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By Juliette Jabkhiro PARIS (Reuters) – A United Nations committee ruled that France discriminated against a Muslim woman who was prevented from attending vocational training in a public school while wearing her Islamic head scarf, according to a U.N. document. In 2010, Naima Mezhoud, now aged 45, was due to train as a management assistant …

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By Matteo Berlenga SAN CASCIANO IN VAL DI PESA, Italy (Reuters) – Farmers in Tuscany, the heart of Italy’s prized wine and olive oil industry, are battling to salvage as much as they can of this year’s crop from the ravages of drought and heatwave. A lack of rainfall since spring has affected even plants …

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By Joseph Ax (Reuters) -Republican voters on Tuesday chose a raft of candidates supporting Donald Trump’s 2020 election falsehoods in multiple party primaries for the November general election – a stark display of the former president’s grip on his party. In Kansas, abortion rights activists celebrated a major victory when voters overwhelmingly rejected a ballot …

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BEIRUT (Reuters) – Yemen’s warring parties have agreed to extend a U.N.-brokered truce for another two months in a conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people and spawned a major humanitarian crisis. How did the Yemen war begin, why does the truce matter and can it be turned into a broader peace process? …

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By Giuseppe Fonte ROME (Reuters) -Many Italian energy companies appear not to have paid an initial windfall tax payment due by the end of June, leaving the government facing a revenue shortfall of more than 9 billion euros ($9.2 billion), a Treasury document showed. Prime Minister Mario Draghi has budgeted 33 billion euros since January …

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ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s Chamber of Deputies approved a bill on Tuesday to ratify the accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO in a vote welcomed by Giorgia Meloni, whose far-right Brothers of Italy party is seen as the front runner in the coming election. The lower house voted by 398 votes to 20 in …

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By Yimou Lee, Fabian Hamacher and Ann Wang TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan is preparing its air-raid shelters as rising tension with China and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine raise new fears about the possibility of a Chinese attack on the democratic island. China considers Taiwan its territory and has increased military activity in the air and …

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