Russia, hit by new US sanctions, halts dollar and euro trade on main bourse (www.reuters.com)
Argentina inflation slows to 4.2% m/m in May (www.reuters.com)
Russian government accused of leaving citizens vulnerable to attacks like Sunday's gun rampages by turning the state's security apparatus on Kremlin critics instead of terrorist threats (www.reuters.com)
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Reuters denies reporting that Israel will attack Lebanon (www.reuters.com)
June 22 (Reuters) - Reuters denied on Saturday that it had reported that Israel would attack Lebanon within 48 hours, after reports circulated on social media citing the news agency as saying this....
Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks (www.reuters.com)
How the far-right gained traction with Europe's youth (www.reuters.com)
From Germany and France to Poland and Spain, the far-right made inroads into the youth vote in key states in this EU election - as a generation that has grown up amid constant crises seeks new answers and follows politicians fluent in TikTok and YouTube....
Hamas says it accepts UN-backed Gaza truce plan, US cites 'hopeful sign' (www.reuters.com)
TEL AVIV/CAIRO, June 11 (Reuters) - Hamas accepts a U.N. resolution backing a plan to end the war with Israel in Gaza and is ready to negotiate details, a senior official of the Palestinian militant group said on Tuesday in what the U.S. Secretary of State called “a hopeful sign”....
Israel keeps pounding central Gaza as Palestinian death toll in hostage rescue raid rises to 274 (www.reuters.com)
Death toll rises to 20 after gunmen attack Russia's Dagestan (www.reuters.com)
The death toll from a series of brazen attacks on churches and synagogues in Russia’s mainly Muslim region of Dagestan rose to 20 on Monday after gunmen went on the rampage in coordinated attacks in two of the republic’s most important cities.
Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic (www.reuters.com)
The U.S. military launched a clandestine program amid the COVID crisis to discredit China’s Sinovac inoculation – payback for Beijing’s efforts to blame Washington for the pandemic. One target: the Filipino public. Health experts say the gambit was indefensible and put innocent lives at risk....
Papal arch enemy Archbishop Vigano found guilty of schism and excommunicated (www.reuters.com)
Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, a fierce ultra-conservative critic of Pope Francis, has been found guilty of schism and excommunicated, the Vatican’s doctrinal office said on Friday. Vigano, the papal envoy in Washington from 2011-2016, went into hiding in 2018 after alleging that the pope knew for years about sexual...
Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks (www.reuters.com)
Apple charged with breaching EU tech rules, faces another probe (www.reuters.com)
European Union antitrust regulators charged on Monday that Apple breached the bloc’s tech rules, a charge that could result in a hefty fine for the iPhone maker which also faces another investigation into new fees imposed on app developers....
Thailand to be first Southeast Asian country to recognise same-sex marriage (www.reuters.com)
Biden visits American cemetery in France that Trump skipped (www.reuters.com)
NATO chief Stoltenberg sidesteps questions on Biden's health (www.reuters.com)
German car industry urges EU to drop tariffs on China-made cars (www.reuters.com)
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Britain's Sunak cites growing up without Sky TV as example of hardship (www.reuters.com)
Spain seeks to avert trade war after China announces pork anti-dumping probe (www.reuters.com)
UN Security Council backs plan for Israel-Hamas ceasefire (www.reuters.com)
UNITED NATIONS, June 10 (Reuters) - The United Nations Security Council on Monday backed a proposal outlined by President Joe Biden for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip and urged the Palestinian militants to accept the deal aimed at ending the eight-month-long war....
US must pay more of Native American tribes' healthcare costs, Supreme Court rules (www.reuters.com)
Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks (www.reuters.com)
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Squatters take London’s housing crisis into their own hands (www.reuters.com)
In the shopping streets and housing estates of the south London town of Croydon, some once-derelict buildings are slowly coming back to life....
Apple supplier Foxconn rejects married women from India iPhone jobs (www.reuters.com)
Foxconn, a major manufacturer of Apple devices, has been excluding female candidates from assembly jobs at its flagship Indian smartphone plant because they are married. Both companies’ codes of conduct state that workers shouldn’t be discriminated against on the basis of marital status....
Kremlin calls NATO chief's nuclear weapons remark an 'escalation of tension' (www.reuters.com)
