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Peru installs Jose Balcazar as interim president after Jeri ousted in political upheaval
Left-wing lawmaker Balcazar elected as Peru’s interim presidentBalcazar will lead Peru through April electionsPeru has seen eight presidents in eight years amid political turmoilBy Lucinda Elliott and Natalia Siniawski Feb 18 (Reuters) - Peruvian lawmakers elected Jose Balcazar as the country'...Reuters
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US judge throws out immigration board's ruling endorsing Trump mass detention policy
Judge vacates Board of Immigration Appeals' decisionJudge criticizes administration's immigration enforcement positions Judge's December ruling declared detention policy unlawfulBy Nate Raymond Feb 18 (Reuters) - A federal judge threw out on Wednesday an administrative board's dec...Reuters
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Bill Gates a no-show at India AI summit, event marred by organisational chaos
By Munsif Vengattil and Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Bill Gates pulled out of India's AI Impact Summit hours before his scheduled keynote address on Thursday, dealing another blow to a flagship event already marred by organisational lapses, a robot bungle and delegate compla...Reuters
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Microsoft says it does not think US ICE uses firm's tech for mass surveillance of civilians
Microsoft provides cloud tools to ICE, denies it is used for mass surveillance useICE tripled data it stored in Microsoft's Azure amid increased operations, The Guardian reportsMicrosoft urges legal clarity on tech use by law enforcementBy Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Microso...Reuters
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New Mexico probes allegation of bodies buried near Epstein ranch
By Andrew Hay Feb 18 (Reuters) - New Mexico's Department of Justice said on Wednesday the state was investigating an allegation, which emerged from documents released by the U.S. Department of Justice, that the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein ordered the bodies of two foreign girls buried o...Reuters
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BREAKINGVIEWS-European rearmament is a how-to-spend-it problem: podcast
By Aimee Donnellan and Jonathan Guilford LONDON/NEW YORK, Feb 19 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Follow on Apple or Spotify. Listen on the Reuters app. Read the episode transcript. Listen to the podcast A summit in Munich offered a window into the continent’s anxieties over defenc...Reuters
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India's Tata signs up OpenAI as customer for data centre business
NEW DELHI, Feb 19 (Reuters) - OpenAI will become the first customer of India's Tata Consultancy Services' data centre business, beginning with 100 megawatts of capacity, part of the global AI infrastructure initiative Stargate, the companies said.Stargate is a $500 billion multi-year initiat...Reuters
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Billionaire Wexner says he visited Epstein's island but denies knowledge of financier's crimes
By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Billionaire Leslie Wexner said on Wednesday he once visited the island of late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein but denied having knowledge of his criminal activity.Wexner, 88, said he cut all ties to Epstein nearly 20 years ago...Reuters
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Peru congress elects Jose Balcazar as new interim president
Feb 18 (Reuters) - Peruvian lawmakers on Wednesday elected Jose Balcazar as the country's new interim president ahead of general elections in April, making him the country's eighth president in as many years. Balcazar will also assume the role of head of Congress. Peru's Congress on Tues...Reuters
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Tata's data centre business signs up OpenAI as customer
NEW DELHI, Feb 19 (Reuters) - OpenAI will become the first customer of India's Tata Consultancy Services' data center business, beginning with 100 megawatts of capacity, the parent firm of ChatGPT said on Thursday.Separately, Tata Group is planning to deploy ChatGPT Enterprise across the com...Reuters
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TCS Says Tata Group And OpenAI Forge Foundational Partnership
Feb 19 (Reuters) - Tata Consultancy Services Ltd TCS.NS:TCS - TATA GROUP AND OPENAI FORGE FOUNDATIONAL PARTNERSHIPTCS - TCS' HYPERVAULT UNIT AND OPENAI HAVE AGREED TO A MULTI-YEAR PARTNERSHIP TO DEVELOP AI INFRASTRUCTURE IN INDIATCS - IN INITIAL PHASE, TCS WILL DEVELOP AI INFRASTRUCTURE WITH 100...Reuters
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Meta's Zuckerberg denies at LA trial that Instagram targets kids
Zuckerberg was called as a witness in case over alleged harms to youth Meta may have to pay damages if it loses this caseJurors saw Meta documents discussing tween strategy By Jody Godoy LOS ANGELES, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms META.O CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday repeatedly said during...Reuters
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Trump nominates lawyer from his legal team for appeals court position
By Jasper Ward WASHINGTON, Feb 18 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday nominated a lawyer who was part of his legal team in a landmark presidential immunity case before the U.S. Supreme Court, to serve as a judge on the St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Missouri...Reuters
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South Korea braces for verdict in ex‑President Yoon's insurrection trial
Prosecutors seek death penalty for insurrectionYoon's martial law attempt lasted only six hours, but triggered a political crisisSeoul court to rule on the most serious charges Yoon has facedNo execution has been carried out in South Korea since 1997By Joyce LeeSEOUL, Feb 19 (Reuters) - A South ...Reuters
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Vietnamese airlines sign $30-bln deals for 90 Boeing jets
HANOI, Feb 19 (Reuters) - Three Vietnamese airlines signed deals with U.S. manufacturer Boeing BA.N on Thursday to buy a total of 90 aircraft, as Vietnam and the United States continue negotiations on a new trade deal. The deals were signed during a visit to the United States by the head of Viet...Reuters
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