HANOI (Reuters) – Nvidia and the Vietnamese government will jointly set up an AI research and development centre and an AI data centre in the Southeast Asian country under an agreement signed on Thursday. Nvidia also said it has acquired healthcare startup VinBrain, a unit of Vietnamese conglomerate Vingroup, but didn’t provide the value of …
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By Luiza Ilie BUCHAREST (Reuters) -The U.S. voiced concern about potential foreign interference in Romania’s presidential election after the declassification of documents showing the country was a target of “aggressive hybrid Russian attacks” during a period of three consecutive ballots. Having previously polled in single digits, pro-Russia ultranationalist Calin Georgescu surged to victory in the …
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By Joyce Lee and Hyunjoo Jin SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korean opposition lawmakers said on Thursday they would vote this weekend to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol for his botched attempt to impose martial law, and police said they were investigating claims of treason against him and top ministers. Yoon’s declaration of martial law late on …
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By David Shepardson CHICAGO (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Transportation said on Thursday it was seeking public comment on whether airlines should be required to pay passengers cash compensation when flight disruptions are caused by carriers. The USDOT is giving the public 60 days to comment as it launches the rulemaking process but stopped …
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By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) – Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, asked his supporters on Thursday to design “a people’s gravestone” for him as a symbol of his political struggle against the Kremlin. Navalny, whose death in February aged 47 in a prison above the Arctic Circle deprived the …
LONDON (Reuters) -More than half of British employers plan to raise their prices and cut jobs in response to the new government’s first budget, according to a survey published by the Bank of England on Thursday. Almost 60% of firms expected to lower their profit margins to cope with an increase in social security contributions …
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MADRID (Reuters) -The outgoing head of Spain’s stock market regulator CNMV, Rodrigo Buenaventura, told reporters on Thursday that there were signs of possible market manipulation in the dispute between short seller Gotham City Research and pharma company Grifols. In early January, the U.S.-based Gotham, which had previously shorted Grifols shares, released a report accusing the …
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JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesia’s parliament said on Thursday it had proposed to the government to only raise the current value-added tax (VAT) rate for luxury items to avoid an impact on low income people. By law, VAT is set to rise by 1 percentage point to 12% starting Jan. 1 2025 to improve the country’s revenue …
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ABU DHABI (Reuters) – Britain’s Abbi Pulling will need to win the F1 Academy title for the second time in a week after organisers declared her the champion last Saturday and then left her a point short by adding an additional race in Abu Dhabi this weekend. The Alpine driver took an 83-point lead with …
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BENGALURU (Reuters) -The European Space Agency on Thursday launched Proba-3, a cutting-edge Sun-observing mission, aboard the Indian Space Research Organisation’s flagship rocket. The launch from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, originally scheduled for Wednesday, had been delayed because of a technical snag. The mission is intended to advance global efforts to understand economic and technological risks …
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