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KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine’s state security agency has served businessman Dmytro Firtash and top managers of companies he controls with “notices of suspicion” of embezzlement, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said in a statement on Monday. A representative for Firtash, who is currently in Vienna, did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment. The SBU said that, acting with the Economic Security Bureau (BEB), it had uncovered the […]

By Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s Move Forward party announced on Monday that it had sufficient votes to form a coalition government but a military-appointed Senate, the party’s position on a royal insult law and a complaint against its leader may stand in the way. Pita Limjareonrat, 42, led the Move Forward party to a stunning victory in Sunday’s general election, winning the highest number of seats, ahead of […]

By Harry Robertson and Kevin Buckland LONDON/TOKYO (Reuters) – The U.S. dollar fell slightly from a five-week high on Monday after a period of strength that has confused analysts. Meanwhile, The Turkish lira sank to a near record low as weekend elections looked headed for a runoff, while the Thai baht rallied after a more decisive election result. The euro was up 0.24% against the dollar on Monday at $1.087, […]

KHARTOUM (Reuters) – The Sudanese army carried out air strikes on Monday along the River Nile in the north of the capital Khartoum as it fought to push back its paramilitary rivals after a month of warfare, witnesses said. Intense battles in Khartoum and its sister cities of Bahri and Omdurman have raged despite Saudi and U.S.-brokered talks between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the […]

By Orhan Coskun and Birsen Altayli ANKARA (Reuters) – President Tayyip Erdogan has defied predictions of his political demise with a strong showing in Turkish elections, weathering his toughest test yet at the polls by mobilising conservative voters who could now propel him to a third decade in power. Though Erdogan has yet to clinch victory – he must first win a May 28 runoff against his challenger Kemal Kilicdaroglu […]

By David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden’s administration and Republicans in the U.S. Congress are in talks to end their standoff over raising the $31.4 trillion debt ceiling, haggling over vastly different proposals that both claim to cut deficits by trillions of dollars. Democrat Biden’s full $6.8 trillion fiscal 2024 budget request doubles down on his economic agenda to shrink inequality, with pre-K, childcare and more healthcare. It […]

(Reuters) -Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of Russia’s Wagner private militia, on Monday dismissed a report in the Washington Post, sourced to a U.S. intelligence leak, that he had offered to reveal the position of Russian troops to the Ukrainian government. Wagner’s soldiers have been at the forefront of a bloody Russian offensive to take the city of Bakhmut. The Post reported that Prigozhin in January offered to tell Ukrainian intelligence the […]

By Diane Bartz and Jeffrey Dastin WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers are grappling with what guardrails to put around burgeoning artificial intelligence, but months after ChatGPT got Washington’s attention, consensus is far from certain. Interviews with a U.S. senator, congressional staffers, AI companies and interest groups show there are a number of options under discussion. Some proposals focus on AI that may put people’s lives or livelihoods at risk, like […]

By Norihiko Shirouzu, Paul Lienert and Victoria Waldersee (Reuters) – Tesla Inc’s new vehicle-assembly system, which created instant buzz when it was unveiled in March, ignited a debate among auto manufacturing experts on whether CEO Elon Musk’s so-called unboxed process is radical, revisionist or derivative – or all of the above. Musk believes the company needs to radically rethink conventional manufacturing methods in order to build more affordable – and […]