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(Reuters) – Batsman Jason Roy has given up his incremental contract with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) to play in the inaugural edition of the United States’ new Twenty20 tournament – Major League Cricket (MLC). Roy, who was an integral part of the England side which won the 2019 one-day World Cup, was …

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By Johann M Cherian and Shashwat Chauhan (Reuters) – UK shares extended losses on Thursday, hit by concerns about further monetary tightening by the Bank of England (BoE), while lower oil prices pulled down energy stocks. The blue-chip FTSE 100 fell 0.7%, briefly touching a fresh eight-week low intraday. Both FTSE indices fell sharply on …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s most powerful mercenary on Thursday said he was sending back the bodies of a U.S. citizen who was killed in fighting in the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut and that of a Turkish citizen who was found dead in a blown up building. Mercenaries from Russia’s Wagner Group were shown in a …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday said it had summoned the ambassadors of Germany, Sweden and Denmark to protest over what it said was the “complete lack of results” in an investigation to identify who blew up the Nord Stream gas pipelines last year. Several unexplained underwater explosions ruptured the Nord Stream 1 and …

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MADRID (Reuters) – Killer whales severely damaged a sailing boat off the coast of southern Spain, the local maritime rescue service said on Thursday, adding to dozens of orca attacks on vessels recorded so far this year on Spanish and Portuguese coasts. In the early hours of Thursday, a group of orcas broke the rudder …

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FRANKFURT/LONDON (Reuters) – Allianz and AXA on Thursday became the latest insurers to quit a global climate alliance that is holding crunch talks to decide its future in the face of growing political opposition in the United States. Of the eight founding members of the Net-Zero Insurance Alliance (NZIA), which launched in 2021, at least …

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By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Europe’s artificial intelligence (AI) rules are not for negotiation, EU industry chief Thierry Breton said on Thursday, as he criticised OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s threat to quit the continent if it cannot comply with the legislation. Altman’s comments at a conference a day earlier came as the European …

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MILAN (Reuters) -Italy’s Armani Group said on Thursday its sales jumped 18% in the first quarter thanks to a rebound in Asia and more modest growth in the United States, where a slowdown is expected in the coming months. The privately-owned luxury group added that its 2022 full year revenues were up 16.5% to 2.35 …

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PARIS (Reuters) – France on Thursday accused Iran of violating a U.N. Security Council resolution endorsing the 2015 nuclear deal after it carried out a long-range ballistic missile test, which Paris said was worrying given “uninterrupted escalation” of Tehran’s nuclear programme. Iran successfully test-launched a ballistic missile with a potential 2,000-km range on Thursday, state …

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