By Andrew Hay (Reuters) – The prop supplier for “Rust” said the movie’s armorer told him that before the production she bought the same type of ammunition as the live round that killed the cinematographer during filming in 2021, according to sheriff’s office records. Armorer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed is the only person still facing charges in…
By Kate Lamb LABUAN BAJO, Indonesia (Reuters) -Southeast Asia’s ASEAN grouping will not give up trying to end violence in fellow member Myanmar even though the ruling military there has made no progress on a peace plan it agreed with the bloc two years ago, Indonesia said on Thursday. Frustration has mounted among some members…
By Andrea Shalal NIIGATA, Japan (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen highlighted the fight against climate change and other goals shared by the United States and Brazil, in a meeting with Brazilian Finance Minister Fernando Haddad in Japan on Thursday. Japan, chairing the Group of Seven advanced economies this year, invited Brazil to take…
PARIS/BEIJING (Reuters) – French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna and her Chinese counterpart Qin Gang agreed on the need to “develop an economic relationship that is both stronger and more balanced”, the foreign ministry in Paris said after they met on Wednesday. The meeting followed French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to China in April and came…
By Jeffrey Dastin and Greg Bensinger MOUNTAIN VIEW, California (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google is rolling out more artificial intelligence for its core search product, hoping to create some of the same consumer excitement generated by Microsoft Corp’s update to rival search engine Bing in recent months. At its annual I/O conference in Mountain View,…
By Anna Tong (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google on Wednesday demonstrated an updated core search product that embeds more AI in its answers as the company looks to banish doubts that it is losing ground to Microsoft Corp’s OpenAI-powered Bing search. Google already has a Bard chatbot that competes with ChatGPT, the chatbot from OpenAI…
By Lucy Craymer WELLINGTON (Reuters) – New Zealand’s Prime Minister Chris Hipkins will head to Papua New Guinea on May 21 to attend the United States-Pacific Summit, his office said in a statement on Thursday. U.S. President Joe Biden will meet leaders of 18 Pacific countries and territories including Hipkins, who have been invited to…
By Agnieszka Pikulicka-Wilczewska WARSAW (Reuters) – Danil Yugoslavsky had long hated Vladimir Putin. The tech worker says he protested for fair elections in Russia for several years before he left his homeland in despair in 2017 and eventually settled in Spain. Even so, he never suspected his yearning to topple the Russian president would one…
By Sriparna Roy and Nandhini Srinivasan (Reuters) -A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel on Wednesday voted in favor of allowing sales of Perrigo Co’s contraceptive drug without a prescription, paving the way for the country’s first over-the-counter birth control pill. The panel found the drug to be an effective OTC option with some…
By Steve Gorman (Reuters) – A convicted killer imprisoned in Peru will be handed over to U.S. authorities to face extortion and fraud charges there stemming from the unsolved 2005 disappearance and presumed murder of an Alabama teenager, the Lima government said on Wednesday. The executive order from Peru’s Council of Ministers allowing the temporary…
