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By Mike Spector and Chris Prentice

(Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors are examining whether Tesla committed securities or wire fraud by misleading investors and consumers about its electric vehicles’ self-driving capabilities, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving systems assist with steering, braking and lane changes - but are not fully autonomous. While Tesla has warned drivers to stay... (continue reading...)

(Reuters) - Austrian lender Raiffeisen Bank has decided not to pursue the acquisition of a stake in construction group Strabag, it said in a statement on Wednesday.

"In recent exchanges with the relevant authorities, RBI has been unable to obtain the required comfort in order to proceed with the proposed transaction," the Vienna-based bank wrote.

(Reporting by Tristan Veyet in Gdansk; editing by Matthias Williams)

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Wednesday that its forces had advanced in eastern Ukraine, taking villages in two regions, and that it had struck Ukraine's energy and military infrastructure in response to attacks on Russian refineries.

Russian missiles and drones struck nearly a dozen Ukrainian critical infrastructure facilities in a major airstrike early on Wednesday, causing serious damage at three Soviet-era thermal power plants, Kyiv officials... (continue reading...)

LONDON (Reuters) - A lawmaker in Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's Conservative Party defected to the opposition Labour Party on Wednesday, the second to do so in less than two weeks, criticising what she called the broken promises of a "tired and chaotic government".

Sunak's Conservatives are trailing Labour by about 20 points in opinion polls ahead of a national election expected this year, and the party suffered heavy losses in local elections last week.... (continue reading...)

(Reuters) - Emerson Electric raised its full-year profit forecast on Wednesday on steady demand in its unit that makes valves, regulators and actuators, sending the engineering solutions firm's shares up about 2% in premarket trade.

The company's measurement and analytical devices have enjoyed sustained demand from manufacturers and end customers across the chemical, oil and gas industries, while strength in its factory control software helped offset... (continue reading...)