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ROME (Reuters) – Births in Italy are heading for a new record low in 2024, national statistical bureau ISTAT said on Monday, marking a 16th consecutive annual decline and the lowest number since Italian unification in 1861. Italy’s ever-falling birth rate is considered a national emergency, but despite successive governments pledging to make it a …

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ABUJA (Reuters) -Nigeria has blocked the sale of Shell’s entire onshore and shallow-water oil and gas assets in the Niger Delta, the country’s upstream regulator said on Monday, roughly 10 months after the deal was announced. In a speech at an event in the capital Abuja, Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) CEO Gbenga Komolafe …

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By Jesús Aguado and Saeed Azhar MADRID/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Spain’s Santander launched its digital bank in the United States on Monday, which will help it to fund over $30 billion of auto lending assets and broaden its retail business in the country, U.S. CEO Tim Wennes told Reuters. The euro zone’s third-biggest lender by …

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By Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s government was set to adopt on Monday a decree aimed at overruling court objections to its flagship plan to set up migrant detention camps in Albania to deter sea arrivals from North Africa. The plan, launched last week, was immediately undermined as a Rome court said on Friday …

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BEIRUT (Reuters) -U.S. special envoy Amos Hochstein said on Monday in Beirut that the United States was working on a formula to end the conflict between Israel and Lebanese armed group Hezbollah for good, and that merely committing to a previous U.N. resolution would not be enough. U.N. resolution 1701, which ended the last round …

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union said on Monday it had joined forces with leading venture capital firms from the region to boost investment in tech innovation in Europe, amid concerns that Europe’s tech sector is lagging the United States and China. The initiative, dubbed by the EU as the “Trusted Investors Network”, comes as …

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KYIV (Reuters) -Russia attacked the Ukrainian capital Kyiv with several waves of drones for the second night in a row, damaging residential buildings and injuring at least one civilian, Ukrainian officials said on Monday. Two civilian were killed and 15 were injured in a separate ballistic missile attack on Zaporizhzhia in southeastern Ukraine on Monday …

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