By Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Dan Caine may not have been on Washington's radar before Friday night. But President Donald Trump's fascination with the retired three-star general, his surprise pick to become the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, appears to go back to their first meeting in Iraq in 2018. Caine, then the deputy commander of a special operations task ...
By Sarah N. Lynch and Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump will name newly confirmed FBI Director Kash Patel as the acting head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Saturday. Patel, a Trump loyalist, will run the FBI, the nation's most prominent law enforcement agency, at a time of growing upheaval ...
By Melanie Burton MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia on Thursday allocated A$1 billion ($636 million) to a fund that will support the manufacture of green iron and its supply chains, including an initial A$500 million to bail out the Whyalla steelworks in South Australia. On Wednesday, South Australia's premier put Whyalla, one of the country's two steel plants, into administration for unpaid bills ...
BEIJING (Reuters) -Chinese technology company Lenovo reported a 20% rise in third-quarter revenue on Thursday, as the global personal computer industry showed modest signs of recovery. Lenovo, the world's largest PC maker, reported revenue of $18.8 billion for the quarter ended December 31. That exceeded analysts' expectations of $17.82 billion, LSEG data showed. The company's net profit came i ...