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By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters) -Switzerland has cancelled a conference on the application of the Geneva Conventions to the occupied Palestinian territories for want of participants, its Foreign Affairs Ministry confirmed on Thursday, after some countries expressed dissatisfaction. The country had invited 196 parties to the conventions to participate in the March 7 conference in …

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By Tim Cocks PRETORIA (Reuters) – The world must carry on pursuing the greenhouse gas emissions reductions outlined in the Paris Agreement, despite the United States’ withdrawal, Britain’s climate envoy said on Thursday, adding that the UK was moving ahead with its targets. Last month U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew the world’s second biggest emitter …

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By Gwladys Fouche and Nora Buli OSLO (Reuters) – Norway will more than double its financial pledge to Ukraine this year while also hiking its own defence spending, the prime minister said on Thursday, declaring the Nordic country faced its most serious security situation for 80 years. Norway, home to the world’s largest sovereign wealth …

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By Holger Hansen BERLIN (Reuters) – German lawmakers will debate a 500-billion-euro infrastructure fund and sweeping changes to state borrowing rules to fund defence from March 13 in a race to get both steps passed by the outgoing parliament, a senior Greens lawmaker said on Thursday. The Bundestag lower house will vote on the measures …

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By Matthias Inverardi, Tom Sims and Amir Orusov (Reuters) -Germany’s DHL plans to cut 8,000 jobs in Germany this year, the biggest staff reduction programme in its home market in at least two decades, responding to falling letter volumes as well as what it says is overly strict regulation. Shares rose to their highest level …

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By Guy Faulconbridge and Dmitry Antonov MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia warned French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday not to threaten it with nuclear rhetoric and, mocking his height by calling him ‘Micron’, ruled out European proposals to send peacekeeping forces from NATO members to Ukraine. Macron said in an address to the nation on Wednesday that …

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