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SOFIA, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Bulgaria's sole nuclear power plant said it will cut capacity by about 12% on Friday ​due to the Danube river's low ‌water levels. The Kozloduy Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), which provides around 35% of Bulgaria's electricity nee...

Aug 20 (Reuters) - Michigan health department has ​reported ‌14,277 cases linked to an outbreak ‌of ​cyclosporiasis ⁠on Thursday, an ⁠increase of 368 cases since its ​last update a ⁠week ⁠earlier. The state, ​the worst affected ​by a multistate ‌outbre...

DUBLIN, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has bought a 19th-century Gothic-style castle ​overlooking a river in ‌the southeast of Ireland, 200 kilometres (125 miles) from his company's European headquarters, a spokesman said on ‌Thursday. Str...

By Ernest Scheyder and Jarrett Renshaw Aug 20 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Energy is awarding $500 million in grants to seven companies building domestic lithium, cobalt and other mineral and battery projects, the latest in a string of investment...

Aug 20 (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing claims for unemployment benefits slipped last week, suggesting that the labor market remains stable despite a surprise drop in employment in July and leaving the Federal Reserve in position to keep its ...

By Pritam Biswas, Arasu Kannagi Basil and Hannah Lang Aug 20 (Reuters) - Cryptocurrency-related stocks surged on Thursday, a day after the U.S. Treasury Department said it would support more long-duration bonds, boosting risk assets, and as U.S. Presid...

By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's government has arranged for water to be delivered to nearly 72,000 people across seven districts as the country tackles ​a drought linked to this year's severe El ‌Niño, a senior official sai...

By Amy Tennery NEW YORK, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Two years after Australian breaker Raygun's much-maligned Olympic performance, the breaking community want to move on from the Paris Games debacle and reshape perceptions of a hip-hop art form they say was un...

By Jack Queen and Jane Ross Aug 20 (Reuters) - The ex-gang leader accused of orchestrating the drive-by killing of Tupac Shakur made public admissions that led to his arrest, but his lawyer had an unusual message for jurors this week: do not take his c...

By Leo Marchandon, Raphael Satter and Callaghan O'Hare AUSTIN, Texas, Aug 20 (Reuters) - Sinan Can Demir wanted to spend the last week of July burnishing his resume. Instead, he engaged in a battle of wits with an artificial-intelligence agent unleashe...

By Steve Holland and Michael Martina WASHINGTON, Aug 20 (Reuters) - The U.S. has designated Myanmar scholar and U.S. citizen Min Zin as wrongfully detained after his arrest by Chinese authorities in June, a senior State Department official told Reuters...

By Xiuhao Chen, Ellen Zhang and Kevin Krolicki BEIJING, Aug 20 (Reuters) - A crudely animated, homemade movie about a baby cow has become China's most unlikely box-office smash, generating merchandise and memes and a national conversation about the joy...

Aug 20 (Reuters) - An ​earthquake ‌of magnitude 5.9 ‌struck ​the ⁠Flores region ⁠in Indonesia, the European-Mediterranean ​Seismological ⁠Centre (EMSC) ⁠said ​on Thursday. The ​quake was ‌at a depth ⁠of 10 km (6.21 ⁠mile), ‌EMSC ⁠said. (Reporting ​by ...

WASHINGTON, Aug 19 (Reuters) - The U.S. Education Department has issued guidance urging schools to stop what it calls "racial balancing" in student discipline policies, prompting concerns that the Trump ​administration is making it harder to address lo...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Aug 19 (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Wednesday it is considering requiring businesses to disclose whether they use personalized pricing data, a practice that has drawn mounting scrutiny by state a...

By Jonathan Stempel Aug 19 (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld a more than $1 billion settlement to resolve antitrust claims that real estate brokerages conspired to inflate agents' commissions, rejecting objections by home ​buyers ...

By David Lawder and Jacob Bogage WASHINGTON, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Total U.S. debt has topped $40 trillion for the first time, the Treasury Department said on Wednesday, drawing fresh warnings that a fiscal crisis is brewing as ballooning costs for social...

By Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON, Aug 19 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration has told Congress it is sending more than $206 million for a proposed Gaza peacekeeping force, the first significant funding for the stalled U.S. plan to rebuild th...

Aug 19 (Reuters) - The Michigan health department on Wednesday confirmed a locally acquired case of eastern equine encephalitis, a rare ​mosquito-borne disease. The patient, a resident of ‌Roscommon County, is the first human case of the disease report...

BUDAPEST, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Hungary's Paks nuclear plant averted a complete shutdown as water levels on the Danube river, its main coolant source, are expected to stay high enough near the ​plant due to engineering work on the river, Prime Minister ‌P...