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MADRID (Reuters) -Social media platforms should be neutral and not interfere in other nations’ political affairs, the Spanish government’s spokesperson said on Tuesday, after X’s CEO Elon Musk commented on statistics about foreigners jailed for rape in Spain. Pilar Alegria was answering a question about the high-profile spat between the billionaire owner of X and …

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By Ariane Luthi and John Revill ZURICH (Reuters) -Julius Baer said on Tuesday it had agreed to sell its Brazilian domestic wealth management business to Banco BTG Pactual, days before Stefan Bollinger takes over as chief executive after a difficult year for the Swiss bank. Julius Baer said in a statement that the deal with …

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By Timour Azhari and Andrew Mills DAMASCUS/DOHA (Reuters) – Qatar is planning to help finance a massive boost in public sector wages promised by Syria’s new government, a U.S. official and a senior diplomat said, vital assistance to the new Islamist rulers in Damascus a month after they toppled Bashar al-Assad. The support for the …

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By Louise Rasmussen and Anne Kauranen COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Finnish police said on Tuesday they had recovered a lost anchor from the seabed as part of an investigation of suspected sabotage against power and internet cables in the Baltic Sea. Finland last month seized the Eagle S tanker carrying Russian oil on suspicion the vessel had …

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JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli forces killed at least three Palestinian militants in stepped-up operations across the occupied West Bank on Tuesday following the killing of three Israelis near a Jewish settlement a day earlier, the Israeli military said. The Palestinian Health Ministry said an 18-year-old was killed overnight in an Israeli airstrike in Tamun, a town …

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By Elizabeth Pineau and Marine Strauss PARIS(Reuters) -Jean-Marie Le Pen, the founder of France’s far-right National Front party who tapped into blue-collar anger over immigration and globalisation and revelled in minimising the Holocaust, died on Tuesday aged 96. His death was confirmed by his daughter Marine Le Pen’s political party, National Rally (Rassemblement National). Jean-Marie …

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By Elizabeth Pineau PARIS (Reuters) – France on Tuesday commemorated the victims of the deadly assault on the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine 10 years ago that began a spate of Islamist militant attacks on the country and stoked a debate on press freedoms that still rages today. Two masked al Qaeda-linked gunmen with assault rifles …

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PARIS (Reuters) -Jean-Marie Le Pen, an unabashed nationalist and founder of the French far-right National Rally party, has died aged 96. Following are reactions to his death. JORDAN BARDELLA, CHAIRMAN OF THE FAR-RIGHT NATIONAL RALLY “Jean-Marie Le Pen is dead. Enlisted in the uniform of the French army in Indochina and Algeria, orator in the …

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