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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Weapons maker Lockheed Martin Corp plans to nearly double production of Javelin missiles, the antitank weapon that has helped Ukraine fight Russia’s invasion, Chief Executive Officer James Taiclet said in an interview on Sunday. The aim is to boost output to 4,000 per year from 2,100 per year currently, Taiclet said in an interview with CBS News. The increase will take as long as a couple of years, he said. U.S. President Joe Biden last week visited a Lockheed facility in… Source link

From the day he turned pro, this kind of performance from Shakur Stevenson was inevitable. He’s the kind of guy who can dominate boxing for a decade or more. He understands the game at a level few do. He’s blazingly quick, incredibly conditioned and unnaturally calm. Oscar Valdez never had a chance against Stevenson in their bout Saturday for the WBC and WBO super featherweight titles before a lively, often raucous, crowd of 10,102 at the MGM Grand Garden. Stevenson won a unanimous… Source link

In further fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Yandex, the company that’s sometimes referred to as the ‘Google of Russia,’ has signed a term sheet to sell its media division to VKontakte (VK), aka the local Facebook equivalent. Yandex confirmed it has signed a term sheet to divest its news aggregator (News) and blogging/infotainment platform (Zen) with VK today. But it declined to provide further detail on the transaction that’s been agreed with VK, including financial… Source link

President Biden and the Democratic Party face no shortage of challenges heading into the 2022 midterm elections. But inflation is by far the most formidable — and now, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll, Americans say that Republicans (31%) rather than Democrats (26%) can do a better job of “fixing” it. The survey of 1,605 U.S. adults, which was conducted from April 19 to 22, found that 39% select either inflation (33%) or gas prices (6%) as the biggest problem facing America… Source link

U.S. stock futures were flat in extended trading Monday after markets staged a rebound to end higher in the earlier session as investors look ahead to a batch of mega cap tech earnings in the coming days. Contracts on all three major indexes were little changed after the Dow Jones Industrial Average recovered an intraday loss of nearly 500 points and closed in the green, snapping a five-day losing streak. The S&P 500 also bounced back from declines to close the trading session above… Source link

Google has been criticised for an “inclusive language” feature that will recommend word substitutions for people writing in Google Docs. The tool will offer guidance to people writing in a way that “may not be inclusive to all readers” in a similar manner to spelling and grammar check systems. Although the suggestions are just suggestions – they aren’t forced on writers and the tool may be turned off – critics have described it as “speech-policing” and “profoundly clumsy, creepy… Source link

Russia’s e-commerce platforms Ozon and Yandex Market, food supplements firm Pharmstandard, dental products distributor Simkodent, largest food retailer X5 Retail Group and confectionery major UNICONF are among several Russian companies that have reached out to India for business ties amid Moscow’s conflict with Kyiv. Due to the conflict and the sanctions on Russia, many European and American brands have stopped supplying their goods including consumer electronics, and apparel to that… Source link

Yandex, the Russian online search giant — also running a variety of other digital services — is unlikely to sell its news aggregation service and infotainment platform ‘Zen’ in the foreseeable future. In mid-March, the company was considering such a move, possibly linked to the government’s crackdown on free expression. Amid the war on Ukraine, a new law had banned what the authorities consider to be “false” information or just inadequate wording about the… Source link

‘She said, “I’m pregnant with a baby.” I hugged her’: Victim Hourari Benkada was on his way to work when the shooting started, but instead of thinking of his own safety, he focused on protecting a pregnant stranger. 62-year-old Frank James is a suspect » Source link