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Finance

Barclays cuts 2025 Brent crude forecast on trade tensions, OPEC+ shifts

(Reuters) - Barclays lowered its Brent crude forecast on Monday by $4 to $70 a barrel for 2025 and s...

28th April, 2025

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Pope Francis' funeral through the eyes of Reuters photographers

By Keith Weir and Alexandra Hudson VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis' funeral brought world lead...

28th April, 2025

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Exclusive-Iran proposes meeting with Europeans before next talks with US, diplomats say

PARIS/DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran has proposed meeting the European parties to a 2015 nuclear deal possib...

28th April, 2025

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Rabanne owner Puig posts 8% rise in first-quarter sales

MADRID (Reuters) -Puig, the Barcelona-based company behind perfume brands Rabanne, Carolina Herrera...

28th April, 2025

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Bulgaria wants defence spending excluded from budget deficit, PM says

(Reuters) -Bulgaria will ask for defence spending to be excluded from its budget deficit, BTA news a...

28th April, 2025

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Spain's nuclear reactors prepare for reconnection to grid, nuclear safety council says

MADRID (Reuters) - The operators of Spain's nuclear reactors are preparing to reconnect to the power...

28th April, 2025

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Iberia power cut leaves people trapped in lifts and trains, or stocking up at supermarkets

MADRID (Reuters) - A major power outage in Spain and Portugal left people trapped in lifts and stuck...

28th April, 2025

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Finance

Death toll in Iran's Bandar Abbas port blast rises to 70

DUBAI (Reuters) - The death toll from a major explosion in Iran's most important container port of B...

28th April, 2025

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US sanctions target deliveries of oil and gas to Houthis

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. imposed sanctions on Monday on three vessels and their owners for de...

28th April, 2025

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Tennis-Play cancelled at Madrid Open over large-scale power outage

MADRID (Reuters) -Play at the Madrid Open was cancelled on Monday after a widespread power outage st...

28th April, 2025

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Suspected US airstrike hits Yemen migrant centre, Houthi TV says 68 killed

By Mohammed Ghobari and Nayera Abdallah ADEN/DUBAI (Reuters) - Corpses covered in dust and debris we...

28th April, 2025

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BRICS nations discuss shared response to Trump trade policies

By Lisandra Paraguassu RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Foreign ministers from the BRICS group of developi...

28th April, 2025