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By Kirsty Needham and Lewis Jackson SYDNEY (Reuters) – The lawyer for an Australian charged with foreign interference said his client had become “very worried” about two alleged foreign intelligence agents while living in Shanghai and returned to Australia after a decade-long career in China.     Marketing executive Alexander Csergo, 55, was arrested in the beachside suburb of Bondi on Friday and is the second person charged under Australia’s foreign […]

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The extension of a deal allowing the safe Black Sea export of Ukrainian grain and fertilizers beyond May 18 hangs in the balance after Russia issued a list of demands linked to a related agreement on its own such exports. Here are details on the deals brokered by the United Nations and Turkey and signed in Istanbul in July last year, along with […]

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The extension of a deal allowing the safe Black Sea export of Ukrainian grain and fertilizers beyond May 18 hangs in the balance after Russia issued a list of demands linked to a related agreement on its own such exports. Here are details on the deals brokered by the United Nations and Turkey and signed in Istanbul in July last year, along with […]

By Helen Coster WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) -The start of Dominion Voting Systems’ $1.6 billion defamation trial against Fox has been pushed back by a day, the judge said on Sunday, with a source familiar with the matter saying the media giant was pursuing settlement talks. The source, who was not authorized to speak publicly, told Reuters that Fox was seeking a possible settlement. The Washington Post and the Wall Street […]

BENGALURU (Reuters) – Infosys Ltd shares slumped as much as 10% on Monday to their lowest level in over two years after the IT services exporter forecast revenue growth this fiscal would be the slowest in six years and missed profit estimates for the fourth quarter. India’s second-largest IT services firm on Thursday said it expects revenue growth of 4%-7% for the fiscal year ending March 2024, well below analysts’ […]

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Sega Sammy Holdings Inc said on Monday it was considering acquiring Finland’s Rovio Entertainment Oyj but that nothing had been decided yet, sending its shares lower amid investor doubts about synergy prospects. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Sega Sammy was nearing a deal to buy the Finnish firm behind the mobile game Angry Birds for about $1 billion. Rovio has said it was […]

(Reuters) – China is willing to work with Russia to forge close strategic communications between their militaries, Chinese state media reported Minister of Defence Li Shangfu as saying. Li met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Sunday. GRAIN IMPORTS * Unilateral action on trade by European Union member states is unacceptable, a European Commission spokesperson said, after Poland and Hungary announced bans on grain and other food imports from […]

(Reuters) – China is willing to work with Russia to forge close strategic communications between their militaries, Chinese state media reported Minister of Defence Li Shangfu as saying. Li met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Sunday. GRAIN IMPORTS * Unilateral action on trade by European Union member states is unacceptable, a European Commission spokesperson said, after Poland and Hungary announced bans on grain and other food imports from […]

(Reuters) – Myanmar’s junta released 3,113 prisoners, including 98 foreigners, to mark the country’s traditional New Year on Monday, according to a statement from the military government published on pro-military Telegram channels. The military-led government has jailed thousands of opponents and pro-democracy activists since it seized power in 2021 and brutally put down protests, drawing global condemnation. Lieutenant General Aung Lin Dwe, a state secretary of the junta, said in […]