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By Steve Stecklow, Waylon Cunningham and Hyunjoo Jin LONDON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Tesla Inc assures its millions of electric car owners that their privacy “is and will always be enormously important to us.” The cameras it builds into vehicles to assist driving, it notes on its website, are “designed from the ground up to protect your privacy.” But between 2019 and 2022, groups of Tesla employees privately shared via an […]

By Henriette Chacar and Maya Gebeily JERUSALEM/BEIRUT (Reuters) -Rockets were fired from Lebanon into Israel on Thursday and answered by a burst of cross-border artillery fire, officials said, amid escalating tension following Israeli police raids on the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. The Israeli military said it had intercepted at least one rocket as sirens sounded in northern towns near the border, while two Lebanese security sources said there had been […]

By Siddharth Cavale NEW YORK (Reuters) – Walmart plans to have its own network of electric vehicle charging stations for public use by 2030, to tap into growing adoption of EVs in the United States. The new fast charging stations will be placed at thousands of Walmart and Sam’s Club stores, alongside nearly 1,300 it already operates as part of a deal with Electrify America, one of the country’s largest […]

(Reuters) -U.S. utility firms Dominion Energy and National Grid Plc are separately considering a potential sale of parts of their natural gas pipeline networks, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter. Dominion is mulling a sale of its gas-distribution companies serving North Carolina, Ohio and parts of the Western U.S., which combined could be worth $13 billion, the report said. National Grid on the […]

By Iain Withers LONDON (Reuters) -Investor advisory firm Glass Lewis has recommended that Barclays’ shareholders vote against its bosses’ pay because of long-term bonuses awarded to one former executive who was finance chief when the bank sold billions of pounds of securities in error. The British bank is also set to face scrutiny at its May 3 annual general meeting in relation to former CEO Jes Staley. U.S. lawsuits have […]

(removes extraneous words from headline) BEIJING/PARIS (Reuters) – Plans for a new Airbus assembly line in China, announced during a visit to Beijing by French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday, will bolster the planemaker’s plans for increases in output while leaving spare capacity, its CEO said on Thursday. Guillaume Faury told reporters the expansion underpinned plans to lift output to 75 a month in 2026, from 45 at end-2022, while […]

By Elizabeth Howcroft LONDON (Reuters) -The collapse of crypto exchange FTX and its grant-making body, the FTX Future Fund, has left some researchers at top universities without the funds they were promised and others trying to repay grants before they could be ordered to. Launched in February 2022, the FTX Future Fund was part of the FTX Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire which fell apart last […]

By Kai Pfaffenbach and Kwang JirapornKuhakan NEAR BAKHMUT, Ukraine (Reuters) -Ukrainian and Russian forces battled on Thursday in the streets of Bakhmut, eastern Ukraine’s devastated “fortress” city, and Ukrainian soldiers said they were ready to launch their long-anticipated counter-offensive once the weather improves. On the diplomatic front, French President Emmanuel Macron urged Chinese leader Xi Jinping during talks in Beijing to use his influence to persuade Russia to halt the […]

(Reuters) – Constellation Brands Inc forecast full-year profit above Wall Street estimates on Thursday, benefiting from price increases aimed at combating elevated costs and strong demand for its high-end beer brands. Like other spirit makers, the company has been raising prices of its beer, wine and spirits to shield its margins from soaring costs of packaging, raw materials, logistics and labor. Even as inflation impacted spending habits, Constellation said its […]