LONDON (Reuters) – More than 3,000 bus drivers at a central England division of National Express have ended strike action after voting to accept a 16.2% pay rise, the Unite union said on Saturday. Britain has had waves of disruptive strikes in recent months as hundreds of thousands of transport, health, education and public-sector workers …
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By Guillermo Martinez BARRACAS, Spain (Reuters) -Spain’s first major wildfire of the year scorched more than 4,000 hectares (9,900 acres) of forest and forced 1,500 villagers to leave their homes in the Valencia region. Residents recounted fleeing their houses and leaving animals behind. “Bad, how am I supposed to feel? Your town is burning, your …
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By Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden on Friday warned Iran that the United States would “act forcefully” to protect Americans, after the U.S. military carried out air strikes against Iran-backed forces in retaliation for an attack in Syria. Later, officials said that another U.S. service member was wounded on Friday …
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SAINTE-SOLINE, France (Reuters) – Police in western France clashed with protesters on Saturday opposed to the creation of a large water reservoir for farm irrigation. Thousands of protesters converged on the site of the planned reservoir in the rural district of Sainte-Soline, where a similar protest last October resulted in injuries. Opponents marched on Saturday …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – More than 5,000 former criminals have been pardoned after finishing their contracts to fight in Russia’s Wagner mercenary group against Ukraine, the founder of Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said on Saturday. Wagner Group, originally staffed by battle-hardened veterans of the Russian armed forces, took on a much more prominent role in the Ukraine …
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By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) -Two suspected undocumented immigrants suffocated to death aboard a freight train and 10 others in need of medical care were taken by helicopter or ambulance to hospital on Friday in south Texas, police said. Officials in Uvlade, Texas, received an anonymous emergency 911 call advising them that numerous immigrants were suffocating …
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By Pete Schroeder and Saeed Azhar WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – The banking crisis set off by the swift collapse of Silicon Valley Bank has exposed a sharp disconnect between Washington and Wall Street. Bankers want faster, more aggressive action to shore up the industry, while the Biden White House and regulators argue they’ve done what …
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By Tom Sims and Kate Abnett FRANKFURT/BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union and Germany have reached a deal on the future use of combustion engines, officials said on Saturday, an issue that has been closely followed by the auto industry. The agreement will allow some combustion engines beyond 2035 and was quickly condemned by a prominent …
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DUESSELDORF (Reuters) – ThyssenKrupp Chief Executive Martina Merz has defended efforts to spin off the German company’s steel business ahead of a board meeting next week. “The future lies in the business becoming specialized and managing without the help of the parent company,” Merz was cited as saying by the weekly magazine Der Spiegel. A …
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ZURICH (Reuters) – The integration team tasked with merging Switzerland’s two largest banks is to be headed by UBS’s chief technology officer and Credit Suisse’s chief operating officer, the Tages-Anzeiger newspaper reported on Saturday. Mike Dargan, who has been with UBS for 7 years, and Francesca McDonagh, who joined Credit Suisse last September, will be …
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