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OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canada has agreed to provide up to C$13 billion ($9.7 billion) in subsidies and a C$700 million grant to lure Volkswagen AG into building its North American battery plant in the country, a government source said on Thursday. The total Canadian investment, which could also include funds from the Ontario government, will largely match what Volkswagen would have got from the United States through the Inflation Reduction Act […]

OTTAWA (Reuters) -Canada has agreed to provide up to C$13 billion ($9.7 billion) in subsidies and a C$700 million grant to lure Volkswagen AG into building its North American battery plant in the country, a government source said on Thursday. The total Canadian investment, which could also include funds from the Ontario government, will largely match what Volkswagen would have got from the United States through the Inflation Reduction Act […]

KYIV (Reuters) -A flash of light that lit up the night sky above wartime Kyiv has led to widespread confusion, public speculation about what caused it, and lighthearted jokes about space aliens in a city more accustomed to Russian missile attacks. Video clips posted on social media showed the sky over the Ukrainian capital suddenly illuminated by a bright light late on Wednesday. In one clip, a flaming object appeared […]

KYIV (Reuters) -A flash of light that lit up the night sky above wartime Kyiv has led to widespread confusion, public speculation about what caused it, and lighthearted jokes about space aliens in a city more accustomed to Russian missile attacks. Video clips posted on social media showed the sky over the Ukrainian capital suddenly illuminated by a bright light late on Wednesday. In one clip, a flaming object appeared […]

By Joe Skipper and Steve Gorman BOCA CHICA, Texas (Reuters) -An uncrewed test flight of SpaceX’s next-generation Starship spacecraft exploded minutes after liftoff from South Texas on Thursday, cutting short a key step in Elon Musk’s development of a rocket vessel to eventually take humans to the moon and Mars. The test flight was the first for Starship mounted atop the company’s new Super Heavy rocket booster, which SpaceX has […]

By Joe Skipper and Steve Gorman BOCA CHICA, Texas (Reuters) -An uncrewed test flight of SpaceX’s next-generation Starship spacecraft exploded minutes after liftoff from South Texas on Thursday, cutting short a key step in Elon Musk’s development of a rocket vessel to eventually take humans to the moon and Mars. The test flight was the first for Starship mounted atop the company’s new Super Heavy rocket booster, which SpaceX has […]

KAMPALA (Reuters) -Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni supports a bill containing some of the world’s harshest anti-LGBTQ legislation but sent it back to parliament on Thursday for “strengthening”, the ruling party chief whip said. A group of lawmakers from Museveni’s ruling National Resistance Movement discussed the bill with the president and agreed in principle to sign the bill into law, chief whip Denis Hamson Obua said. “Before that is done we […]

KAMPALA (Reuters) -Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni supports a bill containing some of the world’s harshest anti-LGBTQ legislation but sent it back to parliament on Thursday for “strengthening”, the ruling party chief whip said. A group of lawmakers from Museveni’s ruling National Resistance Movement discussed the bill with the president and agreed in principle to sign the bill into law, chief whip Denis Hamson Obua said. “Before that is done we […]

By Alan Baldwin LONDON (Reuters) – Haas boss Guenther Steiner has famously not watched the Netflix ‘Drive to Survive’ docu-series that made him a cult hero for a new wave of Formula One fans, but he has read every word of ‘Surviving to Drive’. The ghost-written book, published in Britain on Thursday and with a foreword by Formula One chief executive Stefano Domenicali, records Steiner’s 2022 season in typically unfiltered […]