By David Milliken
LONDON (Reuters) -British consumer sentiment had a marked fall for the first time in nearly three years last month, reflecting increased worries about job security, a Deloitte survey showed on Monday.
Deloitte said its consumer confidence index dropped by 2.6 percentage points to 10.4% in the second quarter, its lowest since the first quarter of 2024.
The fall was the first since the third quarter of 2022 -... (continue reading...)
(Reuters) -Abacus Storage King has granted the consortium comprising Ki Corporation and Public Storage access to examine the company's books and records for six weeks to evaluate its A$2.17 billion ($1.41 billion) binding acquisition proposal.
The consortium earlier in this month raised its bid to A$1.65 per share for the Australian self-storage firm.
Abacus Storage in May rejected the group's earlier offer, citing risks surrounding... (continue reading...)
By Daniel Trotta
(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump threatened on Sunday to interfere with a deal to build a new football stadium in Washington, D.C., unless the local NFL team, now known as the Commanders, changes its name back to Redskins.
The American football team dropped the name Redskins in 2020 after decades of criticism that it was a racial slur with links to the U.S. genocide of the Indigenous population.
Trump had... (continue reading...)
QUITO (Reuters) -Ecuadorean gang leader Jose Adolfo Macias Villamar, known as "Fito," is set to appear in U.S. federal court on Monday, where he will plead not guilty to international charges of drug and weapons trafficking, his lawyer said.
Macias, the leader of the Los Choneros gang, was taken out of prison in Ecuador earlier on Sunday to be handed over to U.S. authorities.
The U.S. and Ecuadorean governments have not confirmed his... (continue reading...)
QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) -Pakistan on Sunday arrested a suspect after a video emerged on social media of a woman and a man being shot and killed for marrying against the wishes of their families, in a so-called honour killing, authorities said.
The couple, who were not identified, were shot dead on the orders of a local tribal council last month in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province, according to provincial authorities, who investigated after... (continue reading...)
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