A man walks near the site of a Russian missile strike in Kyiv. REUTERS/Thomas Peter |
Ukraine and Russia at War |
- Donald Trump said both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy expressed a desire for peace in separate phone calls with him. The US president ordered top US officials to begin talks on ending the war.
- With negotiations about to start, the Trump administration's strategy towards Russia is already under fire.
- His move sent shockwaves through European capitals, which want a central role in peace talks – as any settlement in Ukraine will have ramifications for their own security. Leaders in the region are now scrambling to get a seat at the table.
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- A car drove into a crowd in Munich injuring several people, as the southern German city prepares for a security conference due to be attended by Volodymyr Zelenskiy and US Vice President JD Vance. The Bild newspaper reported that 15 people were injured.
- Prime Minister Narendra Modi heads to the White House aiming to keep India out of Trump's tariffs crosshairs. On today's Reuters World News podcast, South Asia Editor Sanjeev Miglani discusses the concessions Modi is armed with coming into in the talks.
- Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will not travel to Washington as long as the agenda includes Trump's plan to displace Palestinians, two Egyptian security sources said. Separately, a Palestinian official told Reuters that mediators have secured a commitment to pursue implementation of the Gaza ceasefire.
- Tens of thousands of US civil servants were cleared to take a buyout from Trump's administration after a federal judge ruled the unprecedented downsizing effort could proceed. About 75,000 workers have accepted it already, a spokesperson for the US Office of Personnel Management said last night.
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- Britain's economy unexpectedly grew by 0.1% in the final quarter of last year, offering some respite from the downbeat economic picture facing finance minister Rachel Reeves, though longer-term challenges remain. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast that gross domestic product would shrink by 0.1% in the period.
- Ben & Jerry's maker Unilever said it would demerge its ice cream business and picked Amsterdam as its primary listing venue, with London and New York as secondary listings, in a blow to Britain.
- Commerzbank will cut 3,900 jobs and unveiled ambitious financial targets in a strategy revamp designed to head off UniCredit's advances for a tie-up between the German and Italian lenders.
- JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon scorned calls from some employees to soften the bank's five-day return-to-office policy in an animated town hall meeting, according to a recording reviewed by Reuters.
- Elon Musk will withdraw his $97.4 billion bid for OpenAI's non-profit arm if the ChatGPT maker drops its plans to become a for-profit entity, the billionaire's lawyers said in a court filing.
- In more news on artificial intelligence, the rise of DeepSeek's AI models is seen providing some Chinese chipmakers such as Huawei a better chance to compete in the domestic market against more powerful US processors.
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Exclusive: Syria's new leaders zero in on Assad's business barons |
Vehicles drive as the Syrian central bank is seen in the background in Damascus. REUTERS/Yamam al Shaar |
Syria's new rulers are combing through the billion-dollar corporate empires of ousted president Bashar al-Assad's allies, and have held talks with some of these tycoons, in what they say is a campaign to root out corruption and illegal activity. After seizing power, the HTS rebel group pledged to reconstruct the country. To do so, the executive led by Ahmed al-Sharaa has set up a committee tasked with dissecting the sprawling corporate interests of high-profile Assad-linked tycoons, three sources told Reuters. |
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High-energy cosmic neutrino detected under Mediterranean Sea. Paschal Coyle/Handout via REUTERS |
Using an observatory under construction deep beneath the Mediterranean Sea near Sicily, scientists have detected a ghostly subatomic particle called a neutrino boasting record-breaking energy in another important step toward understanding some of the universe's most cataclysmic events. |
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