(Reuters) – England’s spate of injuries ahead of the women’s World Cup have been devastating, coach Sarina Wiegman said on Tuesday hours after forward Fran Kirby confirmed she will undergo knee surgery and miss this year’s tournament in Australia and New Zealand. Kirby is the third England regular who will be sidelined for the World …
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By JEEVAN RAVINDRAN LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. citizen Donna Werner is no stranger to royal celebrations – for more than three decades she has travelled to Britain to join in the public party at weddings and jubilees. Now she is ecstatic to be in London for her first coronation. “And we’re off! This is such …
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By Medha Singh and Lisa Pauline Mattackal (Reuters) -Can inherently volatile cryptocurrencies become safe-havens? Apparently they can in some parts of the world, such as Argentina and Turkey, where soaring prices and tumbling local currencies have forced people to seek refuge in digital coins. Ownership of digital currencies in Turkey was the highest in the …
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By Iain Withers LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s stock market rules could be radically simplified as part of efforts to lure major company listings to London, under detailed plans unveiled by the country’s financial watchdog on Tuesday. Britain’s appeal as a global financial centre has come into question in recent years as companies have increasingly sought …
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PRISTINA (Reuters) -Leaders of Kosovo and Serbia failed to agree on how to lower tensions in Serb-majority areas in north Kosovo, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Tuesday, warning that any further escalation could undermine the EU-backed deal on normalising ties. In March, Pristina and Belgrade verbally agreed to implement a Western-backed plan …
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By Dietrich Knauth (Reuters) – Bankrupt movie theater chain Cineworld received U.S. court approval on Tuesday to raise $2.26 billion as part of its exit from bankruptcy, after reaching a settlement with a minority faction of lenders that had opposed parts of the exit financing. Cineworld is aiming to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy in …
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United States on Tuesday launched a program to defend journalists around the world from legal threats aimed at silencing critical voices, a growing tactic that top U.S. aid official Samantha Power described as “lawfare.” Power, administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), announced the Reporters Shield program at …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – NATO fighter jets scrambled on Sunday to track a Russian maritime patrol aircraft that violated air safety rules over the North Atlantic, the alliance said on Tuesday. “The (Russian) aircraft was not complying with international air safety rules and could pose a danger to other aircraft in the region,” NATO’s air command …
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By Muvija M LONDON (Reuters) – Britain on Tuesday set out a new anti-fraud strategy to try to better protect the public from scammers, announcing a new 400-person investigative body and a ban on cold calls promoting financial products, including sham cryptocurrency schemes. Fraud was now the most common crime in Britain, costing nearly 7 …
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By Krystal Hu (Reuters) – Inflection AI, the artificial intelligence startup founded by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and Google DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman, has released its first AI chatbot product, the company said on Tuesday. Similar to OpenAI’s viral chatbot ChatGPT, Inflection’s AI chatbot, named Pi, uses generative AI technology to interact with users through …
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