By John Irish, Noemie Olive and Ingrid Melander PARIS/TOURS (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated across France on Saturday seeking to keep up pressure on the government over its pension reform plans, including a move to raise the retirement age to 64 from 62. After three days of nationwide strikes since the start …
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LONDON (Reuters) -A trade union representing British firefighters recommended an improved pay offer from fire service employers on Saturday after it postponed planned strike action for members to vote on the offer. The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) said the pay offer of a 7% rise backdated to last July and for another 5% increase from …
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NAGPUR, India (Reuters) -Ravichandran Ashwin tore through Australia to set up India’s comprehensive victory by an innings and 132 runs inside three days of the spin-dominated opening test on Saturday. Australia had been on the back foot since posting a below-par 177 on a treacherous track at the Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium where the ball …
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By Sachin Ravikumar LONDON (Reuters) -British police said on Saturday 15 people, including a 13-year-old child, had been arrested after a protest by crowds outside a hotel housing asylum seekers turned violent, causing injuries and a police van being set on fire. Offenders threw missiles including lit fireworks at police officers following an initially peaceful …
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By Ariba Shahid KARACHI (Reuters) – Pakistan and the International Monetary Fund are to resume talks online next week they said on Friday, after ten days of face-to-face discussions in Islamabad on how to keep the country afloat ended without a deal. With the nuclear-armed nation in the grip of a full-blown economic crisis, the …
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By Aditi Shah and Tim Hepher BENGALURU/PARIS (Reuters) -Air India has sealed a jumbo deal for about 500 new planes worth more than $100 billion at list prices, in what could become the single largest order by any airline as it seeks to reinvent itself under its new owners, industry sources told Reuters. The deal, …
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By Sarah N. Lynch and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The FBI recovered one additional government page with classified markings during a consensual search on Friday at the Indianapolis residence of former Vice President Mike Pence, after classified documents were discovered at his house last month, a Pence spokesman said. The search, confirmed earlier in the …
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By Alexandra Alper and Karen Freifeld WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Biden administration on Friday added six Chinese entities connected to Beijing’s suspected surveillance balloon program to an export blacklist. The new restrictions come after the White House said it would consider broader efforts to “expose and address” China’s larger surveillance activities that threaten U.S. national security …
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By Andrea Shalal, Steve Holland and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. F-22 fighter jet on Friday shot down an unidentified object flying high over Alaska, U.S. officials said, less than a week after the military brought down a Chinese balloon that had flown across the United States. A Sidewinder missile downed the latest craft, …
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By Olena Harmash KYIV (Reuters) -Russian missiles hit power facilities on Friday across Ukraine, where President Volodymyr Zelenskiy returned from a tour of Western capitals and Ukrainian officials said a long-awaited Russian offensive was underway in the east. Ukraine’s armed forces said in an evening update that Russian forces fired more than 100 missiles throughout …
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