By Philip Blenkinsop BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union and Mexico revived a stalled free trade agreement on Friday, days before the return to the White House of Donald Trump, who has threatened both sides with tariffs. The two parties are seeking to update their trade accord from 2000, which covers only industrial goods, by adding …
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By Vladimir Soldatkin MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia may supply up to 55 billion cubic metres (bcm) of gas per year to Iran, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday, as Moscow diversifies its gas flows after a dramatic fall in exports to Europe. Since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russia has lost its dominance …
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WARSAW (Reuters) -Polish President Andrzej Duda has signed the 2025 budget but will ask the Constitutional Tribunal to check the legality of some of the bill’s provisions, his senior aide said on Friday. Poland’s pro-European government led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk has promised to reverse reforms introduced by the previous nationalist Law and Justice …
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By Jonathan Saul and Helen Reid LONDON (Reuters) – Companies transporting their products around the world are not ready to return to the Red Sea trade route in the wake of a Gaza ceasefire deal because of uncertainty over whether Yemen’s Houthis will continue to attack shipping, industry executives said. The leader of Yemen’s Houthis …
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Six Russian oil tankers still under construction by Russia’s Zvezda shipyard were included in U.S. sanctions imposed last week, the first time Washington is known to have banned tankers before they even set sail, much less carried sanctioned cargo. The sanctions imposed last week caused a spike in the price of oil …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union is in talks to revive a civilian mission to monitor the border crossing between Gaza and Egypt at Rafah following the announcement of the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said. A civilian EU mission to help monitor the Rafah crossing was set …
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OTTAWA, Jan 17 (Reuters) – The Group of Seven on Friday said the Kremlin had funded and directed covert efforts by state entities to undermine elected goverments around the world by using global disinformation and influence campaigns. The statement was issued by the G7’s Rapid Response Mechanism unit, which was set up to fight threats …
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(Reuters) -A Russian missile attack killed at least four people and partially destroyed an educational facility in the city of Kryvyi Rih in southern-central Ukraine on Friday, officials said. At least seven others were hurt, some of them seriously, Serhiy Lysak, the governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, said on Telegram. “Each such terrorist attack is …
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MILAN (Reuters) – An Italian judge has ordered Tourism Minister Daniela Santanche to stand trial on false accounting charges at a publishing group she used to own, judicial and legal sources said on Friday. Judge Anna Magelli, at the end of a closed-door hearing, scheduled the start of the trial for the minister and 15 …
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HAMBURG (Reuters) -Germany has no new cases of the livestock illness foot-and-mouth disease with a suspect case on Thursday not confirmed, German agriculture minister Cem Oezdemir said on Friday. Germany has only one case of the disease, Oezdemir said on German radio Deutschlandfunk. Germany announced the country’s first outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in nearly 40 …
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