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By Pavel Polityuk and Pawel Florkiewicz KYIV (Reuters) -Kyiv aims to re-open food and grain transit via Poland as “a first step” to ending import bans at talks in Warsaw on Monday as countries halted grain from Ukraine to protect their local agriculture markets from an influx of supply. Poland and Hungary announced bans on some imports from Ukraine on Saturday. Slovakia said on Monday it would do the same […]

PARIS (Reuters) – A wildfire destroyed nearly 1,000 hectares on the French-Spanish border on Sunday and early Monday, authorities said, as parts of southern Europe remain gripped by a drought that is raising fears of a repeat of last summer’s exceptional conflagrations. The blaze, France’s first major wildfire this season, was brought under control early on Monday though not yet fully extinguished, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said, adding one firefighter […]

BERLIN (Reuters) – Luxembourg-based Freyr Battery sealed its partnership with Siemens at the Hannover Messe conference on Monday, making the German technology company its preferred supplier in automation and digitalization technology. Freyr plans to equip its planned gigafactories in Norway and the United States with Siemens technology, and the two companies will join forces along the entire battery design and manufacturing process, the firms said in a statement. “This relationship […]

(Reuters) – Sentenced on Monday to 25 years in prison on charges including treason, Vladimir Kara-Murza joined a growing list of Russians who have received long jail terms after speaking out against President Vladimir Putin or the invasion of Ukraine. Here are some of the most prominent cases. VLADIMIR KARA-MURZA Kara-Murza, 41, was convicted by a Moscow court over a series of interviews and speeches last year in which he […]

By Jeffrey Dastin (Reuters) – The artificial intelligence behind ChatGPT, the homework-drafting chatbot that some schools have banned, is coming to more students via the company Chegg Inc. The U.S. educational software maker has combined its corpus of quiz answers with the chatbot’s AI model known as GPT-4 to create CheggMate, a study aide tailored to students, CEO Dan Rosensweig told Reuters last week. “It’s a tutor in your pocket,” […]

By Noah Browning LONDON (Reuters) -Oil prices were steady on Monday as investors eyed Chinese economic data for signs of demand recovery in the world’s second-largest oil consumer. Brent crude futures were down 13 cents to $86.18 a barrel at 1018 GMT, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude was at $82.33 a barrel, down 19 cents. Both contracts notched their fourth weekly gain in a row last week – the […]

(Reuters) – Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza was jailed on Monday for a quarter of a century by a Moscow court for treason and other crimes after speaking out against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and lobbying Western nations to impose sanctions on Moscow. GRAIN DEAL * Kyiv was seeking to re-open food and grain transit via Poland as “a first step” at talks in Warsaw on Monday as more countries banned […]

By Eimi Yamamitsu, Mayu Sakoda and Tom Bateman TOKYO (Reuters) – An explosive thrown at Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at an election rally on Saturday has raised alarming questions about the state of VIP security, less than a year after a former premier was gunned down and weeks before Japan hosts G7 leaders. Kishida was about to speak at a by-election campaign event at a fishing harbour in Wakayama […]

(Reuters) – Five-time African champions Zamalek suffered another blow in a chaotic season as a local administrative court in Egypt ordered the removal of club president Mortada Mansour, days after the team appointed Colombian coach Juan Carlos Osorio. A local administrative court in Cairo ordered on Sunday to exclude Mansour from his post, as he has just served a one-month prison sentence over a defamation case against Al-Ahly president Mahmoud […]