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By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) -Firefighters and army personnel were working on Tuesday to douse a massive fire that raged through a shopping complex with 3,000 shops in Bangladesh’s capital of Dhaka, fire officials said. There were no casualties reported so far in the fire, which began in the early hours of Tuesday morning, but army personnel had been called in to help after flames spread rapidly in the cramped, […]

By Luc Cohen (Reuters) -Donald Trump was indicted by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office following an investigation related to hush money payments to a porn star who has said she had a sexual relationship with him, a law enforcement source said, becoming the first former U.S. president to face criminal charges. Below is a timeline of events leading up to the charges: JANUARY 2018 The Wall Street Journal reports that […]

By VarunVyas Hebbalalu BENGALURU (Reuters) – Walmart Inc-backed digital payments firm PhonePe Pvt Ltd launched an app called Pincode on the Indian government’s open network on Tuesday to strengthen its e-commerce business. The Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) was launched last year to enable small merchants and local stores across India to access processes and technologies typically deployed by large e-commerce platforms like Amazon and Walmart. Pincode, which will […]

(Reuters) – A Russian businessman who fled house arrest in Italy, where he was facing extradition to the United States, has told the state-run RIA Novosti news agency he is back in Russia. Artem Uss was arrested in Italy and was due to face charges in the United States of shipping oil from Venezuela in breach of sanctions, and of bank fraud. He escaped from house arrest at his home […]

By Yiannis Kourtoglou (Reuters) – High school students and their tutors in Cyprus have developed a prototype robot powered with ChatGPT artificial intelligence technology to harness and improve teaching experiences in the classroom. Named AInstein, the squat robot created by three Pascal Schools in Cyprus stands roughly the size of a small adult and looks like a sculpted version of the Michelin Man. It is powered with ChatGPT, a chatbot […]

By Julia Harte (Reuters) -Adult film star Stormy Daniels has built a lucrative business empire around her alleged 2006 sexual encounter with former President Donald Trump and earned legions of fans for her breezy retorts to those who cast her as an immoral woman. Her popularity and profits appeared to get a boost with the news of Trump’s indictment on Thursday in a case involving a $130,000 hush payment she […]

Groups Slam Israeli Government for ‘Medieval’ Backslide on Women’s Rights As country focuses on judicial overhaul, groups warn that slew of bills could set gender equality back centuries By Maya Margit/The Media Line Israel is poised to dramatically backslide on women’s rights if the government fails to pass several key pieces of legislation, rights groups have warned. With all eyes on the controversial judicial reforms that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin […]

By Martin Coulter LONDON (Reuters) – Hundreds of Google employees staged a walkout at the company’s London offices on Tuesday, following a dispute over layoffs. In January, Google’s parent company Alphabet announced it was laying off 12,000 employees worldwide, equivalent to 6% of its global workforce. The move came amid a wave of job cuts across corporate America, particularly in the tech sector, which has so far seen companies shed […]

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – The World Bank sharply lowered Pakistan’s current year growth forecast, saying the country’s economic growth prospects have weakened due to tighter financial conditions and limited fiscal space. The World Bank now expects Pakistan’s economy to grow 0.4% in the current year, from its October forecast of 2% growth. The bleaker forecast assumes an agreement is reached with the International Monetary Fund for bailout funds, it said. […]