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MADRID (Reuters) – A joint venture between the U.S. unit of Spanish engineering group ACS and Philadelphia-based Yates Construction has won a contract to build an electric vehicle (EV) battery plant in Kansas as part of a $4 billion investment by Japan’s Panasonic group, the companies
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip(Reuters) – The crowded, potholed and often polluted streets of Gaza are tough – especially for children trying to get to school.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni landed in India on Thursday, as the countries look to improve ties hurt by the 2012 shooting of two fishermen by Italian marines off the southern Indian coast.
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BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon’s ongoing presidential vacuum is cause for grave concern, the country’s international backers said on Thursday, describing the current political situation as “unsustainable.”
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By Angelo Amante STECCATO DI CUTRO, Italy (Reuters) – It was a Sunday that Italian fisherman Vincenzo Luciano will never forget. Well before dawn he ran to the beach near his house and started pulling bodies from the sea, victims of a deadly migrant shipwreck that
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(Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday accused the West of “shamelessly burying” the Black Sea grain initiative that facilitates the export of Ukraine’s agricultural products from its southern ports, the RIA Novosti news agency reported.
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ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s unemployment rate rose slightly to 7.9% in January from an unrevised 7.8% the month before, national statistics bureau ISTAT said on Thursday.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – A Group of 20 (G20) meeting of foreign ministers in India has been marred by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday.
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – A Russian flag was discovered painted onto the base of Denmark’s “The Little Mermaid” statue on Thursday in what police said was a “case of vandalism” at Copenhagen’s most famous landmark and a popular tourist attraction.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Thursday she hoped that India, as G20 president, may facilitate a path towards “just peace” in Ukraine.
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BERLIN (Reuters) – German Foreign Minister Baerbock on Thursday called on her Russian counterpart to return to the full implementation of the new START nuclear arms control treaty.
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BERLIN (Reuters) – German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock met with her Chinese counterpart, Qin Gang, ahead of the Group of 20 (G20) meeting in India, the German Foreign Ministry said on Twitter on Thursday.
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RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia has launched 192 billion riyals ($51.2 billion) of investments led by local companies, including oil giant Aramco, SABIC and Ma’aden, under a government-backed initiative, state news agency SPA reported.
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MILAN (Reuters) – UniCredit will put to a shareholder vote a proposal by its board to raise the compensation of Chief Executive Andrea Orcel by 30%, a person with knowledge of the matter said on Wednesday.
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By Jorgelina do Rosario LONDON (Reuters) – Countries in debt distress such as Zambia and Sri Lanka turning to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for financial help are facing unprecedented delays to secure bailouts as China and Western economies clash over how to provide debt relief.
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By Belén Carreño MADRID (Reuters) – Spain is extending a so-called circular migration programme to its first sub-Saharan African country, bringing in at least 100 people from Senegal to work on its farms during the harvest season, a government source said.
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By Eloisa Lopez and Henriette Chacar ISKENDERUN, Turkey (Reuters) – Sabriye Karan’s late husband worked for the Turkish national rail company for 32 years and her daughter Nehir grew up riding trains. After powerful earthquakes struck Turkey and damaged her home, she and Nehir moved into
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(Reuters) – Netflix’s video streaming services were down for thousands of users on Thursday, according to outage-tracking website Downdetector.com.
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(Reuters) – The number of people registering as jobless in Spain rose by 0.1% in February from a month earlier, or by 2,618 people, leaving a total of 2.91 million people out of work, data from the Labour Ministry showed on Thursday.
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BEIJING (Reuters) – Budweiser Brewing Co APAC, Asia’s largest beer company by sales, said on Thursday it will expand into more Chinese cities with its premium products as it sees a rebound in demand after the country lifted its COVID-19 curbs.