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By Lisandra Paraguassu and Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Tuesday called for increased economic, cultural and social integration of South American countries as he opened a summit with a dozen leaders of the region in Brasilia. It was the first continental gathering in almost a decade at the invitation of Lula, who aims to regain his country’s active role in regional affairs […]

By Shrivathsa Sridhar PARIS (Reuters) -Daniil Medvedev became the highest-ranked player to exit the French Open after a five-sets first-round defeat by Brazilian qualifier Thiago Seyboth Wild on Tuesday while Novak Djokovic was accused of fuelling tensions with his political stance. World number two Medvedev was tipped as a surprise contender for the Paris title following his Rome triumph, but the Russian was blown away by Wild in gusty conditions […]

Rising U.S. labor costs are doing little to drive up inflation, researchers from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco said on Tuesday, a finding that may undercut the argument that wage gains are key to elevated price pressures. The analysis by Adam Shapiro in the latest edition of the FRBSF Economic Letter showed that labor costs as measured by the employment cost index contributes nothing to goods or housing […]

By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Ukraine’s biggest ever drone strike on Moscow was an attempt to scare and provoke Russia, and air defences around the capital would be strengthened. Russia said eight drones targeted civilian areas of Moscow and the Moscow region – with a population of over 21 million – in the early hours of Tuesday but were either shot down or […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States is still gathering information on reports of drones striking in Moscow, the White House said on Tuesday, reiterating that Washington does not support attacks inside Russia and is focused on helping Ukraine retake its territory. “We saw the news and are still gathering information about what happened. As general matter, we do not support attacks inside of Russia,” a White House spokesperson said in […]

KAMPALA (Reuters) -Uganda on Tuesday condemned the Western response to the East African country’s new anti-LGBTQ law, considered one of the harshest in the world, and said sanctions threats from donors amounted to “blackmail”. The law signed by President Yoweri Museveni carries the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality”, an offence that includes transmitting HIV through gay sex. Its enactment, announced on Monday, drew immediate rebukes from Western governments and puts […]

By Supantha Mukherjee and Martin Coulter STOCKHOLM/LONDON (Reuters) – Top artificial intelligence (AI) executives including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Tuesday joined experts and professors in raising the “risk of extinction from AI”, which they urged policymakers to equate at par with risks posed by pandemics and nuclear war. “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear […]

By Moira Warburton and David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Right-wing Republicans said on Tuesday they oppose a bipartisan deal to raise the $31.4 trillion U.S. debt ceiling ahead of its first test in Congress, setting up a nail-biting week before the United States potentially runs out of money to pay its bills. The gatekeeper House of Representatives Rules Committee is due to consider the 99-page bill beginning at 3 p.m. […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Representative Ralph Norman, a hardline conservative Republican, said he will vote against the debt ceiling bill when it comes before the U.S. House Rules Committee later on Tuesday, if it is not amended. (Reporting by David Morgan in Washington) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com