By Giuseppe Fonte and Giselda Vagnoni ROME (Reuters) -ECB board member Fabio Panetta is resisting calls from Giorgia Meloni, the front-runner to be Italy’s next prime minister, to take the job of economy minister should the rightist bloc win election on Sunday, two political sources told Reuters. Meloni, the leader of the Brothers of Italy …
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NEW YORK (Reuters) -France and Britain need to show that they are allies and friends in this complicated world, President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday after meeting newly appointed British Prime Minister Liz Truss. The two leaders were meeting face-to-face for the first time and just weeks after Truss questioned whether Paris was a friend …
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DUBAI (Reuters) – The governor of Tehran has accused protesters of attacking police and destroying public property during demonstrations ignited by the death of a young woman while in the custody of Iran’s morality police. Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old from Iran’s Kurdistan province, fell into a coma and died following her arrest in Tehran last …
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ROME (Reuters) – The Brothers of Italy party, which is tipped to win national elections at the weekend, suspended one of its candidates on Tuesday after he was found to have praised Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler in online posts. Brothers of Italy traces its roots back to a neo-fascist group set up after World War …
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DUBAI (Reuters) -Four people were killed in Iran’s Kurdish region on Monday when security forces opened fire during protests over the death of a woman in police custody, a Kurdish rights group said, on a third day of turmoil over an event that has ignited nationwide anger. Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old from Iran’s Kurdistan province, …
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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Former President Donald Trump may be called as a witness at the criminal trial of Thomas Barrack, a private equity investor and former Trump fundraiser charged with acting as an unregistered agent for the United Arab Emirates, a U.S. judge said on Monday. U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan in …
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By Tom Balmforth IZIUM (Reuters) -Ukraine extended its hold on recently recaptured territory on Monday as troops marched farther east into areas abandoned by Russia, paving the way for a potential assault on occupation forces in the Donbas region. In a sign of nervousness from a Moscow-backed administration in Donbas about the success of Ukraine’s …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Kremlin on Monday rejected allegations that Russian forces had committed war crimes in Ukraine’s Kharkiv province as a “lie”. Around 450 bodies – most of which Ukraine says are civilians – have been found in mass graves near Izium after Russian troops were this month forced out of the Kharkiv region, much …
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By Ivelisse Rivera and Ezequiel Abiu Lopez SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico/SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (Reuters) -Hurricane Fiona left most of Puerto Rico without power on Sunday, causing catastrophic flooding and landslides on the island before barreling toward the Dominican Republic, a government agency said. The storm, hitting Puerto Rico five years after Hurricane Maria devastated …
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By Alexander Tanas CHISINAU (Reuters) -Thousands of protesters denouncing high inflation and fuel prices massed outside Moldova’s government on Sunday demanding the resignation of pro-Western President Maia Sandu and her government. It was the largest protest in the small ex-Soviet state since Sandu was elected in a 2020 landslide on pledges to root out corruption. …
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