(Reuters) – Twitter users will be able to appeal account suspensions and be evaluated under the social media platform’s new criteria for reinstatement, starting Feb. 1, the company said on Friday. Under the new criteria, which follow billionaire Elon Musk’s purchase of the company in October, Twitter accounts will only be suspended for severe or …
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By Hyunjoo Jin and Jody Godoy SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The board chair of Tesla Inc defended CEO Elon Musk in a securities fraud trial on Friday, telling jurors that she would have quit as a director if she had thought Musk lied by tweeting in 2018 that he had “funding secured” to take Tesla …
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(Reuters) -Credit ratings agency S&P on Friday cut Hungary’s long- and short-term foreign and local currency ratings to ‘BBB-/A-3’ from ‘BBB/A-2’, citing persistently high inflation and external pressures. An economic slowdown, surging energy bill and suspension of most European Union funds Hungary is entitled to are pressuring state finances, while the central bank interest rates …
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By Kayon Raynor KINGSTON (Reuters) – World 100 and 200 metres record holder Usain Bolt said on Friday that it was a “stressful situation” trying to recover more than $12.7 million that has disappeared from his account with a Jamaican investment firm. The 36-year-old Bolt earlier this month was informed that his account balance at …
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By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The European Union wants a deal quickly with the United States to resolve a dispute over U.S. electric vehicle tax credits, but the EU must pursue its own green technology subsidies to keep investment at home, EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton said on Friday. Breton, in Washington to …
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(Reuters) – UK’s levelling-up minister Michael Gove is set to close a deal worth 5 billion pounds ($6.20 billion) with housebuilders including Barratt Developments and Persimmon to help resolve the national cladding crisis exposed by the 2017 Grenfell Tower disaster, Sky News reported on Friday. ($1 = 0.8066 pounds) (Reporting by Baranjot Kaur in Bengaluru; …
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By Suzanne Smalley WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States and European Union on Friday announced an agreement to speed up and enhance the use of artificial intelligence to improve agriculture, healthcare, emergency response, climate forecasting and the electric grid. A senior U.S. administration official, discussing the initiative shortly before the official announcement, called it the first …
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LONDON (Reuters) -British finance minister Jeremy Hunt said on Friday that he aims to prioritise tax cuts for businesses once there is room in the public finances to do so. “As soon as we have the headroom, I want to bring down taxes,” Hunt said in an interview for Saturday’s edition of The Times newspaper. …
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By Nia Williams and Sudip Kar-Gupta (Reuters) -France’s TotalEnergies will buy an extra stake in western Canada’s Fort Hills oil sands mine from Teck Resources, the companies said on Friday, leaving partner Suncor Energy with a smaller slice than planned in a project that has struggled with operational challenges. Suncor announced in October an agreement …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – Morgan Stanley’s infrastructure investment arm informed the board of German renewables firm PNE AG that it is no longer pursuing talks with potential buyers of Photon’s PNE stake, PNE said in an adhoc statement on Friday. Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners (MSIP) which acquired the PNE stake following a failed takeover attempt in …
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