By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) – Russia said on Monday it was battling a cross-border incursion by saboteurs who burst through the frontier from Ukraine, in what appeared to be one of the biggest attacks of its kind since the war began last year. A senior aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Kyiv had …
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PARIS (Reuters) – European Central Bank interest rate hikes are likely to peak out by the end of summer, but the more important issue now is how long rates stay elevated than the exact level, French ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Monday. Villeroy said the lag between the ECB’s exceptionally fast rate …
By Michele Kambas and Renee Maltezou ATHENS (Reuters) – A resounding defeat of radical parties in Greece’s election on Sunday has shown voters have mellowed after more than 15 years of fuming over austerity triggered by a crippling debt crisis. The conservative New Democracy party romped to victory with 40.8% of the vote in Sunday’s …
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By Ali Sawafta NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) -Israeli security forces killed three Palestinian militants during a large-scale raid in the occupied West Bank on Monday, Palestinian and Israeli sources said. The Israeli military said its forces came under fire from Palestinian gunmen and had “neutralized” at least two of them. It said soldiers confiscated rifles, …
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BEIRUT/PARIS (Reuters) – France’s judiciary has summoned the brother of and an assistant to Lebanon’s central bank governor, two sources close to the matter told Reuters on Monday, as it continues its probe into alleged embezzlement and money-laundering by the bank chief. Central bank chief Riad Salameh, his brother Raja Salameh, and his assistant Marianne …
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By Aleksandar Vasovic BELGRADE (Reuters) – After Serbia was rocked by two mass shootings in two days earlier in May, Branko, 54, surrendered his unlicensed arms under a government amnesty: four assault rifles, nine handguns, eight grenades and many boxes of ammunition. The huge cache of weapons handed over by just one veteran of the …
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BERLIN (Reuters) -German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Monday said he prefers U.S. President Joe Biden to his predecessor, Donald Trump, and hoped Biden would be re-elected for a second term in office. Addressing pupils at a primary school close to Berlin, Scholz accused Trump of being divisive and that he would be bad not only …
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BRUSSELS/BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Hungary’s decision to release foreigners convicted of human-trafficking triggered protests by its neighbour Austria on Monday with Vienna summoning the Hungarian ambassador. Citing overcrowded prisons, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government issued a decree in April allowing the release of foreign nationals convicted of people smuggling, on condition that they leave Hungary within …
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By Joanna Plucinska GENEVA (Reuters) -Europe’s business jet sector is putting its greenest foot forward at its flagship annual conference this week as it faces a downturn in flights on the back of commercial aviation’s rebound and growing pressure to become more sustainable. The European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (EBACE), hosted in Geneva, kicks …
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By Padraic Halpin DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ryanair aims to boost profit by 10% this year after almost record earnings for its last financial year, CEO Michael O’Leary said on Monday, and it may do better if rival airlines’ “irrationally exuberant” summer fare forecasts are right. Europe’s largest airline by passenger numbers said it expects 10% …
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