By Jonathan Landay and Arshad Mohammed WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States said it will stop providing Russia some notifications required under the New START arms control treaty from Thursday, including updates on its missile and launcher locations, to retaliate for Moscow’s “ongoing violations” of the accord. In a fact sheet on its website, the …
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By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Thursday it had uncovered an American espionage operation that compromised thousands of iPhones using sophisticated surveillance software. Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab said dozens of its employees’ devices were compromised in the operation. The FSB, the main successor to the Soviet-era KGB, said in …
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BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary’s government is looking for a “friendly” co-investor to acquire Budapest Airport and to then also operate the airport, Economic Development Minister Marton Nagy said on Thursday. Nagy said the government was seeking a majority stake but the issue was open to negotiation. He said the acquisition could be closed by the …
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MILAN (Reuters) – Dufry has secured around 94.3% of Autogrill capital at the end of the exchange offer, Reuters calculations based on provisional data by Borsa Italiana showed on Thursday, paving the way for the delisting of the Italian group. Earlier this year Swiss duty-free retailer Dufry completed the acquisition of a 50.3% stake from …
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LONDON/DUBLIN (Reuters) -Ireland’s finance ministry and British lender NatWest Group said on Thursday they would together sell 6% of Irish bank Permanent TSB, the first sale of shares in the lender by the Irish state since 2015. The two shareholders will each sell 3% in the group to dispose of a combined 33 million shares …
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BELFAST (Reuters) – Hugh Callaghan, one of six men wrongly convicted for pub bombings in the English city of Birmingham that killed 21 people in 1974, died this week at the age of 93, his lawyer said. The “Birmingham Six” were Irish men living in England who were rounded up after the bombings of the …
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By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) -EU antitrust regulators will decide by July 6 whether to clear Amazon.com Inc’s $1.7 billion acquisition of the maker of robot vacuum cleaner iRobot Corp, according to a European Commission filing on Thursday. U.S. online retailer Amazon announced the takeover in August last year that will boost its portfolio …
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By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) – The incoming head of the U.N. migration agency said on Thursday that she has talked to companies like Microsoft to see how they can build partnerships to manage migration. A record number of people — more than 100 million — are forcibly displaced around the world and the Geneva-based …
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By Emily Rose JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Accustomed to a hostile response from some religious residents of Jerusalem, participants in the city’s Gay Pride parade on Thursday found themselves in the unwelcome situation of looking to a far-rightist former adversary for their protection. Now Israel’s minister for police, Itamar Ben-Gvir was on hand to keep order …
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – A man visiting St. Peter’s Basilica on Thursday stripped off his clothes and stood naked on the church’s main altar in what appeared to be a protest against the war in Ukraine, a Vatican source said. The man had an inscription painted on his back calling for the children of Ukraine …
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