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Russian forces are fighting Ukrainian sabotage group in border region - Russian news agencies
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian forces are fighting a Ukrainian sabotage group in Bryansk region which borders Ukraine after the group took hostages in a shop, Russian news agencies reported on Thursday. "...
Thomson Reuters Mar 02, 2023
US unit of Spain's ACS to build EV battery plant for Panasonic in Kansas
MADRID (Reuters) - A joint venture between the U.S. unit of Spanish engineering group ACS and Philadelphia-based Yates Construction has won a contract to build an electric vehicle (EV) battery plant i...
Thomson Reuters Mar 02, 2023
Russia says it suspended nuclear pact because U.S. was using it to help Ukraine
By Gabrielle Ttrault-Farber GENEVA (Reuters) -Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Thursday that Moscow had been forced to suspend its participation in the New START nuclear arms con...
Thomson Reuters Mar 02, 2023
Lebanon's international backers say 'unsustainable' status quo is paralysing state
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's ongoing presidential vacuum is cause for grave concern, the country's international backers said on Thursday, describing the current political situation as "unsustainable....
Thomson Reuters Mar 02, 2023
"I was unable to save them," mourns fisherman after Italian migrant shipwreck
By Angelo Amante STECCATO DI CUTRO, Italy (Reuters) - It was a Sunday that Italian fisherman Vincenzo Luciano will never forget. Well before dawn he ran to the beach near his house and started pulling...
Thomson Reuters Mar 02, 2023
EU's Vestager says scrutiny of competition in metaverse already needed
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The metaverse, shared virtual worlds accessible via the Internet, is the next digital market to attract regulatory scrutiny, EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager ...
Thomson Reuters Mar 02, 2023
Italy Jan jobless rate edges up to 7.9%, with 35,000 jobs created
ROME (Reuters) - Italy's unemployment rate rose slightly to 7.9% in January from an unrevised 7.8% the month before, national statistics bureau ISTAT said on Thursday. A Reuters survey of analysts had...
Thomson Reuters Mar 02, 2023
Burkina's film festival in full swing despite fighting on its doorstep
OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - In Burkina Faso's capital, Ouagadougou, soldiers give directions to movie-goers and journalists attending the continent's premier film festival that is going ahead this year de...
Thomson Reuters Mar 02, 2023
Britain's Nationwide curbs cryptocurrency purchases by customers
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Nationwide Building Society has restricted customers' ability to buy cryptocurrencies, the lender said in an email to its members today. Nationwide said it will not allow ...
Thomson Reuters Mar 02, 2023
German foreign minister calls on Russia to return to new START at G20
BERLIN (Reuters) - German Foreign Minister Baerbock on Thursday called on her Russian counterpart to return to the full implementation of the new START nuclear arms control treaty. "I ask you, Mr (Ser...
Thomson Reuters Mar 02, 2023
