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Aug 22 (Reuters) – Paramount and California state officials are set to meet on Monday to discuss a potential ​settlement path of the state’s lawsuit ‌aimed at stopping Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, the New York Times reported on Saturday citing sources familiar with the discussions.

Aug 22 (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said in comments published on Saturday that Kyiv had opened “Pandora’s box” with its strikes on Russian ​economic targets, saying that Russia would hit back ‌at Ukraine’s “most sensitive economic sectors”. Ukraine has this summer escalated a campaign of drone strikes targeting Russian economic infrastructure, including oil refineries and online retailers’ warehouses, seeking to destroy infrastructure it ‌says ​is central to Russia’s war effort.

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Aug 21 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he did not direct ​Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to intervene ‌in the bond market this week and that the Treasury chief acted on his own authority based on his understanding of ‌the ​issues.

Aug 21 (Reuters) – A six-year-old Palestinian-British girl, whose parents and sister died earlier this ​week after getting into ‌difficulty in the sea off the southern coast of England, has also died in hospital, Sussex police ‌said ​on Friday. Saja El-Khawas ⁠was taken to ⁠hospital in critical condition on Tuesday after her father Hassan El-Khawas, 55, her mother, Zeina Alayn, ​37, and her 14-year-old sister, Sara El-Khawas, died at the ⁠scene.

SAO PAULO, Aug 21 (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva continues to lead Senator Flavio Bolsonaro ahead of the October election, although ​the right-wing challenger has narrowed the gap ‌by one percentage point, a change within the error margin, a Datafolha poll showed on Friday. In a simulated second-round runoff, Lula would receive 47% of the vote against Bolsonaro’s 43%, according ‌to ​Datafolha, which has an error ⁠margin of two percentage ⁠points.

WASHINGTON, Aug 21 (Reuters) – The editor-in-chief of the Stars and Stripes U.S. military newspaper said on Friday that he was being fired for insubordination and a source familiar with the matter confirmed to Reuters that ​the Pentagon had sent notices to the paper’s leadership informing them ‌that they would be let go.

Six-time NBA All-Star DeMar DeRozan agreed to a one-year, $3.9 million contract with the Denver Nuggets, according to multiple reports. DeRozan became available after the ​Sacramento Kings waived him earlier this offseason. He ‌was scheduled to make $25.7 million in 2026-27, but only $10 million of that salary was guaranteed. The 37-year-old forward had also drawn interest from the Miami Heat, Washington Wizards and New Orleans Pelicans ‌before ​choosing Denver.

WASHINGTON, Aug 21 (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will hold a press conference on Monday, according to ​a statement, after the U.S. ‌warned of more sanctions against Iran and took steps to try to lower long-dated Treasury bond yields.

Aug 21 (Reuters) – OpenAI said on Friday it is cutting the prices of its frontier GPT-5.6 Sol model for ​developers by more than 20% for ‌the next three months, as the ChatGPT maker faces growing competition from Anthropic and Chinese AI models. Here are more details: • The price cuts are ‌effective ​on OpenAI’s application programming ⁠interface, or API, and ⁠are rolling out across eligible plans for credits on its agentic AI product ChatGPT Work and its coding tool Codex, ​OpenAI said.

Aug 21 (Reuters) – U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is expected to step down from his role by ​the end of the year ‌after months of tension with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the discussions. Reuters could not ‌immediately ​verify the report. Driscoll’s ⁠departure would leave the ⁠Army without a Senate-confirmed leader as the U.S. looks to resolve a war it began alongside Israel ​nearly six months ago.