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By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) -Russian forces pounded frontline cities in eastern Ukraine with air strikes and artillery attacks, while U.S. officials stepped up efforts to locate the source of a leak of classified U.S. documents, including those on Ukrainian counter-offensive plans. The Russians pressed on with their offensive in the eastern Donetsk region where …

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(Reuters) -The head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group on Tuesday said his forces controlled more than 80% of the devastated eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut after some of war’s heaviest and bloodiest fighting. Senior Ukrainian military officials did not address the claims directly, but said their forces were holding firm against fierce attacks in what …

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OSLO (Reuters) – A gender discrimination hearing is due to open at a court in Oslo on Wednesday in a case brought by an employee at Norway’s $1.4 trillion sovereign wealth fund, one of the world’s largest investors, against her employer. Elisabeth Bull Daae, head of trading analytics at Norges Bank Investment Management, is sueing …

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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -A former Deutsche Bank AG investment banker has been charged in an indictment unsealed on Tuesday with misappropriating funds from investors whom he wooed with promises of big returns from cryptocurrency trading. Rashawn Russell, 27, of Brooklyn, solicited investments from friends and colleagues but used the funds for gambling …

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By Noele Illien and John Revill BERN (Reuters) -Switzerland’s parliament on Tuesday failed to approve the 109 billion Swiss francs ($120.5 billion) of financial guarantees used to rescue Credit Suisse last month, in a first-round vote that was largely symbolic given the state had committed the funds. The lower house retrospectively rejected the rescue near …

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By Suban Abdulla LONDON (Reuters) – British homes sales recovered to within a whisker of pre-pandemic levels in March, representing a recovery from September when the failed economic plan of former prime minister Liz Truss sparked turmoil across markets, a survey showed on Wednesday. Property website Rightmove said the number of sales agreed between sellers …

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By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The World Bank is ready to do its part in rebuilding Ukraine after the devastation of Russia’s invasion, but international financial institutions cannot shoulder the sums involved alone and Western European countries will have to chip in, World Bank President David Malpass said on Tuesday. Malpass, speaking at the …

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BERN (Reuters) – The lower house of Switzerland’s parliament voted late on Tuesday to retrospectively reject the 109 billion Swiss francs of financial guarantees the government gave to Credit Suisse as part of a hastily cobbled-together rescue package. At an extraordinary government session called to discuss Credit Suisse’s demise, 102 parliamentarians voted against the measure. …

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