(Reuters) – The United States has offered to sell Slovakia 12 new Bell AH-1Z Viper helicopters at a two-thirds discount after Bratislava sent its retired MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine, Defence Minister Jaroslav Nad said on Wednesday. Nad said his government still had to approve the deal under which it would pay $340 million over …
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By Elizabeth Pineau and Ingrid Melander PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron is looking to regain the initiative with new reforms in the coming weeks after his government barely survived a no-confidence motion over an unpopular pension bill and nationwide protests continued. As labour unions prepared another day of strikes and demonstrations against Macron’s pension …
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PARIS (Reuters) – French journalist Olivier Dubois arrived home on Tuesday to be warmly embraced by family members and President Emmanuel Macron, bringing an end to almost two years of captivity in Mali. Dubois, who disappeared in Mali’s northern city of Gao in April 2021, was released on Monday and taken to Niger with U.S. …
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By Mike Stone WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States plans to speed up the delivery of Abrams tanks to Ukraine, a Pentagon official said on Tuesday, providing the vital equipment to Kyiv as soon as this fall to defend itself against Russian forces. In January, the U.S. pledged to supply Ukraine with 31 advanced M1A2 Abrams …
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PARIS (Reuters) – France’s parliament voted in favour of the government’s nuclear investment plan with a large majority on Tuesday, a day after the government narrowly survived a no-confidence vote over its pension reform plan. The nuclear renewal plan, whose key plank is the planned construction of six new nuclear reactors, was approved with 402 …
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(Reuters) – Investors stepped cautiously into bank stocks on Tuesday, emboldened by the rescue of Credit Suisse, with share prices inching tentatively higher amid continuing concerns about smaller U.S. lenders and further financial market ructions. DEVELOPMENTS * Attention now on this week’s meeting of the U.S. Federal Reserve, with traders wondering whether the central bank’s …
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(Reuters) – Ukraine’s defence ministry said on Monday that an explosion in Dzhankoi in occupied Crimea had destroyed Russian Kalibr cruise missiles during rail transit. Separately, Sergei Askyonov, the Russian-installed head of the annexed peninsula said air defence systems had gone into action in the area and that at least one person had been injured …
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By Elizabeth Pineau and Layli Foroudi PARIS (Reuters) – Protesters set piles of rubbish on fire in central Paris on Monday after President Emmanuel Macron’s government narrowly survived a no-confidence motion in parliament on Monday over a deeply unpopular pension reform. The failure of the no-confidence vote will be a relief to Macron. Had it …
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By Dan Williams JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday announced a softening of his judicial overhaul plan but an unallayed opposition said it would still challenge key legislation in the Supreme Court, setting the stage for a constitutional showdown. The package of reforms sought by Netanyahu’s religious-nationalist coalition have triggered weeks of …
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By Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) -The European Union’s lending arm, the European Investment Bank, is to temporarily override its near 4-year long ban on financing in Turkey to provide 500 million euros ($540 million) for the country’s post-earthquake rebuilding efforts. The EIB stopped virtually all lending in Turkey after a row over oil and gas …
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