By Susan Heavey and Rami Ayyub WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Elon Musk, Twitter’s new owner, urged Americans to elect a Republican Congress in U.S. midterms on Tuesday to counterbalance President Joe Biden’s Democrats, the first time a major social media CEO explicitly took a side. “Shared power curbs the worst excesses of both parties, therefore I recommend …
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(Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy made a pitch for closer security ties with Israel on Monday, saying both countries faced similar threats. “I think it is clear to everyone what Ukraine emphasizes and the security emphasis of Israel,” Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address after a conversation with Benjamin Netanyahu, the winner in …
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ATHENS (Reuters) -Greece will soon ban the sale of spyware, the conservative government said on Monday, after a newspaper report that more than 30 people, including ministers and business people, had been under state surveillance via phone malware. A list of persons whose phones were allegedly infected with the Predator malware was published on Sunday …
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By Kate Abnett and Virginia Furness SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) -Germany and Belgium on Monday joined a small number of wealthy countries to commit funding to help developing nations facing damage and losses caused by climate change, committing 170 million euros and 2.5 million euros respectively. While relatively small in size, the funds were symbolically …
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By Thomas Escritt BERLIN (Reuters) -With Twitter in disarray since the world’s richest person took control of it last week, Mastodon, a decentralised, open alternative from privacy-obsessed Germany, has seen a flood of new users. “The bird is free,” tweeted Tesla mogul Elon Musk when he completed his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter. But many …
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By Simon Jessop and Jake Spring SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) -More than 25 countries at the COP27 climate talks on Monday launched a group they said would ensure they hold each other accountable for a pledge to end deforestation by 2030 and announced billions of dollars to finance their efforts. The first meeting of the …
By Tom Hals and Hyunjoo Jin WILMINGTON, Del. (Reuters) – As Elon Musk is engulfed in his overhaul of Twitter, the entrepreneur is headed to trial to defend his record $56 billion Tesla Inc pay package against claims it unjustly enriches him without requiring his full-time presence at the carmaker. A Tesla shareholder is seeking …
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By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -A Palestinian human rights group told a U.N. panel on Monday it had been subject to threats and “mafia methods” during a campaign of harassment organised by Israel to silence groups documenting alleged Israeli rights violations. Israel dismissed the process overseen by the panel as a sham while it declined …
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MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish police launched 86 tear gas projectiles to repel migrants trying to break from Morocco into the enclave of Melilla in June, according to a lawmaker taking part in an inquiry into the tragic events that left at least 23 dead. Both Morocco and Spain have denied using excessive force and Moroccan …
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By Hyonhee Shin and Josh Smith SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea said on Monday that its recent missile launches were simulated strikes on South Korea and the United States as the two countries held a “dangerous war drill”, while the South said it had recovered parts of a North Korean missile near its coast. Last week, …
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