MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican authorities will investigate an incident at a gold mine in the Pacific coastal state of Guerrero which killed three workers, President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Friday. Canadian company Torex Gold, which operates the mine, reported on Thursday that two employees and a contractor had been killed after being exposed to …
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By Tim Reid and Jason Lange WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Elon Musk spent over a quarter of a billion dollars to help Donald Trump win November’s presidential election, according to new filings, underscoring the influence one of the world’s wealthiest people had on this year’s White House race. The billionaire owner of electric car maker Tesla …
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By Vladyslav Smilianets and Max Hunder KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine showed off a new locally-produced “rocket-drone” on Friday which it said could fly 700 km (430 miles) – more than twice the longest range attributed to missiles supplied by Western allies. The unmanned craft, called “Peklo” – which means hell in Ukrainian – is the …
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(Reuters) – Norwegian decathlete Sander Skotheim has been given the International Fair Play Award by World Athletics, for the unselfish support he showed to teammate and gold medallist Markus Rooth at the Paris Olympics. The 22-year-old Skotkeim failed to clear a height in the pole vault — the eighth of the 10 decathlon disciplines — …
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MILAN (Reuters) -Italian bank Banco BPM is preparing to hire Citigroup and Lazard to advise over how to confront a takeover bid by rival UniCredit which has thwarted its growth strategy, three people close to the matter said. Banco BPM, Citi and Lazard all declined to comment. Banco BPM has rebuffed UniCredit’s 10.1 billion euro …
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By Luiza Ilie, Lili Bayer, Andrew Gray BUCHAREST/BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Calin Georgescu, whose stunning victory in the first round of Romania’s presidential election was declared void on Friday, is a hard-right, self-styled outsider critical of NATO who wants to end his country’s support for its neighbour Ukraine. Romania’s top court annulled the results of the Nov. …
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MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) – The European Union and the South American bloc Mercosur of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay finalised a free trade agreement on Friday, although it faces a tough battle to secure approval by the 27 EU member states. The trade deal would be the EU’s largest in terms of the population of its …
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The Dutch government on Friday said it had extended the permit for gas drilling at the relatively small Warffum field in the north of the Netherlands to 2032. The field is close to, but not connected to, the massive Groningen field, where production has permanently been halted due to seismic risks. The …
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By Michel Rose PARIS (Reuters) – The reopening of Notre-Dame cathedral, five years after being devastated by a fire, was supposed to be Emmanuel Macron’s triumph. The French president has often used the reconstruction of Notre-Dame as a parable for his own fortunes, repeating that he was ridiculed in 2019 when he promised to rebuild …
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By Simon Jessop and Virginia Furness LONDON (Reuters) – Goldman Sachs said it has quit a sector coalition aimed at aligning bank lending and investment activities with global efforts to fight climate change, becoming the most high-profile member to leave the group. The U.S. investment bank’s decision comes against a backdrop of pressure from some …
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