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By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) – European Union lawmakers on Tuesday backed rules requiring thousands of large companies to identify and mitigate human rights abuses like child labour or slavery, and environmental damage by suppliers. The European Parliament’s legal affairs committee voted to approve the draft EU corporate sustainability due diligence directive (CSDDD). The cross-party …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Toy maker Mattel has introduced its first Barbie with Down’s syndrome in a bid to make its famous doll range more inclusive. In a statement on Tuesday, Mattel said it had worked with the National Down Syndrome Society in the United States to make the doll, which has a shorter frame and …

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BEIRUT (Reuters) – The brother of Lebanon’s central bank governor did not attend a hearing in Beirut on Tuesday with European investigators probing whether the siblings embezzled and laundered hundreds of millions of dollars in public funds over more than a decade. Governor Riad Salameh is being investigated alongside his brother Raja in Lebanon and …

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KYIV (Reuters) -Russian forces hit a museum in the centre of the eastern Ukrainian city of Kupiansk during an attack on Tuesday, killing one person, wounding 10 and burying others under rubble, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said. Police officers dug through the rubble and pulled out a woman who had been trapped, hauling her motionless …

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By Olena Harmash KYIV (Reuters) – Ukrainian forces based on the western side of the River Dnipro are frequently carrying out raids on the eastern bank near the city of Kherson to try to dislodge Russian troops, a regional official said on Tuesday. Russian forces have held the eastern side of the Dnipro near Kherson …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – An ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that the world was probably on the verge of a new world war and the risks of a nuclear confrontation were rising. “The world is sick and quite probably is on the verge of a new world war,” Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman …

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SARAJEVO (Reuters) – The economies of the six countries of the Western Balkans show resilience despite economic growth estimated to moderate to 2.6% in 2023 and continued price rises, the World Bank said in its regular biannual economic report for the region on Tuesday. Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia have surpassed pre-pandemic …

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By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis leaves on Friday on a three-day trip to Hungary, where the war in Ukraine, migration and Europe’s Christian roots are expected to top the agenda in his public addresses and private talks with nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Francis is going there to keep a promise …

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By Kate Abnett OSTEND, Belgium (Reuters) -Leaders from European countries surrounding the North Sea pledged on Monday to rapidly scale up offshore wind power generation in the region to strengthen energy security, at a summit in Ostend, Belgium. Leaders from seven European Union countries, including France, Germany and the Netherlands, alongside non-EU countries Norway and …

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