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(Reuters) – Pilots on the Air India plane that was stranded in Russia had received an indication of low oil pressure in one engine, forcing them to land at a nearby airport, the airline said on Thursday. Air India’s replacement flight to ferry passengers to the original destination of San Francisco landed on Thursday, with the airline mobilising additional support to carry out clearance formalities for passengers upon arrival, it […]

By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Ousted Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan was on Thursday due to appeal to several courts for bail on a growing list of charges against him in a bid to avert his arrest, which could risk a repeat of violent protests by his supporters. The 70-year-old former cricket hero who become prime minister in 2018 has been embroiled in a confrontation with the powerful military […]

By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Meta Platforms’ Instagram, Alphabet’s YouTube, TikTok and Twitter could face regulatory action after European consumer group BEUC complained to the European Commission and consumer authorities that the online platforms allegedly facilitate the misleading promotion of crypto assets. U.S. regulators suing crypto platforms Coinbase and Binance, along with last year’s collapse of FTX, have sparked concerns over consumer protection related to crypto assets such […]

By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) -Mines uprooted and dispersed by floodwaters surging downstream from the breached Kakhovka dam across swathes of southern Ukraine could pose a grave danger to civilians for decades to come, the Red Cross said. The vast Soviet-era Kakhovka dam, under Russian control, was breached in the early hours of Tuesday, unleashing floodwaters across a swathe of the warzone and endangering the lives and welfare of tens […]

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – EU industry chief Thierry Breton will meet Meta Platforms Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on June 23 and demand that he take immediate action to tackle online child-sex content as the company’s voluntary child protection code seems not to be working, an EU official said on Thursday. Breton will also warn Meta to demonstrate the measures it will take to comply with EU online content rules after Aug. […]

By Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Home affairs ministers from the European Union’s 27 member states gathered on Thursday to try get across the line an elusive agreement on how to share out the responsibility of caring for refugees and migrants. A tentative deal on the table comes after years of damaging feuds between EU states since their cooperation collapsed in acrimony in 2015 as more than a million people […]

TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia’s Defence Ministry said on Thursday it had lost contact with a helicopter that left for a night flight near Bizerte late on Wednesday with four crew on board. The ministry was searching land and sea areas to determine its location, it said. (editing by John Stonestreet) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

KYIV (Reuters) – About 600 square kilometres, or 230 square miles, of the Kherson region in southern Ukraine was under water on Thursday following the destruction of the Kakhovka hydroelectric dam, the regional governor said. Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said 68% of the flooded territory was on the Russian-occupied left bank of the Dnipro River. The “average level of flooding” in the Kherson region on Thursday morning was 5.61 metres (18.41 […]

By Brendan O’Boyle and Sarah Morland MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris will announce more than $100 million in new assistance for the Caribbean when she visits the Bahamas on Thursday, including the establishment of two U.S. embassies. Over $50 million will be spent on humanitarian aid for Haiti, a senior U.S. administration official said. Harris, the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit the Bahamas since its independence […]