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G20 welcomes recommendations to unlock funding for climate transition projects

25 Oct 2024 25 Oct 2024

By Marcela Ayres WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A group of funds backed by the world’s 20 largest economies aimed at financing climate transition projects needs to be more targeted and operate with greater efficiency to improve the slow pace of disbursements, according to a report on Thursday from the G20’s sustainable finance working group. The G20 stated …

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Turkish air strikes hit PKK targets in Iraq again after Ankara attack

25 Oct 2024 25 Oct 2024

ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey carried out air strikes against Kurdish militants in northern Iraq overnight, hitting dozens of targets for the second night in a row, the Defence Ministry said on Friday, after a gun attack that killed five people in Ankara. The operation followed a security meeting that President Tayyip Erdogan chaired with key …

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Italian mafia fugitive arrested in Colombia for drug trafficking

25 Oct 2024 25 Oct 2024

ROME (Reuters) – A fugitive member of the Camorra mafia due to serve almost 19 years in prison for drug trafficking has been arrested in Colombia, Italian police said on Friday. Luigi Belvedere had been on the run since December 2020 and was on the Italian interior ministry’s list of dangerous fugitives, a statement said, …

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Spanish truckers call off strikes demanding earlier retirement

25 Oct 2024 25 Oct 2024

MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s truck drivers have called off a series of strikes that were set to begin on Oct. 28 to demand earlier retirement with better conditions, trade union CCOO said on Friday. However, bus drivers did not reach an agreement and will keep to their plan for industrial action, CCOO added. The unions …

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Voters at loggerheads ahead of Georgia’s ‘front line’ election

25 Oct 2024 25 Oct 2024

By Felix Light TBILISI (Reuters) – Nana Malashkhia never planned to get into politics. But the 48-year-old former civil servant shot to fame in Georgia during the 2023 protests against a law on so-called “foreign agents” after she was filmed waving a European Union flag whilst being blasted by a police water cannon. The video …

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Exclusive-Europe seeks to underpin Russia sanctions, fearing Trump overhaul

25 Oct 2024 25 Oct 2024

By Julia Payne and John O’Donnell BRUSSELS (Reuters) – European diplomats are preparing to underpin sanctions on Russia anticipating that a return of former U.S. president Donald Trump could undermine Western efforts to isolate Moscow, sources with knowledge of the discussions told Reuters. The talks among EU officials and envoys are centred on several initiatives …

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Hungary’s opposition Tisza party ahead of PM Orban’s Fidesz in second poll

25 Oct 2024 25 Oct 2024

BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Hungary’s opposition Tisza party has a small lead over the ruling Fidesz party, according to an opinion poll published on Thursday, the second survey this week to show Tisza overtaking Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s party. Centre-right Tisza’s leader, Peter Magyar, a former government insider, swept into Hungarian politics before June’s European Parliament elections …

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G20 ministers agree world trade to foster sustainable development, enhance women’s role

25 Oct 2024 25 Oct 2024

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Ministers from the G20 group of largest economies agreed on Thursday that international trade and investments should foster sustainable development and enhance the participation of women in world trade. They also agreed on the need to speed up reform of the World Trade Organization to achieve a “faster, more agile and effective,” …

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Climate set to warm by 3.1 C without greater action, UN report warns

24 Oct 2024 24 Oct 2024

By Gloria Dickie TORONTO (Reuters) – Current climate policies will result in global warming of more than 3 degrees Celsius (5.4 degrees Fahrenheit) by the end of the century, according to a United Nations report on Thursday, more than twice the rise agreed to nearly a decade ago. The annual Emissions Gap report, which takes …

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Ancient Pompeii site uncovers tiny house with exquisite frescoes

24 Oct 2024 24 Oct 2024

ROME (Reuters) – Archaeologists in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have uncovered a richly decorated but uncommonly small house with finely preserved frescoes of mythological scenes, the site said on Thursday. The dwelling, called the House of Phaedra after the mythological queen of Athens who features in one of its wall paintings, sheds light …

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