By Viktoria Lakezina STEPOVA DOLYNA, Ukraine (Reuters) – Hanna Plishchynska, a pensioner, has been using a metal detector to comb her fields for mines and war detritus in the ruins of her village in southwesten Ukraine, so she can put her cow out to pasture and plant vegetables. The 67-year-old returned several weeks ago to …
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By Maya Gebeily and Laila Bassam BEIRUT (Reuters) – Once celebrated as a financial wizard, Lebanese central bank governor Riad Salameh is spending his final weeks in office a wanted man, faced with French and German arrest warrants that have been prompted by long-running corruption probes. The warrants are the latest twist in cross-border investigations …
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By Olena Harmash and Max Hunder KYIV (Reuters) -A Russian missile hit a clinic in the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Friday, killing two people and wounding 30 in an attack that President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called a crime against humanity. Video footage showed a devastated building with smoke pouring out of it and rescue …
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By Ali Sawafta AL-MUGHAYYIR, West Bank (Reuters) -An Israeli settler shot dead a Palestinian man who the military said tried to carry out a stabbing attack in a settlement in the occupied West Bank on Friday. The incident came as several European countries condemned Israeli demolitions and settler violence in the West Bank, which flared …
By Fatos Bytyci ZVECAN, Kosovo (Reuters) -Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic placed the country’s army on full combat alert and ordered its units to move closer to the border with Kosovo on Friday, after protesters and police clashed in a majority Serb town in Kosovo. “An urgent movement (of troops) to the Kosovo border has been …
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By Elena Fabrichnaya and Alexander Marrow MOSCOW (Reuters) – Pressure on foreign banks operating in Russia and the widening scope of sanctions is aggravating foreign currency settlements in Russia and creating periodic imbalances on the domestic market, the central bank said on Friday. Western sanctions on Moscow over its actions in Ukraine have curbed its …
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By Elena Fabrichnaya and Alexander Marrow MOSCOW (Reuters) – Only five transactions involving foreign companies selling assets in Russia since October have involved payments to non-residents above $400 million, the Bank of Russia said on Friday, playing down the impact of such deals on financial stability. From telecoms companies to fashion retailers, thousands of firms …
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By Martin Coulter and Supantha Mukherjee LONDON/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -For months, Sam Altman, CEO of Microsoft-backed OpenAI has urged lawmakers around the world to draw up new rules governing the technology. On Wednesday, he threatened the ChatGPT maker may leave the EU if the bloc “overregulated”. Â Â Â Altman has spent the past week crisscrossing Europe, meeting …
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By Sruthi Shankar (Reuters) -European shares inched up on Friday on gains in mining and technology stocks although the main benchmarks were set for steep weekly losses on growing concerns over a slowing global economy and the debt ceiling talks in the United States. The pan-European STOXX 600 index rose 0.2% after closing at an …
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By William Schomberg and Andy Bruce LONDON (Reuters) – British inflation fell in April but by less than expected and it remains above the rate of price growth in the United States and most of Europe, putting pressure on the Bank of England to keep raising interest rates. Britain has struggled more than other countries …
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