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By Bart Biesemans, Layli Foroudi and Ingrid Melander PARIS (Reuters) -Union activists barged into the Paris headquarters of luxury goods company LVMH on Thursday, saying the French government should shelve plans to make people work longer for their pension and tax the rich more instead. In a 12th day of nationwide protests since mid-January, striking …

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By Steve Holland DUBLIN (Reuters) -President Joe Biden said on Thursday that investigators were closing in on the source of the leak of highly classified U.S. intelligence documents, in what is believed to be the most serious security breach in a decade. The Department of Justice opened a formal criminal probe last week after the …

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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -The Dutch government on Thursday said it would support oil and gas company Shell in its efforts to reduce its CO2 and nitrogen emissions in the Netherlands in the coming years. The government said it would look at building infrastructure and accelerating permitting procedures needed for projects that would help Shell, one of …

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By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Pakistan’s parliament on Thursday ruled against providing funds for provincial snap polls ordered by the Supreme Court, creating new discord between the judiciary and government amid months of political and economic turmoil. The chief justice had already summoned government finance officials to his chamber on Friday to seek a reply …

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By Guy Faulconbridge, Andrew Osborn and Filipp Lebedev MOSCOW (Reuters) -Alexei Navalny, Russia’s most prominent opposition politician, is grappling with severe stomach pain in jail that could be some sort of slow acting poison, his spokeswoman said on Thursday. An ambulance was called for Navalny overnight on Friday to Saturday to the maximum security IK-6 …

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(Reuters) -Trading and investing platform eToro said on Thursday it has partnered with Elon Musk-led Twitter to let users access real-time prices of cryptocurrencies, stocks and other assets, and to enable the trading of those instruments. The trading data will be available through Twitter’s Cashtags feature, which was launched in 2012 and allows users to …

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By Gleb Stolyarov and Alexander Marrow (Reuters) – A Russian court has ruled against freezing Volkswagen’s assets in Russia, stating there were no grounds to suggest the carmaker would try to dodge financial obligations arising from two lawsuits brought by Russian carmaker GAZ. GAZ, which was contracted to produce Volkswagen vehicles at its factory in …

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MILAN (Reuters) -Stellantis is retaining strong pricing power in its North American profit powerhouse, chief executive Carlos Tavares said on Thursday, as investors in the Franco-Italian automaker approved his salary for last year. A gradual resolution in supply chain disruptions could affect automakers’ pricing power this year, according to some analysts, after recent output curbs …

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By Mohamad Torokman BURQIN, West Bank (Reuters) – One of the world’s oldest churches, built on top of a cave in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and festooned with golden icons, attracts thousands of Christian pilgrims every year. But the Church of the Ten Lepers’ own congregation of Palestinian Christians grows ever smaller. The first church …

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