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By Martyn Herman LONDON (Reuters) -England’s Stuart Broad laid down an early marker in what promises to be a seismic summer of test cricket with five wickets against Ireland before Ben Duckett and Zak Crawley crushed the visitors’ spirit at sun-baked Lord’s on Thursday. The 36-year-old paceman was supreme, taking the 20th five-wicket haul of his career as Ireland were dismissed for 172. England openers Duckett and Crawley then tucked […]

By David French and Anirban Sen (Reuters) – Citigroup Inc has hired former UBS Group AG banker Dan Ford as a vice chairman within the natural resources and clean energy transition group of its investment bank, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters on Thursday. Ford has been working with Citi as an external senior advisor over the past year on power, utilities, and renewable energy matters, according to […]

By Guy Faulconbridge and Felix Light MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia said it had repelled an attempted incursion along its border with Ukraine on Thursday by what it casts as pro-Ukrainian militants, while heavy shelling and a suspected drone attack prompted a partial evacuation of civilians from the area. Ahead of an expected Ukrainian counter-offensive in the 15-month war, Russia has come under repeated attack in recent days, including a major […]

BEIRUT (Reuters) -A Lebanese military tribunal has formally accused five members of Hezbollah and the allied Amal Movement of killing an Irish U.N. peacekeeper in 2022, a senior Lebanese judicial source told Reuters on Thursday. Private Sean Rooney, 23, was killed on Dec. 15 in the first fatal attack on U.N. peacekeepers in Lebanon since 2015. The five accused are among seven already charged by Lebanon’s judiciary in January, but […]

BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Thursday said Ukraine and its allies were still “very far away” from being able to secure peace in the country but added any future Western security guarantees to Ukraine needed to be different from the status of European NATO members. “Given the current situation, it is not about establishing a membership … We all have to focus on how we as […]

By Medha Singh (Reuters) -Shares of C3.ai Inc dropped 13% on Thursday after the software maker’s disappointing quarterly revenue forecast dented some of the recent euphoria around artificial intelligence-linked stocks. Most other AI-related small-cap stocks also fell, with analytics firm BigBear.ai, conversation intelligence firm SoundHound AI and Thai security firm Guardforce AI down between 2.8% and 5.7%. C3.ai, one of the biggest beneficiaries of the AI boom sparked by the […]

COLORADO SPRINGS (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden warned graduates of the Air Force Academy on Thursday that they will face an increasingly unstable world, with challenges from China to Russia to climate change, while pledging that American support for Ukraine would not waiver. “The world needs you,” Biden told the graduates in Colorado Springs. Biden praised the strength and unity of the NATO alliance and vowed that Sweden, in addition […]

By Dietrich Knauth NEW YORK (Reuters) – ATM maker Diebold Nixdorf filed for bankruptcy in Texas on Thursday, saying it had reached an agreement to reduce the company’s overall debt by $2.1 billion. The Ohio-based company entered bankruptcy with over $2.7 billion in debt, and its lenders have agreed to provide $517 million in new loans to fund the company’s bankruptcy, according to court documents filed in Houston bankruptcy court. […]

By Karolos Grohmann PARIS (Reuters) – World number seven Ons Jabeur played the odds in her French Open match against daredevil Oceane Dodin on Thursday to win 6-2 6-3 and march into the third round. Jabeur has endured a stop-start season in which she had minor knee surgery before winning the title in Charleston and skipping the Madrid Open with a calf problem. While it may not have been the […]