By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Forty-two German associations and trade unions representing more than 140,000 authors and performers on Wednesday urged the European Union to beef up draft artificial intelligence rules as they singled out the threat to their copyright from ChatGPT. Trade unions for the creative sector Verdi and DGB and associations…
By Andy Bruce LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s unwanted status as the only large advanced economy still to have double-digit inflation represents just one symptom of the serious economic malaise faced by the country. Annual consumer price inflation (CPI) in Britain fell to 10.1% last month but defied forecasts for a bigger drop from February’s 10.4%,…
By Norihiko Shirouzu and Joseph White SAN ANTONIO, Texas (Reuters) – At Toyota Motor Corp’s sprawling factory here, just 16 miles (26 km) from the Alamo, a new gasoline-fueled Tundra pickup truck or hybrid Sequoia SUV rolls off the assembly line every 60 seconds. “We can’t produce enough of the Sequoias and Tundras today,” said…
By Michael Georgy DUBAI (Reuters) – A battle that is hammering Khartoum and dragging Sudan to the brink of civil war pits the army chief and his regular forces against the streetwise fighters loyal to a former warlord. Army head General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan controls heavy weapons and the airforce, but his soldiers face a…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. on Wednesday extended for three months a license that protects Venezuela-owned oil refiner Citgo Petroleum from creditors trying to seize its assets to recoup pending debts. U.S. protections on the Houston-based refiner have prevented bondholders and other creditors from moving ahead on billions of dollars in claims against Venezuela issued…
By Lisa Barrington DUBAI (Reuters) – Omanis no longer need state permission to marry a foreign national according to a royal decree issued this week, a rare example of social reform in the conservative Gulf country. Sultan Haitham bin Tariq al-Said has, since assuming power in 2020 after the 50-year reign of the late Sultan…
By Oliver Denzer and Laurie Chen HAMBURG/BEIJING (Reuters) -Dazed and terrified, Yicheng Huang narrowly managed to escape being detained by police in Shanghai while attending historic protests calling for an end to China’s COVID-19 curbs that spread across numerous cities last November. The protests, unprecedented in President Xi Jinping’s decade in power, were suppressed by…
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – China is seeking to acquire equipment and knowledge in the Dutch space sector, sometimes in circumvention of export restrictions, the Netherlands’ military intelligence agency said on Wednesday. The agency, known by its Dutch acronym MIVD, said in its 2022 annual report that its analysis “shows the Chinese satellite launch capacity will increase…
By Khalid Abdelaziz, Nafisa Eltahir and Humeyra Pamuk KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Heavy gunfire shattered a 24-hour truce in Sudan on Tuesday shortly after it was due to take effect under U.S. pressure on warring military factions to halt fighting that has touched off a humanitarian crisis. Loud shooting reverberated in the background of live feeds…
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil’s Treasury Secretary Rogerio Ceron said on Wednesday that a new fiscal framework proposed by the government was designed to last for a long time, facing different economic and political cycles. “It is a sustainable path, unlike past solutions that had an expiration date,” Ceron said in an interview with GloboNews,…
