By Vincent Daheron PARIS -French justice officials have launched an investigation after cycling champion Mathieu van der Poel had a plastic bottle hurled at his face during his triumphant ride to a third consecutive Paris-Roubaix victory on Sunday. “An investigation was opened into the charge of violence with a weapon in order to identify and …
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By Francesco Guarascio, Khanh Vu and Phuong Nguyen HANOI (Reuters) -China’s President Xi Jinping called on Monday for stronger ties with Vietnam on trade and supply chains amid disruptions caused by U.S. tariffs, as he attended the signing in Hanoi of dozens of cooperation agreements between the two communist-run nations. The visit, planned for weeks …
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MILAN (Reuters) – A consortium led by the Italian Treasury has reached an agreement to buy Telecom Italia (TIM) submarine cable business Sparkle, in a deal valuing the unit at 700 million euros ($793.80 million) including debt, TIM and the government said on Monday. Sparkle is deemed of strategic importance by Italian authorities, given its 600,000 …
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By Andrew Gray BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union will increase its financial support for the Palestinian Authority with a three-year package worth around 1.6 billion euros ($1.8 billion), the European Commissioner responsible for the Middle East told Reuters in an interview. Dubravka Suica, the European Commissioner for the Mediterranean, said the financial support would go …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Syria’s ambassador to Moscow has requested asylum in Russia, state news agency TASS reported on Monday, citing a source. The Russian news outlet provided no further details on the reported request by Bashar Jaafari, who was appointed ambassador to Russia in 2022 after 15 years as Syria’s permanent representative to the United Nations. …
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By Huseyin Hayatsever and Mert Ozkan ANTALYA, Turkey (Reuters) – The head of the Council of Europe, the continent’s leading human rights watchdog, told Reuters it was worried about any violations of rights in Turkey after the jailing of President Tayyip Erdogan’s chief political rival and hundreds of arrests that followed mass protests. Secretary General …
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By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Commission will announce a more detailed strategy to phase out Russian oil and gas imports next month, it said on Monday, after twice delaying the plan. The EU has pledged to quit Russian fossil fuels by 2027 in response to Moscow’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, but the …
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – NATO members are discussing setting a spending target for civil defence and support for Ukraine on top of core military budget goals, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said on Monday. Many NATO members have increased military spending since Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine but they are under pressure from U.S. President Donald …
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LONDON/DHAKA (Reuters) – The former British minister Tulip Siddiq said on Monday an arrest warrant issued against her in Bangladesh over allegations she illegally received a plot of land are a “politically motivated smear”. A court in Dhaka on Sunday issued a warrant for 53 people, including Siddiq, accusing her of receiving the land when …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – A German court will weigh a request to release a seized oil tanker that is believed to be part of a so-called shadow fleet used by Russia to circumvent oil sanctions, Germany’s finance ministry said on Monday. The Panama-flagged vessel, the Eventin, was found drifting out of control off Germany’s Baltic Sea …
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