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Russian cenbank says client funds in sanctioned banks are secure
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Clients' funds held by Russian banks that were hit with new Western sanctions are secure and are not affected by the sanctions, Deputy Central Bank Governor Vladimir Chistyukhin sai...
Feb 25, 2022
Appeal court acquits former BT Italy exec on false accounting charge
MILAN (Reuters) - A Milan appeals court has acquitted Stefania Truzzoli, former chief operating officer at BT Italy, of alleged false accounting at the Italian unit of British Telecom in 2015 and 2016...
Feb 25, 2022
Analysis-Russian risks stoke fears for European winter gas supplies
By Nina Chestney LONDON (Reuters) - Europe will need to secure large quantities of gas if it wants to avoid soaring prices and crippling energy bills next winter in the event of disruption to flows fr...
Feb 25, 2022
Some EU countries have reservations about cutting Russia from SWIFT – France
PARIS (Reuters) - Some EU countries have reservations about cutting Russia off from the SWIFT payments system, but France is not one of them, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Friday. Spe...
Feb 25, 2022
Ukraine’s Kuleba discusses with Blinken need to use U.S. reach to ban Russia from SWIFT
(Reuters) - Ukraine's foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba spoke with U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken via telephone about the need to use all U.S. influence on some hesitant European countries in ...
Feb 25, 2022
Excluding Russia from SWIFT must be on the table – Netherlands
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Excluding Russia from the global SWIFT system of interbank payments should be an option given the scale of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, Dutch Foreign Affairs Minister Wopke Hoeks...
Feb 25, 2022
Soccer-Kenya, Zimbabwe suspended by FIFA
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Kenya and Zimbabwe are the latest African football associations to be suspended by FIFA as world football's governing body continues its crackdown on government interference. Bot...
Feb 25, 2022
Red Cross sets up international aid supply network for Ukraine
BERLIN (Reuters) - The international Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is setting up a logistics hub in Budapest to bring aid supplies to Ukraine following Russia's invasion, and is making preparati...
Feb 25, 2022
Analysis-Geopolitical clouds gather over Europe’s climate change plans
By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Soaring energy prices and a geopolitical crisis over Russia's invasion of Ukraine are looming over the European Union's attempts to agree a raft of tougher climate ...
Feb 25, 2022
Russia: British minister’s comment about Putin going ‘full tonto’ surprising
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's foreign ministry said on Friday it was surprised by a remark by UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace, who said that Russia's invasion of Ukraine showed that President Vladimir ...
Feb 25, 2022
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