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By Sharon Bernstein and Julia Harte (Reuters) – The desperate rush by a rookie policeman and his training officer to bring a mass shooting at a Kentucky bank to a halt was captured in spare but dramatic detail in footage from their body cameras, released by authorities on Tuesday. The footage, shown by the Louisville Metropolitan Police Department during an afternoon briefing and which the police posted on Twitter later, […]

By Suleiman Al-Khalidi, James Mackenzie and Parisa Hafezi AMMAN (Reuters) – Iran has used earthquake relief flights to bring weapons and military equipment into its strategic ally Syria, nine Syrian, Iranian, Israeli and Western sources said.     The sources told Reuters that the goal was to buttress Iran’s defences against Israel in Syria and to strengthen Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Reuters is the first to report this development. After the Feb. […]

(Reuters) -Twitter Inc CEO Elon Musk said on Wednesday the social media company is “roughly breaking even,” as most of its advertisers have returned. He made the comments in an interview with BBC broadcast live on Twitter Spaces that attracted more than 3 million listeners. Twitter has been hit by a massive decline in advertising since Musk acquired the company for $44 billion in October. Musk had said that was […]

OSLO (Reuters) – Truck maker AB Volvo reported record first-quarter profits as revenue and margins rose, a preliminary filing showed late on Tuesday, in a sign the Swedish company had begun to overcome bottlenecks and inflation that hampered the industry. The group’s adjusted January-March operating profit rose 45% year-on-year to 18.4 billion Swedish crowns ($1.76 billion), exceeding the mean expectation of 12.9 billion crowns in a Refinitiv poll of analysts. […]

(Reuters) -Twitter Inc CEO Elon Musk said on Wednesday the social media company is “roughly breaking even,” as most of its advertisers have returned. He made the comments in an interview with BBC broadcast live on Twitter Spaces that attracted more than 3 million listeners. Twitter has been hit by a massive decline in advertising since Musk acquired the company for $44 billion in October. Musk had said that was […]

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican prosecutors have launched criminal proceedings against top immigration officials as they investigate a fire that killed 40 migrants in a detention center last month, the Attorney General’s office said on Tuesday. The people include the head of Mexico’s National Migration Institute (INM), Francisco Garduno, and the agency’s top representative in the northern state of Chihuahua where the fire occurred, Salvador Gonzalez, said two sources familiar […]

By Liz Lee and Ben Blanchard BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) -China said on Wednesday that President Tsai Ing-wen was pushing Taiwan into “stormy seas” after Beijing held military exercises in response to Tsai’s recent meeting with U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in California. Tsai said the overseas trip, which included the meeting with McCarthy in the U.S. and stops in Guatemala and Belize, showed the world Taiwan’s determination to defend freedom and […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Tuesday Russia’s detention of Evan Gershkovich and denial of consular access to the Wall Street Journal reporter sends a message that people around the world should “beware of even setting foot” in Russia. Blinken, who formally designated Gershkovich as “wrongfully detained” on Monday, said U.S. consular officials had not had access to the journalist since his detention on March […]

By Sarah Wu and Ben Blanchard TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan’s TSMC has not changed the investment plan for its new chip factory in the island’s southern city of Kaohsiung, Economy Minister Wang Mei-hua said on Wednesday, responding to a media report of the chipmaker slowing down expansion at home. “TSMC making Taiwan its global R&D hub and manufacturing hub has not changed,” Wang told reporters on the sidelines of parliament. […]