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SYDNEY (Reuters) – Wallabies scrumhalf Nic White has signed up to stay in Australia until the end of 2025 but will be swapping Canberra for Perth after electing to play Super Rugby Pacific for Western Force from next season. The 32-year-old, who started his career at the ACT Brumbies academy, has been first choice in the number nine shirt for Australia since returning from Europe in 2020 and was included […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Two Republicans on Monday asked a congressional watchdog to assess the Biden administration’s management of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and audit its modernization program, saying sales from the SPR have undermined U.S. energy security. Senator John Barrasso, ranking member of the Senate energy committee, and Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers, head of the House energy committee, asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to evaluate the Department of Energy’s (DOE) […]

By Devjyot Ghoshal, Juarawee Kittisilpa and Orathai Sriring BANGKOK (Reuters) – Kavita Wongyakasem runs a small business in Bangkok, owns a two-storey house on the outskirts of the Thai capital, drives a pick-up truck, and sends her two daughters to good schools. But every day is a desperate struggle to find the money to keep her household afloat, said the 48-year-old, whose business provides services for a big energy company. […]

By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) – A high school student is missing in Northland, New Zealand after getting into in difficulty on a school trip to caves on Tuesday, according to police, as heavy rain and thunderstorms cause flash flooding and landslides across the upper North Island. New Zealand police Superintendent Tony Hill said in a statement that one person was missing at the Abbey Caves, near Whangarei, after a […]

By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) – A high school student is missing in Northland, New Zealand after getting into in difficulty on a school trip to caves on Tuesday, according to police, as heavy rain and thunderstorms cause flash flooding and landslides across the upper North Island. New Zealand police Superintendent Tony Hill said in a statement that one person was missing at the Abbey Caves, near Whangarei, after a […]

By Rae Wee SINGAPORE (Reuters) – The dollar inched higher on Tuesday after a loans survey revealed that credit conditions in the United States were less gloomy than expected, while the pound flirted with a one-year peak ahead of this week’s Bank of England policy meeting. The Federal Reserve’s quarterly Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey (SLOOS) showed that while credit conditions for U.S. business and households continued tightening at the […]

GAZA (Reuters) -Israel killed three senior Islamic Jihad commanders in Gaza air strikes, Palestinian officials said, as the Israeli military confirmed it was carrying out an operation against the group before dawn on Tuesday. Medics said at least six Palestinians were killed in the air strikes, three of whom were civilians, and several more were wounded. The Israeli military said it targeted three senior commanders of the Islamic Jihad, the […]

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Sam Bankman-Fried, who has long denied stealing from customers of his FTX cryptocurrency exchange, on Monday asked a U.S. judge to throw out criminal charges against him over the now-bankrupt FTX’s collapse. In a filing in Manhattan federal court, Bankman-Fried’s lawyers said several of the charges failed to properly state an offense. Bankman-Fried, a 31-year-old former billionaire, has largely been confined to his parents’ […]

By Tyler Clifford and Steve Gorman (Reuters) -The man Texas authorities say killed eight people in a barrage of gunfire at a Dallas-area shopping mall over the weekend left behind a social media profile filled with white supremacist and neo-Nazi ideology, multiple news outlets reported on Monday. News reports linking the assailant to language praising Hitler and to diatribes vilifying racial minorities and women emerged as state police named the […]