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(Reuters) – Shares of Chewy Inc rose nearly 20% in premarket trading on Thursday after the online pet supplies retailer raised its annual revenue forecast and said it would enter the Canadian market. The stock is set to claw back most of its year-to-date losses if gains hold through the session. The company posted a surprise profit for the first quarter as its sales benefited from strong customer loyalty, prompting […]

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Four people were injured and taken to hospital in the Swedish town of Eskilstuna on Thursday after an incident classified as attempted murder, local police said. Swedish TV4 reported that pupils from a local school were among the injured, although they were not at the school at the time of the incident. “There was some kind of brawl between several people. We don’t know if there are two […]

By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine’s ministry of renovation and infrastructure said on Thursday the U.N.-brokered Black Sea grain export deal had been halted again because Russia had blocked registration of ships to all Ukrainian ports. The United Nations and Turkey brokered the Black Sea Grain Initiative between Moscow and Kyiv last July to help tackle a global food crisis aggravated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a leading global grain […]

By Ahmad Ghaddar and Maha El Dahan LONDON/DUBAI (Reuters) -OPEC and its allies are unlikely to deepen supply cuts at their ministerial meeting on Sunday despite a fall in oil prices toward $70 per barrel, four sources from the alliance told Reuters.     OPEC+, which groups the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and allies led by Russia, pumps around 40% of the world’s crude and supplies around 60% of […]

By Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) -One of Australia’s most decorated soldiers lost a defamation lawsuit against three newspapers that accused him of involvement in the murder of six Afghans while on deployment, a stunning end to a case that lifted the veil of secrecy over the elite SAS. The newspapers proved four of the six murder accusations they levelled at former SAS corporal Ben Roberts-Smith, but Federal Court Judge Anthony […]

OSLO (Reuters) – NATO’s secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg on Thursday said he condemned North Korea’s failed satellite launch, adding he called upon the country to “cease these provocative actions”. A North Korean satellite launch on Wednesday ended in failure, sending the booster and payload plunging into the sea, North Korean state media said. North Korea’s Kim Yo Jong, leader Kim Jong Un’s sister, said her country would soon put a military […]

(Reuters) -Argentina forward Lionel Messi will play his last game for Paris St Germain against Clermont on Saturday, coach Christophe Galtier said on Thursday. “I had the privilege of coaching the best player in the history of football. This will be his last match at the Parc des Princes, and I hope that he will receive the warmest of welcomes,” Galtier told reporters on Thursday. Messi, who has 21 goals […]

By Maria Martinez BERLIN (Reuters) – Rising rents, less venture capital and a shortage of talent are taking the shine off Berlin as a hub for startups. “The one single thing more difficult to find in Berlin than an apartment is a programmer,” said Avitosh Sawhney, 36, who moved his tech startup Ynertia to the German capital from Paris in 2020 but found it did not offer the plentiful space, […]

(Clarifies comment in paragraph 9 referred to another case, not Credit Suisse) ZURICH (Reuters) -Swiss National Bank Chairman Thomas Jordan on Wednesday defended recent interest rate hikes to tackle inflation, saying they were neither damaging for Swiss financial stability nor responsible for the downfall of Credit Suisse. The SNB has increased interest rates four times over the past year to reduce inflation which has persisted above the central bank’s target […]