By Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) -A former security guard at the British embassy in Berlin who passed highly sensitive information to Russia and was paid for his “treachery” was jailed for more than 13 years in a London court on Friday. David Ballantyne Smith, 58, collected confidential information for more than three years, including a …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) -South Africa’s rand on Friday recouped some losses from the previous session, when President Cyril Ramaphosa defended his decision to appoint a minister of electricity to try to end crippling power cuts. At 1524 GMT on Friday, the rand traded at 18.0525 against the dollar, 0.7% stronger than its previous close. Ramaphosa’s responses …
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By Ahmed Kingimi and Tim Cocks GUSAU, Nigeria (Reuters) – Bandits spraying villages with bullets, killing residents and setting buildings ablaze. Rampant cattle rustling and clashes between farmers and herders. Mass kidnappings for ransom. These are among the litany of challenges confronting Sa’idu Ahmad, an electoral officer tasked with organising voting for Nigeria’s next president …
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By Andrew Gray and Max Hunder MUNICH (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday urged allies to speed up sending weapons to defeat the Russian invasion, warning global leaders assembled in Munich that dithering and delays also threatened their security. Comparing the war in Ukraine to a David-vs-Goliath struggle for freedom, Zelenskiy said Russia …
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By Aftab Ahmed NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Indian tax officials on Thursday left the BBC’s offices in New Delhi and Mumbai, after a three-day inspection that involved the cloning of data from some digital devices, the tax department said. The inspection came weeks after the government reacted angrily to a BBC documentary about Prime Minister Narendra …
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By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Tech giants including Facebook, Google, Twitter and TikTok face stricter online content rules in the European Union due to their huge number of users. The new rules, known as the Digital Services Act (DSA), classify companies with more than 45 million users as very large online platforms (VLOPs) and …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan on Friday aborted the launch of its first new medium-lift rocket in three decades moments before the H3 vehicle was meant to lift off after secondary booster engines strapped to its side failed to ignite. During the live-streamed event, the H3’s main engine cut off after the launch countdown had reached …
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By Richard Cowan EXETER, N.H. (Reuters) -Republican presidential hopeful Nikki Haley brought her nascent campaign to New Hampshire on Thursday, portraying herself as a conservative firebrand while warning that to win elections Republicans must stop rehashing “old issues”. Speaking to a crowd of around 300 inside the Exeter Town Hall, about 45 miles (70 km) …
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TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan’s military said on Thursday it had found the remains of a probable crashed weather balloon likely from China on a remote and strategically located island near the Chinese coast, amid a dispute between China and the United States over spy balloons. Taiwan, claimed by China as its own territory, has complained …
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(Reuters) -Tesla Inc said on Wednesday it laid off 4% of the employees in the Autopilot labeling team in Buffalo as part of a performance review cycle conducted every six months. The automaker responded to a union complaint filed with a government agency alleging that the company laid off dozens of employees from its Autopilot …
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