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LONDON (Reuters) – NATO’s largest ever air deployment exercise, set to take place in June, is unlikely to lead to commercial flight cancellations, Europe’s lead air traffic manager said, after Germany’s aviation industry expressed worries that it could cause disruption. “We do not anticipate that there will be any need for air operators to make cancellations in order to accommodate the needs of the exercise,” Eurocontrol told Reuters in a […]

By Khalid Abdelaziz KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Fighting in Sudan eased on Tuesday and more foreigners and locals fled the capital Khartoum, where marauding combatants created what a U.N. agency said was a “high risk of biological hazard” by seizing a laboratory. The World Health Organization said one of the warring parties had taken control of a national health facility that stores measles and cholera pathogens for vaccinations, and ejected the […]

By Andrea Shalal and Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden’s campaign launch video promises to protect Americans’ personal freedoms, seizing a theme often embraced by Republicans, as he attacked “MAGA extremists” for targeting women’s reproductive choice, Social Security and voting rights. Closely watched for clues as to what shape Biden’s 2024 presidential re-election campaign will take, the video released on Tuesday suggests he will warn Republicans are threatening “bedrock […]

By Alan Baldwin LONDON (Reuters) – Formula One’s Saturday sprint races will become standalone events with a new ‘Shootout’ qualifying session replacing final practice at six grands prix in 2023, starting with Azerbaijan this weekend. The FIA Formula One commission, which includes the 10 teams, voted unanimously for the change at a meeting in Geneva on Tuesday. The decision was approved by an e-vote of the World Motor Sport Council. […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A group of nine Republican senators on Tuesday urged the Biden administration to impose sanctions on Huawei Cloud and other Chinese cloud service providers citing national security concerns, according to a letter seen by Reuters. The letter led by Republican Senator Bill Hagerty to the Commerce, State and Treasury departments said Chinese cloud computing companies “are increasingly engaging with foreign entities — in some cases sanctioned foreign […]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A group of nine Republican senators on Tuesday urged the Biden administration to impose sanctions on Huawei Cloud and other Chinese cloud service providers citing national security concerns, according to a letter seen by Reuters. The letter led by Republican Senator Bill Hagerty to the Commerce, State and Treasury departments said Chinese cloud computing companies “are increasingly engaging with foreign entities — in some cases sanctioned foreign […]

By Michael Holden and Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s Prince William settled a phone-hacking claim against Rupert Murdoch’s UK newspaper arm for a “huge sum” after a secret deal struck with Buckingham Palace, the heir’s younger brother Prince Harry said in court documents. Harry, the younger son of King Charles, is suing Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers (NGN) at the High Court in London for multiple unlawful acts allegedly committed on […]

BERLIN (Reuters) – Mercedes-Benz on Tuesday launched its last new combustion engine model – the next generation of the E-Class, which will be built in Germany and China and go on sale in Europe in the third quarter of this year. Follow-up models of the E-Class will be built on a new platform adapted for battery-powered cars, though this generation will already be available as a hybrid. “Building a battery […]

By Sriparna Roy and Bhanvi Satija (Reuters) – Biogen Inc said on Tuesday it will pause or discontinue at least four studies of experimental drugs to focus on more potentially lucrative options including its second Alzheimer’s treatment, Leqembi, in the latest attempt by the new CEO to trim costs. “We made good progress on the previous program that it amounts $1 billion of cost savings,” Chief Executive Christopher Viehbacker said […]