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By John Irish PARIS (Reuters) -France’s foreign minister said on Tuesday that France had prevented a hybrid digital attack on her ministry’s website likely carried out by Russian state-linked actors, along with attacks on other government websites and French media sites. Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna also said France believed there was a broader campaign of spreading disinformation in France by Russian protagonists. “This campaign is notably based upon creating fake […]

By Shadia Nasralla LONDON (Reuters) -Oil prices rose on Tuesday on apparent bargain hunting, recovering some ground from the previous day’s plunge. But gains were limited as investors remained cautious ahead of key policy decisions by central banks and on weak economic data from China. Brent crude futures climbed $2.28, or 3.2%, to $74.12 a barrel by 1330 GMT. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude was at $69.22 a barrel, […]

PARIS (Reuters) – France prevented an attack on its foreign ministry website () that was likely carried out by Russian or Russian-speaking individuals, said a statement from French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna. Colonna’s statement on Tuesday said authorities had prevented an identity-hack attempt on that site, and that France believed there was a broader campaign of spreading dis-information in France from Russian parties. (Reporting by John Irish; Editing by Sudip […]

By Jane Lanhee Lee OAKLAND, California(Reuters) – Silicon Valley-based AI chip startup SiMa.ai on Tuesday said it raised an additional $13 million from investors including a key fund in Taiwan called VentureTech Alliance, which has a strong strategic partnership with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. This is at least the third investment in U.S. chip startups by VentureTech Alliance in the past month. In May, VentureTech invested when Ayar Labs raised […]

By Milounee Purohit BENGALURU (Reuters) – The Bank of Canada will raise interest rates again in July to 5.00% after a surprise 25 basis point increase last week, according to economists polled by Reuters, who unanimously said the main risk was the central bank might have to do more. In the run-up to the BoC’s shock move on June 7, most economists said there would be no further hikes this […]

KYIV (Reuters) – United Nations nuclear chief Rafael Grossi was due in Kyiv on Tuesday on a trip to meet President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and visit Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant after a huge river dam nearby was destroyed last week. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Sunday it needed access to a site near the plant to check water levels after the reservoir lost a large portion of […]

By Jack Queen and Jacqueline Thomsen MIAMI (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Donald Trump was due to appear in federal court in Miami on Tuesday to face criminal charges that he unlawfully kept national-security documents when he left office and lied to officials who sought to recover them. It will be the second courtroom visit for Trump since April, when he pleaded not guilty to charges in New York stemming […]

By Sumit Khanna and Rajendra Jadhav AHMEDABAD/MUMBAI (Reuters) -Four boys drowned in rough seas off the western Indian financial hub of Mumbai on Tuesday as India and Pakistan began evacuating people from coastal areas, two days before a cyclone is expected to make landfall. Classified as a very severe cyclonic storm, Biparjoy is expected to land around Thursday evening between Mandvi in India’s Gujarat province and Karachi in southern Pakistan. […]

PRISTINA (Reuters) – Kosovo’s prime minister on Tuesday presented a plan to defuse tensions in its Serb-majority north that would include fresh local elections and cuts in special police, bowing to pressure from key Western supporters of its independence. Kosovo police meanwhile said they arrested a Serb identified by Pristina as an organiser of attacks on NATO peacekeepers who deployed in the north last month amid violent Serb unrest over […]