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By Eva Manez and David Latona PATERNA, Spain (Reuters) – Exhumations are set to end at one of Spain’s largest mass grave sites holding thousands of victims of General Francisco Franco’s fascist dictatorship after the regional coalition government that included the far-right Vox party withheld funding. Excavations at the cemetery believed to hold over 2,200 …

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By Joseph Ax (Reuters) – The winner of November’s U.S. presidential election will govern a nation of more than 330 million people, but the contest will almost certainly be decided by just tens of thousands of voters – a tiny fraction of the populace – in a handful of states. That’s because only seven of …

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(Reuters) – The pound drifted near two-month lows against the U.S. dollar on Thursday, after sliding a day earlier when a tame inflation report boosted Bank of England rate cut bets. Sterling was last down 0.1% at $1.29815 after breaching the key $1.30 mark on Wednesday when data showed British inflation dropped to the lowest …

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BELGRADE (Reuters) – Economic growth in the six Western Balkans countries is projected to moderately grow through 2025, thanks to increased consumption, investments and purchasing power, the World Bank said in a bi-annual report made public on Thursday. Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia will collectively grow 3.7% in 2025, 0.2 percentage point …

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(Corrects reference in 2nd paragraph to company valuation (not the value of offering), changes the figures to 23 billion zlotys from 21.5 billion zlotys) GDANSK (Reuters) – Shares in Polish convenience store group Zabka rose 7% on their stock market debut in Warsaw on Thursday. The company priced its initial public offering (IPO) at 21.50 …

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PRAGUE (Reuters) – Czech interest rates in the coming years will be higher than in the past and cuts will be done with caution, central bank Governor Ales Michl said on Thursday. “We will cut (rates) but very carefully. But in any case, on average, interest rates should be higher than we were used to,” …

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ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey has been conducting technical works aimed at accelerating its planned purchase of Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets, a defence ministry official said on Thursday. Ankara said last year it was in talks with Eurofighter consortium members Britain and Spain to buy Typhoons, though Germany objected the idea. Since then, it has complained …

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