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By Tommy Wilkes, Alexander Hübner and Tom Sims LONDON/FRANKFURT (Reuters) -A United Nations-convened climate alliance for insurers suffered at least three more departures on Thursday including the group’s chair, as insurance companies take fright in the face of opposition from U.S. Republican politicians. At least seven members of the Net-Zero Insurance Alliance (NZIA), which launched in 2021, have now left including five of the eight founding signatories. Departures on Thursday […]

By Supantha Mukherjee and Martin Coulter (Reuters) – OpenAI has no plans to leave Europe, CEO Sam Altman said on Friday, reversing a threat made earlier this week to leave the region if it becomes too hard to comply with upcoming laws on artificial intelligence. The EU is working on what could be the first set of rules globally to govern AI and Altman on Wednesday said the current draft […]

By Supantha Mukherjee (Reuters) – OpenAI has no plans to leave Europe, CEO Sam Altman said on Friday, reversing a threat made earlier this week to leave the region if it becomes too hard to comply with upcoming laws on artificial intelligence. The EU is working on what could be the first set of rules globally to govern AI and Altman on Wednesday said the current draft of the EU […]

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese startup ispace inc’s failed Hakuto-R moon landing mission last month was caused by an altitude miscalculation that meant the spacecraft ran out of fuel, the company said on Friday. Tokyo-based ispace lost connection with the Hakuto-R Mission 1 lander after the spacecraft attempted what would have been the world’s first commercial soft-landing on the moon’s surface. The crash was the latest setback in Japan’s space programme. […]

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese startup ispace inc’s failed Hakuto-R moon landing mission last month was caused by an altitude miscalculation that meant the spacecraft ran out of fuel, the company said on Friday. Tokyo-based ispace lost connection with the Hakuto-R Mission 1 lander after the spacecraft attempted what would have been the world’s first commercial soft-landing on the moon’s surface. The crash was the latest setback in Japan’s space programme. […]

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese startup ispace inc’s failed Hakuto-R moon landing mission last month was caused by an altitude miscalculation that meant the spacecraft ran out of fuel, the company said on Friday. Tokyo-based ispace lost connection with the Hakuto-R Mission 1 lander after the spacecraft attempted what would have been the world’s first commercial soft-landing on the moon’s surface. The crash was the latest setback in Japan’s space programme. The […]

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – At least 33 people suspected of attacking army installations during protests that followed the arrest of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan earlier this month have been handed over to the military for trials, Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah said on Friday. “The accused who are being handed over to the military are those who trespassed and entered very sensitive defense installations, so the question is that how […]

By Olena Harmash and Gleb Garanich KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine shot down 10 missiles and over 20 drones launched by Russia in overnight attacks on the capital Kyiv, the city of Dnipro and eastern regions, Ukrainian officials said on Friday. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s office said in a statement that a fire had broken out on the outskirts of the northeastern city of Kharkiv after an oil depot was hit twice, and […]

By Soo-hyang Choi and Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korean police have launched an investigation after Asiana Airlines said a passenger opened a door on a flight shortly before the aircraft landed safely in the city of Daegu on Friday. The Airbus A321 plane landed at Daegu airport at around 12:40 p.m. (0340 GMT) after departing from the island of Jeju an hour earlier, the airport’s flight schedule showed. […]