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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Ukraine’s deputy foreign minister on Monday said Kyiv has sought a visit by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other top officials while adding that the South Asian country should be more involved in resolving the war in Ukraine. Emine Dzhaparova told broadcaster CNBC TV18 in an interview that it was expected India will invite Ukrainian officials to participate in G20 events in September while adding […]

By Helen Coster and Jack Queen (Reuters) – One of the most closely watched U.S. defamation cases in decades is set to begin on Thursday as a Delaware court picks a jury to decide whether Fox News should pay Dominion Voting Systems $1.6 billion for spreading election-rigging falsehoods. A critical task for jurors over the five-week trial will be deciding who was responsible for the cable network’s decision to broadcast […]

By Leika Kihara and Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s new central bank governor Kazuo Ueda said he wants more time to judge whether wage growth will be sustained enough to keep inflation stably at the bank’s 2% target, suggesting he will be in no rush to dial back its massive stimulus. Ueda faces a bumpy road as slowing global growth clouds the prospects for a sustained pickup in inflation […]

By Sruthi Shankar and Ankika Biswas (Reuters) – U.S. stock index futures were subdued on Monday on growing risks that the Federal Reserve will continue to hike interest rates after Friday’s jobs data highlighted a still-strong labor market. Nasdaq 100 futures were down slightly, with growth stocks including Apple Inc, Amazon.com Inc and Microsoft Corp slipping in premarket trade. U.S. employers maintained a strong pace of hiring in March, data […]

By Joey Roulette and Kevin Krolicki (Reuters) -As the fortunes of Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit were crashing to Earth last month, a little-known investor called Matthew Brown appeared offering a $200 million rescue.     Within two days of being contacted by Brown, Virgin Orbit Chief Executive Dan Hart had secured board backing for a preliminary agreement with the 33-year-old Texas-based investor, according to related documents and email exchanges reviewed by Reuters […]

(Reuters) – Vodafone said some UK users of its home broadband service were facing an outage on Monday morning and the company was working to resolve it. Downdetector’s UK website said more than 2,800 mostly landline users were having trouble accessing Vodafone at the peak of the outage. (Reporting by Urvi Dugar in Bengaluru; editing by John Stonestreet) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

By Helen Coster and Jack Queen (Reuters) – One of the most closely watched U.S. defamation cases in decades is set to begin on Thursday as a Delaware court picks a jury to decide whether Fox News should pay Dominion Voting Systems $1.6 billion for spreading election-rigging falsehoods. A critical task for jurors over the five-week trial will be deciding who was responsible for the cable network’s decision to broadcast […]

MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Monday that China had every right to respond to what it called repeated “provocations” against it and carry out military exercises around Taiwan. Beijing on Monday carried out the last of three days of drills around Taiwan, including practicing aerial and naval blockade manoeuvres of the island, which China views as part of its own territory, something Taiwan’s government strongly disputes. In a […]

By Helen Coster and Jack Queen (Reuters) – One of the most closely watched U.S. defamation cases in decades is set to begin on Thursday as a Delaware court picks a jury to decide whether Fox News should pay Dominion Voting Systems $1.6 billion for spreading election-rigging falsehoods. A critical task for jurors over the five-week trial will be deciding who was responsible for the cable network’s decision to broadcast […]