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By Andrew Osborn (Reuters) – Russian security forces are conducting a counter-terrorism operation in a region bordering Ukraine for a second day to counter an incursion from what Russia calls “Ukrainian armed groups”, officials said on Tuesday. In what appeared to be one of the biggest border penetrations from Ukraine since the war began 15 months ago, two purported anti-Kremlin armed groups employing Russians based abroad said they were responsible […]

BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Relations between Hungary and Sweden must improve before the Nordic state’s bid for NATO membership is approved, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said at the Qatar Economic Forum on Tuesday. Sweden and its neighbour Finland asked to join the NATO military alliance last year following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But Sweden’s application has been held up by Turkey and Hungary, with Budapest citing grievances over Swedish criticism […]

Beirut (Reuters) -Lebanon has been verbally informed by Germany of an arrest warrant against Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh “on charges of corruption, forgery… and money laundry and embezzlement”, a senior judicial source told Reuters on Tuesday. No one at the German federal prosecution was immediately available to comment. Last Friday, France’s national financial prosecutor confirmed in a statement that it has issued an arrest warrant for Salameh. Salameh has […]

By James Oliphant and Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) – If Ron DeSantis hopes to defeat Donald Trump and win the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, he will ultimately have to bring every possible anti-Trump voter he can into the fold. But even that likely will not be enough, political analysts say. DeSantis will also have to pull some supporters away from Trump — and that could make for a tricky balancing […]

By Hritika Sharma (Reuters) – Reigning world champion Ding Liren and top-ranked Magnus Carlsen will participate in next month’s inaugural franchise-based Global Chess League (GCL), organisers said on Tuesday. The tournament will run from June 21 to July 2 in Dubai and feature six teams of six players each, including a minimum of two female players and an “icon” player per team. Carlsen and Ding will join as two of […]

By Karen Freifeld (Reuters) – Donald Trump will appear in a New York courtroom by video on Tuesday, where a judge is expected to make clear to him that he cannot publicly disclose certain evidence in the criminal case against him over hush money paid to a porn star. Justice Juan Merchan in Manhattan state court agreed to let the former U.S. president appear remotely, avoiding a repeat of the […]

By Praveen Menon SYDNEY (Reuters) -Thousands of overseas Indians cheered Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a rally in one of Sydney’s biggest sporting arenas on Tuesday, a rare mass showing for a foreign leader in Australia. Modi, who is visiting Australia for the first time since 2014, will look to use his popularity among expatriate Indians to boost support at home ahead of a general election next year, after his […]

A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan Amid all the hand-wringing over the debt ceiling row and background banking anxiety, the U.S. economy is holding up well enough to embolden Federal Reserve hawks once again. Assumptions about first-quarter and full-year S&P500 aggregate earnings contractions are being revised away alongside euro zone and British recession forecasts, AI and chip-led investment is picking up steam […]

By Milana Vinn and David French NEW YORK (Reuters) – NCR Corp, the ATM and financial software vendor preparing to break into two companies, is considering a sale of its digital banking business that could be worth more than $2 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. The company has held talks with its financial advisers about the possibility of launching a sale process for the digital banking unit, […]