By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Russia has urged U.N. states to vote against an “unbalanced and anti-Russian” move at the General Assembly by Ukraine and others to mark one year since Moscow invaded, as China said on Tuesday it could release a “position paper” on the war within days. The 193-member U.N. General …
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By Foo Yun Chee and Stephen Nellis BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Microsoft Corp has struck a 10-year deal to bring “Call of Duty” and other Activision games to Nvidia Corp’s gaming platform if the Xbox maker is allowed to complete its much-contested $69 billion acquisition of Activision. Regulators and competitors like Sony have come out hard against …
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LIMA, 21 feb (Reuters) -La Fiscalía de la Nación de Perú dijo el martes que ha tomado conocimiento que el Departamento de Estado de Estados Unidos concedió la extradición del expresidente Alejandro Toledo por los cargos de colusión y lavado de activos. Toledo, que gobernó entre el 2001 y el 2006, es requerido por la …
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HONG KONG (Reuters) – Adani Transmission will announce debt refinancing plans in a few weeks, executives said on Tuesday in an investor call, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter. The company, a unit of embattled Indian conglomerate Adani Group, has no plans to raise additional debt for capital expenditure, which it …
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By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The second of two reputed gang members jailed in the execution-style killings of six people in a central California farming town last month, including an infant and his mother, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to murder and weapons charges. Angel Joseph Uriarte, 35, entered his plea and was …
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By Isla Binnie and Simon Jessop NEW YORK (Reuters) – Major U.S. pension fund CalPERS is seeking a meeting with rail operator Norfolk Southern at which it plans to ask about the derailment of a train loaded with toxic chemicals earlier this month, a spokeswoman for the fund said on Tuesday. The U.S. government has …
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By Andrew Chung and John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday expressed uncertainty over whether to narrow a legal shield protecting internet companies from a wide array of lawsuits in a major case involving YouTube and the family of an American student fatally shot in a 2015 rampage by Islamist militants in …
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By Farouq Suleiman and Muvija M LONDON (Reuters) -Nurses in England will pause planned strike action to enter “intensive talks” with the British government on pay and conditions, both sides said on Tuesday, in the first sign of a break in a long-running dispute. Britain is experiencing its largest wave of strike action in decades, …
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By David French (Reuters) – Wall Street posted its worst performance of the year on Tuesday, with the main benchmarks ending down as investors interpreted a rebound in U.S. business activity in February to mean interest rates will need to stay higher for longer to control inflation. For the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite, it …
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By Moira Warburton (Reuters) -Democrat Jennifer McClellan won a special election for the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday, a victory that will make her Virginia’s first Black congresswoman, Edison Research projected. The special election was held to fill a vacancy created by the November death of Representative Don McEachin, a Democrat who won re-election …
