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By Muvija M LONDON (Reuters) – More than 11,000 police officers will patrol London’s streets for King Charles’ coronation on Saturday, the biggest ceremonial event staged in the British capital for 70 years, and they are well prepared to handle any incident, officials said on Wednesday. Security forces have spent months preparing for the event, which about 100 heads of state will attend as well as huge crowds of spectators. […]

By Medha Singh (Reuters) -Shares of mid-sized U.S. lenders attempted to bounce back in volatile trading on Wednesday following a two-day tumble after the failure of a third major regional bank in two months fanned investor anxiety over stress in the sector. PacWest Bancorp shares gained 2.1% in early trading after tumbling 28% to close at their lowest level on record on Tuesday. Western Alliance Bank advanced 1.2%, while Comerica […]

By Marie-Louise Gumuchian LONDON (Reuters) – Actor Cate Blanchett, a goodwill ambassador for the UN refugee agency, has called for more support for countries hosting people forcibly displaced from their homes to prevent “a forgotten crisis.” Blanchett, appointed a UNHCR goodwill ambassador in 2016, said it “was easy to forget” there were protracted conflicts around the world leading people to seek refuge elsewhere. The two-time Oscar winner travelled to Jordan […]

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s antitrust regulator was on Wednesday refused permission to appeal against a ruling that it had no power to open an investigation into Apple Inc’s mobile browser and cloud gaming services. Apple won an appeal in March against the decision by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to open a full investigation into the dominance of Apple and Alphabet Inc’s Google in mobile browsers. The Competition Appeal […]

By Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) – Russian former Formula One driver Nikita Mazepin is fighting British sanctions imposed following the invasion of Ukraine in a bid to resurrect his racing career. Nikita Mazepin was dropped last March by his team Haas, which also severed ties with its title sponsor Uralkali, a Russian fertiliser producer then controlled by his father, Belarus-born oligarch Dmitry Mazepin. Both were later sanctioned by the European […]

By Stephen Nellis (Reuters) – MosaicML, an artificial intelligence startup founded by former Intel Corp executives and academic researchers, released on Wednesday two new products aimed at beating industry giants such as OpenAI on price. San Francisco-based MosaicML, which has raised $64 million to date, launched in 2021 with a suite of software tools designed to make it cheaper to carry out artificial intelligence work, which often involves training AI […]

By Mohamed Nureldin Nafisa Eltahir KHARTOUM (Reuters) – U.N. aid chief Martin Griffiths said on Wednesday he was seeking assurances from Sudan’s warring factions on the safe delivery of aid after six trucks of humanitarian supplies were looted and air strikes in Khartoum undermined a new ceasefire. “We will still require agreements and arrangements to allow for movement of staff and supplies,” Griffiths said from Port Sudan, where many people […]

By Elizabeth Piper and Carlos Barria KHERSON (Reuters) -Russian forces killed eight civilians in attacks on the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson on Wednesday, striking a hypermarket and railway station in the regional capital and hitting villages nearby, officials said. Three were killed in an apparent artillery strike as people did their morning shopping in the hypermarket in the city of Kherson, the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office said. Local officials said […]

By Ankika Biswas and Sruthi Shankar (Reuters) -Wall Street’s main indexes were set to open higher on Wednesday after a selloff in the previous session, with investors awaiting more economic data ahead of the outcome of a Federal Reserve policy meeting later in the day. Major U.S. stock indexes dropped more than 1% on Tuesday as regional bank shares tumbled on renewed fears over the financial system and as investors […]