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By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) -Azerbaijan launched “anti-terrorist activities” in the Nagorno-Karabakh region to restore constitutional order and drive out what it called Armenian military formations there, a move that could foreshadow a new war in the region. Loud shelling was audible from unverified social media footage filmed in Stepanakert, the capital of Karabakh, called Khankendi by Azerbaijan, on Tuesday. Azerbaijan’s defence ministry spoke in a statement of its intention […]

NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India’s southern state of Kerala shut some schools and offices this week as officials raced to halt the spread of the deadly Nipah virus, after it killed two people in the fourth outbreak since 2018. Here is what we know about the virus: WHAT IS NIPAH VIRUS AND WHERE DID IT COME FROM? The Nipah virus was first identified in 1998 during an outbreak of illness among […]

(Reuters) -Journalists were ordered out of the devastated eastern Libyan city of Derna on Tuesday, the morning after demonstrators staged a rally and torched the home of the ousted mayor in fury over the authorities’ failure to protect the city from floods. Several Arab broadcasters reported that their crews had been ordered to leave the city. Hichem Abu Chkiouat, minister of civil aviation in the administration that runs eastern Libya, […]

By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) -Azerbaijan launched “anti-terrorist activities” in the Nagorno-Karabakh region to restore constitutional order and drive out what it called Armenian military formations there, a move that could foreshadow a new war in the region. Loud shelling was audible from unverified social media footage filmed in Stepanakert, the capital of Karabakh, called Khankendi by Azerbaijan, on Tuesday. Azerbaijan’s defence ministry spoke in a statement of its intention […]

By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin will meet China’s Xi Jinping for talks in Beijing in October, Russia said on Tuesday, Putin’s first known trip abroad since an arrest warrant was issued against him over the deportation of children from Ukraine. Nikolai Patrushev, a close Putin ally and the secretary of Russia’s Security Council, said Russia and China should deepen cooperation in the face of the West’s […]

By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) -Azerbaijan launched “anti-terrorist activities” in the Nagorno-Karabakh region to restore constitutional order and drive out what it called Armenian military formations there, a move that could foreshadow a new war in the region. Loud shelling was audible from unverified social media footage filmed in Stepanakert, the capital of Karabakh, called Khankendi by Azerbaijan, on Tuesday. Azerbaijan’s defence ministry spoke in a statement of its intention […]

By Anna Tong (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Tuesday that Bard, its generative artificial intelligence, will have the ability to fact-check its answers and analyze users’ personal Google data as the tech giant scrambles to catch up to ChatGPT in popularity. The release last year of ChatGPT, a chatbot from Microsoft-backed OpenAI, sparked a race in the tech industry to give consumers access to generative AI technology. At […]

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Lawyers for Sam Bankman-Fried on Tuesday are set to urge a U.S. appeals court to free him from a Brooklyn jail as the former cryptocurrency billionaire races to prepare for his Oct. 3 trial on federal fraud changes. Bankman-Fried’s lawyers and the Manhattan U.S. Attorney’s office each will be given five minutes to argue to a three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit […]

(Corrects to add dropped word ‘not’ in paragraph 2) By Andrew Mills, Humeyra Pamuk and Parisa Hafezi DOHA/NEW YORK (Reuters) -A plane carrying five Americans freed by Iran landed in the United States on Tuesday, a day after they were swapped for the release of five Iranians held in the U.S. and the unfreezing of $6 billion in Iranian funds, in a deal between the arch enemies. CNN reported the […]