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(Reuters) -First Republic Bank’s shares fell nearly 10% in premarket trading on Wednesday as analysts highlighted concerns about the troubled lender’s plans to turn around its business. The company’s shares were last trading at $7.34, paring some losses from a 27% plunge earlier in the day. The stock lost nearly half its value on Tuesday and will hit a record low for the second straight day if current levels hold. […]

(Corrects number of Bashir loyalists transferredto at least five, not 30, in paragraph 3) By Khalid Abdelaziz and Nadine Awadalla KHARTOUM (Reuters) -Sudan’s capital resounded with gunfire and explosions on the western outskirts on Wednesday, eroding a truce amid collapsing basic services, dwindling food supplies and the opening of a prison that let out allies of a jailed former autocrat. With the conflict between the army and the paramilitary Rapid […]

By Michele Kambas LARNACA, Cyprus (Reuters) -Britain has ramped up an airlift of its citizens out of war-torn Sudan to Cyprus, racing to evacuate as many as possible in a 72-hour ceasefire window, with possibly “multiple hundreds” to be flown out on Wednesday. Britain began the evacuation on Tuesday, following other nations in pulling people out of Sudan where clashes between the army and the RSF paramilitary group have killed […]

By Michele Kambas LARNACA, Cyprus (Reuters) -Britain has ramped up an airlift of its citizens out of war-torn Sudan to Cyprus, racing to evacuate as many as possible in a 72-hour ceasefire window, with possibly “multiple hundreds” to be flown out on Wednesday. Britain began the evacuation on Tuesday, following other nations in pulling people out of Sudan where clashes between the army and the RSF paramilitary group have killed […]

By Michele Kambas LARNACA, Cyprus (Reuters) -Britain has ramped up an airlift of its citizens out of war-torn Sudan to Cyprus, racing to evacuate as many as possible in a 72-hour ceasefire window, with possibly “multiple hundreds” to be flown out on Wednesday. Britain began the evacuation on Tuesday, following other nations in pulling people out of Sudan where clashes between the army and the RSF paramilitary group have killed […]

BHUBANESWAR (Reuters) – Ten policemen and a civilian driver were killed in a blast in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh on Wednesday as they were returning from an operation against ultra left-wing guerrillas in the state, local police officials said. Rebel Maoists are suspected of having carried out the attack in the state’s Dantewada district, they said. The victims were part of the District Reserve Guard (DRG). “When they […]

LARNACA, Cyprus (Reuters) – Britain ramped up an airlift of its citizens out of war-torn Sudan to Cyprus on Wednesday, racing to evacuate as many as possible in a 72-hour ceasefire window. Britain began the large-scale evacuation on Tuesday, following other nations in pulling people out of Sudan where clashes between the army and the RSF paramilitary group have killed at least 459 people since April 15. At least 240 […]

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -A research rocket launched by Sweden Space Corp (SSC) early on Monday from Esrange Space Center in northern Sweden malfunctioned and landed 15 km (9.32 miles) inside neighbouring Norway. The rocket reached an altitude of 250 kilometers (155.34 miles) where experiments were carried out in zero gravity, the agency said in a statement. “It landed in the mountains at 1,000 meters altitude, and 10 kilometers from the closest […]

By Olena Harmash KYIV (Reuters) – On the day Russia invaded Ukraine, Vlada Belozorenko, a Kyiv theatre director and public speaking coach who grew up speaking Russian, decided that all of her business would now be carried out exclusively in the Ukrainian language. A native of the southern, mainly Russian-speaking city of Kherson, she now has about 110,000 people following her on Instagram, where she posts short videos with tips […]