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By Michael Holden LONDON, Oct 27 (Reuters) – British comedian and actor Russell Brand told police that he had never engaged in any non-consensual sexual activity despite encounters in countless locations and scenarios, a London court was told on Tuesday. Brand, once one of Britain’s most high-profile broadcasters and the former husband of US singer Katy Perry, is on trial at London’s Southwark Crown Court over accusations of sexual offences […]

By David Shepardson and Kalea Hall DETROIT, Oct 27 (Reuters) – A pending increase in US tariffs on steel and auto imports from Canada starting January 1 would be “catastrophic” for the industry, Honda Motor’s head of public affairs said on Tuesday.  Automakers are closely watching talks between the US, Mexico and Canada, hoping the countries extend a longstanding trade deal. The three countries’ auto industries are tightly intertwined, and higher […]

KYIV, Oct 27 (Reuters) – Kyiv plans to allocate 1 billion hryvnias ($22 million) to water crossings over the River Dnipro which bisects the city, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Tuesday, after a spate of Russian attacks on bridges. Russia has disrupted transport for Kyiv residents by hitting bridges this month, part of a significant step up in drone and missile strikes on logistics in and around the Ukrainian capital […]

By Fernando Kallas MADRID, Oct 27 (Reuters) – France and Real Madrid forward Kylian Mbappe has drawn public lines against extremism and police violence in his home country, but a joke about his own power in football carried him across a different boundary on Tuesday and forced him to apologise to China over an apparent reference to Mao Zedong. The “dictator Mbappe” memes began as caricatures of his influence at Paris […]

By Stephen Nellis SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 27 (Reuters) – Oracle said on Tuesday it is expanding its cloud AI chip deals with Nvidia while also diversifying to add offerings from Nvidia rivals such as Alphabet’s Google and Cerebras Systems. Oracle and Nvidia said the cloud firm will expand to “multi-gigawatt scale” with Nvidia’s newest generation of “Vera Rubin” AI servers. The companies did not disclose the value of the deal, […]

VATICAN CITY, Oct 27 (Reuters) – Pope Leo will meet with survivors of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy during his November 6 to 17 three-country tour of South America, the Vatican said on Tuesday. Leo, who is recovering from lung cancer surgery, will visit Uruguay, Argentina and Peru on one of the most intense foreign trips taken by a pope in decades, after being deemed fit for the journey by […]

By Alexander Cornwell JERUSALEM, Oct 27 (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his far-right coalition partners made a last-ditch push on Tuesday to get their supporters to the polls, warning of surging Arab voter turnout, a tactic Arab politicians denounced as racist and inflammatory. Cars flying Netanyahu’s Likud party flags drove through Jerusalem blaring the Islamic call to prayer and urging supporters to cast their ballots because “Arabs […]

By Ricardo Brito and Luciana Magalhaes SAO PAULO, Oct 27 (Reuters) – Brazil canceled Senator Flavio Bolsonaro’s passports on Tuesday, after he failed to comply with a Supreme Court order to turn them in, according to two sources from the federal police, which is trying to locate the former presidential candidate. Meanwhile, Argentina said it had no record of him entering its territory and the right-wing senator’s aides either declined […]

WARSAW, Oct 27 (Reuters) – A maintenance centre for Lockheed Martin-made Patriot interceptor missiles will be established in Poland, Deputy Defence Minister Magdalena Sobkowiak-Czarnecka said on Tuesday. Wars in Ukraine and the Middle East have strained stocks of air-defence interceptor missiles and caused delivery delays, prompting countries to seek maintenance and production capabilities closer to home. The centre in Poland will be the only one outside the United States, Sobkowiak-Czarnecka […]