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PORTO, Portugal (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron acknowledged on Friday that he left Washington after talks this week with President Donald Trump with scant hope that the European Union would avoid U.S. trade tariffs. Macron said the Trump administration’s trade strategy – and particularly its understanding of value-added taxes – was flawed. Two days …

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By Edward McAllister and Renee Maltezou ATHENS (Reuters) – Protesters hurled petrol bombs and set fire to trash cans in Athens on Friday as hundreds of thousands of Greeks went on strike and took to the streets in nationwide demonstrations on the second anniversary of the country’s deadliest train crash. Fifty-seven people were killed when …

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By Nyasha Nyaungwa WINDHOEK (Reuters) – Namibia’s Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a challenge against last year’s presidential election brought by opposition parties, clearing the way for the ruling party’s Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah to take office next month. The Southern African country’s SWAPO party, which has governed the nation of around 3 million people for more …

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By Anna Bellissens SAINT-DENIS, La Reunion, France (Reuters) -At least three people died when cyclone Garance slammed into the French overseas territory of La Reunion on Friday with wind speeds of up to 155 kph (96 mph), Prime Minister Francois Bayrou said. The cyclone made landfall in the north of the Indian Ocean island, which …

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By Juliette Jabkhiro VANNES, France (Reuters) – When police told Louis-Marie, 35, that they believed he had been sexually abused two decades earlier by a surgeon who treated him for appendicitis, he thought it was a prank. It wasn’t. Louis-Marie is one of 299 people, most of them children at the time, who were allegedly …

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(Reuters) – The European Union’s medicines regulator on Friday reiterated its positive recommendation for Eisai and Biogen’s Alzheimer’s drug, Leqembi, after concluding a safety review. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) in late January said the European Commission had requested a review of additional safety information for the drug, following its November approval to treat some …

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BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon seized $2.5 million in cash from a man arriving from Turkey on Friday, the finance ministry said, with three sources saying the money was destined for militant group Hezbollah. One of the sources said it was the first time such a seizure had been made. There was no immediate comment from …

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By Daria Sito-Sucic SARAJEVO (Reuters) -Bosnia’s autonomous Serb region passed legislation barring the national police and judiciary from its territory after a state court banned its separatist leader Milorad Dodik from politics for six years and sentenced him to a year in prison. The separatist gambit could become a constitutional crisis in ethnically divided post-war …

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