(Reuters) -Amazon’s cloud services provider, Amazon Web Services, will invest about $8.2 billion in India’s western state of Maharashtra over the next few years, the information technology ministry said on Monday. India has been stepping up its efforts to pilot local cloud data storage. According to a report by International Data Corporation, the country’s cloud…
LONDON/PARIS (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President JD Vance denied on Tuesday disrespecting Britain and France by describing a planned peacekeeping force in Ukraine as 20,000 troops from some “random country that has not fought a war in 30 or 40 years”. Vance’s comments about the planned British- and French-led European peacekeeping force caused politicians and…
By Vladimir Soldatkin and Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia’s President Vladimir Putin hailed expanding ties with ally Myanmar at talks with its military junta chief on Tuesday and thanked him for gifting Moscow six elephants. Military analysts have dubbed the present, which coincided with Russia’s completing delivery of six fighter jets to Myanmar, as part…
(Reuters) – Analog Devices topped first-quarter Wall Street expectations for revenue and profit on Wednesday, driven by a recovery in chip demand, particularly in the consumer segment, sending its shares up 5% in premarket trading. The company provides semiconductors to a variety of industries, including aerospace, automotive, communications, digital healthcare and industrial automation. Wilmington, Massachusetts-based…
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s presidential spokesperson Manuel Adorni said on Tuesday that it was “insulting” to speculate that bribes where involved in the case of libertarian President Javier Milei promoting a cryptocurrency that rapidly slumped. “We understand there was no attitude that went against public ethics,” Adorni said in a press conference, saying there…
By Nichola Groom (Reuters) – The Trump administration has halted funding for federal programs to reduce wildfire risk in Western states and has frozen hiring of seasonal firefighters, as part of broad cuts to government spending, according to organizations impacted by the moves. The reduction in resources for wildfire prevention comes a month after devastating…
By Yuliia Dysa and Tom Balmforth KYIV (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that members of U.S. President Donald Trump’s team would travel to Ukraine this week, the first such visit at an important diplomatic juncture in the war with Russia. Zelenskiy, who is trying to forge close relations with Trump as the…
By Lydia Morrish (Reuters) – Several major news outlets including Politico and the Associated Press have rejected unsubstantiated accusations by President Donald Trump and right-wing influencers that the U.S. Agency for International Development paid millions of taxpayer dollars to newsrooms in exchange for coverage favoring the Democratic Party. Trump wrote on social media on Thursday:…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. federal appeals court ruled in favor of upholding a law requiring Chinese-based ByteDance to divest its popular short video app TikTok in the United States by early next year or face a ban. President-elect Donald Trump has said he will not allow TikTok, which is used by 170 million Americans,…
(Reuters) -Weight-loss drug developer Metsera, backed by ARCH Venture Partners, revealed a wider loss in its paperwork for a U.S. initial public offering on Friday. The terms of the IPO were not disclosed in the filing. Strong equity markets, falling interest rates and hopes of a friendlier regulatory environment under the incoming Trump administration have…
