By Lisandra Paraguassu and Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva drew criticism from the United States on Monday for his recent comments suggesting the West had been “encouraging” war by arming Ukraine, while he was praised by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov for his proposal for peace talks. Lavrov, on …
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(Reuters) -U.S. Ambassador to Russia Lynne Tracy on Monday said she had made her first visit to jailed Wall Street reporter Evan Gershkovich, who Moscow arrested two weeks ago on charges of spying. “He feels well and is holding up. We reiterate our call for Evan’s immediate release,” Tracy said in a statement in Russian …
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MADRID (Reuters) -A Spanish hospital has carried out a lung transplant using a pioneering technique with a robot and a new access route that no longer requires cutting through bone, experts said on Monday. Surgeons at Vall d’Hebron hospital in Barcelona used a four-armed robot dubbed “Da Vinci” to cut a small section of the …
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(Reuters) – Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp on Monday agreed to sell its stake in Tao Group Hospitality to realty-focused investment firm Mohari Hospitality in a deal that values the high-end restaurant business at $550 million. MSG Entertainment will receive about $300 million in net cash proceeds from the sale, which is expected to close …
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SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Aurubis AG, Europe’s largest copper smelter and producer, no longer buys the red metal from Russia after it let supply contracts lapse, its CEO told Reuters on Monday. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last year fueled a range of boycotts, sanctions and other measures against copper and other metals from the country. Aurubis, …
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By Martin Coulter and Supantha Mukherjee LONDON/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -EU lawmakers urged world leaders on Monday to hold a summit to find ways to control the development of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems such as ChatGPT, saying they were developing faster than expected. The 12 MEPs, all working on EU legislation on the technology, called on …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Commission has prolonged for five years rules giving the auto industry freer rein to conclude agreements with distributors, spare part retailers and repair garages, with a new emphasis on vehicle-generated data. The EU executive said on Monday that the Motor Vehicle Block Exemption Regulation (MVBER) would be applicable until May …
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By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) – Stock exchanges and asset managers have squared off ahead of European Union negotiations this week over how much information investors should be given to find the best deals on Europe’s fragmented stock markets. The European Parliament and EU states begin negotiations on Tuesday on finalising reform of the bloc’s …
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(Reuters) -Alphabet Inc shares fell as much as 4% on Monday following a report South Korea’s Samsung Electronics was considering replacing Google with Microsoft-owned Bing as the default search engine on its devices. The report, published by the New York Times over the weekend, underscores the growing challenges Google’s $162-billion-a-year search engine business face from …
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By Amanda Ferguson BELFAST (Reuters) – The architects of Northern Ireland’s 1998 peace deal urged the region’s leaders on Monday to find the courage to break a deep political stalemate, with former Irish prime minister Bertie Ahern warning the alternative did not bear thinking about. The 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, which largely …
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