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(Reuters) – Tesla’s Model S and Model X were not available for order in some Asia-Pacific countries, including Australia, Thailand, Singapore and New Zealand, the automaker’s website showed on Sunday. Other Tesla Inc models, such as Model 3 and Model Y were available in these countries, according to the website. It was not immediately clear why these models were not available. Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for […]

(Reuters) – Tesla’s Model S and Model X were not available for order in some Asia-Pacific countries, including Australia, Thailand, Singapore and New Zealand, the automaker’s website showed on Sunday. Other Tesla Inc models, such as Model 3 and Model Y were available in these countries, according to the website. It was not immediately clear why these models were not available. Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for […]

By Ellen Zhang and Ryan Woo BEIJING (Reuters) -China’s manufacturing activity unexpectedly shrank in April, official data showed on Sunday, raising pressure on policymakers seeking to boost an economy struggling for a post-COVID lift-off amid subdued global demand and persistent property weakness. The official manufacturing purchasing managers’ index (PMI) was 49.2, down from 51.9 in March, according to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, below the 50-point mark that […]

(Reuters) -Twitter accounts of Indian broadcaster NDTV and the country’s ANI news agency were restored on Saturday after both said earlier in the day that their main Twitter accounts had been locked, without specifying a reason for the suspensions. ANI’s restored Twitter handle tweeted that their account seemed to be functioning. “Inconvenience regretted for the temporary outage”, they said. NDTV’s Twitter account was also back up. Searches on Twitter for […]

By Chris Prentice, Saeed Azhar, Lananh Nguyen and Paritosh Bansal (Reuters) – U.S. regulators are trying to clinch a sale of First Republic Bank over the weekend, with roughly half a dozen banks bidding, sources said on Saturday, in what is likely to be the third major U.S. bank to fail in two months. Citizens Financial Group Inc, PNC Financial Services Group and JPMorgan Chase & Co are among bidders […]

By Chris Prentice, Saeed Azhar, Lananh Nguyen and Paritosh Bansal (Reuters) -U.S. regulators are trying to clinch a sale of First Republic Bank over the weekend, with roughly half a dozen banks bidding, sources said on Saturday, in what is likely to be the third major U.S. bank to fail in two months. Citizens Financial Group Inc, PNC Financial Services Group and JPMorgan Chase & Co are among bidders vying […]

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia on Saturday promised it would respond harshly to what it said was Poland’s illegal seizure of its embassy school in Warsaw, an act it called a flagrant violation of the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations. Polish state-run news channel TVP Info had earlier reported that police had showed up outside the Russian embassy school on Kielecka street in Warsaw on Saturday morning. When asked about the incident, […]

(Corrects spelling of street in paragraph 2 to Kielecka) MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia on Saturday promised it would respond harshly to what it said was Poland’s illegal seizure of its embassy school in Warsaw, an act it called a flagrant violation of the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations. Polish state-run news channel TVP Info had earlier reported that police had showed up outside the Russian embassy school on Kielecka street in […]

(Reuters) -A man shot dead five neighbors including an 8-year-old boy after some of them had asked him to stop shooting a semiautomatic rifle in his front yard in Cleveland, Texas, because it was keeping their baby awake, police said on Saturday. Police were still looking for the suspect, who used an AR-15-style rifle in the shooting late inside the neighbors’ home on Friday, San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers […]