Germany spends big to win $11 billion TSMC chip plant (www.reuters.com)
Western Australia to scrap 2021 Aboriginal heritage protection laws (www.reuters.com)
Drought in Spain empties reservoirs, forces limits on water use (www.reuters.com)
India says cheetah deaths not alarming, to consult experts (www.reuters.com)
Solar power to the rescue as Europe's energy system weathers extreme heat (www.reuters.com)
Solar power to the rescue as Europe’s energy system weathers extreme heat::Solar power helps meet energy demand for cooling.
US mulls backing Kenya-led multinational force in Haiti (www.reuters.com)
North Korean hackers breached top Russian missile maker (www.reuters.com)
Reuters found cyber-espionage teams linked to the North Korean government, which security researchers call ScarCruft and Lazarus, secretly installed stealthy digital backdoors into systems at NPO Mashinostroyeniya, a rocket design bureau based in Reutov, a small town on the outskirts of Moscow.
Norway data regulator to fine Meta over privacy breaches (www.reuters.com)
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Minneapolis ex-officer sentenced to nearly 5 years in Floyd killing (www.reuters.com)
Former Minneapolis police officer Tou Thao was sentenced on Monday to 4-3/4 years in prison for aiding and abetting manslaughter in the 2020 killing of George Floyd, a Black man whose neck was pinned to the ground by another officer’s knee during a botched arrest....
Elderly Rwandan genocide suspect should not face trial, UN judges say (www.reuters.com)
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Biden vowed to reform immigration detention. Instead, private prisons benefited (www.reuters.com)
The stalled reform coincided with a boom in private prison revenues from ICE contracts during the Biden administration and an increase in the percentage of detainees being held in private facilities, according to an analysis of ICE data by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) shared exclusively with Reuters.
UK hiring falls at fastest pace in over three years, wage growth slows (www.reuters.com)
Poland finds leak on one part of Druzhba oil pipeline from Russia to Europe (www.reuters.com)
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Kim Jong Un tells North Korea arms factories to boost capacity -KCNA (www.reuters.com)
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Missing Mexican woman Maria Fernanda Sanchez found dead in Germany (www.reuters.com)
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Russia officials say Ukraine hit Donetsk university with cluster shells (www.reuters.com)
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Two dead, 57 rescued from migrant shipwrecks off Italy's Lampedusa (www.reuters.com)
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Hiroshima marks a-bomb anniversary, calls nuclear deterrence "folly" (www.reuters.com)
TOKYO, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Japan on Sunday marked the 78th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing on Hiroshima, where its mayor urged the abolition of nuclear weapons and called the Group of Seven leaders' notion of nuclear deterrence a "folly".
CoreWeave raises $2.3 billion in debt collateralized by Nvidia chips (www.reuters.com)
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Pope visits Fatima shrine in Portugal; skips key address (www.reuters.com)
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Ukraine says Russia planning 'false flag' attack at Belarus refinery (www.reuters.com)
The Security Service of Ukraine accused Russia on Friday of preparing to stage a “false flag” attack at the Mozyr oil refinery in Belarus in order to blame Ukrainian saboteurs as part of an effort to draw Minsk into the war in Ukraine....
CoreWeave raises $2.3 billion in debt collateralized by Nvidia chips (www.reuters.com)
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Superconductor claims spark investor frenzy, but scientists are skeptical (www.reuters.com)
Last week, two papers by South Korean scientists made an extraordinary claim that sparked a social media frenzy and pushed up prices of some stocks in China and South Korea: the discovery of a practical superconductor....
Russia fines Apple for not deleting 'inaccurate' content on Ukraine conflict (www.reuters.com)
A Moscow court fined Apple 400,000 roubles ($4,274) on Thursday for not deleting "inaccurate" content about what Russia calls a "special military operation" in Ukraine on apps and podcasts, Russian news agencies reported.