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By Kate Holton and Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) – When Vodafone named Margherita Della Valle as CEO last month, investors adopted a wait-and-see approach to whether the company veteran was the right person to jolt it out of a deep malaise. Within weeks, Della Valle gave them a stark assessment of the problems Vodafone faces. …

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TOKYO (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Vlodymyr Zelenskiy said on Twitter on Sunday that he met with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Hiroshima. “We discussed further cooperation in the security and defense sphere, the situation on the frontline, training of Ukrainian officers within the UNIFIER Canadian training mission,” …

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TEL AVIV (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Israelis joined protests across the country, now entering their 20th week, on Saturday against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s contested plans to tighten controls on the Supreme Court. The planned overhaul, which would give the government control over naming judges to the Supreme Court and let parliament override …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Western countries will run “colossal risks” if they supply Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets, TASS news agency quoted Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko as saying on Saturday. Grushko was responding to a question about the implications of providing the jets, which Ukraine has been requesting from NATO countries. It has not …

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By Martyn Herman LONDON (Reuters) -Manchester City wrapped up their fifth Premier League title in six seasons a day earlier than expected thanks to Nottingham Forest’s victory over second-placed Arsenal on Saturday. A title race that had come to the boil since March ended abruptly as Forest won 1-0 at the City Ground to end …

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By Martyn Herman LONDON (Reuters) -Manchester City were confirmed as Premier League champions for the fifth time in six seasons on Saturday without even having to kick a ball after second-placed Arsenal’s challenge ended in defeat away at Nottingham Forest. Arsenal, who enjoyed an eight-point lead over City as recently as mid-March, needed at least …

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BRIGHTON, England (Reuters) – Thousands of Britons took to the sea and rivers on Saturday to demand an end to sewage pollution by water companies, highlighting a topic that is likely to be an issue at the next general election. A national “paddle-out” at 12 locations across the United Kingdom, including Brighton in the south, …

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MILAN (Reuters) – Telecom Italia (TIM) is being urged by some directors to hold an extraordinary board meeting to name a candidate sponsored by top investor Vivendi to fill a vacant director seat at the former phone monopoly, two sources said on Saturday. Vivendi is currently at loggerheads with TIM’s management over its plans to …

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(Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday that decisions taken by the Group of Seven countries at their summit in Japan were aimed at the “double containment” of Russia and China. Addressing a televised conference, Lavrov reiterated Russia’s claim that the West is using Ukraine as tool to inflict a strategic defeat …

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