Author Archives: Syndicated Content

(Reuters) - Westpac Banking Corp on Wednesday said it would split its consumer and business banking business into two, with each having its own CEO, effective Aug. 1. The bank said Chris de Bruin, cur...

By Jason Xue and Tom Westbrook (Reuters) - China's disappointing first half has the economy ripe for some help, and investors are preparing to ride an expected short-term wave of stimulus, even if str...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Visitors to Japan exceeded 2 million in June for the first time in more than three years, official data showed on Wednesday, drawn in by the weak yen and helping foster a recovery in...

(Reuters) - After violence erupted in Myanmar in the wake of the 2021 coup, most high school students in the remote township of Thantlang left their studies and took up arms to support a grassroots re...

DUBAI (Reuters) - At least 34 people died and 12 were injured in a road accident in Algeria on Wednesday, the country's civil defence said on Facebook. (Reporting by Nayera Abdallah; Writing by Tala R...

(Reuters) - Rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) such as Microsoft-backed OpenAI's ChatGPT are complicating governments' efforts to agree laws governing the use of the technology. Here are t...

By Tim Kelly and Sam Nussey TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan needs to rapidly expand computing power as it vies to become a global leader in artificial intelligence, said Hideki Murai, a special AI adviser to ...

By Ngouda Dione PODOR, Senegal - In the arid expanse of northern Senegal, women traverse kilometres daily carrying heavy buckets of murky water from distant wells and rivers. Water scarcity is so acut...

By Patricia Zengerle and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Israeli President Isaac Herzog will address Congress on Wednesday, completing a visit aimed at reassuring the United States that Israel's ...

TAIPEI (Reuters) - The top U.S. diplomat in Taiwan said on Wednesday there was no reason for China to use the transit of the Taiwan vice president in the United States as a pretext for provocative act...