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Pope names women to bishops advisory committee for first time
Vatican City (Reuters) - Pope Francis has named three women, two nuns and a laywoman, to a previously all-male committee that advises him in selecting the world's bishop's, the Vatican said on Wednesd...
Jul 13, 2022
Norse god Heimdall joins ECB – as gatekeeper software
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The European Central Bank has launched a software tool named after a god in Norse mythology to help it screen candidates for top banking jobs, ECB supervisor Elizabeth McCaul sai...
Jul 13, 2022
Alphabet to slow hiring in second half of 2022
(Reuters) - Alphabet Inc said on Wednesday it would slow the pace of hiring for the rest of the year, the latest company to make such a move as decades-high inflation and the fallout from the Ukraine ...
Jul 13, 2022
Hungary’s Orban convenes cabinet meeting on European energy supply
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has convened a cabinet meeting on Wednesday to discuss supply problems affecting the European energy market, Orban's press chief said in a st...
Jul 13, 2022
Turkey, Russia, Ukraine, U.N. set to meet on grain exports
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A Russian military delegation arrived in Istanbul on Wednesday to meet their Ukrainian and Turkish counterparts and U.N. officials for talks on resuming exports of Ukrainian grain...
Jul 13, 2022
Relatives of some Saudi detainees anxiously await Biden trip
By Aziz El Yaakoubi RIYADH (Reuters) - Malik al-Dowaish was arrested this month following years of campaigning for the release of his father, who was himself detained in 2016 after he gave a sermon se...
Jul 13, 2022
Italy’s government faces collapse if 5-Star pulls out
ROME (Reuters) -Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi's broad coalition government faced the risk of collapse if the 5-Star Movement carried out its threat to pull out, raising the prospect of an early ...
Jul 13, 2022
U.S., Israel announce new tech partnership in health, climate
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The United States and Israel announced on Wednesday a new advanced technology partnership ahead of President Joe Biden's trip to the region. "A Strategic High-Level Dialogue on T...
Jul 13, 2022
Owner of South African bar where 21 teens died arrested, police say
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - The owner of the bar in the South African coastal town of East London where 21 teenagers mysteriously died last month has been arrested, police in the Eastern Cape province said ...
Jul 13, 2022
Germany presents climate emergency program for transport sector after missing CO2 targets
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's economy and transport ministries on Wednesday presented an emergency program to cut emissions in transport after the sector missed its 2021 carbon-dioxide reduction target...
Jul 13, 2022
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