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Finance

UAW, Volkswagen reach tentative deal at Tennessee plant 

Feb 4 (Reuters) - Workers at Volkswagen's plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee have won a tentative agree...

5th February, 2026

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Finance

Instagram recovers after brief outage disrupts US users

Feb 4 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms' Instagram was down for more than 10,000 users in the U.S. on Wedne...

5th February, 2026

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Finance

Oil settles almost 3% down on easing supply concerns ahead of US, Iran talks

By Katya Golubkova TOKYO, Feb 5 (Reuters) - U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude prices fell on Thursd...

5th February, 2026

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Finance

UN chief calls New START expiration 'grave moment'

Feb 4 (Reuters) - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday called the expirati...

5th February, 2026

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Finance

Ukraine energy minister warns of more power cuts, possible Russian attacks

Feb 5 (Reuters) - Ukraine's energy minister warned households on Wednesday that planned blackouts co...

4th February, 2026

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Melania Trump says talks with Putin team continue to free Ukrainian kids

By Bo Erickson WASHINGTON, Feb 4 (Reuters) - U.S. first lady Melania Trump said on Wednesday she rem...

4th February, 2026

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Fifty-five thousand Ukrainian soldiers killed on battlefield, Zelenskiy tells French TV

PARIS, Feb 4 (Reuters) - The number of Ukrainian soldiers killed on the battlefield as a result of t...

4th February, 2026

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Finance

Telegram's Durov says proposed Spanish social media restrictions seek to censor critics

By Aislinn Laing MADRID, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Telegram founder Pavel Durov on Wednesday joined Elon Mus...

4th February, 2026

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French president's top diplomat held talks in Moscow on Tuesday, sources say

PARIS, Feb 4 (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron's most senior diplomat was in Moscow on Tu...

4th February, 2026

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Italy probes 80-year-old over alleged Sarajevo 'sniper tourism'

MILAN, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Milan prosecutors have placed an elderly Italian man under investigation as...

4th February, 2026

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Finance

Dental sector may steady in 2026, but full recovery remains distant, analysts say

By Sriparna Roy and Padmanabhan Ananthan Feb 4 (Reuters) - Wall Street is hoping dental-product make...

4th February, 2026

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Russia says it's open to diplomacy but will counter any new threats after expiry of nuclear treaty

MOSCOW, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Russia said on Wednesday it was open to diplomacy on nuclear security but...

4th February, 2026