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By Mark Trevelyan

LONDON (Reuters) - Elderly Russian physicist Anatoly Maslov was sentenced on Tuesday to 14 years in a penal colony for treason, the latest of a string of cases against experts working on the science that underpins Russia's development of hypersonic missiles.

Maslov, 77, was convicted by a St Petersburg court following a trial that was closed to the press. He had protested his innocence.

Maslov is one of... (continue reading...)

BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Singapore Airlines flight from London made an emergency landing in Bangkok due to bad weather conditions, with 30 passengers aboard injured, multiple Thai media outlets reported on Tuesday.

The flight was headed to Singapore when it made the emergency landing. A spokesperson for Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi airport could not immediately confirm whether an emergency landing had taken place, but told reporters a medical team was on... (continue reading...)

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany plans to ramp up military aid for Ukraine by another 3.8 billion euros ($4.13 billion) this year, a source told Reuters on Tuesday, confirming a report by top-selling Bild.

So far, Berlin has earmarked 7.1 billion euros for supporting Kyiv with weapons and ammunition this year but the money has already been almost completely allocated to projects, the paper said.

It added that Defence Minister Boris Pistorius... (continue reading...)

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's consumer price inflation rose to 2.7% in April from 2.5% in March, official data showed on Tuesday.

The National Consumer Price Index (NCPI) captures broad retail price inflation and is released with a lag of 21 days every month.

Food prices rose 3.3% in April from 5% in March, the Department of Census and Statistics said.

Prices for non-food items rose 2.3% in April from 0.7% in March, as... (continue reading...)

(Reuters) -Scale AI said on Tuesday it had raised $1 billion in a late-stage funding round led by venture capital firm Accel with participation from tech giants Nvidia, Amazon, and Meta, valuing the AI data startup at nearly $14 billion.

Top tech companies are racing to build AI into their products and services. Startups catering to the surge in demand for AI chips and machine learning have been a bright spot in an otherwise subdued private funding... (continue reading...)