By Guy Faulconbridge and Vladimir Soldatkin MOSCOW (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that any further mobilisation would depend on what Russia wanted to achieve in the war in Ukraine, adding that he faced a question only he could answer – should Russia try to take Kyiv again? More than 15 months since Putin …
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By Stephen Nellis SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Amazon Web Services, the world’s largest cloud computing provider, is considering using new artificial intelligence chips from Advanced Micro Devices Inc, though it has not made a final decision, an AWS executive told Reuters. The remarks came during an AMD event where the chip company outlined its strategy …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. judge late on Tuesday granted the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) request to temporarily block Microsoft Corp’s acquisition of video game maker Activision Blizzard and set a hearing next week. U.S. District Judge Edward Davila scheduled a two-day evidentiary hearing on the FTC’s request for a preliminary injunction for …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Three guests at the White House’s Pride party on Saturday have been banned from future events after going topless on the South Lawn, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Tuesday. “The behavior was simply unacceptable. We’ve been very clear about that. It was unfair to the hundreds of attendees who were there to …
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said she will step down on Friday to pursue the ruling party’s candidacy for the 2024 presidential election, bidding to become the country’s first female leader. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s leftist National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) on Sunday agreed that on Sept. 6 it would announce the …
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By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) – The Biden administration on Monday finalized a deal to preserve the federal mandate requiring U.S. health insurers to cover preventive care like cancer screenings and HIV-preventing medication at no extra cost to patients while a legal challenge continues. The agreement, first disclosed on Friday and now finalized in a filing …
OTTAWA (Reuters) – A Canadian Supreme Court judge being probed for alleged involvement in a drunken fight resigned on Monday, marking the first time a member of the top court has resigned amid questions of misconduct. Russell Brown, appointed to the nine-judge court in August 2015, had stepped aside in February after reports emerged of …
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By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – An Oregon jury on Monday found the utility PacifiCorp, a unit of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc, liable in a $1.6 billion class action lawsuit over four of the wildfires that devastated the state in 2020. Jurors in Portland, where PacifiCorp is based, awarded more than $73 million of compensatory …
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By Luis Jaime Acosta BOGOTA (Reuters) – Four children from an Indigenous community in Colombia were found alive in the country’s south on Friday more than five weeks after the plane they were traveling in crashed in thick jungle, Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro said. The siblings were rescued by the military near the border between …
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By Shrivathsa Sridhar PARIS (Reuters) -Poland’s Iga Swiatek continued her dominance on Parisian clay with a third French Open crown in the last four years, defeating unseeded Czech Karolina Muchova 6-2 5-7 6-4 in a thrilling final to capture her fourth Grand Slam title on Saturday. Swiatek has now lost only two out of 26 …
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