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Italy, Japan, Britain discuss broadening GCAP jet fighter project to other countries
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Ukraine passes 2025 budget with record defence spending
Italy recovers Etruscan artefacts dug up by ‘amateurish’ tomb raiders
Date: November 19, 2024
By Alvise Armellini ROME (Reuters) – Italian authorities have recovered precious 3rd century B.C. artefacts from an Etruscan necropolis looted by a couple of bungling tomb raiders in Umbria who stumbled across the haul on their land. The Etruscans flourished in central Italy around 2,500 years ago but were gradually assimilated into the Roman empire....
Explainer-France’s Barnier likely to ram through budget bill as talks stall
Date: November 19, 2024
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s 2025 belt-tightening budget heads to the Senate next week, but few doubt the government will soon be obliged to bypass lawmakers with a risky constitutional measure that rams the legislation through parliament. With French public finances increasingly out of control, the 2025 budget bill seeks to squeeze 60 billion euros in...
Exclusive-Ukraine 2025 wheat crop seen rising on larger sowing area, minister says
Date: November 19, 2024
By Pavel Polityuk KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine’s wheat harvest may increase to up to 25 million metric tons next year from an expected 22 million tons this year thanks to a larger sowing area, the first deputy agriculture minister Taras Vysotskiy told Reuters in an interview. In the first official forecast for next year’s harvest,...
Soccer-England striker Hemp undergoes knee surgery, Man City confirm
Date: November 19, 2024
LONDON (Reuters) – Manchester City forward Lauren Hemp faces a spell on the sidelines after undergoing knee surgery, the Women’s Super League club said on Tuesday. The England international missed last week’s Women’s Champions League victory against Hammarby. City said in a statement that the surgery had been successful and Hemp would return to the...
Paraguayan President Pena ‘doing well’ after hospitalization in Brazil
Date: November 19, 2024
ASUNCION (Reuters) -Paraguayan President Santiago Pena was in stable condition on Monday evening after being hospitalized while attending the G20 summit in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro, the hospital said. Pena was admitted on Monday afternoon and submitted to some tests after experiencing “discomfort,” Rio de Janeiro’s Samaritano hospital said in a statement. He is doing...
UK retail warns of inflation and job losses from budget, seeks Reeves meeting
Date: November 19, 2024
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s biggest retailers have written to finance minister Rachel Reeves to warn her that last month’s budget will make both higher prices and job losses a certainty and dent investment. The letter, coordinated by the British Retail Consortium trade body and signed by 79 retail bosses, including those at Tesco, Marks &...