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BEIJING, June 1 (Reuters) – China will send a team of medical specialists to the Democratic Republic of Congo to assist with the region’s Ebola outbreak, foreign ministry spokesperson Lin Jian said on Monday. The Chinese government has decided to provide humanitarian assistance to Congo and will continue to do so “to the best of its ability”, Lin added. (Reporting by Ethan Wang and Joe Cash; Editing by Clarence Fernandez) […]

By Che Pan and Casey Hall BEIJING, June 1 (Reuters) – The global smartphone market is heading for its steepest annual contraction on record, with shipments projected to slump by 13.9% this year to 1.08 billion units, Counterpoint Research said on Monday, citing a worsening shortage of memory chips. The forecast is a downgrade from the 12.4% decline projected in February, with the squeeze in global chip supply exacerbated by […]

BERLIN, June 1 (Reuters) – Uber and Israel-based Autobrains said on Monday they plan to launch a robotaxi programme in Munich in collaboration with U.S. chipmaker Nvidia, marking a push to scale autonomous ride-hailing in Europe. The companies said they aim to combine Uber’s mobility network with Autobrains’ “agentic AI” driving system, running on Nvidia’s Drive Hyperion platform, with Munich set to serve as the first deployment city, pending regulatory […]

BRUSSELS, June 1 (Reuters) – Thirteen European cloud providers joined forces with a group of EU lawmakers and NGOs on Monday to back the European Commission’s drive to cut the region’s dependence on U.S. technologies and support local businesses. • The Commission is set to announce measures on Wednesday aimed at ensuring European companies, rather than U.S. rivals, provide cloud streaming services for sensitive public tenders, while also boosting the […]

TOKYO (AP) — Eight crested ibises were released into the wild in a north-central Japanese town, decades after the birds went extinct in the country. Eight of the endangered birds took off from each of their wooden cages at a ceremony Sunday in Hakui city in the Noto region, where they were last seen in the wild. The white birds, called Toki in Japan, are native to East Asia and […]

TOKYO (AP) — Eight crested ibises were released into the wild in a north-central Japanese town, decades after the birds went extinct in the country. Eight of the endangered birds took off from each of their wooden cages at a ceremony Sunday in Hakui city in the Noto region, where they were last seen in the wild. The white birds, called Toki in Japan, are native to East Asia and […]

JEURSALEM, June 1 (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday ordered the military to attack targets in the Lebanese capital Beirut’s southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold known as Dahiyeh. “Following repeated violations of the ceasefire in Lebanon by the terrorist group Hezbollah and the attacks against our cities and citizens, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz ordered the IDF to attack terrorist targets in the […]

June 1 (Reuters) – Goldman Sachs has raised its 12-month target for STOXX 600 index to 660, the U.S. brokerage said, citing resilient corporate earnings growth despite the war in the Middle East. The pan-European benchmark index has hovered close to record highs and notched a 2.5% gain in May, although escalating tensions in the Middle East have weighed on sentiment and limited further upside. The new target implies upside […]

June 1 (Reuters) – KLM has cancelled flights to and from Entebbe airport near the Ugandan capital Kampala due to restrictions linked to an Ebola outbreak in Central Africa, the Dutch airline said late on Friday. KLM said that while the area was not currently seen as an active risk zone, it could no longer operate planned routes due to travel and entry measures some countries have introduced for people […]