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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States said it would stop giving Russia some notifications required under the New START arms control treaty from Thursday, including on its missile and launcher locations, to retaliate for Moscow’s “ongoing violations” of the accord. In a fact sheet on its website, the State Department said it would also stop giving Russia telemetry information – remotely gathered data about a missile’s flight – on launches […]

By Valentyn Ogirenko and Guy Faulconbridge KYIV/MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia said on Thursday it had repelled more cross-border attacks from Ukraine while its aerial assaults on Kyiv killed another three people including a nine-year-old girl and her mother locked out of an air raid shelter. Both sides are trying to sap morale and weaken military capacity ahead of a long-promised Ukrainian counter-offensive against Russia’s 15-month-old invasion. The war has killed tens […]

By Kylie Madry MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Latin American property technology startup Tuhabi is set to receive a $50 million credit line from the Inter-American Development Bank’s (IDB) financing arm, which it will use to ramp up operations in Mexico, the company said Thursday. The funds for the so-called unicorn, a startup with a valuation over $1 billion, follow a $100 million credit line from Victory Park Capital it announced […]

By Shrivathsa Sridhar PARIS (Reuters) -Fourth seed Casper Ruud and holder Iga Swiatek stayed on course to reach consecutive finals at the French Open while a couple of unheralded names in the women’s draw continued to show their immense potential on a sunny Thursday at Roland Garros. Elena Rybakina also booked a third round spot with a 6-3 6-3 victory over rising Czech teenager Linda Noskova with the fourth seed […]

(Reuters) -Stratasys Ltd said on Thursday it has received an unsolicited buyout proposal from its peer 3D Systems Corp. 3D Systems has proposed to acquire Stratasys for $7.50 in cash and 1.2507 newly issued share of 3D Systems for each share of Stratasys, the industrial 3D printers maker said. Stratasys said its board will “carefully review” the non-binding proposal. (Reporting by Jaiveer Singh Shekhawat in Bengaluru; Editing by Shilpi Majumdar) […]

By Valentyn Ogirenko and Olena Harmash KYIV (Reuters) – A nine-year-old Ukrainian girl, her mother and another woman were killed in a Russian missile strike on Kyiv on Thursday after the air raid shelter they rushed to failed to open, witnesses said. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy expressed frustration at the miscue and said if local officials were unable to provide protection, they could be prosecuted. His comments appeared aimed at Kyiv […]

By Lori Ewing (Reuters) – Andre De Grasse has thrown his Olympic champion weight behind a call to stop the punishment of young track athletes in the United States for celebrating victories, with the Tokyo 200 metres winner saying kids should be allowed to have fun.      Brody Buffington, a senior at Catoctin High School in Maryland, had his school’s 4×200-metres relay team disqualified after anchoring them to victory at last […]

Israel’s Economists Warn of Dire Consequences of Proposed Judicial Reforms  A compromise on the judicial reforms could prevent some of the predicted long-term economic consequences but the short-term ones are already here  By Debbie Mohnblatt/The Media Line  Israel’s leading economists have issued another warning about the short-term and long-term economic ramifications of enacting the proposed judicial reforms. Most insist that achieving consensus through President Isaac Herzog’s talks on the matter […]

By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Thursday it had uncovered an American espionage operation that compromised thousands of iPhones using sophisticated surveillance software. Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab said dozens of its employees’ devices were compromised in the operation. The FSB, the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB, said in a statement that several thousand Apple Inc devices had been infected, including those of domestic […]