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Magnitude 6.9 earthquake strikes Banda Sea region Indonesia -EMSC
(Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 6.9 struck the Banda Sea region in Indonesia on Wednesday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said. The quake was 370 km (229.9 miles) southe...
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Amazon sets new team to trains ambitious AI model codenamed ‘Olympus’ – sources
By Krystal Hu (Reuters) - Amazon is investing millions in training an ambitious large language model (LLMs), hoping it could rival top models from OpenAI and Alphabet, two people familiar with the mat...
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Taiwan’s land squeeze pits advanced chips against ancestral temples
By Sarah Wu HSINCHU/LONGTAN, Taiwan (Reuters) - Wearing rain ponchos and holding photos of their ancestral temples near Hsinchu, Taiwan's semiconductor capital, 40 residents braved lashing winds in ea...
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Global fossil fuel production plans far exceed climate targets, U.N. says
By Susanna Twidale LONDON (Reuters) - Global fossil fuel production in 2030 is set to be more than double the levels that are deemed consistent with meeting climate goals set under the 2015 Paris clim...
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Japan’s Fuji Soft to launch tender offer for 4 listed subsidiaries – Bloomberg News
TOKYO (Reuters) - Software developer Fuji Soft is planning to announce a tender offer on Wednesday for four listed subsidiaries in Japan, Bloomberg News reported, citing people familiar with the matte...
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Patrick Dempsey named People magazine’s ‘sexiest man alive’
By Danielle Broadway and Alicia Powell (Reuters) - "Grey's Anatomy" actor Patrick Dempsey was named People magazine's "sexiest man alive" for 2023 on Tuesday, taking over the title from 2022 honoree a...
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US House censures lone Palestinian-American lawmaker over Israel comments
By Moira Warburton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House voted on Tuesday to censure Democratic Representative Rashida Tlaib, Congress's lone Palestinian-American lawmaker, for comments she made regar...
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Chaos as Optus outage disconnects half of Australia
By Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) - For one talkback radio caller, the first sign something was wrong with Australia's second-largest internet provider, Optus, came when her cat's wifi-powered food dispe...
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China will guard against yuan overshooting risks – PBOC publication
BEIJING (Reuters) - China will resolutely guard against overshooting risks of the yuan exchange rate, People's Bank of China (PBOC) Governor Pan Gongsheng said, according to a report on Wednesday by F...
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ECB must keep rates at or near 4% through 2024 to get inflation down -IMF
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Rapid wage growth in the euro zone could keep inflation elevated longer and the European Central Bank should hold interest rates at or near record highs through next year to exti...
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