MUMBAI (Reuters) – Netflix has removed an Indian language film from its platform after the movie faced a backlash on social media for depicting the daughter of a Hindu priest eating meat. Hindus are India’s largest religious grouping and Hindu priests, as well as their families, are typically vegetarian. “Annapoorani …

MOSCOW (Reuters) – A senior ally of President Vladimir Putin warned on Thursday that any Ukrainian attacks on missile launch sites inside Russia with arms supplied by the United States and its allies would risk a nuclear response from Moscow. Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, now deputy chairman of Russia’s …

(Reuters) – Crypto enthusiasts hailed the approval of U.S. bitcoin exchange-traded funds as the birth of a new asset class, but broadening acceptance of the famously turbulent cryptocurrency beyond its true believers could prove challenging. A decade in the making, the ETFs offer investors access to spot bitcoin prices, avoiding …

ABIDJAN (Reuters) – Nigeria will allow striker Terem Moffi to play for French club Nice at the weekend before he heads to the Africa Cup of Nations but Cameroon are blocking teenager Regis Mughe from turning out for Marseille after he refused a call-up to the finals. The two contrasting …

NEW YORK (Reuters) -Security was bolstered at a New York court where former U.S. President Donald Trump’s civil fraud trial was set to conclude on Thursday after a threat was made against the judge overseeing the case, a court spokesperson said. The unspecified threat was made against Justice Arthur Engoron, …

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Some European Union lawmakers are pushing to strengthen a planned law on microplastics pollution, after millions of plastic pellets washed up on the coast of Spain’s northwestern Galicia region. Tiny plastic pellets are used to manufacture everyday items from water bottles to shopping bags. They are also …

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s competition regulator plans to make big tech companies give their rivals greater access to data and limit them from promoting their own products under new powers it is due to receive from the government, it said on Thursday. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has bolstered …

KUALA LUMPUR: It was a day to remember for professional doubles shuttlers Ong Yew Sin-Teo Ee Yi. Yew Sin-Ee Yi pulled off an incredible show to upstage Denmark’s No. 1 pair Kim Astrup-Anders Skaarup Rasmussen 21-10, 11-21, 24-22 for the first time in their fifth attempt to storm into the …

KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s hotly debated draft law on tightening mobilization rules was returned to the government for further work, the parliamentary speaker said on Thursday. The bill would enable Kyiv to call up more people to the army as the war with Russia approaches the two-year mark. The draft …

TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Protesters have threatened to shut down two oil and gas facilities near the Libyan capital Tripoli, with one group that is campaigning against corruption issuing a 72-hour ultimatum that ends on Friday. The group called the Corruption Eradication Movement said in a video statement online that it …