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By Stella Qiu SYDNEY (Reuters) – Asian stocks rose on a rally in regional chip shares on Monday after China banned some purchases from Micron Technology, while Wall Street futures struggled as U.S. debt ceiling negotiations approached crunch time after stalling last week. Europe is set to extend the caution, with pan-regional Euro Stoxx 50 futures pointing to a flat open. S&P 500 futures were also little changed while Nasdaq […]

By Stephen Nellis (Reuters) – Nvidia Corp on Monday said it has worked with the U.K.’s University of Bristol to build a new supercomputer using a new Nvidia chip that would compete with Intel Corp and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Nvidia is the world’s top maker of graphics processing units (GPUs), which are in high demand because they can be used to speed up artificial intelligence work. OpenAI’s ChatGPT, for […]

ATHENS (Reuters) – Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis was due on Monday to receive an official mandate to try form a coalition government after falling short of an absolute majority win in Sunday’s election. Mitsotakis’ New Democracy party won 40.8% of the vote versus 20% for the leftist Syriza. The result was a stunning boost for Mitsotakis, whose administration had to deal with a wiretapping scandal, the COVID pandemic, a […]

BENGALURU (Reuters) – The Indian cricket board (BCCI) said on Monday that German sportswear giant Adidas would become the new kit sponsor of the national team. Reports in local media earlier this year had said that a deal was close and BCCI secretary Jay Shah confirmed the move on Twitter without providing financial details or the length of the contract. “I’m pleased to announce @BCCI’s partnership with @adidas as a […]

BENGALURU (Reuters) – The Indian cricket board (BCCI) said on Monday that German sportswear giant Adidas would become the new kit sponsor of the national team. Reports in local media earlier this year had said that a deal was close and BCCI secretary Jay Shah confirmed the move on Twitter without providing financial details or the length of the contract. “I’m pleased to announce @BCCI’s partnership with @adidas as a […]

BENGALURU (Reuters) – Tata Consultancy Services on Monday said it received an advance purchase order valued over 150 billion rupees ($1.83 billion) to deploy a 4G network across the country from Indian state-run telco Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd. ($1 = 81.7800 Indian rupees) (Reporting by Navamya Ganesh Acharya in Bengaluru; Editing by Janane Venkatraman) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) -Israeli security forces killed three Palestinians during a raid in the occupied West Bank early on Monday, the Palestinian health ministry said, in what Army Radio described as a large-scale operation against militants. The Israeli military did not immediately release details. Army Radio said hundreds of soldiers took part in the pre-dawn raid and that the three Palestinians killed were gunmen who had exchanged fire with […]

By Joyce Lee and Brenda Goh SEOUL/SHANGHAI (Reuters) -A move by Beijing to bar U.S. firm Micron Technology Inc from selling memory chips to key domestic industries has ramped up tensions in an ongoing trade spat with Washington and lifted shares of firms that could benefit from the move.  China’s cyberspace regulator said late on Sunday that Micron, the biggest U.S. memory chipmaker, had failed its network security review and […]

(Reuters) – The Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant was switched to standby and emergency power supply generators, a Russia-installed local official in the Moscow-controlled part of the region said on Monday. Vladimir Rogov said the plant was “completely” disconnected from external power supply after Ukraine disconnected a power line it controls. There was no immediate comment from Ukraine, but Anatoliy Kurtev, Zaporizhzhia city council’s secretary in Ukraine, said that work was […]