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Ryanair forces South Africans to prove nationality with Afrikaans test
Date: June 6, 2022
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ryanair is requiring South African passengers to prove their nationality before travelling by completing a test in Afrikaans, a language used by just by 12% of the population that has long been identified with apartheid and the white minority. Europe’s largest airline by passenger numbers, which does not operate flights to and...
Ukraine rebases businesses from war front to shield vital producers
Date: June 6, 2022
By Natalia Zinets KYIV (Reuters) – Oleg Averyanov’s factory produced fire trucks and employed 600 people until it was forced to halt operations and close its doors as a Russian invasion force poured over the border into his region in northeastern Ukraine on Feb. 24. Months later, the 44-year-old is gearing up to restart some...
French overseas voters back Macron a week ahead of legislative election
Date: June 6, 2022
PARIS (Reuters) – President Emmanuel Macron’s bloc has come out on top in most of the constituencies of French voters overseas who went to the polls ahead of the rest of France, but with a stronger challenge from the left compared to 2017. Eleven seats out of 577 in parliament are reserved for geographical zones...
LME nickel volumes tumble as funds and other users retreat
Date: June 6, 2022
By Pratima Desai and Eric Onstad LONDON (Reuters) – Nickel volumes on the London Metal Exchange plummeted in April because commodity funds and other participants abandoned the metal after a meltdown in March left the market in limbo for more than a week. Benchmark nickel prices on the exchange doubled to a record above $100,000...
U.S. to let Eni, Repsol ship Venezuela oil to Europe for debt -sources
Date: June 6, 2022
By Marianna Parraga and Matt Spetalnick HOUSTON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Italian oil company Eni SpA and Spain’s Repsol SA could begin shipping Venezuelan oil to Europe as soon as next month to make up for Russian crude, five people familiar with the matter said, resuming oil-for-debt swaps halted two years ago when Washington stepped up sanctions on...
Ukraine and Russia: What you need to know right now
Date: June 6, 2022
(Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he had visited two cities very close to one of the most active front lines between his country’s troops and Russian forces, where a regional official said the situation had worsened for the Ukrainian side. FIGHTING * Ukraine’s position “worsened a little” in the eastern Ukrainian city of...