By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The defense in Steve Bannon’s trial rested its case on Thursday without calling any witnesses and asked the judge to acquit Donald Trump’s noted former presidential adviser on contempt of Congress charges for defying a subpoena by the committee investigating last year’s attack on the U.S. Capitol. Bannon, 68, …
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By Vitalii Hnidyi and Jonathan Spicer KHARKIV, Ukraine/ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Russia and Ukraine will sign a deal on Friday to reopen Ukraine’s Black Sea ports, Turkey said, a potential breakthrough that could ease the threat of hunger facing millions around the world as a consequence of Russia’s invasion. Ukraine and Russia are both among the …
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By Crispian Balmer, Giuseppe Fonte and Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) -Italy will hold a snap national election on Sept. 25 after Prime Minister Mario Draghi resigned following the collapse of his national unity government, sending tremors through financial markets. It will be the first autumn national election for more than a century in Italy, where …
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Russia, Ukraine and Turkey will gather on Friday to sign a deal proposed by the United Nations to free up grain exports from Ukraine’s besieged Black Sea ports, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan’s office said on Thursday. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who earlier announced that he was heading to Istanbul on Thursday, will …
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ROME (Reuters) – Mario Draghi, the central banker turned Italian prime minister, won plaudits for his calm leadership as Italy emerged from the coronavirus crisis but suffered the same fate as many of his predecessors, brought down by fractious internal politics. Draghi, a prominent figure on the international stage as the former head of the …
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ROME (Reuters) – Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi told parliament on Thursday that he was going to see President Sergio Mattarella and inform him of his intentions after three coalition parties withdrew their support for his government. Political sources have said he will resign, almost certainly opening the way for early elections in October. (Reporting …
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By Balazs Koranyi and Francesco Canepa FRANKFURT (Reuters) – The European Central Bank will raise interest rates for the first time in 11 years on Thursday with a bigger-than-flagged move seen as increasingly likely as policymakers fear losing control of runaway consumer price growth. With inflation already approaching double-digit territory, it is now at risk …
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(Reuters) -Russia’s military “tasks” in Ukraine now go beyond the eastern Donbas region, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday, as its forces shelled eastern and southern Ukraine. Lavrov also told state news agency RIA Novosti that Moscow’s objectives will expand still further if the West keeps supplying Kyiv with long-range weapons such as the …
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By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The judge in Steve Bannon’s trial on Wednesday let the defense inform jurors that Donald Trump this month gave the green light for his former presidential adviser to testify before the congressional committee probing last year’s U.S. Capitol attack after previously asking him not to cooperate. U.S. District Judge …
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By Crispian Balmer, Angelo Amante and Giuseppe Fonte ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s government crumbled on Wednesday when three of Prime Minister Mario Draghi’s main coalition partners snubbed a confidence vote he had called to try to end divisions and renew their fractious alliance. Draghi did win the vote in the upper house by 95 to …
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