faced an increased risk from highly indebted households, notably the rising number of people who have stretched to buy homes at elevated prices and are now vulnerable to rate hikes.

By David LjunggrenOTTAWA - Some Canadians who took out mortgages in 2020-21 could see their monthly payments jump by as much as 45% in 2025-26, given rising rates, according to a Bank of Canada scenario released on Thursday.

The World Health Organization said on Thursday its latest investigation into the origins of COVID-19 was inconclusive, largely because data from China is missing, another blow to its years-long effort to determine how the pandemic began.

Brazil's government on Thursday night moved forward with its bid to privatize Eletrobras, Latin America's largest utility, as the share offering through which its stake in the company is set to be diluted was priced.

Some 1,000 SAS pilots in Denmark, Norway and Sweden could go on strike from late June over disagreements on wages and ways to cut costs at the struggling Nordic airline, labour unions said, drawing a sharp rebuke from the company.

The EMEA Credit Derivatives Determinations Committee said on Thursday it was deferring a decision over how to hold a potential auction on Russian credit default swaps (CDS) following an update on U.S.

Top Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny will remain in prison as long as Vladimir Putin is in power and Russia's opposition and Ukraine share a "common enemy" in the Russian president, one of Navalny's top lieutenants said.

Biden faces discord at Americas summit