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(Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin met his commanders in two regions of Ukraine that Moscow claims to have annexed, while Russian forces stepped up artillery bombardments and air strikes on the devastated eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. POLITICS/DIPLOMACY * Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visited troops in the small eastern city of Avdiivka on Tuesday, thanked them for their service and was briefed by commanders on the battlefield situation, his […]

By Dawn Chmielewski and Lisa Richwine (Reuters) – Netflix Inc on Tuesday reported first-quarter revenue and earnings roughly in line with Wall Street expectations but offered a forecast below analyst estimates for the next three months. The streaming video pioneer began to reap the benefits of a crackdown on password sharing and the introduction of an ad-supported tier. From January through March, Netflix posted diluted earnings of $2.88 per share, […]

WILMINGTON, Delaware (Reuters) – Fox Corp and Fox News have resolved a defamation lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems, the judge in the case said on Tuesday, averting a high-profile trial putting one of the world’s top media companies in the crosshairs over its coverage of false vote-rigging claims in the 2020 U.S. election. The resolution, whose terms were not immediately disclosed, was announced at the 11th hour, with a 12-person […]

(Reuters) – Netflix Inc is winding down its DVD rental business, the company said in a blog post on Tuesday, ending the service it started around 25 years ago. The streaming service said the DVD business had been shrinking and it will not be able to continue to offer quality service. The company will ship the last discs on Sep. 29. Netflix, which was founded in 1997, started the DVD […]

By Lewis Krauskopf, Sruthi Shankar and Ankika Biswas (Reuters) – The S&P 500 ended little changed on Tuesday after a mixed performance from megacap stocks and disappointing quarterly reports from Johnson & Johnson and Goldman Sachs as first-quarter earnings season kicked into gear. J&J shares fell after the healthcare conglomerate cautioned investors over the lingering impact of inflation-driven costs this year. Goldman shares dropped after the Wall Street firm’s profit […]

(Reuters) – The Russian-installed head of the Moscow-controlled part of Ukraine’s Donetsk region met Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk on Tuesday and said he had discussed ways of boosting trade. Denis Pushilin, writing on Telegram, said he was interested in quarry equipment, tractors and buses as well as building products and furniture. In return, his region was ready to export grain to Belarus in addition to existing shipments of […]

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled unconstitutional the transfer of control over the country’s civilian-led National Guard to the Army, a move which had sparked fears from critics and activists of increasing militarization of public security. In a move backed by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Congress last year passed a reform to put the Army in control of the National Guard. The reform gave the […]

By Katharine Jackson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday expressed support for the Supreme Court’s chief justice as Democrats urge him to investigate luxury trips taken by Justice Clarence Thomas that were paid for by a Republican donor. “I have total confidence in the Chief Justice of the United States to deal with these court internal issues,” McConnell told reporters. Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats, in […]

By Alexander Marrow (Reuters) -Russia is “not yet” planning to block Wikipedia, its minister of digital affairs said on Tuesday as a Moscow court handed the online encyclopaedia another fine for failing to remove content Russia deems illegal. Wikipedia is one of the few surviving independent sources of information in Russian since a state crackdown on online content intensified after Moscow sent its armed forces into Ukraine. “We are not […]