By Anthony Deutsch and Stephanie van den Berg AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Ukraine is investigating the alleged role of Belarus in the forced transfer of children from Russian-occupied territories, the office of the prosecutor general told Reuters on Tuesday. The announcement came in response to a report by the exiled Belarusian opposition alleging that 2,150 Ukrainian…
By James Oliphant and Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) -If Ron DeSantis hopes to defeat Donald Trump and win the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, he will ultimately have to bring every possible anti-Trump voter he can into the fold. But even that likely will not be enough, political analysts say. DeSantis will also have to pull…
By Krystal Hu and Jaiveer Shekhawat (Reuters) -Anthropic, an artificial intelligence startup competing with OpenAI in building AI foundation models, said on Tuesday it had raised $450 million from investors including Alphabet Inc’s Google and Spark Capital. The latest round brings Anthropic’s total funding to nearly $1 billion, making it one of the most well-funded…
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s new ambassador to the United States Xie Feng arrived in New York on Tuesday to take up his duties, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reported. Xie was most recently vice foreign minister and in this post has been involved in high-profile diplomatic spats with Washington that have driven relations between the two…
(Reuters) – The state of California has asked the Biden administration to approve its plan to require all new vehicles sold in the state by 2035 to be either electric or plug-in electric hybrids, according to a letter seen by Reuters. The California Air Resources Board, which approved the plan in August, asked the Environmental…
BEIJING (Reuters) – China firmly opposed the agreement reached between the U.S. and Taiwan, urging the U.S. to “carefully handle economic and trade relations with Taiwan”, China’s ministry of commerce said on Tuesday. The U.S. Trade Representative’s office announced last week that the U.S. and Taiwan reached agreement on the first part of their “21st…
BERLIN (Reuters) – The European Central Bank needs to continue raising interest rates to tame the highest inflation in decades, Deutsche Bank CEO Christian Sewing said on Tuesday. “This poison must go out,” he said, referring to inflation at an event in Berlin. He warned that inflation weakens consumption and hinders growth in the long…
By Siddhi Nayak and Nikunj Ohri MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Indians are stepping up purchases of daily essentials, and even premium branded goods, using the soon-to-be-withdrawn 2,000-rupee ($24.46) notes as they aim to sidestep the need to exchange or deposit them at banks. The Indian central bank announced on Friday the country’s largest denomination note will…
By Jacqueline Thomsen WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Texas billionaire Harlan Crow has rejected a Senate committee’s request to detail gifts he or his companies have made to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, according to a letter seen by Reuters on Tuesday. “We do not believe the committee has the authority to investigate Mr. Crow’s personal…
(Reuters) – Ukraine’s State Security Service (SBU) said it has launched a criminal investigation into Andrei Ruzinsky, a Russian commander Reuters identified last year as helping lead the military occupation of eastern Ukraine. Ruzinsky was commander of the Russian Baltic Fleet’s 11th Army Corps, which crossed into Ukraine in early 2022 and took control of…
