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By Nandita Bose and Trevor Hunnicutt, Reuters Vice President Kamala Harris will make the most important speech of her political life on Friday when she accepts the Democratic Party's nomination for president a month after the party forced President Joe Biden to exit the race. Harris' own presidential ambitions were always clear, but had been undermined by her own shaky 2020 campaign and bumpy vice presidential term. Since being thrust to the top of the ticket, she has tightened the race against Republican Donald Trump. Her forceful stump speeches have been met by a surge in enthusiasm from voters. If Harris wins on 5 November, she will be the first Black, South Asian woman elected president. Photo: Brett Johnsen/NurPhoto/AFP In her speech Harris, 59, plans to talk about her life a...

By Matteo Negri for Reuters Divers return to shore in Porticello harbour near Palermo with one of the bodies recovered from the yacht that sank on Monday. Photo: AFP A series of "indescribable, unreasonable errors" by the crew led to the shipwreck in which British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch and six others died earlier this week, the yacht manufacturer's chief executive has told Reuters . The British-flagged Bayesian, a 56-metre-long superyacht with 22 people aboard - 12 passengers and 10 crew - capsized and sank within minutes of being hit by a pre-dawn storm while anchored off the coast of northern Sicily. "The boat suffered a series of indescribable, unreasonable errors, the impossible happened on that boat ... but it went down because it took on water. From where, the investiga...

Shein said in the report it had suspended orders from the suppliers that had employed children under 16. Photo: Costfoto/NurPhoto By Helen Reid, Reuters Fast fashion retailer Shein found two cases of child labour at its suppliers last year, it said in its 2023 sustainability report, as it stepped up audits of manufacturers in China to assuage criticisms of its low-cost business model ahead of a planned flotation. Shein said in the report it had suspended orders from the suppliers that had employed children under 16, sourcing from them again only after they had strengthened their processes, including checking workers' identity documents. The company said both cases had been "resolved swiftly", with remediation steps including ending underage employees' contracts, arranging medical checku...

Internet personality Andrew Tate put under house arrest. Photo: AFP / Daniel Mihailescu By Octav Ganea, Reuters A Romanian court has ordered internet personality Andrew Tate to be placed under house arrest, his representative said, after he was among six people taken into custody in an investigation into human trafficking and sexual exploitation. The former professional kickboxer and his brother Tristan were among six people detained on Wednesday for an initial 24 hours after Romania's anti-organised crime prosecuting unit DIICOT conducted four home searches in Ilfov county and the Bucharest municipality. DIICOT asked the Bucharest court to arrest the Tate brothers for 30 days, but the judge decided to place Andrew Tate under house arrest and Tristan under judiciary control for that pe...

British tech magnate Mike Lynch. Photo: AFP / Pool / Ben Gurr The body of British tech magnate Mike Lynch was retrieved on Thursday from the wreck of his family yacht that sank earlier this week off the coast of Sicily during a violent tempest, a source close to the rescue operation said. His body was brought ashore in a blue body bag and driven in an ambulance to a nearby hospital morgue. Lynch's 18-year daughter Hannah is still unaccounted for, the source said. The bodies of the other four people who vanished when the boat went down were recovered from the yacht on Wednesday. The British-flagged Bayesian, a 56-metre-long superyacht carrying 22 passengers and crew, was anchored off the port of Porticello, near Palermo, when it disappeared beneath the waves in a matter of minutes after ...