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(Fixes typo in para 2) BEIJING (Reuters) -Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Friday that he had expressed concern over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine during a meeting earlier that day with Chinese President Xi Jinping and encouraged him to talk to Kyiv. Sanchez told a news conference in Beijing he had told Xi that Spain supported the peace formula proposed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in November, which includes […]

By Selena Li and Kane Wu HONG KONG/SHANGHAI (Reuters) – A flurry of top financial executives have visited China for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic as global financial giants seek to cement their relations with Beijing at the start of President Xi Jinping’s new term. Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon, HSBC CEO Noel Quinn and Standard Chartered boss Bill Winters are among the executives to have held face-to-face […]

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia and Toyota said on Friday that the Japanese carmaker’s factory in St Petersburg had been handed over to state entity NAMI, with Moscow snapping up more assets from global automakers leaving Russia over the conflict in Ukraine. “Toyota’s production site in St Petersburg has… been transferred to the state,” Russia’s Ministry of Industry and Trade said in a statement. The company said in September it had decided […]

(Reuters) – Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Friday that Russian tactical nuclear weapons set to be deployed in his country would protect it from Western threats, alleging that there were plans to invade Belarus from neighbouring Poland. “Take my word for it, I have never deceived you. They are preparing to invade Belarus, to destroy our country,” Lukashenko said in an annual address to lawmakers and government officials. President […]

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Donald Trump has been indicted by a New York City grand jury, his lawyer said on Thursday, after the prosecutor who filed the charges came under political pressure for not bringing them against the former U.S. president sooner. While the charges against Trump were not immediately released – the first ever against a U.S. president – they come after Manhattan District Attorney Alvin […]

By Karen Freifeld, Luc Cohen and Tyler Clifford NEW YORK (Reuters) – Donald Trump, the ex-president and frontrunner to be Republican nominee in 2024, is set to face a mug shot, finger-printing and a court appearance next week after being indicted over a probe into hush money paid to a porn star in a historic U.S. first. The possible spectacle of Trump’s appearance in Manhattan before a judge as the […]

MILAN (Reuters) – Italy’s data protection agency said on Friday it had opened a probe into OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot over a suspected breach of data collection rules. The agency also accused ChatGPT of failing to check the age of its users, which should be reserved to people aged 13 and above. It said it had provisionally restricted chatbot’s use of Italian users’ personal data. (Reporting by Elvira Pollina, writing by […]

By Sarah Young and Muvija M LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s BBC on Friday named former television executive John Hardie to review its social media guidance for freelancers, after a row over impartiality involving its highest paid presenter Gary Lineker. The BBC, which has a mandate to be neutral, temporarily suspended Lineker this month for criticising the government’s immigration policy. When he was reinstated, the BBC said it would review how sport […]

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Donald Trump has been indicted by a New York City grand jury, his lawyer said on Thursday, after the prosecutor who filed the charges came under political pressure for not bringing them against the former U.S. president sooner. While the charges against Trump were not immediately released – the first ever against a U.S. president – they come after Manhattan District Attorney Alvin […]