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German exports to Russia slump by 57.5% in March
Date: April 21, 2022
BERLIN (Reuters) – German exports to Russia slumped by 57.5% to 1.1 billion euros ($1.2 billion) in March because of sanctions imposed after the invasion of Ukraine, Germany’s Federal Statistical Office said on Thursday. That decline demoted Russia to Germany’s 12th-biggest export market outside the European Union, down from fifth in February. Russian troops invaded...
Greece to raise minimum wage from May 1 to boost low incomes- PM
Date: April 20, 2022
ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece will raise the minimum wage from May 1 for a second time this year, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Wednesday as rising inflation takes a toll on household incomes. “The global surge in inflation is hitting low incomes. From May 1 the basic wage will rise by 50 euros a...
Macron, Le Pen clash over cost of living in French election debate
Date: April 20, 2022
By Michel Rose, Elizabeth Pineau and Ingrid Melander PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron and far-right challenger Marine Le Pen faced off on Wednesday evening in their only debate ahead of Sunday’s presidential election run-off, battling over who would be best placed to improve voters’ purchasing power. For Le Pen, who lags Macron in voter...
New U.S. sanctions for Russian bank, oligarchs, crypto miner BitRiver
Date: April 20, 2022
By Daphne Psaledakis and David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States on Wednesday imposed sanctions on dozens of people and entities, including a Russian commercial bank and a virtual currency mining company, hoping to target Moscow’s evasion of existing sanctions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The U.S. Treasury Department said it designated a virtual currency...
EU’s Michel tells Ukrainians during Kyiv visit: ‘History will not forget’
Date: April 20, 2022
By Sergiy Karazy KYIV (Reuters) -European Council President Charles Michel pledged European solidarity with Ukraine during a surprise visit to Kyiv on Wednesday and said justice must be done for alleged Russian war crimes. Michel, the head of the European Council, which represents the European Union’s 27 member states, visited the town of Borodianka northwest...
Israeli police stop Jewish nationalist march in Jerusalem amid rising tensions
Date: April 20, 2022
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli police on Wednesday blocked hundreds of far-right Jewish protesters from marching toward Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate, the main entrance to the Old City’s Muslim quarter, amid rising tensions between Israelis and Palestinians. Several hundred protesters carrying Israeli flags began marching from a square near Jerusalem’s municipality, according to a Reuters witness, in...