By Rupam Jain and Kanupriya Kapoor JAMMU/SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) – For the first time in her life, Asha, a street cleaner in the Indian city of Jammu, will be allowed to vote in upcoming local elections. And she’s in no doubt who will get her ballot. Asha plans to reward Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling …
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(Reuters) – Tesla Inc is nearing a preliminary deal to build production facilities in Indonesia with a capacity of one million units, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing unidentified people familiar with the matter. Chief Executive Elon Musk tweeted on Wednesday, “Please be cautious about writing articles citing ‘unnamed sources’, as they are frequently false,” …
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By Pavel Polityuk KYIV, Ukraine (Reuters) -Ukraine said on Thursday its troops were holding out despite heavy fighting on a battlefield littered with bodies in a salt mining town in eastern Ukraine, where Russian mercenaries have claimed Moscow’s first significant gain in half a year. The ultra-nationalist contract militia Wagner, run by an ally of …
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By Kate Fishman MENDOCINO, Calif. (Reuters) -The seventh consecutive atmospheric river since Christmas dumped more rain on Northern California on Wednesday, offering little relief for a state already battered by floods, gale force winds, power outages and evacuations of entire towns. While Wednesday’s deluge was relatively minor, with less rainfall and mostly contained to northwestern …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Aides to U.S. President Joe Biden have discovered at least one more batch of classified documents in a location separate from a think tank office he used after serving as vice president, news outlets reported on Wednesday, citing unnamed sources. Biden aides have been searching for additional classified materials that might be in …
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By David Shepardson, Rajesh Kumar Singh and Abhijith Ganapavaram WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) -The U.S. aviation sector was struggling to return to normal on Wednesday after a nationwide ground stop imposed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) over a computer issue that forced a 90-minute halt to all U.S. departing flights. More than 10,000 flights have been …
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By Andrea Shalal BETHESDA, Md. (Reuters) -U.S. first lady Jill Biden had cancerous skin lesions removed from her face and chest during surgery on Wednesday, and a third lesion was removed from her left eyelid and sent for examination, the White House physician said. The 71-year-old first lady, accompanied by President Joe Biden, spent more …
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By Saeed Azhar, Sinead Cruise and Selena Li NEW YORK/LONDON/HONG KONG (Reuters) -Goldman Sachs began laying off staff on Wednesday in a sweeping cost-cutting drive, with around a third of those affected coming from the investment banking and global markets division, a source familiar with the matter said. The long-expected jobs cull at the Wall …
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By Neha Arora and Mayank Bhardwaj NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India is exploring ways to secure supplies of metals such as copper and lithium from some of the world’s top producers by acquiring overseas mines, as part of efforts to meet rising domestic demand, government sources said. To start with, India has identified one copper and …
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By Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States and Japan on Wednesday announced stepped-up security cooperation in the face of shared worries about China, and Washington strongly endorsed a major military buildup Tokyo announced last month. A joint statement issued after a meeting between their foreign and defense ministers in Washington said …
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