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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan envisages the need for electricity output to rise 35% to 50% by 2050 due to growing demand from semiconductor plants and data centres backing artificial intelligence (AI), the government has forecast.

Power output should grow from 1 trillion kilowatt-hours (kWh) projected for the current decade to about 1.35-1.5 trillion kWh in 2050 to meet demand as Japan sets up more data centres, chip factories and other energy-consuming... (continue reading...)

SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian court has sentenced a former military lawyer to five years and eight months in jail for sharing with journalists classified military documents about the special forces actions in Afghanistan, media reported on Tuesday.

David McBride pleaded guilty to three charges, including theft and sharing more than 200 documents classified as secret, with members of the media, the Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC) reported. He had... (continue reading...)

By Simon Lewis

KYIV (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Kyiv on Tuesday in the first visit to Ukraine by a senior U.S. official since Congress passed a long-delayed $61 billion military aid package for the country last month.

The previously undisclosed trip aims to show U.S. solidarity with Ukraine as it struggles to fend off heavy Russian bombardment on its northeastern border.

Blinken, who... (continue reading...)

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -China-based Hesai Group sued the U.S. government on Monday for adding the maker of lidar light sensors to a list of companies allegedly working with Beijing's military.

Hesai, whose lidars help self-driving cars and driver-assistance systems gain a three-dimensional map of the road, was added to the list by the U.S. Department of Defense in January along with over a dozen other companies.

While being placed on the... (continue reading...)

By Veronica Dudei Maia Khongwir

BENGALURU (Reuters) - The Philippine central bank will keep its key policy rate unchanged on Thursday, according to a Reuters poll of economists who now expected the first rate cut to come in the final quarter of this year.

Annual inflation rose for the third straight month in April, to 3.8% from 3.7% in March. While it stayed within the central bank's 2-4% target range, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP)... (continue reading...)