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By Viktoriia Lakezina and Max Hunder KHERSON, Ukraine (Reuters) -Ukrainians abandoned inundated homes on Wednesday as floods crested across the south after the destruction of a huge hydroelectric dam on front lines between Russian and Ukrainian forces, with their presidents trading blame for the disaster. Residents slogged through flooded streets carrying children on their shoulders, dogs in their arms and belongings in plastic bags while rescuers used rubber boats to […]

By Steve Keating TORONTO (Reuters) – After being hit with a couple of LIV Golf bombshells, COVD-19 and even forest fires, it is doubtful that any PGA Tour event has endured more adversity than the Canadian Open. The world’s third-oldest national open championship the Canadian Open is taking a double hit this week, pushed out of the golf spotlight on Tuesday by the shock announcement that the PGA Tour, DP […]

LONDON (Reuters) – British consumers buying cryptoassets will get a 24-hour “cooling-off” period for the first time from October under tougher marketing rules unveiled by the financial regulator on Thursday. Cryptoassets, such as bitcoin, have little direct regulation globally, but regulators are taking a closer look after the downfall of FTX last year, which left millions of investors nursing losses totalling billions of dollars, some of them in Britain. The […]

(Reuters) – Federal prosecutors have notified former U.S. President Donald Trump that he is the target of an investigation, Politico reported on Wednesday. The prosecutors sent Trump a letter informing him of the investigation, Politico reported. No further details were immediately available. Trump lawyers met with Justice Department officials earlier this week. A federal grand jury has been investigating Trump’s retention of classified materials after leaving the White House in […]

LONDON (Reuters) – British consumers buying cryptoassets will get a 24-hour “cooling-off” period for the first time from October under tougher marketing rules unveiled by the financial regulator on Thursday. Cryptoassets, such as bitcoin, have little direct regulation globally, but regulators are taking a closer look after the downfall of FTX last year, which left millions of investors nursing losses totalling billions of dollars, some of them in Britain. The […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The World Bank will support Ukraine by conducting a rapid assessment of damages and needs after the destruction of a huge hydroelectric dam on front lines between Russian and Ukrainian forces, a top bank official said on Wednesday, Anna Bjerde, the World Bank’s managing director for operations, in a tweet said the destruction of the Novo Kakhovka dam had “many very serious consequences for essential service delivery […]

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will visit Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela next week, Iran’s state news agency IRNA announced on Wednesday, adding that the upcoming tour stemmed from invites from the presidents of each of the Latin American nations. IRNA said documents to expand bilateral cooperation will be signed between Iran and the three countries during Raisi’s visit, mentioning economic, political and scientific issues, but without going […]

By Karolos Grohmann PARIS (Reuters) – Sixth seed Holger Rune’s poor start in his French Open quarter-final defeat to Norway’s Casper Ruud on Wednesday proved costly with the Dane littering the court with unforced errors for more than an hour. The 20-year-old had hoped to make it to his first Grand Slam semi but instead ended up playing catch-up as Ruud cruised through the first two sets in just 68 […]

By Kanishka Singh and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Britain will host a global summit on artificial intelligence safety later this year and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and U.S. President Joe Biden will discuss the technology at their Thursday meeting, the UK government said. The summit will consider the risks of AI, including frontier systems, and discuss how they can be mitigated through internationally coordinated action, the British government said in […]