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NEW DELHI, June 4 (Reuters) – India and Venezuela sought to boost their ties in the energy sector on Thursday with New Delhi saying that Caracas sees it as a preferred partner in the sector at a time global oil supplies have been disrupted by the Middle East crisis. Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodriguez is …
BRUSSELS, June 4 (Reuters) – The European Union is preparing an economic support package worth an initial amount of €50 million ($58.1 million) for Armenia after Russia hit Armenia with some trade restrictions, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Thursday. “Today I spoke with Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan about Russia’s recent restrictions …
June 4 (Reuters) – Lebanese President Joseph Aoun told local outlets on Thursday that a U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreed the previous evening between Lebanon and Israel could come into force within 24 hours of all concerned parties approving it. The comments appeared to refer to Lebanese armed group Hezbollah, which has yet to comment on the …
LONDON (AP) — A British lawmaker said Thursday she is suing Elon Musk’s company xAI for invasion of privacy, alleging that fake images of her were created using the Grok chatbot. Jess Asato, a legislator with the governing Labour Party, says someone used Grok to create fake images of her in a bikini without her …
By Karen Lema and Greg Torode MANILA, June 4 (Reuters) – Satellite images obtained by Reuters confirmed the presence of a structure at the entrance of the hotly disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea last week, though later imagery suggests it is no longer there. The Philippines said on Wednesday it was investigating …
The U.S. military attacked a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, killing two men, as the Trump administration wages a monthslong campaign against alleged traffickers in Latin America. The latest attack, the fifth in about a weekbrings the number of people who have been killed in boat strikes by …
COLOMBO, June 4 (Reuters) – A dozen people have died in a fire at a home for older people in Sri Lanka, police said on Thursday, while another eight have been hospitalised. The fire, which broke out at a home in Anguruwatota (55 km or 34 miles from the commercial capital Colombo), has been put …
SYDNEY, June 4 (Reuters) – New Zealand said on Thursday it would express its concerns to Beijing after China banned four New Zealand lawmakers from entry following their visit to Taiwan last month. New Zealand lawmakers had visited the democratically governed island for decades without a problem, a spokesperson for Foreign Minister Winston Peters said. …
KATHMANDU, June 4 (Reuters) – A Nepali Sherpa guide has been rescued from Everest after surviving about a week on the slopes of the world’s highest mountain without food or oxygen in a rare case of survival in such conditions, a hiking official said on Thursday. Dawa Sherpa, 52, was returning with a Polish climber …
New York — SpaceX says it plans to raise up to $75 billion when it goes public this month, setting the stage for the largest-ever stock market debut and putting Elon Musk — the world’s richest person — on course to becoming the first trillionaire. The company, formally known as Space Exploration Technologies Corp., said …