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By Chayut Setboonsarng and Napat Wesshasartar BANGKOK (Reuters) -Surrounded by adoring crowds packed inside stadiums and halls, the main prime ministerial candidates of Thailand’s political parties made a final push to rally supporters on Friday, two days before a crunch general election. After nearly a decade of a government led or backed by its royalist military, some 52 million eligible voters in Southeast Asia’s second-largest economy will head to polling […]

By Martyn Herman WOBURN, England (Reuters) – Ireland’s Brendan Lawlor prevailed in a thrilling head-to-head battle with England’s Kipp Popert to claim the inaugural G4D Open title for golfers with disabilities at Woburn’s Duchess course on Friday. The overnight leader by a stroke, the 26-year-old Lawlor began with three bogeys and when Popert birdied the third, he trailed by two strokes on a cold and blustery day. But Lawlor, ranked […]

By Chayut Setboonsarng and Napat Wesshasartar BANGKOK (Reuters) -Surrounded by adoring crowds packed inside stadiums and halls, the main prime ministerial candidates of Thailand’s political parties made a final push to rally supporters on Friday, two days before a crunch general election. After nearly a decade of a government led or backed by its royalist military, some 52 million eligible voters in Southeast Asia’s second-largest economy will head to polling […]

LAS PALMAS (Reuters) – Spanish authorities have seized a Brazilian-flagged fishing boat off the Canary Islands with 1.5 tonnes of cocaine in a hidden compartment in its machine room, police said on Friday as they brought the boat to the port of Las Palmas. Authorities shared a video of the 25-metre (82.02 ft) Efesios 5-20 being approached on rough seas by a speedboat sent from the patrol ship Condor. Officers […]

(Reuters) -Luminar Technologies CEO Austin Russell will buy a majority stake in Forbes Global Media Holdings in a deal that values the business news publisher at nearly $800 million, Russell and Integrated Whale Media Investments (IWM) said in a statement on Friday. The automotive tech billionaire has agreed to acquire 82% of Forbes, which includes the remaining portion of the company owned by the Forbes family, the joint statement to […]

By Ismail Shakil OTTAWA (Reuters) -Automaker Stellantis and South Korea’s LG Energy Solution (LGES) are implementing “contingency plans” related to a more-than C$5 billion ($3.7 billion) battery plant investment in Canada because the federal government has not delivered on its promises, a Stellantis spokesperson said on Friday. “As of today, the Canadian Government has not delivered on what was agreed to, therefore Stellantis and LG Energy Solution will immediately begin implementing […]

By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) – Pro-war Russian nationalists led by Igor Girkin said on Friday that a new group they had set up was entering politics to save Russia, which they warned was in danger of turmoil or even collapse due to military failures in the Ukraine war. Nearly 15 months since President Vladimir Putin sent troops into Ukraine in what he called “a special military operation”, Moscow says […]

(Reuters) -Finance leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) advanced economies set a year-end deadline for launching a new scheme to diversify global supply chains, and vowed to address regulatory gaps in the banking system, according to a final draft of their communique seen by Reuters. In the draft communique, the G7 central banks said they remained “strongly committed” to achieving price stability and ensuring inflation expectations stayed well-anchored. “The […]

(Reuters) -Finance leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) advanced economies set a year-end deadline for launching a new scheme to diversify global supply chains, and vowed to address regulatory gaps in the banking system, according to a final draft of their communique seen by Reuters. In the draft communique, the G7 central banks said they remained “strongly committed” to achieving price stability and ensuring inflation expectations stayed well-anchored. “The […]