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(Reuters) - Russian guided bombs killed two civilians in the eastern Ukrainian city of Toretsk on Tuesday and heavily damaged two apartment buildings, Donetsk regional Governor Vadym Filashkin said.

Filashkin, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said Russian forces deployed three bombs in the city north of the Russian-held regional centre of Donetsk. Rescue teams were on site to determine the extent of casualties.

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By Conor Humphries

DUBLIN (Reuters) - The world's leading internet firms are engaging extensively with regulators in the European Union to ensure their artificial-intelligence products do not fall foul of the bloc's strict data protection rules, Ireland's powerful data regulator said.

Ireland's Data Protection Commission, lead EU regulator for Alphabet's Google, Meta, Microsoft, TikTok and OpenAI, among others, said that its broad powers... (continue reading...)

By Alexander Winning

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africans vote on Wednesday in the most competitive election since the end of apartheid, with opinion polls suggesting the African National Congress (ANC) will lose its parliamentary majority after 30 years in government.

Then led by Nelson Mandela, the ANC swept to power in South Africa's first multi-racial election in 1994 and has won a majority in national elections held every five... (continue reading...)

DELAWARE (Reuters) - The Delaware judge who voided Elon Musk's record Tesla pay package told the parties in the case that she felt assured by the electric vehicle maker that it would not use an upcoming shareholder vote to attack her ruling.

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The shareholder legal team who sued over Musk's $56 billion pay package had asked Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick for orders to prevent their case from being undone in a Texas... (continue reading...)

(Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase is in close contact with local officials after a building explosion in Youngstown, Ohio, a bank spokesperson said in response to questions after a video of the purported blast was posted on X.

The company is checking on the safety of people in the building and area, the spokesperson said, adding that it will then "work to determine what happened and assess the damage".

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