MADRID (Reuters) – Trade tariffs announced by U.S. President Donald Trump could trigger economic uncertainty but the impact on inflation is less clear, European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guindos said on Monday. Trump’s plan for 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminium imports into the United States, on top of existing metals duties, …
By Joey Roulette and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Trump on Sunday said he was losing patience with the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas after seeing footage of the Palestinian militant group release Israeli hostages over the weekend, whose appearance he compared to Holocaust survivors. Trump’s reaction to seeing images of the three …
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(Reuters) – Nicaragua’s government described the Vatican as “depraved” and “pedophile” on Sunday, two days after an interview on Catholic television channel EWTN with exiled Nicaraguan Bishop Rolando Alvarez, one of the fiercest critics of President Daniel Ortega. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT The comments are some of the Ortega government’s harshest attacks yet against the Vatican, …
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By Fatos Bytyci and Edward McAllister PRISTINA (Reuters) -Kosovo’s ruling Vetevendosje party is on track to come first in a parliamentary election on Sunday, but it will need to negotiate a coalition with other parties to form a government, exit polls and party vote count showed. The election result would be a drop from the …
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By Jeff Mason, Guy Faulconbridge and Lidia Kelly ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE/MOSCOW (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday he believed the United States was making progress in its talks to end the war between Russia and Ukraine, but declined to provide details about any communications he had had with Russian President Vladimir Putin. …
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PARIS (Reuters) -France will announce private sector investments totalling some 109 billion euros ($112.5 billion) in its artificial intelligence sector during the Paris AI summit which opens on Monday, President Emmanuel Macron said. The financing includes plans by Canadian investment firm Brookfield to invest 20 billion euros in AI projects in France and financing from …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – Europe is prepared to respond “within an hour” if the United States levies tariffs against the European Union, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in a pre-election debate with his conservative challenger Friedrich Merz. Asked by a moderator if the EU had a “list of cruelties” with which to respond if the U.S. …
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(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan for a quick settlement in Ukraine must not only stop the war but also ensure that there can no longer be any more Russian aggression, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in an interview broadcast on Sunday. Zelenskiy said Ukraine wanted no repeat of the experience of peace accords and talks …
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RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – Two Palestinian women, one of them pregnant, were killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, the Palestinian health ministry said, as Israel stepped up raids on militants in the area. The ministry said Israeli forces in Nur Shams in the northern West Bank shot 23-year-old Sundos …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s military said on Sunday that it shot down 70 drones out of the 151 that Russia launched to attack the country overnight. Ukraine’s air force said that 74 drones did not reach their targets, likely due to electronic warfare, and two were still in the air, it said in a statement. …
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