By Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s government was set to adopt on Monday a decree aimed at overruling court objections to its flagship plan to set up migrant detention camps in Albania to deter sea arrivals from North Africa. The plan, launched last week, was immediately undermined as a Rome court said on Friday …
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KINSHASA (Reuters) – The M23 rebel group has seized the town of Kalembe in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, expanding its reach in the region, an official and a former lawmaker said on Monday. The Tutsi-led M23 has been waging an insurgency in the central African country’s violence-torn east since 2022. Congo and the United …
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By Michael S. Derby NEW YORK (Reuters) – Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Lorie Logan said Monday she sees more rate cuts ahead for the central bank and suggested she sees no reasons why the Fed can’t also press forward with shrinking its balance sheet. “If the economy evolves as I currently expect, a …
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HONG KONG (Reuters) -Melioidosis, a bacterial infection, was responsible for killing at least nine monkeys at a Hong Kong zoo, authorities said, as a further two died over the weekend, taking the total to 11 in the past week. Part of the zoo, built in 1860 and the oldest park in Hong Kong, has remained …
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By Kane Wu and Adwitiya Srivastava (Reuters) -Swedish investment firm EQT AB has formed a consortium with Neuberger Berman Private Markets and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board to take ownership of international schools operator Nord Anglia Education for $14.5 billion including debt. The consortium will own a majority stake in the international schools organisation …
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By Hritam Mukherjee and Manvi Pant (Reuters) -India’s UltraTech Cement said on Monday it was seeing early signs of a price recovery, after it reported a sharp drop in second-quarter profit due to persistently low prices of the construction material. “Prices have been improving since the end of August and so far in October, have …
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GAZA (Reuters) – Israeli authorities are still preventing humanitarian missions from reaching areas of northern Gaza with critical supplies including medicine and food for people under siege, the head of the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA said on Monday. Hospitals have been hit and are without power while injured people are left without care, Philippe …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India and China have reached a deal on patrolling their disputed Himalayan frontier, aiming to resolve a four-year military stand-off, Indian Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said on Monday. The two nuclear-armed neighbours have had tense relations since their troops clashed on the largely undemarcated frontier in 2020, leaving 20 Indian and …
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(Reuters) – The leaders of Slovakia, Hungary and Serbia will meet on Tuesday to discuss protecting the European Union’s borders against illegal migration, including through new solutions, the Slovak government office said on Monday. Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who have long taken hard lines against migration, will meet …
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BEIRUT (Reuters) -U.S. special envoy Amos Hochstein said on Monday in Beirut that the United States was working on a formula to end the conflict between Israel and Lebanese armed group Hezbollah for good, and that merely committing to a previous U.N. resolution would not be enough. U.N. resolution 1701, which ended the last round …
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