By Leonardo Benassatto CANOAS, Brazil (Reuters) -Rains returned to Rio Grande do Sul on Friday as the death toll from historic floods in Brazil’s southernmost state reached 113, with 146 people still unaccounted for, local authorities said. The heavy rainfall, linked to this year’s strong El Niño current meeting other weather fronts caused several rivers …
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By Anna Tong (Reuters) -OpenAI plans to announce its artificial intelligence-powered search product on Monday, according to two sources familiar with the matter, raising the stakes in its competition with search king Google. The announcement date, though subject to change, has not been previously reported. Bloomberg and the Information have reported that Microsoft-backed OpenAI is …
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By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israelis are ready to fight with their “fingernails”, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday in a thinly veiled rebuff to U.S. President Joe Biden’s warning that arms supplies could be withheld over a planned operation in Gaza. Israel’s long-threatened move against Rafah, where it says thousands of Hamas fighters …
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By Dave Graham ZURICH (Reuters) – An upcoming Ukraine peace summit, ostensibly the most ambitious bid in years by neutral Switzerland to mediate a major conflict, is instead showing how Swiss economic and security interests increasingly align with Western Europe over Russia. This is the view of both Swiss advocates of closer cooperation with Western …
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By Jonathan Landay and Arshad Mohammed WASHINGTON (Reuters) – It was “unacceptable” that the U.S. decision to withhold some weapons from Israel became public while the two governments still were discussing Israel’s planned offensive into the Gaza city of Rafah, the Israeli envoy to Washington said on Thursday. The U.S. pause on some arms supplies …
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By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Billions of dollars worth of U.S. weaponry remains in the pipeline for Israel, despite the delay of one shipment of bombs and a review of others by President Joe Biden’s administration, concerned their use in an assault could wreak more devastation on Palestinian civilians. A senior U.S. official said …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump vowed to reverse dozens of the Biden administration’s environmental rules and policies at a meeting with top U.S. oil executives, where he also asked them to raise $1 billion for his presidential campaign, the Washington Post reported on Thursday. The Post, citing unidentified sources familiar with the meeting …
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By Jarrett Renshaw (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Wednesday publicly warned Israel for the first time that the U.S. would stop supplying it weapons if Israeli forces make a major invasion of Rafah, a refugee-packed city in southern Gaza. “I made it clear that if they go into Rafah …, I’m not supplying the weapons …
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By David Lawder and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden’s bid to draw Vietnam closer as a strategic ally will clash head-on with his desire for union workers’ votes on Wednesday as the Commerce Department hears testimony on whether to designate Vietnam as a “market economy”. The move, opposed by U.S. steelmakers …
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By Gleb Garanich and Anastasiia Malenko KYIV (Reuters) – Russian missiles and drones struck nearly a dozen Ukrainian critical infrastructure facilities in a major airstrike early on Wednesday, causing serious damage at three Soviet-era thermal power plants, Kyiv officials said. The air force said it shot down 39 of 55 missiles and 20 out of …
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