By Andy Bruce (Reuters) -The attractiveness of the United States as an investment destination has plunged in the eyes of British business executives who now see opportunities closer to home, a survey showed on Monday. Deloitte’s survey of chief financial officers at major British firms showed a net balance of +2% of respondents saw the …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian military forces have gained control of two more villages in Ukraine in areas where they have been making advances, one in the eastern Donetsk region and the other in the Kharkiv region in the northeast, according to the Russian Defence Ministry. A ministry statement issued on Sunday said Russian troops had seized …
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(Reuters) -Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met on Sunday with his Iranian counterpart at the BRICS summit, and restated Moscow’s offer to help resolve disputes around Tehran’s nuclear programme, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. A ministry statement said Lavrov, in his talks in Rio de Janeiro with Abbas Araqchi, issued a new denunciation of Israeli …
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MILAN (Reuters) -One person was killed by a falling tree near Milan, local firefighters said on Sunday, as a powerful storm battered the northern Italian city after days of high temperatures. The 63-year-old woman died in the town of Robecchetto con Induno, west of Milan, as she was returning from a walk with two other …
BERLIN (Reuters) -A dog was rescued from a locker for valuables at Neuschwanstein Castle in southern Germany after its owner shut her pet inside over the objections of other tourists so that she could visit the famous attraction, police said on Sunday. Neuschwanstein, a picture-postcard castle with surging turrets nestled in the Alps near the …
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ATHENS (Reuters) -An external explosive device most likely caused the blast that damaged Greek oil tanker Vilamoura as it was sailing off the Libyan coast last week, the vessel’s Greece-based operator TMS Tankers said on Sunday, citing an initial investigation. The Marshall Islands-flagged tanker Vilamoura had left the Libyan port of Zuetina on June 27 …
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By Alexander Cornwell JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich sharply criticised on Sunday a cabinet decision to allow some aid into Gaza as a “grave mistake” that he said would benefit the militant Palestinian group Hamas. Smotrich also accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of failing to ensure that Israel’s military is following government …
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VIENNA (Reuters) -Switzerland, which also represents U.S. interests in Iran, has reopened its embassy in Tehran after a closure due to the air war between Israel and Iran, the Swiss foreign ministry said on Sunday. “Ambassador Nadine Olivieri Lozano and a small team returned to Tehran yesterday overland via Azerbaijan. The embassy will gradually resume …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia’s anti-aircraft systems downed 120 Ukrainian drones overnight, mostly in regions bordering Ukraine, the Russian Defence Ministry said on Sunday, reporting no damage. More than three years into the war, Ukraine has increasingly been using drones to attack targets deep inside Russia. The Defence Ministry said the drones that were intercepted overnight included …
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By Lisandra Paraguassu RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) -Finance ministers from the BRICS group of developing nations called on Saturday for reform of the International Monetary Fund, including a new distribution of voting rights and an end to the tradition of European management at the helm. The joint statement by the group’s finance ministers marks the …
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