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By Jenna Zucker (Reuters) – Canada on Wednesday unveiled a new design for passports with advanced security features including a new series with reference to His Majesty King Charles III, as part of a regular upgrade. The new passport will display a Coat of Arms, making Canada among the first in the Commonwealth to introduce …

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By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – EU antitrust regulators are seeking more information on Apple’s mobile payment system, the European Commission said on Wednesday, a sign that the enforcer is looking to close any loopholes and boost its case against the iPhone maker. The EU competition watchdog last year accused Apple of restricting rivals’ …

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union’s top competition official on Wednesday said “all options” were on the table but did not indicate what her next steps could be after Lufthansa and SAS suffered a setback in Europe’s second-highest court. The court sided with Ryanair in annulling the EU’s decision clearing the German government’s 6-billion-euro ($6.6 …

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LONDON (Reuters) -The publisher of Britain’s Daily Mirror tabloid apologised to Prince Harry on Wednesday for ordering the unlawful gathering of information, court documents showed. In documents presented at court as part of a phone hacking trial, Mirror Group Newspapers, which is owned by Reach, admitted on one occasion a private investigator had been engaged …

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PARIS (Reuters) – The European Central Bank has travelled most of the way in its campaign to raise interest rates, French ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Wednesday, adding that further rate hikes would be “more marginal”. “What remains to be done is more marginal,” Villeroy told newspaper group EBRA. “It is the …

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MILAN (Reuters) -Sales at Italian fashion group Tod’s rose by 23% in the first quarter of the year, beating analysts’ forecasts thanks to a strong performance in China and despite moderate growth in the Americas. Revenues totalled 270.5 million euros ($297.8 million) in the period, the company said in a statement, while analysts had predicted …

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By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – EU antitrust regulators are set to approve Microsoft Corp’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision next week, with May 15 as the likeliest date, people familiar with the matter said. The European Commission’s imminent clearance comes nearly three weeks after the UK competition authority blocked the deal, the biggest-ever …

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(Reuters) -The Kremlin said on Wednesday that Poland’s decision to rename the Russian city of Kaliningrad in its official documents was a “hostile act”, as ties continue to fray over the Ukraine war. Kaliningrad, which sits in an exclave that is sandwiched between Lithuania and Poland on the Baltic coast, was known by the German …

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By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) -The publisher of a British tabloid has apologised to Prince Harry for unlawfully seeking information about him, at the start of a lawsuit the royal is bringing over alleged “industrial-scale” phone-hacking in which he is due to give evidence. Harry, 38, and some 100 celebrities including actors, sports stars, singers …

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By Alistair Smout and Andrew MacAskill LONDON (Reuters) -The British government no longer intends to remove all European Union laws by the end of this year, a flagship policy for hardline Brexiteers that sparked warnings from business and the opposition about legal uncertainty and bureaucratic chaos. The government said on Wednesday it would amend legislation …

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