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By Gleb Garanich and Valentyn Ogirenko KYIV (Reuters) -Russia launched its biggest wave of drone strikes on Ukraine for months on Monday, escalating attacks in the run-up to its May 9 Victory Day holiday celebrating the defeat of Nazi Germany, which Kyiv marked a day earlier in a new break with Moscow. Kyiv’s mayor said Russia had fired 60 Iranian-made kamikaze drones at Ukrainian targets, including 36 at the capital, […]

(Reuters) – Merck has appointed Helene von Roeder as the new chief financial officer and member of the Executive Board after Marcus Kuhnert has decided to step down, the German drugmaker announced on Monday. The changes would become effective from July 1, the company added. German real estate company Vonovia announced this month that von Roeder would be leaving its management board at her own request as of July 1. […]

KYIV (Reuters) – Russian artillery shelling wounded eight people, including a nine-year-old boy in two villages in Ukraine’s southern region of Kherson on Monday, regional officials said. Six civilians were wounded in the village of Stanislav on the right bank of the Dnipro estuary, regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin said. Two others were hurt in Antonivka on Kherson’s outskirts, said military administration chief Roman Mrochko. The two people in Antonivka had […]

(Reuters) – Russia launched its biggest wave of drone strikes on Ukraine for months on Monday, escalating attacks in the run-up to its May 9 Victory Day holiday celebrating the defeat of Nazi Germany, which Kyiv marked a day earlier in a new break with Moscow. CONFLICT * Kyiv’s mayor said Russia had fired 60 Iranian-made kamikaze drones at Ukrainian targets, including 36 at the capital, all of which had […]

By Luc Cohen and Hannah Lang (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Donald Trump will not testify at a civil trial to challenge claims made by writer E. Jean Carroll that he raped her in the 1990s and later defamed her, after letting a Sunday deadline pass without asking the court to appear. Trump’s attorney Joseph Tacopina told the judge on Thursday that Trump had waived his right to testify in […]

By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – German business software maker SAP and German engineering company Siemens have joined U.S. tech giants in criticising draft EU laws on the use of data generated by smart gadgets and other consumer goods. EU countries and EU lawmakers are working on the details of the Data Act, proposed by the European Commission last year before it can be adopted as legislation. The draft […]

(Reuters) – Volkswagen will announce later on Monday the removal of the current leadership at its software unit Cariad, to be taken over by Bentley production chief Peter Bosch, two sources close to the company said on Monday. Volkswagen is preparing an official statement for the afternoon with details of how the software unit, maligned by mismanagement and missed deadlines, will be reshuffled, the sources said, declining to be named. […]

(Reuters) – Tyson Foods Inc trimmed its full-year revenue forecast on Monday, in a sign that price hikes and stubbornly high inflation are discouraging consumers from spending on its products. The U.S. meatpacker now expects fiscal 2023 sales between $53 billion and $54 billion, compared with its previous forecast of $55 billion to $57 billion. (Reporting by Granth Vanaik in Bengaluru; Editing by Shilpi Majumdar) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

By Luc Cohen and Hannah Lang (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Donald Trump will not testify at a civil trial to challenge claims made by writer E. Jean Carroll that he raped her in the 1990s and later defamed her, after letting a Sunday deadline pass without asking the court to appear. Trump’s attorney Joseph Tacopina told the judge on Thursday that Trump had waived his right to testify in […]