ST PETERSBURG, Russia, Oct 21 (Reuters) – Stephen Hubbard, a 74-year-old retired US schoolteacher in Russian custody since 2022, was freed from prison on Wednesday and taken to St Petersburg’s Pulkovo airport, President Vladimir Putin said. The Kremlin chief made the announcement at a meeting…
Oct 21 (Reuters) – Futures tied to the tech-heavy Nasdaq led gains on Wednesday as results from SpaceX and Super Micro Computer revived the AI trade, while Netflix slipped after its forecast failed to impress investors. Elon Musk’s rocket and space technology firm rose 9.4%…
Oct 21 (Reuters) – Formula One statistics for this weekend’s US Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas (COTA) in Austin, Texas. The race is the 18th round of the 23-race calendar and start of a ‘triple header’ of races on successive weekends in…
Oct 21 (Reuters) – Self-driving truck company Einride said on Wednesday it would broaden its partnership with Nvidia by testing the chipmaker’s AI reasoning model, Alpamayo, in its self-driving vehicles, aiming to speed up the expansion of autonomous freight services while lowering development costs. Alpamayo is Nvidia’s…
PARIS, Oct 21 (Reuters) – Telecoms operator Orange said on Wednesday that an incident affecting its mobile network in France was causing major disruptions to its customers across the country. Technical teams are working to identify the cause of the incident and restore services, a…
ANKARA, Oct 21 (Reuters) – Turkey will submit to parliament a mandate allowing for military personnel to be deployed to Saudi Arabia under its joint defence pact with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, a lawmaker from the ruling AK Party told Reuters on Wednesday. The lawmaker,…
By Alan Baldwin AUSTIN, Texas, Oct 21 (Reuters) – Kimi Antonelli is set to become Formula One’s youngest champion, and Italy’s first in 73 years, but the 20-year-old Mercedes driver will have to win and hope the stars align if he is to convert his…
By Andrew Goudsward and Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff WASHINGTON, Oct 21 (Reuters) – When Justice Department staffers arrived in Minnesota this summer to monitor the state’s primary election, they found themselves under scrutiny as well. Minnesota officials deployed about 40 state employees, working in pairs, to track…
By Brad Brooks, Andy Sullivan and Arathy Somasekhar HOUSTON, Texas, Oct 21 (Reuters) – Texas Democrats’ best chance at a statewide win in more than three decades is facing a wall of Republican money, with Elon Musk and other donors pouring hundreds of millions into…
By Nicole Jao, Arathy Somasekhar and Jarrett Renshaw NEW YORK, Oct 21 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s deal with Russia to supply diesel to US and global markets is unlikely to meaningfully lower diesel prices, market watchers and analysts said, noting that the promised volumes are…
