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RIYADH (Reuters) – Syria’s Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad arrived in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, state media said, in a major signal that Syria’s decade-long regional isolation is nearing an end. Mekdad landed in the Saudi Red Sea city of Jeddah following an invitation from his Saudi counterpart Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, the Saudi foreign ministry said in a statement. It is the first visit by a senior Syrian […]

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -The head of Mexico’s immigration agency, Francisco Garduno, is under investigation over a deadly fire last month at a migrant detention center in the northern border city of Ciudad Juarez, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Wednesday. The Mexican attorney general’s office said on Tuesday it had launched a probe against the heads of the National Migration Institute (INM), without giving their full names. “There’s an […]

(Reuters) – Scottish Rugby will lower the tackle height to “below the sternum” in community rugby matches from next season on a trial basis, the governing body said on Wednesday. The trial follows last month’s recommendations from World Rugby, which encouraged member unions to join a global trial of lowering tackle height. “Scottish Rugby’s Rugby Development department were commissioned by the Club Rugby Board to conduct a series of online […]

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Commission on Wednesday said the proposed $61 billion takeover by U.S. chipmaker Broadcom of cloud computing company VMware could restrict competition in the market for certain hardware components. The commission said it had informed Broadcom of its preliminary view, which is the result of an in-depth investigation of the takeover that was opened late last year. Broadcom now has the opportunity to reply to the […]

By Sheila Dang (Reuters) – Snap Inc, owner of photo messaging app Snapchat, said on Wednesday it has hired a former Google executive to help the tech company improve the performance of its digital ads. Darshan Kantak, who previously led product management for search ads at Alphabet Inc’s Google, joins Snap as senior vice president of revenue product. Before Google, Kantak worked at Facebook-owner Meta Platforms Inc and Microsoft Corp. […]

By Sethuraman N R BENGALURU (Reuters) -Tata Consultancy Services said on Wednesday fourth-quarter results were weaker than it had expected as some of the IT company’s clients in the North American banking space deferred project spending amid the U.S. financial crisis. India’s top IT exporter flagged “a lot of uncertainty” in its banking, financial services and insurance segment over the near-term in the North American market as clients rushed to […]

By Jody Godoy and Helen Coster (Reuters) – A Fox Corp shareholder sued Chairman Rupert Murdoch and four other board members on Tuesday, saying they failed to stop Fox News from reporting falsehoods about the 2020 U.S. presidential election that damaged its credibility and prompted lawsuits. Shareholder Robert Schwarz alleged in the lawsuit filed in Delaware Chancery Court that the directors breached their duties to ensure that Fox followed its […]

By Steve Holland and Amanda Ferguson BELFAST (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden urged Northern Irish political leaders to restore their powersharing government with the promise that scores of major U.S. corporations were ready to invest in the region as he marked the 25th anniversary of peace in Belfast. Biden, who is fiercely proud of his Irish heritage, spent just over half a day in the UK region – where he […]

(Reuters) – Italy’s data protection agency said on Wednesday it would lift its temporary ban on OpenAI’s ChatGPT artificial intelligence (AI) technology if the U.S. company complied with data protection and privacy demands by end-April. Rapid advances in AI such as Microsoft-backed OpenAI’s ChatGPT are complicating governments’ efforts to agree on laws governing the use of the technology. Here are the latest steps national and international governing bodies are taking […]