Data confirms UK economy went into recession last year (www.reuters.com)
Official figures confirmed Britain’s economy entered a shallow recession last year, leaving Prime Minister Rishi Sunak with a challenge to reassure voters that the economy is safe with him before an election expected later this year....
Exclusive: China's WuXi AppTec shared US client's data with Beijing, US intelligence officials told senators (www.reuters.com)
U.S. intelligence officials in late February told senators working on a biotech security bill that Chinese pharmaceutical firm WuXi AppTec had transferred U.S. intellectual property to Beijing without consent, according to two sources....
Putin says Russia will not attack NATO, but F-16s will be shot down in Ukraine (www.reuters.com)
Russia has no designs on any NATO country and will not attack Poland, the Baltic states or the Czech Republic but if the West supplies F-16 fighters to Ukraine then they will be shot down by Russian forces, President Vladimir Putin said late on Wednesday....
Russia increases gasoline imports from Belarus as domestic supplies shrink (www.reuters.com)
How Boeing's leadership was 'fired' by its own customers (www.reuters.com)
The catalyzing moment was last week, when CEOs of major U.S. MAX customers Southwest, United, Alaska, and American demanded to meet the board to express frustration at a lack of progress, sources said. Boeing Chairman Larry Kellner offered to set up bilateral meetings instead....
Former U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman dies at 82, says family (www.reuters.com)
I hated him. A lot. And yet, if he were vice president, the world would probably be in a much better place. As long as he never got past that position.
SWIFT planning launch of new central bank digital currency platform in 12-24 months (www.reuters.com)
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US urges allies to bar firms from servicing key chipmaking tools for China (www.reuters.com)
India to spend $3.7 bln to fence Myanmar border, source says (www.reuters.com)
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India to spend $3.7 bln to fence Myanmar border, source says (www.reuters.com)
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Israeli strikes on Rafah raise fear assault could begin (www.reuters.com)
Israel bombed at least three homes in Rafah overnight, raising new fear among the more than a million people sheltering in the last refuge on the southern edge of the Gaza Strip that a long-threatened ground assault could be coming....
Exclusive: US lawmaker seeks answers on FDA inspection of Musk's Neuralink (www.reuters.com)
Israel truce team leaves Doha, official blames Hamas for 'dead end' (www.reuters.com)
Ukraine's Zelenskiy replaces top security official in new reshuffle (www.reuters.com)
Trump faces gag order in New York hush money criminal case (www.reuters.com)
CIA Used Chinese Social Media In Covert Influence Operation Against Xi Jinping's Government (www.reuters.com)
Two years into office, President Donald Trump authorized the Central Intelligence Agency to launch a clandestine campaign on Chinese social media aimed at turning public opinion in China against its government, according to former U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the highly classified operation. Three former officials...
Baltimore bridge collapse sends vehicles tumbling into water (www.reuters.com)
Dozens killed in Israeli strikes on north and south of Gaza (www.reuters.com)
Israeli air strikes killed dozens of Palestinians at both ends of the Gaza Strip overnight, hitting the area around Al Shifa hospital in the north and Rafah on the southern edge where more than a million people have sought shelter....
Julian Assange wins temporary reprieve from extradition to US (www.reuters.com)
Alaska Airlines 737 MAX 9 passengers may be crime victims: FBI (www.reuters.com)
Israeli minister quits Netanyahu's unity government, saying he was sidelined (www.reuters.com)
Trump's Stormy Daniels hush money trial to start on April 15, judge rules (www.reuters.com)
Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun to step down in management shakeup amid safety crisis (www.reuters.com)
US Supreme Court abortion pill fight brings claims of distorted science (www.reuters.com)
The abortion opponents who are seeking to convince the U.S. Supreme Court to limit access to the abortion pill mifepristone point to three studies by Gynuity Health Projects, a New York-based women’s health research group, to back up their arguments that it is unsafe despite its regulatory approval decades ago....