By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -The much-hyped “Barbenheimer” box office battle over the weekend proved to be a win for movie theaters that needed to add some sizzle to their summer. Ticket sales for the film industry’s biggest season had been disappointing through much of June and July. “The Flash” flopped, a new “Indiana…
(Reuters) – Russia withdrew from the Black Sea grain deal that ensured the safe export of Ukrainian grains because the agreement lost its meaning, President Vladimir Putin wrote in an article published early on Monday. “The continuation of the ‘grain deal’ – which did not justify its humanitarian purpose – has lost its meaning,” Putin…
By Makiko Yamazaki TOKYO (Reuters) – New Japanese guidelines to promote more mergers and acquisitions and remove a long-held stigma around unsolicited bids will be a boon for the world’s top maker of electric motors, Nidec, its chief executive said. Shigenobu Nagamori, the bluntly spoken founder who built Nidec into a global powerhouse by scores…
(Reuters) – Russia’s Investigative Committee said on Sunday it had launched a criminal probe into the killing of a Russian war reporter, an incident the country’s defence ministry previously blamed on Ukraine’s use of cluster munitions. The committee said on its website that “armed Ukrainian formations targeted and deliberately fired at a group of Russian…
By Jamie McGeever (Reuters) – A look at the day ahead in Asian markets from Jamie McGeever, financial markets columnist. The week ahead could be pivotal to the financial market landscape for the rest of the year, as the G3 central banks deliver their latest policy decisions and China’s Politburo of the ruling Communist Party…
Tesla Inc.’s highly-anticipated vehicle, the Cybertruck, has been creating quite a stir as its introduction to the market draws near. Esteemed Bloomberg news anchor, Jon Erlichman, recently tweeted his insights on the forthcoming launch, indicating that the Cybertruck might potentially propel Tesla’s business to the tune of $30 billion. However, he also…
(Reuters) – A previously-announced meeting of a new NATO-Ukraine Council, expected to address Black Sea security, has been scheduled for Wednesday, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address on Sunday. NATO spokesperson Oanu Lungescu said on Saturday that the meeting, requested by Zelenskiy in a telephone conversation with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, would…
By Iryna Nazarchuk ODESA (Reuters) – A Russian missile attack on Ukraine’s southern port of Odesa early on Sunday killed one, injured 20 and severely damaged an Orthodox cathedral in the city centre, a UNESCO world heritage site, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said. “Odesa: another night attack of the monsters,” Oleh Kiper, governor of the Odesa…
ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who will visit the White House on Thursday, said that U.S. President Joe Biden had never challenged her on the issue of Rome being part of the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Meloni leads the only major Western country to have joined China’s BRI scheme, which…
By Angelo Amante and Keith Weir ROME (Reuters) -Nations from the Mediterranean, Middle East and Africa agreed steps on Sunday to try to slow unauthorised migration and to tackle some of the pressures driving people to leave their homes and attempt to reach Europe. After a one-day meeting led by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni,…
