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(Reuters) – Utilities firm Dominion Energy Inc will buy Longroad Energy’s 108 megawatt solar project in Virginia, the U.S.-based renewable energy developer said on Tuesday. The solar project, called Foxhound, has been in development for six years and will produce enough clean energy to power more than 17,000 homes, Longroad said in a press release. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed. Dominion and other large U.S. utilities with […]

By Abu Arqam Naqash MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan (Reuters) -Pakistan administered Kashmir’s Prime Minister Sardar Tanveer Ilyas was disqualified from holding any public office for two years by a court on Tuesday in a contempt case, the court order said. Ilyas, a businessman, comes from the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party of former Prime Minister Imran Khan, who has been locked in political wrangling with the government that succeeded him in Islamabad. The […]

By Sandra Stojanovic and Omar Younis NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) – Tennessee Democrats on Tuesday will press for the reinstatement of the second of two state representatives who were expelled for leading a rule-breaking gun policy protest on the floor of the statehouse, after the first was reinstated on Monday. Justin Jones pumped his fist and declared “power to the people” as he returned to the state House of Representatives after […]

By Muvija M LONDON (Reuters) -Britain named Anne Keast-Butler as the first female director of its intelligence communications agency GCHQ on Tuesday, tasked with protecting the country from terrorists, cyber-criminals and malign foreign powers. She will take over the role in May, succeeding Jeremy Fleming who is stepping down after a six-year tenure. Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, who made the appointment, said Keast-Butler had an impressive track record  at the […]

By Yew Lun Tian and Yimou Lee BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) – China’s latest military drills near Taiwan show it is serious about being able to cut off the democratically ruled island in a conflict, analysts said, as Beijing said its aircraft carriers could “shatter” defences from the east. Although the three-day exercises, which ended Monday, were not as intense as those that unfolded in August 2022 in protest of then-U.S. House […]

By Yimou Lee and Ben Blanchard TAIPEI (Reuters) -Chinese warplanes and navy ships were still in the waters around Taiwan, the island’s defence ministry said on Tuesday after the end of three days of war games, as Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen criticised Beijing for its “irresponsible” behaviour. China began the exercises on Saturday after Tsai returned to Taipei following a meeting in Los Angeles with U.S. House of Representatives Speaker […]

By Sruthi Shankar and Ankika Biswas (Reuters) -U.S. stock index futures were mixed on Tuesday as investors refrained from making aggressive bets ahead of inflation data that could determine the Federal Reserve’s next policy moves, while caution also prevailed ahead of the earnings season. Hopes that the Fed will soon end its aggressive monetary policy tightening have helped the benchmark S&P 500 stabilize in April after the collapse of two […]

(Reuters) – U.S. stock index futures rose on Tuesday as investors awaited inflation data to gauge the Federal Reserve’s next policy moves, while caution prevailed ahead of the quarterly earnings season. Hopes that the Fed will soon end its aggressive monetary policy tightening have helped the main U.S. equity benchmarks stabilize in April after a selloff last month that was triggered by the collapse of two U.S. mid-sized lenders. A […]

(Reuters) -Cineworld said on Tuesday it had filed a reorganisation plan in a Texas bankruptcy court that will effectively wipe out existing shareholdings, sending its stock to an all-time low. The filing formalises a deal laid out on April 3 that includes plans to cut debt by about $4.53 billion and raise $2.26 billion in funds to emerge from bankruptcy. It does not provide for any recovery for its existing […]