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By Tom Sims and Enrico Dela Cruz FRANKFURT/MANILA (Reuters) -A Filipino priest is touring top European banks to demand they curtail ties with companies behind new fossil fuel projects in a region of his home country that is rich in fish and coral. But he is leaving his meetings with bankers feeling frustrated. The priest, Edwin Gariguez, and the environmentalists accompanying him are just the latest activists from around the […]

(This May 11 story has been corrected  to remove reference to more weight in paragraph 1) By Belén Carreño MADRID (Reuters) – Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez will ask U.S. President Joe Biden in Washington on Friday to listen to the opinions of non-NATO members such as China and Brazil on the war in Ukraine, a Spanish diplomatic source said. Madrid agrees with Washington on the illegality of Russia’s invasion […]

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – A Greenlandic MP on Friday refused to speak Danish during a debate in the Danish parliament and instead spoke in her native Inuit language, frustrating uncomprehending lawmakers and highlighting strained relations between Denmark and Greenland. Aki-Matilda Hoegh-Dam, one of two members of the Danish parliament representing Greenland, held a nearly 7-minute long speech in Greenlandic during a debate about relations between Denmark and Greenland. Hoegh-Dam refused after […]

By Shreyashi Sanyal and Shristi Achar A (Reuters) – Wall Street’s main indexes struggled to gain on Friday as U.S. consumer sentiment slumped to a six-month low, indicating the rapid interest rate hikes were starting to hurt economic growth, while Tesla shares shed their initial gains. Consumer sentiment in May dropped to its lowest reading since last November as a standoff to raise the federal government’s borrowing cap fanned worries […]

(Corrects May 11 story to remove reference to more weight, edits) By Belén Carreño MADRID (Reuters) -Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez will ask U.S. President Joe Biden in Washington on Friday to listen to the opinions of non-NATO members such as China and Brazil on the war in Ukraine, a Spanish diplomatic source said. Madrid agrees with Washington on the illegality of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the need to […]

(Reuters) -Two Russian pilots were killed on Friday when a Russian Mi-28 military helicopter crashed in the annexed peninsula of Crimea, Russian news agencies reported, citing the defence ministry. The defence ministry said it believed the reason for the crash was equipment failure, the TASS news agency reported. The crash occurred at 3.42 p.m. (1242 GMT) during a training flight, and the helicopter was flying without weapons, news agencies cited […]

By Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India’s competition watchdog has begun an inquiry into Google after some companies alleged the service fee the U.S. firm charges for in-app payments breaches an earlier antitrust directive, a regulatory order seen by Reuters showed on Friday. Tinder-owner Match Group and Indian startups have asked the watchdog to investigate Google’s new User Choice Billing (UCB) system, which they alleged was anti-competitive. The Competition Commission […]

By Chris Prentice NEW YORK (Reuters) -Units of HSBC Holdings Plc have agreed to pay $75 million to settle U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) charges related to manipulative and deceptive trading and record-keeping failures, the regulator on Friday. HSBC Bank USA agreed to pay a $45 million civil penalty for manipulative and deceptive trading in connection with swaps, spoofing and record-keeping failures, CFTC said in a statement. HSBCA Bank […]

GAZA (Reuters) -A senior leader of the Islamic Jihad militant group was killed in the latest Israeli air strike on an apartment in the Gaza Strip on Friday, according to an official from the group. The official identified the leader as Eyad Al-Hasani, a member of the Islamic Jihad’s top military council. He was the sixth council member to be killed by Israel this week. Hasani’s aide was also killed […]