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MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin said on Monday that there was a general tendency to always blame Russia for everything when asked about accusations that Moscow may have been behind a leak of U.S. intelligence documents about a number of countries including Ukraine. The U.S. national security community is grappling with fallout from the release of dozens of secret documents, including the impact on sensitive information-sharing within the government and ties […]

By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) -A Nashville-area county council may return to the statehouse one of two Democratic Tennessee lawmakers who were expelled from the chamber last week over a gun control protest when it meets on Monday to fill the vacant seat. Republicans who control the state House of Representatives on Thursday voted to kick out Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, two Black men who recently joined the legislature, over […]

(Reuters) -Vodafone said it was working to resolve an outage that had affected some UK users of its home broadband service on Monday. Downdetector’s UK website said more than 2,800 mostly landline users were having trouble accessing Vodafone at the peak of the outage. “Getting our customers reconnected is now our top priority, and we’re incredibly sorry for any inconvenience this is causing,” Vodafone said in a tweet, adding in […]

(Reuters) -Vodafone said it was working to resolve an outage that had affected some UK users of its home broadband service on Monday. Downdetector’s UK website said more than 2,800 mostly landline users were having trouble accessing Vodafone at the peak of the outage. “Getting our customers reconnected is now our top priority, and we’re incredibly sorry for any inconvenience this is causing,” Vodafone said in a tweet, adding in […]

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Ukraine’s deputy foreign minister on Monday said Kyiv has sought a visit by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other top officials while adding that the South Asian country should be more involved in resolving the war in Ukraine. Emine Dzhaparova told broadcaster CNBC TV18 in an interview that it was expected India will invite Ukrainian officials to participate in G20 events in September while adding […]

By Helen Coster and Jack Queen (Reuters) – One of the most closely watched U.S. defamation cases in decades is set to begin on Thursday as a Delaware court picks a jury to decide whether Fox News should pay Dominion Voting Systems $1.6 billion for spreading election-rigging falsehoods. A critical task for jurors over the five-week trial will be deciding who was responsible for the cable network’s decision to broadcast […]

By Leika Kihara and Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s new central bank governor Kazuo Ueda said he wants more time to judge whether wage growth will be sustained enough to keep inflation stably at the bank’s 2% target, suggesting he will be in no rush to dial back its massive stimulus. Ueda faces a bumpy road as slowing global growth clouds the prospects for a sustained pickup in inflation […]

By Sruthi Shankar and Ankika Biswas (Reuters) – U.S. stock index futures were subdued on Monday on growing risks that the Federal Reserve will continue to hike interest rates after Friday’s jobs data highlighted a still-strong labor market. Nasdaq 100 futures were down slightly, with growth stocks including Apple Inc, Amazon.com Inc and Microsoft Corp slipping in premarket trade. U.S. employers maintained a strong pace of hiring in March, data […]

By Joey Roulette and Kevin Krolicki (Reuters) -As the fortunes of Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit were crashing to Earth last month, a little-known investor called Matthew Brown appeared offering a $200 million rescue.     Within two days of being contacted by Brown, Virgin Orbit Chief Executive Dan Hart had secured board backing for a preliminary agreement with the 33-year-old Texas-based investor, according to related documents and email exchanges reviewed by Reuters […]