By Ed Osmond HOYLAKE, England (Reuters) – England’s Tommy Fleetwood, South African amateur Christo Lamprecht and Argentine Emiliano Grillo shot first rounds of 66 to lead the British Open at a sun-kissed Hoylake on Thursday. Fleetwood, bidding to become the first Englishman to win the Open since Nick Faldo in 1992, picked up four birdies …
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By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Microsoft was hit with an EU antitrust complaint by German rival alfaview on Thursday, the second so far over its bundling of video app Teams into its Office product, as the bloc’s regulator prepares to investigate the U.S. tech giant. The U.S. software company has been on the EU …
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By Joseph White and Ben Klayman DETROIT (Reuters) – Detroit’s automakers and the United Auto Workers will not be alone as they begin bargaining this week over wages and working conditions that will govern the shift to electric vehicles over the next several years. Tesla CEO Elon Musk and the automaker’s increasingly profitable and efficient …
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By Akash Sriram and Aditya Soni (Reuters) -Elon Musk’s bet to sacrifice margins now for improved margins later when full self-driving software is completely integrated into Tesla cars failed to impress investors, sending the electric-vehicle maker’s shares down nearly 10% on Thursday. Musk, who has waged a price war against EV rivals since last year, …
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By William James and Iain Withers LONDON (Reuters) -Banks in Britain will be forced to explain and delay any decision to close an account under new rules announced by the finance ministry on Thursday. The government has been looking into concerns that banks are blacklisting certain customers over their political views, after individuals including leading …
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By Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) -A billionaire ally of Russian businessman Roman Abramovich on Thursday accused Britain of trying to force him to publicly condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, as he asked London’s High Court to overturn British sanctions imposed on him. Eugene Shvidler, whose net worth is estimated by Forbes magazine at $1.6 billion, …
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By Peter Hall MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) -A sensational 189 from Zak Crawley, the highest score by an Englishman in a home Ashes clash in 26 years, helped the hosts post 384-4 to storm past Australia’s first innings total and lead by 67 after a remarkable day two of the fourth test. With rain forecast over …
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By Viktoria Lakezina MYKOLAIV, Ukraine (Reuters) -At least three people were killed and a Chinese consular building was damaged on Thursday in a third successive night of air strikes on southern Ukrainian port cities, Ukrainian officials said. Regional governor Oleh Kiper posted a photograph showing at least one broken window at the Chinese consulate in …
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By Alexander Marrow (Reuters) -Britain removed sanctions on serial entrepreneur Oleg Tinkov on Thursday, days after an appeal by British billionaire Richard Branson and nine months after Tinkov, critical of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, renounced his Russian citizenship. Britain sanctioned Tinkov, the founder of digital bank Tinkoff, a month after Russia invaded Ukraine in February …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union said on Thursday it was imposing restrictive measures against 18 individuals and 5 entities for human rights violations in Afghanistan, South Sudan, Central African Republic, Ukraine and Russia. The Taliban ministers of Education and Justice as well as the acting Taliban Chief Justice of the Afghanistan Supreme Court are …
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