Australia shuts out Taiwan in WBC opener
Robbie Perkins belted a two-run homer and the Cleveland Guardians' Travis Bazzana added a solo shot as Australia beat Taiwan 3-0 on Thursday in the opening game of the World Baseball Classic at Tokyo. The contest marked the start of round-robin pl...
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Merck KGaA sees earnings decline of up to 4%
FRANKFURT, March 5 (Reuters) - Germany's Merck KGaA said on Thursday it expects 2026 adjusted operating profit to slip by up to 4%, excluding currency effects. (Reporting by Ludwig Burger and Patricia Weiss, Editing by Friederike ...
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Exclusive-Ukraine's F-16 jets were starved of US-made missiles for weeks
By Tom Balmforth KYIV, March 5 (Reuters) - Ukraine's F-16 fighter jets didn't have enough missiles to shoot down Russian drones and missiles for more than three weeks after supplies from Kyiv's partners dried up just as Moscow was preparing a massive w...
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South Africa seeks local production of Gilead's HIV prevention drug
By Jennifer Rigby LONDON, March 5 (Reuters) - South Africa is asking local drugmakers to start a process to make Gilead Sciences' long-acting HIV prevention drug, lenacapavir, domestically, in a push to bring production to the region where it is most n...
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Chinese military flights around Taiwan fall, Trump-Xi meeting may be factor
By Yimou Lee TAIPEI, March 5 (Reuters) - Chinese air force activity around Taiwan has fallen sharply in recent weeks, with no flights at all in the past week, a sudden drop in what had been daily military manoeuvres that could signal Beijing is recali...
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Morning Bid: 'Bump on the road' or gaping chasm?
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Rocky Swift Is the crisis in the Middle East and its fallout on global markets just a "bump on the road" or does it portend a long period of uncertainty for global trade? The rosier take was...
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Australian court finds two ex-Star executives in breach of duty, regulator says
March 5 (Reuters) - Australia's corporate regulator said on Thursday it has found two former senior executives of Star Entertainment in breach of duties over the handling of risks associated with money laundering and criminal activity. The Australian...
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Perishables to plane parts stranded as Middle East conflict hits air cargo
By Allison Lampert, Lisa Baertlein and Julie Zhu March 5 (Reuters) - Shipments ranging from fresh produce to airplane parts are in limbo as an escalating Middle East conflict reduces the world's air cargo capacity by more than one-fifth and pushes up f...
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China plans to cut carbon dioxide emissions per unit of GDP by around 3.8% in 2026
By Colleen Howe BEIJING, March 5 (Reuters) - China plans to reduce its carbon intensity, or carbon emissions per unit of gross domestic product, by 17% during its current five-year plan, according to official documents released on Thursday, an accelera...
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Nvidia halts China-bound H200 output, shifts TSMC capacity to Vera Rubin, FT reports
March 5 (Reuters) - Nvidia has stopped production of its second-most advanced artificial intelligence chips, known as H200 chips, intended for the Chinese market, the Financial Times reported on Thursday. The U.S. chipmaker has reallocated manufactur...
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