Morning Digest: Gaza humanitarian truce goes into force, hours after tunnel clash

	Click to View in Browser 07/17/2014 Gaza humanitarian truce goes into force, hours after tunnel clash GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Palestinians rushed to shops and banks on Thursday as a five-hour humanitarian truce agreed by Israel and Hamas came into force, hours after the Israeli military said it had fought off gunmen who infiltrated from Gaza.. New U.S. sanctions over Ukraine crisis hit Russia's top firms WASHINGTON/MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Barack Obama imposed sanctions on some of Russia's biggest firms for the first time, striking at the heart of Vladimir Putin's powerbase by targeting companies closest to him over Moscow's failure to curb violence in Ukraine.. Exclusive: GM recalls some cars with problematic switches; judges others safe DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Co last month recalled millions of vehicles with three different designs of ignition switches that could accidentally turn off the engine and disable air bags in a crash. But the automaker has concluded that more than 2 million other vehicles having exactly the same switches are safe.. Stevie Wonder blends hits at Montreux for Quincy Jones MONTREUX Switzerland (Reuters) - Motown legend Stevie Wonder gave a soulful two-hour concert at the Montreux Jazz Festival on Wednesday night, blending his hits with covers of the Beatles and Michael Jackson for an audience that included producer Quincy Jones.. Ailing Talansky becomes latest Tour de France casualty (Reuters) - Severe back pain, two crashes and a chest infection forced American Andrew Talansky to become the latest top rider to abandon the Tour de France on Thursday.. Microsoft starts taking EU 'right to be forgotten' requests SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp on Wednesday started taking requests from individuals in Europe who want to be removed from its Bing search engine results following a court judgment in May guaranteeing the "right to be forgotten.". Commercial U.S. cargo ship reaches space station CAPE CANAVERAL Fla. (Reuters) - An Orbital Sciences Corp cargo ship reached the International Space Station on Wednesday with a delivery of food, supplies, science experiments and a fleet of tiny Earth-imaging satellites that will be launched from the orbital outpost.. Plane's near-miss in Alaska becomes a whale of a tale online JUNEAU Alaska (Reuters) - A dramatic video of a sea plane just missing a surfacing humpback whale as it came in to land in Alaska has become a hit online, and the man who shot it says it was blind luck.. Related Video Obama reveals sanctions on Russia while pushing diplomacy elsewhere Assad: foreign states will pay for supporting "terrorism" Great Debate As Israel attacks Gaza, Jews elsewhere feel an impact Dual-share inequity to figure in Time Warner fight A daily digest of breaking business news, coverage of the US economy, major corporate news and the financial markets. Register Today   The latest Reuters articles on M&A, IPOs, private equity, hedge funds and regulatory updates delivered to your inbox each day. Register Today   » MORE NEWSLETTERS - 3 Times Square New York, NY 10036 USA © Copyright 2010 Thomson Reuters Ensure delivery of Reuters Newsmails, add mail@nl.reuters.com to your address book. Details Subscribe to other Reuters newsletters. Unsubscribe from this newsletter. Follow us on Twitter Friend us on Facebook Forward to a friend