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EU renewable energy law clears first vote after French nuclear assurances
By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A European Parliament committee on Wednesday backed new EU renewable energy targets, but criticised last-minute changes offering France and other countries possible...
Jun 28, 2023
Chinese payment giants revive effort to accept foreign credit cards
By Josh Ye HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chinese tech giants Tencent Holdings and Ant Group said that they would allow users to link international credit cards to their platforms, an issue that has long plagu...
Jun 28, 2023
Youths clash with police near Paris after teenager shot dead in traffic stop
(Adds dropped word 'minister' in paragraph 2) By Layli Foroudi and Dominique Vidalon PARIS (Reuters) - Protesters armed with fireworks clashed with riot police in a Paris suburb overnight after a 17-y...
Jun 28, 2023
Biden tries to flip skeptical Americans on his economic plan
By Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will use what aides are billing as a major speech on Wednesday to lift Americans' dour mood about the economy, hoping to shore up hi...
Jun 28, 2023
Cycling-Pogacar, Vingegaard set for thrilling third act amid safety concerns
By Julien Pretot PARIS (Reuters) - The Tour de France looks set to be a battle between defending champion Jonas Vingegaard and twice winner Tadej Pogacar, but there is a question mark over the Sloveni...
Jun 28, 2023
Pakistan, IMF discuss $2.5 billion standby arrangement -domestic media
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan and the International Monetary Fund are discussing a $2.5-billion "standby arrangement" for six to nine months, domestic newspapers said on Wednesday, with the current b...
Jun 28, 2023
Blaze at Indonesian nickel smelter kills worker, wounds 6
JAKARTA (Reuters) - A fire at a nickel smelter in Indonesia left one worker dead and injured six others, police said on Wednesday, the latest in a series of deadly incidents that have prompted concern...
Jun 28, 2023
Ukraine names new head of state weapons company to push reforms, lift supplies
By Olena Harmash KYIV (Reuters) - The Ukrainian government appointed a new head of state-owned weapons producer Ukroboronprom on Wednesday as Kyiv seeks to boost domestic weapons production and increa...
Jun 28, 2023
Italy rounds on “simplistic” ECB over rate hikes
By Angelo Amante and Gavin Jones ROME (Reuters) -Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Wednesday criticised the European Central Bank over repeated interest rate hikes, saying it was following a "s...
Jun 28, 2023
Death toll rises to nine in Russian attack on Ukraine’s Kramatorsk – mayor
KRAMATORSK, Ukraine (Reuters) - The body of a boy was pulled out of the rubble of a building in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk on Wednesday, taking the death toll from a Russian missile stri...
Jun 28, 2023
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