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BUDAPEST (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court prosecutor's request for an arrest warrant against Israel's prime minister is "unacceptable" and could not be enforced in Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orban's chief of staff said on Thursday.

Gergely Gulyas told a news briefing that, although Hungary ratified the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), it "was never made part of Hungarian law," meaning that no measure of the court... (continue reading...)

BERLIN (Reuters) - German housing construction stagnated in 2023 as the number of apartments built fell slightly from the previous year as the wider property market suffers its worst crisis in a generation.

Around 294,400 apartments were built last year, 0.3% fewer than in 2022 and far below the government's target of building 400,000 apartments annually, Federal Statistics Office data showed on Thursday.

The authorities approved only... (continue reading...)

(Reuters) - Futures tracking the tech-heavy Nasdaq and the benchmark S&P 500 climbed on Thursday as chip stocks rallied after Nvidia's upbeat revenue forecast cemented investor optimism around the meteoric rise of artificial intelligence technology.

AI chip leader Nvidia jumped 6.8% in premarket trading, breaching the $1,000 mark for the first time ever and on track to add about $155 billion in market value if gains hold.

The... (continue reading...)

LONDON (Reuters) - Government policies to encourage companies to pay more dividends should increase the attractiveness of China's stock market for overseas investors, a senior Chinese regulator said on Thursday.

Fang Xinghai, vice chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, said the Chinese government set out policies last month to strengthen its capital markets, including moves to encourage listed companies to pay more dividends.

By Panu Wongcha-um

BANGKOK (Reuters) -Twenty people who were aboard a Singapore Airlines flight that hit severe turbulence and diverted to Bangkok for an emergency landing on Tuesday remain in intensive care, a hospital official said on Thursday.

"The number of patients in ICU remain the same," Adinun Kittiratanapaibool, Director of Bangkok's Samitivej Srinakarin Hospital told reporters, referring to the medical facility's intensive care... (continue reading...)