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(Refiles to fix typo in headline) ROME (Reuters) - ROME, June 4 (Reuters) - The Italian economy, will grow by 4.7%this year, national statistics bureau ISTAT said on Friday, raising a previous project...

TOKYO (Reuters) - The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games cannot happen if no athletes can make it to Japan for the event, Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee President Seiko Hashimoto said at a news briefing held o...

By Tom Arnold LONDON (Reuters) - Poor countries struggling to meet their dues in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis should be given a temporary buffer to avoid the risk of credit rating downgrades while ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union ambassadors on Friday adopted a plan to ban Belarus airlines from flying over EU territory or landing in EU airports, and prohibiting EU airlines from flying over B...

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea said on Friday it expects to meet its vaccination target for the first half of the year ahead of schedule as 81% of people aged between 60 and 74 years old have signed up...

WARSAW (Reuters) - Denmark's decision to rescind an environmental permit for Baltic Pipe, a pipeline connecting Poland with Norwegian gas fields via the Baltic Sea and Denmark, has no impact on the im...

By Minwoo Park SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean industrial designer has come up with a satirical solution for "smartphone zombies" who can't take their eyes away from their screen long enough to stop ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia reported 8,947 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, including 2,817 in Moscow, taking the official national tally to 5,108,129 since the pandemic began. The government coronavirus t...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian charter flights to Egyptian resorts are expected to resume in the coming days after a years-long hiatus, the Interfax news agency cited the boss of Aeroflot as saying on Fri...

OSLO (Reuters) - Norway's $1.35 trillion sovereign wealth fund, the world's largest, said it would support a shareholder climate policy initiative at the Caterpillar annual general meeting on June 9. ...