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By Gavin Jones and Anna Uras ROME (Reuters) -Italy faces two competing nationwide strikes over the next few weeks as rivalry between trade unions resumes, ending a rare alliance that last month powered one of the country’s largest worker protests in years. The hardline Union Sindacale di Base (USB) has called a strike for all …

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By Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) -The mastermind of a vast Ponzi scheme in China, which conned nearly 130,000 investors, was jailed in Britain on Tuesday for over 11 years for laundering the proceeds of the fraud into cryptocurrency now worth billions of dollars. Qian Zhimin pleaded guilty to two money laundering charges in September, after …

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By Kate Abnett and May Angel BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) -European Union member states are seeking to postpone the implementation of the bloc’s anti-deforestation law by another year, an EU negotiating draft dated November 10 shows. The draft document, which was seen by Reuters on Tuesday, now suggests deferring the law’s application to December 30, 2026 for …

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(Reuters) -EU member states and the European Parliament have reached a provisional agreement on an overhaul of the EU’s huge farming subsidies, weakening environmental standards as part of plans to cut back regulations and paperwork for farmers. The plans exempt smaller farmers from baseline requirements tying their subsidies to efforts to protect the environment, while …

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By Andrew Osborn ST. PETERSBURG/MOSCOW (Reuters) -A teenage Russian street musician who has spent nearly a month in jail after singing anti-Kremlin songs was handed more jail time on Tuesday in a case rights activists say shows how stifling wartime censorship has become. Diana Loginova, 18, who sings in a group called Stoptime, was arrested …

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By Andrius Sytas VILNIUS/MOSCOW (Reuters) -Lithuania’s foreign minister said he would refuse talks with Belarus on reopening their border, after its President Alexander Lukashenko on Tuesday ordered his foreign minister to open the negotiations. Lithuania last month closed the two border crossings with its neighbour until the end of November in response to repeated incursions …

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ATHENS (Reuters) -Greek farmers face a 600 million euro ($700 million) shortfall in EU aid and other payments after a corruption scandal in which some farmers, aided by state employees, faked land ownership, their unions said during protests in Athens on Tuesday. The EU in June imposed a 392 million-euro fine on Greece over the …

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