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EU changes to sustainability law risk company lawsuits, legal scholars say

9 May 2025 9 May 2025

By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union’s plans to cut back sustainability reporting rules could expose European companies to more climate change-related lawsuits, 31 legal scholars said in a letter published on Friday. The European Commission in February proposed loosening corporate sustainability rules for businesses in Europe, responding to criticism that EU red tape …

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New Gaza aid plans would increase children’s suffering, UNICEF says

9 May 2025 9 May 2025

GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations Children’s Fund on Friday criticized emerging plans to take over distribution of humanitarian aid in Gaza on Thursday floated by both Israel and the United States, saying that they would increase suffering for children and families. The U.S. State Department earlier floated a solution that would allow delivery of …

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Romania should be compensated for aiding Ukraine, hard-right presidential frontrunner says

9 May 2025 9 May 2025

BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Romania’s hard-right presidential frontrunner George Simion said in a televised debate that the EU and NATO state should be compensated for the aid it has provided to neighbouring Ukraine as it defends itself against Russia. The eurosceptic nationalist swept the first round of the presidential ballot on Sunday, and an opinion survey …

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Russia parades drones it uses against Ukraine on Moscow’s Red Square

9 May 2025 9 May 2025

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia on Friday paraded combat drones that its forces use in the war in Ukraine on Moscow’s Red Square in what state TV said was a first. President Vladimir Putin, Chinese President Xi Jinping and more than two dozen other foreign leaders looked on as various truck-mounted Russian-made drones were driven across the …

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Chicago celebrates native son’s elevation to pope

9 May 2025 9 May 2025

By Emily Schmall, Tom Polansek and Christopher Walljasper CHICAGO (Reuters) -The old parish church buildings on Chicago’s far South Side where Pope Leo XIV grew up, attended grammar school and launched his career as a priest are now vacated and in disrepair, a victim of the sometimes painful changes within the Roman Catholic Church since …

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Ukraine says Russia hit 8 settlements 220 times during ceasefire

9 May 2025 9 May 2025

(Reuters) – Russia hit eight Ukrainian settlements near a frontline 220 times during ceasefire, governor of the Zaporizhzhia region Ivan Fedorov said on the Telegram messaging platform early on Friday. The villages in Zaporizhzhia were hit by 150 drones and 70 artillery rounds in the past 24 hours, he said. The ceasefire announced by Russian …

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Pope Leo once leveled criticism at Trump and Vance. MAGA is not amused

9 May 2025 9 May 2025

By Jeff Mason, Jasper Ward and James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Before becoming pontiff, the first U.S.-born pope was not shy about criticizing President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance – social media musings that pulled him into the maelstrom of divided U.S. politics on Thursday as he took on leadership of the global …

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U.S. beginning to understand Russian positions, Kremlin aide says

9 May 2025 9 May 2025

(Reuters) – The United States is coming round to an understanding of Russia’s positions on key issues including the Ukraine conflict, a top Kremlin aide said on Thursday. “It is clear, so it seems to me anyway, that there is an understanding of what we are trying to achieve as a result of this situation,” …

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‘For us, the Pope is Peruvian’: Andean nation cheers election of Pope Leo XIV

9 May 2025 9 May 2025

By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) – In the Peruvian coastal city of Chiclayo, some 5,000 kilometers (3,000 miles) from new Pope Leo XIV’s hometown of Chicago, Catholics took to the streets and church bells rang on Thursday to celebrate the election of the former missionary who they embrace as one of their own. Cardinal Robert …

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China, Russia vow to strengthen cooperation on international law matters, state media reports

9 May 2025 9 May 2025

BEIJING (Reuters) – China and Russia have agreed to strengthen cooperation in matters of international law, according to a joint statement released on Friday following Chinese President Xi Jinping’s meeting with Russia’s Vladimir Putin. The two countries both stated their opposition to unilateral sanctions and long-arm jurisdiction, Chinese state news agency Xinhua reported the statement …

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