By Crispian Balmer ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s new parliament opens on Thursday, with a Holocaust survivor due to preside over the first session of the upper house Senate as the most right-wing coalition since World War Two takes control of both chambers. Liliana Segre was the only member of her family to emerge alive from …
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By Tassilo Hummel PARIS (Reuters) -The French government told TotalEnergies on Thursday to raise wages as a standoff between the oil major and striking workers which has hit the country’s petrol supplies dragged on for a 16th day. The strikes have reduced France’s petrol output by over 60% and left one in three petrol stations …
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By Bart H. Meijer AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -Philips shares fell to their lowest in a decade on Wednesday as the Dutch health tech company said supply chain problems would hit sales, and wrote down 1.3 billion euros ($1.26 billion) of the value of its sleep apnea business. Shares were down 9% at 0750 GMT at 14.13 …
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PARIS (Reuters) – France’s President Emmanuel Macron accused Russia on Wednesday of purposefully provoking the recent clashes between Armenia and Azerbaijan as part of an effort destabilise the Caucasus region and beyond. The worst fighting between the two ex-Soviet countries since 2020 broke out in late September, killing more than 200 people. The fighting is …
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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday overwhelmingly condemned Russia’s “attempted illegal annexation” of four partially occupied regions in Ukraine and called on all countries not to recognize the move, strengthening a diplomatic international isolation of Moscow since it invaded its neighbor. Three-quarters of the 193-member General Assembly – …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Finance leaders from the Group of Seven wealthy democracies on Wednesday pledged to increase emissions reductions efforts and climate support for developing countries despite energy cost and security challenges prompted by Russia’s war in Ukraine. Meeting on the sidelines of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank annual meetings in Washington, the G7 …
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By Caroline Pailliez and Forrest Crellin PARIS (Reuters) – France on Wednesday ordered some staff at an Exxon Mobil fuel depot back to work and warned a TotalEnergies depot could be next, risking a wider conflict with trade unions as it battles to secure petrol supplies after weeks of strikes. The French energy ministry said …
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By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) -Iranians kept up anti-government protests on Wednesday despite an increasingly deadly state crackdown, social media reports showed, as Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dismissed the demonstrations as “scattered riots” planned by Iran’s enemies. Protests ignited by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini while in the custody of Iran’s morality police …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The top U.S. general on Wednesday condemned indiscriminate Russian missile strikes on Ukraine that killed civilians, suggesting they met the definition of war crimes under the international rules of war. “Russia has deliberately struck civilian infrastructure with the purpose of harming civilians,” Army General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of …
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By John Irish and Michel Rose PARIS (Reuters) -France will deliver radar and air defence systems to Ukraine in the coming weeks, in particular to help Ukraine protest itself from drone and missile attacks, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday. Speaking in an interview on France 2 television, Macron did not give any details …
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