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EU won't bend to gas 'blackmail' as Russia pushes deeper into Ukraine
Moscow cut off gas supplies to Bulgaria and Poland, two EU and NATO members backing Ukraine in the conflict
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Alphabet profit drops 8% as ad growth slows
Slowing growth in advertising on YouTube and search as well as a decline in the value of its investments dragged down profits of Google parent
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Elon Musk-Twitter deal includes $1 billion break-up fee
If the $44-billion deal to buy out Twitter falls apart, either side may have to pay the other $1 billion, securities filing shows
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China lockdowns drag on earnings of chipmakers, industrials
China's "zero Covid" policy to combat the Omicron variant has brought fresh lockdowns in many cities, forcing factories to shut and worsening a global supply chain logjam
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Netflix inks Japan studio deal in anime push
Anime has proven a draw for Netflix in both Japan, where almost 90% of its users watch it, and globally, where half of users tuned in last year, with rivals including Amazon and Disney also racing to offer such content
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Aung Suu Kyi handed 5-year jail term for corruption
The Nobel laureate, who led Myanmar for five years before being forced from power in a coup in early 2021, has been charged with at least 18 offences, which carry combined maximum jail terms of nearly 190 years if found guilty
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Stay or go? Ukraine refugees torn between safety and home
Women and children are still pouring out of a land being pummelled by what one called Russia's "creatures from Hell" but hundreds of thousands of refugees are returning home, determined to stay. Many others have had to flee for a second time, having thought it was safe to go back only to find it was not
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Govt slashes expected proceeds from LIC IPO to a third
The amount New Delhi expects to raise from the initial public offering (IPO) of the state-owned insurer is a billion dollars short of its projection last week, and a third of the more than $8 billion it initially planned to raise in February
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China detects first human case of H3N8 bird flu
H3N8 is known to have been circulating since 2002 after first emerging in North American waterfowl. It is known to infect horses, dogs and seals, but has not previously been detected in humans
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Twitter future direction 'uncertain' Parag Agrawal says as employees look for answers
Compensation would remain largely the same under Elon Musk, the Twitter CEO said, but he did not make the same assurances about Twitter's policies and culture
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Beijing lockdown talks fuel supply chain disruption concerns
The city government ordered one of its districts to test all 3.5 million of its residents for coronavirus in the coming days, a move that may be a prelude to a larger lockdown in China's capital city