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(Reuters) - Britain's competition watchdog said on Friday the partnership between Microsoft and Mistral AI did not qualify for an investigation.

The announcement comes after the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said in April it was seeking comments on the AI partnerships between the firms, as well as between Amazon and Anthropic.

At the time, the regulator said it had not formed any conclusions on whether the deals fell within UK... (continue reading...)

By Nidal al-Mughrabi

CAIRO (Reuters) - Israeli forces battled Hamas fighters in the narrow alleyways of Jabalia in northern Gaza on Friday in some of the fiercest engagements since they returned to the area a week ago, while in the south militants attacked tanks massing around Rafah.

Residents said Israeli armour had thrust as far as the market at the heart of Jabalia, the largest of Gaza's eight historic refugee camps, and that... (continue reading...)

By Lisandra Paraguassu

PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Haitians and Venezuelans who found refuge in southern Brazil after escaping hunger, violence and natural disasters are being forced once more to rebuild lives now wrecked by record flooding in Rio Grande do Sul state.

Reginald Descilong left Haiti after he lost family and friends in the devastating 2010 earthquake. He got to Brazil three years later, crossing... (continue reading...)

By Lucila Sigal

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentine conservationists have returned a rare and unusual-looking animal, a maned wolf, to the wild around Buenos Aires, with its long black legs and red-fur making the creature look like a fox on stilts or perhaps wearing knee-high boots.

The endangered species, whose natural habitat is usually in the hot northeast of the country, has slowly migrated south, which experts said was linked to land... (continue reading...)

By Dave Sherwood

(Reuters) - The Dominican Republic's Luis Abinader, an anti-corruption crusader who helped catapult the island nation's economy from pandemic lows to one of the fastest growing in Latin America, looks set for a first round victory in presidential elections on Sunday.

Abinader, the country's current president and leader of the Modern Revolutionary Party, garnered 60% of voter intentions in an early May Gallup-RCC Media... (continue reading...)