LONDON (Reuters) -Details of more than 100 British nationals including spies and special forces soldiers were included in one of the country's worst ever data breaches that led to thousands of Afghans being relocated to the UK, British media reported on Thursday.
The leak by the Ministry of Defence in early 2022, which surfaced on Facebook a year later, prompted the relocation of more than 16,000 Afghans to Britain as of May this year amid concerns that... (continue reading...)
By Roselle Chen
NEW YORK (Reuters) -A 54-pound (24.5-kg) Martian meteorite that is the largest known piece of Mars found on Earth has sold for $5.3 million at Sotheby's, setting a new auction record for a meteorite.
The auction on Wednesday for the rock known as NWA 16788 sparked a 15-minute bidding war between online and phone bidders.
"This is an amazing Martian meteorite that broke off of the Martian surface," said Cassandra... (continue reading...)
MILAN (Reuters) -Italy's Lombardy region on Thursday picked a consortium of firms using Starlink's low-orbit satellite constellation in a pilot project to see if space-based connectivity is a viable solution to boost high-speed internet penetration in the country.
Lombardy, home to Italy's financial capital Milan, launched a tender for a 4.1 million euro project to test wholesale systems combining fibre and satellite-based networks to bring fast Internet... (continue reading...)
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MONTEROSI, Italy (Reuters) -Producers of Pecorino Romano cheese, one of Italy's best known food exports, are lobbying to be spared new U.S. tariffs that could raise consumer prices and take a chunk out of their export market.
Gianni Maoddi, president of the Consorzio di Tutela del Pecorino Romano, said the cheese has for more than 140 years been popular in the United States, which accounts for around 40% of annual... (continue reading...)
(Reuters) -Former Federal Reserve Governor Kevin Warsh, seen as a potential successor to Fed Chair Jerome Powell, said on Thursday there needs to be a new accord between the Treasury Department and U.S. central bank, referencing a 1951 pact that separated federal debt management from monetary policy.
Warsh, now a fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, said on CNBC that such an agreement between the two agencies could smooth the process of... (continue reading...)
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