Twitter said on Tuesday it will not recommend Russian government accounts to users as part of a rule change affecting accounts run by states which limit access to the open internet and are engaged in armed interstate conflict.

Brazilian Economy Ministry official Caio Mario Paes de Andrade has emerged as the most likely choice to lead state-run oil company Petrobras after energy consultant Adriano Pires declined the government's nomination, newspaper O Globo reported on Tuesday.

AT&T's WarnerMedia unit chief Jason Kilar will depart from the company after the merger with media firm Discovery, according to a memo seen by Reuters.

Germany's chemical and pharmaceutical industry on Tuesday agreed a lump sum payment for workers and put further collective wage bargaining on hold, citing uncertainty stemming from Russia's attack on Ukraine.

By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss, Saikat Chatterjee and Julien Ponthus

The U.S. Treasury yield curve, already hammered into a flat line after one of its worst quarters in decades, is set to remain off its normal upwardly-sloping shape over the coming year, according to a Reuters poll of bond strategists.