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By Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) – Companies around the world are on track to pay investors a record $1.64 trillion in dividends this year following a more than 6% jump in the second quarter, a report on Wednesday showed. The figures by fund manager Janus Henderson estimated that 88% of companies globally had either increased their dividends or held them steady in Q2, resulting in $568.1 billion worth of worldwide […]

By Allison Lampert and Gabriel Araujo (Reuters) -Russia has informed Brazil’s aircraft investigation authority that it will not probe the crash of the Brazilian-made Embraer jet that killed mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin under international rules “at the moment”, the Brazilian agency told Reuters on Tuesday. Prigozhin, two top lieutenants of his Wagner Group and four bodyguards were among 10 people who died when the Embraer Legacy 600 crashed north of […]

By Allison Lampert and Gabriel Araujo (Reuters) -Russia has informed Brazil’s aircraft investigation authority that it will not probe the crash of the Brazilian-made Embraer jet that killed mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin under international rules “at the moment”, the Brazilian agency told Reuters on Tuesday. Prigozhin, two top lieutenants of his Wagner Group and four bodyguards were among 10 people who died when the Embraer Legacy 600 crashed north of […]

By Raphael Satter (Reuters) – British officials are warning organisations about integrating artificial intelligence-driven chatbots into their businesses, saying that research has increasingly shown that they can be tricked into performing harmful tasks. In a pair of blog posts due to be published Wednesday, Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said that experts had not yet got to grips with the potential security problems tied to algorithms that can generate […]

By Richa Naidu LONDON (Reuters) – As the world’s best badminton players travel home after the World Championships in Denmark, the sport’s leading manufacturer Yonex told Reuters some of them were fighting it out for the first time in sneakers made partly from recycled materials. Sports equipment makers like Yonex have seen increasing demand from fans and shareholders alike to invest in sustainable sourcing and ethical production for their products, […]

By Julia Harte (Reuters) -Millions of residents could be affected by Hurricane Idalia as it hurtles toward Florida’s Gulf Coast, where it is expected to slam ashore on Wednesday morning with winds of at least 111 miles per hour (179 kph). Evacuations have been ordered in parts of Florida. Most of the state and parts of Georgia and South Carolina are under storm warnings or advisories. Here are the most […]

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada has detected its first case of coronavirus infection from the highly mutated BA.2.86 variant of Omicron in a person in British Columbia who had not traveled outside the Pacific province, health officials said on Tuesday. The individual is not hospitalized, and the detection of BA.2.86 virus has not changed the risk to people in British Columbia, the province’s top doctor, Bonnie Henry, and Health Minister Adrian […]

OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada has detected its first case of coronavirus infection from the highly mutated BA.2.86 variant of Omicron in a person in British Columbia who had not traveled outside the Pacific province, health officials said on Tuesday. The individual is not hospitalized, and the detection of BA.2.86 virus has not changed the risk to people in British Columbia, the province’s top doctor, Bonnie Henry, and Health Minister Adrian […]

By David French and Anirban Sen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Exchange operator Nasdaq Inc on Tuesday named former UBS Group AG executive Sarah Youngwood as its next chief financial officer, replacing current finance head Ann Dennison, who will leave the company. Nasdaq said Youngwood will start in her new role on December 1, with Dennison staying on at the second-largest U.S. exchange operator until the end of the year. Reuters was […]