By Shristi Achar A and Johann M Cherian (Reuters) -European stocks inched up to close at a record high on Wednesday helped by gains in defensive sectors, while shares of the world’s second-largest listed fashion retailer H&M saw their strongest day in nearly nine months on upbeat quarterly results. The pan-European STOXX 600 edged up …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Ambassadors from European Union countries reached a deal on Wednesday to extend tariff-free food imports from Ukraine, with a “balanced approach between support for Ukraine and protection of EU agricultural markets”, the Belgian EU presidency said. The agreement will now go to the European Parliament for its approval, with the aim of a …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Most rescue efforts have been suspended at a gold mine in Russia’s far east, where 13 miners were trapped by a rock fall on March 18, due to the risk of another collapse, state news agency TASS reported on Wednesday. The Pioneer gold mine, one of Russia’s largest, is in the Amur …
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BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Thousands of people protested in Budapest near parliament on Tuesday demanding the chief prosecutor and Prime Minister Viktor Orban resign after a former government insider accused a senior aide to Orban of trying to interfere in a graft case. Protesters marched from the chief prosecutor’s office towards parliament shouting “Resign, resign”, with …
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PARIS (Reuters) – The Olympic flame will be installed in the Jardin des Tuileries, a stone’s throw from the Louvre, after organisers abandoned the idea of the Eiffel Tower, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters. Last week, French sports daily L’Equipe reported that the Jardin des Tuileries, on the bank of …
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By Sergio Goncalves and Catarina Demony LISBON (Reuters) -Portugal’s newly elected Democratic Alliance (AD) minority government had its first clash on Tuesday with the far-right, accusing it of teaming up with the incumbent Socialists to block the appointment of the parliamentary speaker. The AD coalition, helmed by the leader of the centre-right Social Democratic Party …
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) – The European Central Bank is looking for three new bank supervisors to oversee the bloc’s biggest lenders, replacing officials whose term is expiring later this year, the bank said in a vacancy notice on Wednesday. The five-year, non renewable terms of Edouard Fernandez-Bollo, Kerstin af Jochnick, and Elizabeth McCaul will expire in …
(Reuters) – Kyrgyzstan’s foreign ministry has urged citizens of the Central Asian nation to put off unnecessary travel to Russia after a deadly shooting that was blamed on migrants from the region. The developments have increased existing anti-immigrant sentiment in Russia, especially towards migrant labourers from the predominantly Muslim countries of Central Asia. A Kyrgyzstan-born …
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By Jonathan Saul KIBBUTZ SNIR, Israel (Reuters) – In an abandoned kibbutz in Israel’s evacuation zone near the Lebanese border, Lior Shelef has stayed behind to keep watch as a reservist in a protection force. He still tends the cows and chickens, even as Hezbollah rockets keep coming closer. The chicken coops had been damaged …
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(Reuters) – Spain’s European-Union harmonised inflation rose 3.2% in the 12 months through March, up from 2.9% increase in the period through February, preliminary data from the National Statistics Institute (INE) showed on Wednesday. The 12-month harmonised inflation was below the 3.3% expected by analysts polled by Reuters. Core inflation, which strips out volatile fresh …
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