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By Emily Rose JERUSALEM, Aug 17 (Reuters) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party will choose its candidates to fight in October elections on Monday, with analysts saying a shift further to the right by many members could threaten the Israeli leader’s chances of winning. The contenders who emerge from Monday’s primaries are already facing a brutal race — polls suggest Likud’s popularity has plummeted since the October 7, 2023, […]

Aug 17 (Reuters) – Nvidia will invest $1.5 billion in SoftBank-backed SB Energy and secure up to 8 gigawatts of AI computing capacity at an Ohio campus being built by the data center developer for OpenAI. The deal is the latest where Nvidia is financing the ecosystem consuming its chips, a strategy that has helped fuel demand but also drawn scrutiny over the circular flows of funds from the chipmaker […]

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia attacked facilities of Ukraine’s Naftogaz Group 13 times over the past week and has targeted its premises almost 300 times since the start of the year, the state energy company said Monday. Russia has repeatedly battered the Ukrainian power grid since its all-out invasion more than four years ago. Moscow hopes to sap Ukraine’s will to fight by denying civilians light, heating and running water […]

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Torrential rains have pounded southern South Korea, leaving one person dead and four others injured, officials said Monday. One person died in a landslide that struck an apartment building in the southern city of Geoje on Monday, the Interior and Safety Ministry said in a report. It said two people were injured in Geoje and two others in nearby cities. The heavy rains that have […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Four months after Democratic U.S. Rep. Eric Swalwell resigned from Congress amid sexual assault allegations that torpedoed his campaign for California governor, his former Bay Area constituents will pick a replacement Tuesday to serve out the rest of his term. With two Democrats competing on the ballot, the seat in California’s 14th Congressional District is guaranteed to remain under Democratic control and further narrow an already fragile […]

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea on Monday expressed hopes for resumption of diplomacy between the U.S. and North Korea to ease animosities on the Korean Peninsula, hours after U.S. President Donald Trump said he ordered annual U.S. military exercises with South Korea to be scaled back. Trump cited his good relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for the decision. The announcement baffled many in South Korea, […]

By Deborah Mary Sophia Aug 17 (Reuters) – Serve Robotics said on Monday it is partnering with Grubhub to fulfill orders on the food delivery platform using its sidewalk delivery robots, tapping a new marketplace days after its years-long tie-up with Uber Eats fell through. The San Francisco-based robotics company, known for its boxy, four-wheeled robots delivering Uber Eats and DoorDash orders, said its tie-up with Grubhub will initially launch […]

By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Tom Perry Aug 17 (Reuters) – Khalil Al-Hayya, the Hamas chief who met U.S. envoy Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, in Cairo on Sunday, emerged as a pivotal figure in the Palestinian militant group during the Gaza war as Israel killed its other leaders. Named Hamas’ overall leader in July, Hayya narrowly escaped assassination himself in a 2025 Israeli airstrike in Qatar that killed his […]

Iran said Monday it is working to finalize a joint statement with Oman on a plan to manage the transit of ships through the Strait of Hormuz. Fully reopening the waterway to commercial shipping has been a key demand of the United States, but it remains unclear whether the deal will meet Washington’s criteria. The announcement came as the 60-day negotiating period to find a peace deal between the U.S. […]