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NEW DELHI/BEIJING (Reuters) -India said on Tuesday it rejected attempts by China to rename places in its eastern state of Arunachal Pradesh. “Arunachal Pradesh is, has been and will always be an integral and inalienable part of India,” foreign ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said on Twitter. Bagchi was responding to media reports that said China had renamed several places in Arunachal Pradesh. China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs on Sunday standardised […]

By Toby Sterling VOORSCHOTEN, Netherlands (Reuters) -At least one person was killed and 30 injured, many seriously, when a passenger train carrying about 50 people derailed in the Netherlands early on Tuesday after hitting a construction crane, officials said. Rescue teams were seen ferrying away the injured in pre-dawn darkness at the scene of the accident at Voorschoten, a village near The Hague. The accident happened around 3:25 a.m. (0125 […]

(Reuters) – New York prosecutors took a historic step last Thursday by filing criminal charges against Donald Trump, the first time this has happened to a former U.S. president. The decision by the Manhattan District Attorney to charge Trump for hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, during his 2016 campaign, is just one of the many probes facing the Republican as he makes another run at the White […]

By Noele Illien and John O’Donnell ZURICH (Reuters) -Credit Suisse will face shareholder anger on Tuesday at what will be its final annual general meeting after the bank was rescued last month by Swiss rival UBS. The hastily-arranged takeover by Zurich-based UBS, for which Switzerland invoked emergency legislation, bypassed Credit Suisse shareholders, who would otherwise have had a say, and largely wiped out the value of their holdings. Tuesday’s shareholder […]

(Reuters) – Former U.S. President Donald Trump is scheduled to be arraigned at a Manhattan courthouse on Tuesday following his indictment on criminal charges after a probe into hush money paid to a porn star. Below is an explanation of what it means to be indicted and arraigned, and other key terms related to Trump’s case. INDICTMENT An indictment is a court document containing charges that were voted on by […]

Reilly Smith scored the game-winner in the fifth round of a shootout and Pavel Dorofeyev netted two goals in regulation during the Vegas Golden Knights’ 4-3 victory over the Minnesota Wild on Monday in Saint Paul, Minn. Despite the defeat, the Wild clinched a playoff berth thanks to the point for the overtime loss plus the Nashville Predators’ 5-1 loss to the Dallas Stars. After Joel Eriksson Ek and Dorofeyev […]

By Joyce Lee and Scott Murdoch SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea’s SK Hynix has raised $1.7 billion in its first convertible bond sale in a decade, as the world’s second-largest memory chipmaker braces for deepening quarterly losses, hit by a sharp downturn in global semiconductor demand. The financing, the first such deal by the firm since it was acquired by energy to telecoms conglomerate SK Group in 2012, follows a […]

By Alasdair Pal MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will take up an unpaid role leading the country’s efforts against violent online extremism, the government said on Tuesday. Ardern stepped down as leader earlier this year, in a surprise decision that brought ally Chris Hipkins to power as head of the centre-left Labour Party. She will serve as special envoy for the Christchurch Call, a global […]

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit Holdings filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Tuesday after the satellite launch company failed to secure the long-term funding needed to help it recover from a January rocket failure. The Long Beach, California-based company lodged the filing in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware seeking a sale of its assets after announcing the layoff of roughly 85% of […]