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MILAN (Reuters) -Italy’s data protection agency on Wednesday set an end-April deadline for OpenAI to meet its demands on data protection and privacy in order for its artificial intelligence ChatGPT chatbot service to be resumed in the country. On March 31, Microsoft Corp-backed OpenAI took ChatGPT offline in Italy after the agency, known as Garante, …

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Eva Kaili, the former European Parliament vice president accused of corruption, is to be released from custody, while still facing charges, federal prosecutors and her lawyer’s office said on Wednesday. The 44-year-old Greek Socialist is accused of accepting bribes from Qatar in one of the biggest corruption scandals to hit European Union …

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The United States and the European Union need to produce clear results next month from their forum on trade and technology and forge closer ties on green products and technology, European Trade Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis said on Wednesday. Sweden will host a fourth ministerial-level meeting of the Trade and Technology Council (TTC) …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Donald Trump accused Emmanuel Macron of pandering to China leader Xi Jinping during the French president’s recent closely watched visit to Beijing. Trump, who seeks to regain the White House in 2024, forged an adversarial relationship with China during his presidency even as he called Xi his “very good …

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By Emma Pinedo MADRID (Reuters) – A plan to legalise irrigation around the Donana wildlife reserve in southern Spain, one of Europe’s largest wetlands and a wintering location for migratory birds, has sparked an outcry in during a prolonged drought. Andalusia’s conservative regional government wants to allow agricultural irrigation in five municipalities around Donana, saying the …

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(Reuters) -Euro zone banks bolstered their capital buffers and cut their bad debts in the final quarter of 2022, while higher interest rates boosted lending margins, European Central Bank data showed on Wednesday. Euro zone banks avoided being caught up in last month’s global banking volatility, showing the benefits of building up capital strength, while …

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BELFAST (Reuters) -The leader of Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) said U.S. President Joe Biden’s visit to Northern Ireland will not change his party’s more than year-long boycott of the region’s power-sharing government. “It doesn’t change the political dynamic in Northern Ireland. We know what needs to happen,” Donaldson told reporters when asked if …

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LONDON (Reuters) – The Scottish Government on Wednesday said it would seek a judicial review of the British government’s decision to block a proposed Scottish law that makes it easier for people to change their legal gender. In January, the British government said it would block the Gender Recognition Reform Bill passed by the Scotland’s …

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(Reuters) – Deutsche Bank is winding down its remaining software technology centres in Russia’s Moscow and St Petersburg as the German lender looks to end its two decades of reliance on Russian IT expertise, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. (Reporting by Kanjyik Ghosh in Bengaluru; Editing by Jacqueline Wong)