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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia’s Defence Ministry said on Friday that its Black Sea Fleet had practised firing rockets at surface targets in a live fire exercise, two days after it warned that ships heading to Ukraine’s Black Sea ports could be considered military targets. Russia issued its warning earlier this week after it quit the Black …

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By Shubham Kalia and Gokul Pisharody (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors have accused FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried of witness tampering and asked a federal judge to issue an order that would bar the former billionaire and other parties from making public statements likely to interfere with a fair trial. The prosecutors wrote to U.S. District Judge …

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By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Hackers and propagandists are wielding artificial intelligence (AI) to create malicious software, draft convincing phishing emails and spread disinformation online, Canada’s top cybersecurity official told Reuters, early evidence that the technological revolution sweeping Silicon Valley has also been adopted by cybercriminals. In an interview this week, Canadian Centre for …

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By Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska KOLPIN-OGRODNIKI, Poland (Reuters) – People living near Poland’s border with Belarus said on Thursday they could hear shooting and helicopters after Russia’s Wagner Group arrived to train Belarusian special forces just a few miles from the frontier, compounding their fears the Ukraine war would reach them. Agata Moroz, the 56-year-old village mayor …

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By Michel Rose PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday reshuffled his ministers for key domestic portfolios such as education, housing and urban affairs, as his government begins its response to riots that shook the country three weeks ago. Macron has struggled to relaunch his second term in office, which has been plagued by …

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(Reuters) – The US Federal Trade Commission is poised to pause its in-house trial against Microsoft Corp’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard opening the door to potential settlement talks, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday. Microsoft and FTC did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment. (Reporting by Mrinmay Dey in Bengaluru; Editing by …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S.-supplied cluster munitions are in Ukrainian hands and being deployed in the field as part of Kyiv’s battle against Russia, White House national security spokesman John Kirby said on Thursday. “We have gotten some initial feedback from the Ukrainians, and they’re using them quite effectively,” Kirby said at a news briefing. Kirby …

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