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Ex-student shoots dead 3 children, 3 adults at Tennessee Christian school

By Kevin Wurm NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) -A heavily armed 28-year-old fatally shot three children and three adult staffers on Monday at a private Christian school the suspect once attended in Tennessee’s capital city before police killed the assailant, authorities said. The motive was not immediately known, but the suspect had drawn detailed maps of the …

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We will have our own green vision to rival US, says Britain’s Labour

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s opposition Labour Party would bring in its own version of Washington’s $369 billion Inflation Reduction Act of green subsidies to spur jobs and make the future “made in Britain” if it came to power, its environment policy chief said on Tuesday. Ed Miliband is the latest member of Labour’s top team …

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A Christian school that ‘celebrates childhood’ becomes killing scene in Nashville

By Sharon Bernstein (Reuters) -The 200 young children enrolled at the Covenant School, a private Christian elementary school in Nashville, Tennessee, start each day with chapel and study the Bible twice a week. “The beauty of a PreSchool-6th school is in its simplicity and innocence,” the introductory paragraph of the school’s website reads. “Students are …

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UK’s Bellway to buy back shares, hike social housing output

By Aby Jose Koilparambil (Reuters) -UK’s Bellway will build a bigger share of homes in its social housing programme this fiscal year, its chief said on Tuesday, after the housebuilder announced a 100 million pound ($123.1 million) share buyback despite a fall in interim profit. A recent uptick in buyer sentiment has not entirely allayed …

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Only verified accounts can vote in Twitter polls from April 15, says Musk

(Reuters) – Elon Musk said on Monday only verified Twitter accounts would be eligible to vote in polls starting April 15, a move that the social media company’s CEO believes will address advanced AI bot swarms. Musk also said only verified accounts will be eligible to be in Twitter’s For You recommendations, which displays a …

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Silicon Valley Bank deal offers beleaguered banking investors relief

By Susan Mathew, Amruta Khandekar and Pete Schroeder (Reuters) – Regional U.S. lender First Citizens BancShares scooped up the assets of failed peer Silicon Valley Bank on Monday, in a vote of confidence for the battered banking sector that prompted a rally in bank shares. SVB’s collapse this month was the trigger for the worst …

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U.S. backstops Silicon Valley Bank sale to First Citizens

By Scott Murdoch and Mehnaz Yasmin (Reuters) – U.S. regulators said on Monday they would backstop a deal for regional lender First Citizens BancShares to acquire failed Silicon Valley Bank, triggering an estimated $20 billion hit to a government-run insurance fund. The deal comes after the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) took over Silicon Valley …

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Nvidia shows new research on using AI to improve chip designs

By Stephen Nellis (Reuters) – Nvidia Corp, the world’s leading designer of computer chips used in creating artificial intelligence, on Monday showed new research that explains how AI can be used to improve chip design. The process of designing a chip involves deciding where to place tens of billions of tiny on-off switches called transistors …

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Ukraine shuts ‘post-apocalyptic’ battlefield town to civilians

By Dan Peleschuk KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine shut the eastern town of Avdiivka to non-military personnel on Monday, describing it as a post-apocalyptic wasteland, as Kyiv tried to break the back of Russia’s flagging winter offensive before a counter-assault of its own. A Ukrainian general said Kyiv was planning its next move after Moscow appeared …

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UK oil, gas firms to leave year’s worth of output in ground with tax hikes-report

LONDON (Reuters) – Windfall taxes mean oil and gas producers in the British North Sea will likely leave 500 million barrels of oil equivalent in the ground over the next decade, the equivalent of one year’s output in the ageing basin, industry group OEUK said on Tuesday. Over the past year, Britain has introduced windfall …

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