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By Renju Jose SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Wednesday that Sydney will host the 2023 Quad Leaders’ summit on May 24, the third in-person meeting of the leaders of Australia, the United States, India and Japan. “I am honoured to host the first ever Quad Leaders’ Summit in Australia in Sydney,” Albanese said. “The Quad is committed to supporting an open, stable and prosperous Indo-Pacific […]

By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts will not testify at an upcoming Senate Judiciary Committee hearing expected to focus on judicial ethics, he said in a letter on Tuesday to the committee chair. The committee’s Democratic chairman, Dick Durbin, had asked the chief justice to appear before the panel to address potential reforms to ethics rules governing the justices. The senator cited “a steady […]

By Kantaro Komiya and Joey Roulette (Reuters) -Japanese startup ispace said its attempt to make the first private moon landing had failed on Tuesday after losing contact with its Hakuto-R Mission 1 (M1) lander, concluding it had most likely crashed on the lunar surface. “We lost the communication, so we have to assume that we could not complete the landing on the lunar surface,” ispace Chief Executive Takeshi Hakamada said […]

By Kantaro Komiya and Joey Roulette (Reuters) -Japanese startup ispace said its attempt to make the first private moon landing had failed on Tuesday after losing contact with its Hakuto-R Mission 1 (M1) lander, concluding it had most likely crashed on the lunar surface. “We lost the communication, so we have to assume that we could not complete the landing on the lunar surface,” ispace Chief Executive Takeshi Hakamada said […]

By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts will not testify at an upcoming Senate Judiciary Committee hearing expected to focus on judicial ethics, he said in a letter on Tuesday to the committee chair. The committee’s Democratic chairman, Dick Durbin, had asked the chief justice to appear before the panel to address potential reforms to ethics rules governing the justices. The senator cited “a steady […]

By Kantaro Komiya and Joey Roulette (Reuters) -Japanese startup ispace said its attempt to make the first private moon landing had failed on Tuesday after losing contact with its Hakuto-R Mission 1 (M1) lander, concluding it had most likely crashed on the lunar surface. “We lost the communication, so we have to assume that we could not complete the landing on the lunar surface,” ispace Chief Executive Takeshi Hakamada said […]

By Yuvraj Malik and Jane Lanhee Lee (Reuters) -Microsoft Corp beat Wall Street’s estimates for quarterly revenue and profit on Tuesday, driven by growth in its cloud computing and Office productivity software businesses, and the company said artificial intelligence products were stimulating sales. The company forecast revenue in its main segments for the current quarter would match or top Wall Street targets. Shares gained 8.3% in after-market trading following a […]

By Steve Holland, Jarrett Renshaw and Heather Timmons WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden launched his re-election bid on Tuesday with a promise to protect American liberties from “extremists” linked to former President Donald Trump, who he beat in 2020 and might face again in 2024. Biden made his announcement in a video released by his new campaign team that opens with imagery from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the […]

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican prosecutors on Tuesday formally accused Mexico’s top migration official with unlawful practice in public office, a criminal offense, over a fire at a government detention center that killed 40 migrants, according to Mexican media.     Francisco Garduno, head of the National Migration Institute (INM), is the highest-ranking official to be formally accused in the case, which also led to the arrests of several other INM […]