LONDON (Reuters) – Britain on Monday sanctioned individuals linked to Hamas, including financiers and leaders of the Palestinian militant group, saying the measures would help cut off its funding including from Iran. The move was taken in coordination with the United States. The British sanctions target Zuheir Shamlakh, a man known as Hamas’s “main money …
By Alexander Tanas CHISINAU (Reuters) – The leader of Moldova’s pro-Russian separatist Transdniestria region called on its defence and intelligence institutions on Monday to maintain a “high level of military preparedness” and hold regular drills for that purpose. Transdniestria broke away before the 1991 Soviet collapse and fought a brief war against the newly independent …
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By Bassam Masoud, Nidal al-Mughrabi and Dan Williams GAZA/DOHA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli forces, advancing deep into western Khan Younis in Gaza’s bloodiest fighting so far in January, stormed one hospital and put another under siege on Monday, cutting off the wounded from trauma care, Palestinian officials said. Troops advanced for the first time into the …
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(Reuters) – World’s largest aircraft lessor AerCap Holdings was hit by a cybersecurity incident related to ransomware on Jan. 17, the company said in a filing on Monday. “We have full control of all of our IT systems and, to date, we have suffered no financial loss related to this incident,” the company said. The …
(Reuters) -Instagram and Facebook users in Europe will be offered more choices on how they consume Meta Platforms’ services to comply with the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), the social media company said on Monday. The world’s largest social network is the latest to make changes to conform to the DMA after Google outlined …
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By Nicolas Delame and Tassilo Hummel PARIS (Reuters) -French farmers will continue to protest pending government action, union representatives told reporters after a meeting with Prime Minister Gabriel Attal and Farming Minister Marc Fesneau to address the reasons for the demonstrations. “We told him (Attal) we wouldn’t settle for words,” Arnaud Rousseau, head of FNSEA, …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Britain will invest an extra 1.3 billion pounds ($1.65 billion) in the Sizewell C nuclear power station in southeast England, the government said on Monday, making it the majority shareholder in the project. The government said the funding, the largest to date, would allow early construction work to continue at the plant being …
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(Reuters) -England fly-half Owen Farrell has joined French side Racing 92 on a two-year-deal, the Top 14 club said on Monday. The move to France, effective from on July 1, potentially ends Farrell’s international career after he decided to take a break from representing his country for mental health reasons. Farrell, 32, has played 112 …
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By Jonathan Cable LONDON (Reuters) – It is a close call whether the Bank of England starts trimming borrowing costs next quarter or in July-September, a Reuters poll found, with only a slim majority of economists expecting it to do so before July as inflation falls towards its target. That is a turnaround from a …
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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has recommended that airlines operating Boeing 737-900ER jets inspect door plugs to ensure that they are properly secured after some operators reported unspecified issues with bolts upon inspections. Regulators have stepped up scrutiny on Boeing after a Jan. 5 mid-air panel blowout on an …
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