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By Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) – The Italian government vowed on Friday to push ahead with its contested plan to divert asylum-seekers abroad, saying it would appeal against a court’s ruling that a group of migrants in reception centres in Albania should be taken to Italy. The court potentially dealt a major blow to a …

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By Clodagh Kilcoyne BALLYHEALY, Ireland (Reuters) – An elderly Irish couple fear they are running out of time to save their family home as accelerating coastal erosion brings the sea ever closer to their front door. Willie and Lal Pierce have photos from around 30 years ago, showing two fields separating their traditional white-walled cottage …

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By Jeff Mason and Sarah Marsh BERLIN (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden urged the West on Friday to sustain its support for Ukraine against Russia’s invasion as Kyiv faces a bleak winter and a looming U.S. presidential election raises worries about the strength of Washington’s own resolve. Biden was speaking to reporters before holding closed-door …

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By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Donald Trump on Thursday blamed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy for helping start that nation’s war with Russia, a comment that further suggests Trump is likely to decrease U.S. support for Ukraine if he wins the Nov. 5 election. The Republican former president has frequently criticized Zelenskiy on the campaign trail, …

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By Jody Godoy and Maggie Fick NEW YORK (Reuters) -U.S. consumer groups and two large labor unions urged the U.S. Federal Trade Commission on Thursday to block Novo Holdings, the controlling shareholder of Novo Nordisk, from acquiring contract drug manufacturer Catalent, saying the deal threatens competition in weight loss drugs and cutting-edge gene therapies. U.S. …

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By Paolo Laudani, Ankika Biswas and Johann M Cherian (Reuters) -Europe’s STOXX 600 ended higher on Friday, as tech stocks made a strong comeback at the end of a bumpy week, while the European Central Bank’s rate cut and a flurry of corporate earnings helped the index deliver a second straight week of gains. The …

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PARIS/ROME (Reuters) -French Prime Minister Michel Barnier said on Friday that the type of deal Italy has struck to divert asylum-seekers to Albania for processing would not likely be feasible in France. European Union leaders are grappling with illegal immigration, which has become a highly sensitive topic in many countries in the 27-member bloc. At …

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By Pranav Kashyap and Nikhil Sharma (Reuters) -The UK’s FTSE 100 ended lower on Friday, weighed down by British American Tobacco following its settlement to end a tobacco lawsuit in Canada, but the blue-chip index logged weekly gains in anticipation of a UK rate cut next month. The FTSE 100 was down 0.3% after closing …

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