By Jeff Mason and Jarrett Renshaw WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump suggested on Tuesday that Vice President JD Vance is “most likely” his heir apparent to serve as the Republican nominee in 2028, the furthest he has gone in backing Vance as a future presidential candidate. “Well, I think most likely,” Trump told reporters …
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(Reuters) -Russian and Chinese naval vessels will conduct joint patrols in the Asia-Pacific following recent exercises in the Sea of Japan, Russia’s Interfax reported on Wednesday. “Crews of the Russian Navy and China’s PLA Navy will form a new task group to carry out joint patrol missions in the Asia-Pacific region,” Interfax said, citing a …
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By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Francis Ford Coppola, the acclaimed American director of “The Godfather” movies and “Apocalypse Now,” underwent a non-emergency cardiac procedure in a Rome hospital and is doing fine, he and a U.S.-based representative said on Tuesday. “Mr. Coppola went in for a scheduled update procedure” performed by renowned Italian-born cardiologist …
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BEIJING (Reuters) -Nvidia has published a blog post reiterating that its chips did not have backdoors or kill switches and appealed to U.S. policymakers to forgo such ideas saying it would be a “gift” to hackers and hostile actors. The blog post, which was published on Tuesday in both English and Chinese, comes a week …
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DHAKA (Reuters) -Thousands of exultant Bangladeshis gathered in Dhaka on Tuesday to mark the first anniversary of mass protests that toppled Sheikh Hasina, as the interim government unveiled a roadmap for democratic reform with a national election next year. Rallies, concerts, and prayer sessions were held in the capital as people in the Muslim-majority South …
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. has begun talks with the Cook Islands for research on seabed minerals exploration and development, the State Department said on Tuesday. The Cook Islands lie halfway between New Zealand and Hawaii and are made up of 15 islands and atolls. The country in 2021 had a population of …
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By Steve Holland (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump will host the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan for peace talks at the White House on Friday, a U.S. official told Reuters. The official said it was possible that the framework for a peace agreement could be announced at Friday’s meeting. The Washington Post was first …
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By Lefteris Papadimas ATHENS (Reuters) -It took just minutes for a new Greek-made anti-drone system to show what it is capable of. On its first test run with a European Union patrol in the Red Sea a year ago, the Centauros system detected and swiftly brought down two aerial drones launched by Yemen’s Houthis, who …
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By Karen Freifeld (Reuters) -Two Chinese nationals in California were arrested and charged with illegally shipping tens of millions of dollars’ worth of AI chips to China, including Nvidia H100s, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday. Chuan Geng, 28, of Pasadena, and Shiwei Yang, 28, of El Monte, exported the advanced Nvidia chips and …
By Satoshi Sugiyama TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan’s real wages fell in June for the sixth consecutive month as inflation continued to outpace pay growth, government data showed on Wednesday, raising concerns about consumption-led recovery in the world’s fourth-largest economy. Inflation-adjusted real wages, a key determinant of households’ purchasing power, fell 1.3% in June from a year …
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