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By Tom Hals and Blake Brittain (Reuters) – Last year, Kris Kashtanova typed instructions for a graphic novel into a new artificial-intelligence program and touched off a high-stakes debate over who created the artwork: a human or an algorithm.
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BEIJING (Reuters) – European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will visit China from April 5 to 7, the Chinese foreign ministry announced on Monday, a trip that immediately follows her comments that the bloc’s relations with Beijing had become strained.
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By Vivek Mishra BENGALURU (Reuters) – The Reserve Bank of Australia will pause policy tightening on Tuesday according to an updated poll of analysts, although a strong minority still forecast a hike.
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LONDON (Reuters) – The National Education Union expects teachers in England to have voted strongly in favour of rejecting a pay offer from the British government, its head said on Monday, adding that the union was planning two further days of strike action.
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By Jonathan Allen and Karen Freifeld NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City police have thrown up metal barriers around Trump Tower and blocked roads near Manhattan Criminal Courthouse as they brace for potential protests ahead of Donald Trump’s expected surrender to prosecutors on Tuesday.
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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine said on Monday that Russian forces were “very far” from capturing the eastern town of Bakhmut and that fighting raged on around the administration building where the Wagner mercenary group claimed to have raised the Russian flag.
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A social media influencer who once had 58,000 Twitter followers was convicted by a federal jury of election interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential race over a voter suppression scheme, the Justice Department said late on Friday.
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PARIS (Reuters) – An overwhelming majority of Parisians voted to ban electric scooters from the streets of the French capital on Sunday, in a non-binding referendum that city authorities have said they would follow.
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By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Many Republicans in the U.S. Congress have responded to Donald Trump’s looming Tuesday arraignment by characterizing the criminal justice system as corrupt, in accusations that parallel their earlier broadsides against the nation’s elections after the former president’s 2020 defeat.
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By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A federal judge in Memphis, Tennessee, on Friday temporarily blocked a law restricting drag performances in public from going into effect, saying it was likely “vague and overly-broad” in its restriction of speech.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will meet with French President Emmanuel Macron for a working lunch on Monday, said the commission, as the two prepare for a joint trip to China later in the week.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) – The former principal of an Australian ultra-Orthodox Jewish School, Malka Leifer, was found guilty of sexually abusing two former students by a Melbourne court on Monday, local media reported.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia is prepared to negotiate with China over a dispute between them in the South China Sea, state news agency Bernama reported on Monday, citing Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim.
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(Reuters) – Tesla Inc on Sunday missed estimates for first-quarter deliveries as a bleak economic outlook and rising competition outweighed the electric automaker’s efforts to prop up demand with price cuts.
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LONDON (Reuters) – Teachers in England have rejected a pay offer from the British government aimed at ending a series of disruptive strikes, their trade union said on Monday, announcing two further walkouts.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) – Fish have been caught more than 5 miles (8 kilometres) under the surface of the ocean for the first time ever – and filmed even deeper – by a joint Japanese-Australian scientific expedition.
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LONDON (Reuters) – Activity at struggling factories across the euro zone fell further last month as consumers feeling the pinch from rising living costs cut back, according to a survey which did show the cost of manufacturing fell for the first time since mid-2020.
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SEOUL (Reuters) – The navies of South Korea, the U.S. and Japan will hold two days of anti-submarine exercises starting Monday to better counter North Korea’s evolving nuclear and missile capabilities, South Korea’s defence ministry said.
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BEIJING(Reuters) – China’s factory activity growth stalled in March, weighed by slowing production and weaker global demand and adding to uncertainty about a post-COVID recovery, a private sector survey showed on Monday.
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BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s top lenders should enhance risk management practices and be more sensitive to macroeconomic fluctuations, senior Chinese banking officials said, in response to a global banking sector crisis that has roiled financial markets.