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By Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) – Two Alabama teenagers have been taken into custody and charged with murder in last week’s shooting at a “Sweet 16” birthday party that left four dead and 32 wounded, a state police spokesperson said on Wednesday. The suspects – Ty Reik McCullough, 17, and Travis McCullough, 16 – both from Tuskegee, were arrested and charged with four counts of reckless murder, Sergeant Jeremy Burkett of […]

By Khalid Abdelaziz and Nafisa Eltahir KHARTOUM/CAIRO (Reuters) -A new attempt at a ceasefire in fierce fighting between Sudanese troops and paramilitary forces in Khartoum failed on Wednesday, leaving people fearful about dwindling food supplies and a breakdown in medical services. The 24-hour ceasefire – lobbied for by countries trying to evacuate their citizens after days of conflict – was supposed to come into effect at 6 p.m. local time […]

WARSAW (Reuters) – Eighty years on from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising – the largest Jewish revolt against Nazi Germany during World War II – Poland marked the heroism of those who took part with a warning to the world against sowing hatred. In 1940, German Nazi occupiers corralled over 400,000 Jews into a small section of the Polish capital Warsaw; most were then sent to camps to be killed or […]

By Khalid Abdelaziz and Nafisa Eltahir KHARTOUM/CAIRO (Reuters) -A new attempt at a ceasefire in fierce fighting between Sudanese troops and paramilitary forces in Khartoum failed on Wednesday, leaving people fearful about dwindling food supplies and a breakdown in medical services. The 24-hour ceasefire – lobbied for by countries trying to evacuate their citizens after days of conflict – was supposed to come into effect at 6 p.m. local time […]

(Reuters) -An 84-year-old white man charged in the shooting and wounding of a Black teenager who mistakenly walked up to the man’s house in Kansas City pleaded not guilty to felony charges on Wednesday during his first court appearance in the case. Andrew Lester would face a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted of first-degree assault, as charged, for shooting Ralph Yarl, 16, on the doorstep of his […]

LONDON (Reuters) – British finance minister Jeremy Hunt said on Wednesday that Western countries and their allies should avoid the temptation to put up protectionist trade barriers in an attempt to gain an edge in technology. “The strategic choice the world faces is now do we all say ‘we’re going to do this on our own,’ and go back to protectionism, which would bring global growth back into the Dark […]

By Noel Randewich (Reuters) – Shares of Western Alliance Bancorp surged over 24% on Wednesday after the regional bank posted stronger-than-expected earnings and said its deposits had stabilized, helping allay fears that last month’s banking crisis could envelop more lenders. The Phoenix, Arizona bank was among several regional players punished by stock investors last month as consumers shifted their deposits into bigger institutions following the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. […]

By Jane Lanhee Lee OAKLAND, California, (Reuters) -Chip manufacturer GlobalFoundries Inc said on Wednesday it had filed a lawsuit against International Business Machines Corp, accusing it of unlawfully sharing confidential intellectual property and trade secrets. New York-based GlobalFoundries said in its complaint that IBM had shared IP and trade secrets with Rapidus, a new state-backed Japanese consortium that IBM is working with to develop and produce cutting-edge two-nanometre chips. It […]

By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) – The rest of the world should copy European Union rules for cryptoassets to create a robust global approach that protects consumers and financial stability, the EU’s financial services chief said on Wednesday. The European Parliament is due on Thursday to rubber stamp the EU’s markets in cryptoassets regulation (MiCA), the world’s first comprehensive set of rules for the hitherto unregulated sector. EU states have […]