Storm Beatriz approaches Mexican Pacific resorts, hurricane expected

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Storm Beatriz formed off Mexico’s Pacific coast on Thursday and will likely strengthen into a hurricane by Friday, prompting the government to issue warnings for popular beach resorts as it heads near shore, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said. The storm is expected to “move very near or along the coast of…

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Reactions to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action

By Sharon Bernstein (Reuters) -Here are reactions to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on affirmative action on Thursday, on Twitter and elsewhere. U.S. PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN, DEMOCRAT: “Today’s court decision is a severe disappointment to so many people, including me. But we cannot let the decision be a permanent setback for the country. We need…

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Heat wave in Mexico leaves at least 100 dead, authorities say

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – At least 100 people have died over the past two weeks in Mexico due to heat-related causes as temperatures climbed close to 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit) in parts of the country, the health ministry said on Thursday. A three-week-long heat wave this month strained the energy grid with record demand,…

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Electrical accident at Chile’s El Teniente copper mine leaves one dead

SANTIAGO (Reuters) – An electrical accident at Codelco’s El Teniente mine in central Chile, the company’s largest copper mine, left one dead, the state-owned mining giant said in a statement on Thursday. Codelco said the accident happened at the mine’s Andes Norte expansion project at about 3 p.m. (1900 GMT) when Osvaldo Bustamante Frias, a…

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Exclusive-Letter from prison: South Korean chip exec denies stealing Samsung data for China factory

By Heekyong Yang and Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) – A South Korean chip executive imprisoned over industrial espionage charges rejected allegations he had sought to build a copycat chip factory in China with sensitive information developed by Samsung Electronics. In a handwritten letter to Reuters, his first comments to media since he was detained on…

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Exclusive-Trump, longtime admirer of Putin, says aborted mutiny ‘somewhat weakened’ Russian leader

By Steve Holland and Nathan Layne WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Donald Trump, a longtime admirer of Russian President Vladimir Putin, said on Thursday Putin has been “somewhat weakened” by an aborted mutiny and that now is the time for the United States to try to broker a negotiated peace settlement between Russia and…

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US lawmaker urges labelling, restrictions on AI content

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, a Democrat who is active in artificial-intelligence issues, wrote to leading tech firms on Thursday to urge them to label AI-generated content and limit the spread of material aimed at misleading users. In the letter to the chief executives of OpenAI, which released ChatGPT, and its partner Microsoft…

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