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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A keyboard is placed in front of a displayed Twitter logo in this illustration taken February 21, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo (Reuters) – Twitter’s new Chief Executive Officer Linda Yaccarino has begun her role at the social media company, she tweeted late on Monday. Yaccarino, the former advertising chief of NBCUniversal, has logged her first day in the new role, about a month after Twitter-owner Elon Musk named her as the new Twitter CEO. “It happened — first day in the books!,” she tweeted.

2/2 © Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Firefighters work to extinguish fire following recent shelling at an oil storage in the course of Russia-Ukraine conflict in the town of Shakhtarsk (Shakhtyorsk) near Donetsk, Russian-controlled Ukraine, October 27, 2022. REUTERS/Alexander Erm 2/2 By Sarah McFarlane and Valerie Volcovici LONDON (Reuters) – The war in Ukraine is deepening the climate crisis at time when global greenhouse gas emissions are already running at a record high, according to report by carbon accounting experts who have tallied the overall impact of the conflict. The report, which is due to be released on the sidelines of the…

Washington CNN  —  An employee at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence drained the resort’s swimming pool last October and ended up flooding a room where computer servers containing surveillance video logs were kept, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. While it’s unclear if the room was intentionally flooded or if it happened by mistake, the incident occurred amid a series of events that federal prosecutors found suspicious. At least one witness has been asked by prosecutors about the flooded server room as part of the federal investigation into Trump’s handling of classified documents, according to one of the sources. The…

The iPhone’s pioneering digital assistant, Siri, developed by Stanford University research offshoot SRI International and acquired by Apple in 2010, will no longer require its signature salutation to be summoned to action, it was learned Monday at Apple’s AAPL, -0.76% annual developers conference WWDC in Cupertino, Calif. Instead, according to Apple Insider and others, it will now, for those with the iOS 17 operating system installed, suffice to say “Siri.” See: Here are all the new software features coming to Apple’s iPhone this year First Take: Vision Pro could be Apple’s biggest hit since iPhone, but that won’t be known…

Ted Cruz preached tolerance for the LGBT community during a Twitter spat with a pastor.   “Let he that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her,” Cruz tweeted. Cruz recently also condemned Uganda’s harsh new anti-gay legislation. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you’re on the go. download the app Sen. Ted Cruz on Monday cited the Bible and quoted verses from the book in defense of the LGBTQ community, a stark departure from his decidedly conservative position on gay rights. A Florida pastor, Tom…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A woman walks at the Maeklong market next to the train tracks, on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand September 21, 2016. REUTERS/Jorge Silva/File Photo BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand’s headline inflation rate dropped to its lowest in 21 months in May due to falling energy and food prices and a high base in 2022, the commerce ministry said on Tuesday. The headline consumer price index (CPI) rose 0.53% in May from a year earlier, below a forecast rise of 1.70% in a Reuters poll, and against April’s 2.67% year-on-year increase. The core CPI index in May rose…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: U.S. dollar banknotes are seen in this illustration taken March 10, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration//File Photo By Kevin Buckland TOKYO (Reuters) – The dollar languished well below last week’s 2-1/2-month highs on Tuesday after unexpectedly soft U.S. services data firmed up expectations for a rate pause at the Federal Reserve’s meeting next week but clouded the policy outlook for the months ahead. The hovered not far from last week’s high ahead of the Reserve Bank of Australia’s policy decision later in the day, with analysts and investors split over whether the central bank will hike or hold.…

The LatestPresident Biden hosted Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen of Denmark at the White House on Monday to discuss security initiatives, including providing military support to Ukraine, amid reports that Kyiv may be stepping up its long-planned counteroffensive against Russian forces.One of the main discussion topics between Mr. Biden and Ms. Frederiksen, according to the White House, involved Ukraine’s demand for American-made F-16 warplanes. In late May, and after months of resisting mounting pressure to provide the planes out of fear they could be used to hit Russian territory, Mr. Biden agreed to allow for pilots to be trained to operate…

LL28 Coherus Biosciences (NASDAQ:CHRS) reported promising overall survival data from a Phase 3 study for its drug candidate toripalimab in the treatment of an aggressive head and neck cancer. The study tested toripalimab in combination with the chemotherapy drugs gemcitabine and cisplatin in patients with recurrent or metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma. The results were presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Clinical Oncology. Coherus said the Phase 3 study showed overall survival in the study was 36 months, with 33.7 months observed in the chemotherapy only arm and median overall survival not yet reached in the toripalimab arm.…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Ingots of 99.99 percent pure gold are placed in a workroom at Krastsvetmet precious metals plant in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia, January 31, 2023. REUTERS/Alexander Manzyuk/File Photo SEOUL (Reuters) – The Bank of Korea (BOK) assesses it is more desirable to maintain its dollar liquidity than to increase gold holdings for foreign exchange reserves at this point, the central bank said. “A cautious approach is necessary for determining whether to increase the ratio of gold in the foreign exchange reserves,” the BOK’s Reserve Management Group said on Tuesday. Given the possibility of a global…