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KYIV (Reuters) – About 600 square kilometres, or 230 square miles, of the Kherson region in southern Ukraine was under water on Thursday following the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric dam, the regional governor said. Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said 68% of the flooded territory was on the Russian-occupied left bank of the Dnipro River. The “average level of flooding” in the Kherson region on Thursday morning was 5.61 metres (18.41 […]

By Brendan O’Boyle and Sarah Morland MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will announce more than $100 million in new assistance for the Caribbean when she visits the Bahamas on Thursday, including the establishment of two U.S. embassies. Over $50 million will be spent on humanitarian aid for Haiti, a senior U.S. administration official said. Harris, the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit the Bahamas since its independence […]

By Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) – Borrowing costs in government bond markets rose and share markets stalled on Thursday after a surprise interest rate hike in Canada gave investors their second reminder of the week that the surge in global interest rates isn’t done yet.   Asian markets had struggled overnight and the cautious mood continued in Europe as London’s FTSE, Germany’s DAX and the France’s CAC40 gradually crawled higher after […]

PARIS (Reuters) – Several children have been injured in a knife attack in Annecy, a town located in the French Alps, the French Interior minister said on Thursday on Twitter, adding the aggressor had been arrested. (Reporting by Benoit Van Overstraeten; Editing by GV De Clercq) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

PARIS (Reuters) – Several children have been injured in a knife attack in Annecy, a town located in the French Alps, the French Interior minister said on Thursday on Twitter, adding the aggressor had been arrested. (Reporting by Benoit Van Overstraeten; Editing by GV De Clercq) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

By Kiyoshi Takenaka and Makiko Yamazaki TOKYO (Reuters) – Toshiba Corp said on Thursday its board has decided to recommend shareholders take up a tender offer from a group led by Japan Industrial Partners, helping pave the way for a $14 billion buyout to take the Japanese conglomerate private. The tender offer, to be launched in late July, would put the electronics-to-power stations maker in domestic hands after years of […]

MEULABOH, Indonesia (Reuters) – An Australian man who was arrested for drunken assault and public nudity in Indonesia’s ultra-conservative Islamic province Aceh is set to be deported, authorities said. Bodhi Mani Risby-Jones, 23, was arrested by police in April after he was found streaking in an inebriated state through a village on Simeulue island off Aceh province. Residents said Risby-Jones, who was on a surfing trip to the island, attacked […]

By Sarah Young LONDON (Reuters) -European low-cost airline Wizz Air is confident that strong bookings combined with a big investment in its operations to avoid last year’s summer travel snags plus its growing fleet will help it swing to a profit this year. For the 12 months to the end of next March, Hungary-based Wizz said it expected a net profit of 350 million to 450 million euros ($481.59 million), […]

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) – NASA’s plans to turn over its flagship rocket to contractors Boeing and Northrop Grumman to find more buyers and bring down costs faces steep hurdles thanks to meager demand even from the Pentagon and a sprawling supplier network. The U.S. space agency is pushing ahead with plans to hand ownership of the Space Launch System (SLS) to a Boeing-Northrup joint venture in the next […]