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By David Stanway SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Global reservoir volumes fell during the last 20 years despite a construction boom that drove up storage capacity, a new study showed on Tuesday, suggesting that new dams will not be enough to solve growing strain on the world’s water supplies. Satellite data showed that water sequestered in 7,245 reservoirs across the world fell from 1999 to 2018, despite a 28 cubic kilometre annual […]

By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Twenty-two U.S. service members were injured in a helicopter “mishap” in northeastern Syria on Sunday, the U.S. military said late on Monday, without disclosing the cause of the incident or detailing the severity of the injuries. U.S. Central Command said 10 service members were evacuated to higher-level care facilities outside the region. Central Command, which oversees U.S. troops in the Middle East, said no enemy […]

MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) – Silver Lake will no longer make its 2.36 billion euro offer to invest in Germany’s Software AG conditional on the private equity firm acquiring more than 50% of the shares, according to a mandatory disclosure issued on Tuesday. By midday on Tuesday, the investor had only secured 30.5% of shares, despite support from Software AG’s management. By waiving the 50% threshold condition, the offer is automatically […]

By Guy Faulconbridge and Vladimir Soldatkin MOSCOW (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that for now he saw no need for an additional mobilisation of men to fight in Ukraine but said it all depended on what Russia wanted to achieve there and he asked if Moscow’s forces should try to take Kyiv again. “There is no such need today,” Putin told a televised meeting of Russian war correspondents […]

By Foo Yun Chee (Reuters) – European Union antitrust regulators may order Alphabet Inc’s Google to sell a part of its advertising-technology business, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters on Monday. The EU’s top antitrust watchdog, the European Commission, could issue a formal charge sheet against Google as early as Wednesday, the source said, further intensifying trans-Atlantic efforts to diminish the tech giant’s dominance in digital […]

By Vitalii Hnidyi NESKUCHNE, Ukraine (Reuters) -Ukraine’s blue and yellow flag flew over a ruined grocery store and Russian soldiers lay dead in the street of the village of Neskuchne, reached by Reuters journalists on Tuesday in the first independent confirmation of Ukraine’s biggest advances for seven months. Not a single resident could be found in Neskuchne, one of a cluster of settlements on the Mokry Yali river that Ukraine […]

By Guy Faulconbridge and Vladimir Soldatkin MOSCOW (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that for now he saw no need for an additional mobilisation of men to fight in Ukraine but said it all depended on what Russia wanted to achieve there and he asked if Moscow’s forces should try to take Kyiv again. “There is no such need today,” Putin told a televised meeting of Russian war correspondents […]

By Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s government was under-prepared and failed to anticipate measures needed to protect the vulnerable, an official inquiry heard on Tuesday, as its chair pledged to put the bereaved at the heart of her work. Former prime minister Boris Johnson ordered the investigation after Britain recorded one of the world’s highest death tolls. More than 175,000 deaths from the novel coronavirus had been reported by the […]

By Jack Queen (Reuters) – Here is a look at the charges former President Donald Trump faces and his possible defenses over what prosecutors say was his illegal retention of classified documents at his Florida estate after leaving the White House in 2021. WHAT IS TRUMP ACCUSED OF DOING? Trump was charged in an indictment with 37 criminal counts for charges including violations of the Espionage Act, conspiracy to obstruct […]