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(Reuters) - There was little warning of the chaos that was about to be unleashed onboard Singapore Airlines flight SQ321.

With around three hours left on the journey from London to Singapore, Malaysian student Dzafran Azmir got the uneasy feeling the Boeing 777-300R plane was tilting upwards and beginning to shake.

The 28-year-old braced himself and checked he had his seatbelt on. He did. Many of the other passengers did not, he said.

(Reuters) - Nissan Motor Co has paused production plans to build its electric vehicles in the United States, Automotive News reported on Tuesday citing a memo sent to auto suppliers.

The Japanese automaker has adjusted its development schedule on some battery-powered sedans and asked suppliers to stop development activity related to those projects until further notice, the report said.

Nissan did not immediately respond to a Reuters... (continue reading...)

By Inti Landauro

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain declared the withdrawal of its ambassador to Buenos Aires "permanent" on Tuesday in an escalation of its response to Argentine President Javier Milei's derogatory comments about the wife of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.

Spain had already recalled its envoy for consultations and demanded an apology after Milei insulted Begona Gomez at a rally in Madrid organised by the far-right Vox party... (continue reading...)

ABUJA (Reuters) -Nigeria's central bank hiked its benchmark interest rate by 150 basis points (bps) on Tuesday, responding to a continued rise in inflation in Africa's most populous nation.

Central bank governor Olayemi Cardoso said the bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) was faced with a decision to either hike or hold rates while it observed the impact of previous hikes, but it opted for an increase in the interests of price stability.

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday applied for arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his defence chief and three Hamas leaders over alleged war crimes.

If those requests are granted the Israeli and Hamas leaders would join a list of war crime suspects who remain at large from the court in The Hague. 

Here is an overview of the most high-profile names among... (continue reading...)