US goal to support an ‘effective, stable, democratic government’ in Thailand

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Thailand is in a “delicate phase” after its election last month and the U.S. goal is to support an “effective, stable, democratic government” there, the top U.S. official for the Indo-Pacific region said on Tuesday. “We’ve watched carefully the election,” White House Indo-Pacific Coordinator Kurt Campbell told the Hudson Institute think tank….

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Destruction of Kakhovka dam takes Ukraine war into uncharted territory

By Matthias Williams, Mark Trevelyan and Gloria Dickie LONDON (Reuters) – The breach of a huge dam on the front-line Dnipro river has muddied the picture for a much-awaited Ukrainian counteroffensive against Russian invaders and threatens an environmental disaster for civilians living in the war zone. Kyiv and Moscow have blamed each other for the…

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US EPA to remove proposed EV volumes from biofuel blending rule – sources

By Jarrett Renshaw and Stephanie Kelly NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Biden administration will abandon a proposal to include the electric vehicle industry in the U.S. biofuel blending program and withdraw potentially billions of dollars worth of tradable credits that had been attributed to the scheme, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. Reuters…

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GitLab soars on plan for new AI-powered product

By Chibuike Oguh NEW YORK (Reuters) – Shares of GitLab Inc jumped more than 35% on Tuesday after the software development platform announced plans to launch a revenue-boosting artificial intelligence (AI)-powered product. GitLab, widely used by software developers for coding work, will add a “ModelOps” feature to its main “DevSecOps” platform with new capabilities including…

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