OSLO (Reuters) -Almost 25,000 private-sector workers in Norway will go on strike from Monday morning after negotiations with employers broke down, and the industrial action is set to escalate in the following days, two major labour unions said on Sunday. The strike will affect industries such as construction, breweries, ferry operators and manufacturers, including Aker …
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By Martyn Herman LONDON (Reuters) -Arsenal’s Premier League title jitters returned in a potentially costly 2-2 draw at West Ham United on Sunday as for the second week in a row they threw away a two-goal advantage. The leaders were 2-0 up and cruising towards restoring their six-point cushion over Manchester City with Gabriel Jesus …
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PRAGUE (Reuters) – Thousands of Czechs demonstrated in Prague’s central square on Sunday, calling on the government to quit as they protested over high inflation and energy prices. Police did not give estimates of the size of the protest, named “Czechia against poverty”. The protest, like a similar demonstration in March, was organised by non-parliamentary …
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By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis on Sunday rejected as offensive and unfounded what he called insinuations by the brother of a Vatican schoolgirl who went missing 40 years ago about one of his predecessors as pontiff, Saint John Paul II. Emanuela Orlandi, the daughter of a Vatican usher, failed to return …
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(Reuters) -Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez apologised in an interview published on Sunday to victims of sexual abuse over a sexual violence law that included a loophole enabling at least 978 imprisoned offenders to get their sentences reduced or ended early. The “Only Yes Is Yes” law, which arose partly as a result of public …
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By Daniel Becerril MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Armed men on Saturday killed a child and six others after storming a resort in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, authorities said, in a region increasingly plagued by drug cartel violence. Footage widely shared on social media showed the aftermath of the attack in a palm-studded resort …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s auto industry association VDA expects the number of electric passenger cars produced in Europe’s biggest economy to jump by 50% to over a million this year, due to rising foreign demand and carmakers ramping up e-mobility production. “We assume that the domestic production of electrically-powered passenger cars will increase by 50 …
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By Giuseppe Fonte and Valentina Za ROME (Reuters) – Italy has put on hold plans to revive a scheme under which the state provides guarantees to help banks offload bad loans, three people close to the matter told Reuters on Friday. Earlier this year, the Treasury secured a preliminary agreement with European Union authorities to …
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WARSAW/BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Poland and Hungary have decided to ban imports of grain and other food from neighbouring Ukraine to protect the local agricultural sector, the two governments said on Saturday, after a flood of supply depressed prices across the region. Ukraine expressed regret about the Polish decision, saying that “resolving various issues by unilateral drastic …
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By Essi Lehto HELSINKI (Reuters) -Finland’s much-delayed Olkiluoto 3 (OL3) nuclear reactor, Europe’s largest, began regular output early on Sunday, its operator said, boosting energy security in a region to which Russia has cut gas and power supplies. Nuclear power remains controversial in Europe, primarily due to safety concerns, and news of OL3’s start-up comes …
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