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BEIJING/DUBAI (Reuters) – The foreign ministers of Iran and Saudi Arabia met in Beijing for the first formal meeting of their most senior diplomats in more than seven years, CCTV news reported on Thursday, after a China-brokered deal to restore ties between the regional rivals. After years of hostility that fuelled conflicts across the Middle East, Tehran and Riyadh agreed to end their diplomatic rift and re-open embassies in a […]

By Vera Eckert WILHELMSHAVEN, Germany (Reuters) – Germany’s only deep water port, home to its largest naval base, is where energy firms now plan to spend more than $5.5 billion to help construct the clean energy infrastructure the country needs to help end its reliance on Russian gas. Europe’s leading industrial exporter has only just managed to get through an energy crunch by rushing to build makeshift floating infrastructure for […]

MILAN (Reuters) – Four-times Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, 86, has been diagnosed with leukaemia, a source close to the matter said on Thursday, confirming what was previously reported by the Corriere della Sera daily. (Reporting by Milan newsroom, editing by Alvise Armellini) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

By Francis Mascarenhas and Tanvi Mehta MUMBAI (Reuters) -Apple Inc on Wednesday revealed the look of its first retail store in India, as several people tried to catch a glimpse outside the store’s black and yellow artwork patterned after Mumbai’s iconic taxis. The store is still in barricades and is likely to open this month, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters. India has become a big market for […]

KABUL (Reuters) – The main spokesman for Afghanistan’s Taliban administration will move his office from the capital to the southern city of Kandahar, the information ministry said, a sign of the growing importance of the region that is home to its supreme leader. The province of Kandahar is the historical birthplace of the Taliban movement. Supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada lives there and rarely makes public visits to Kabul, about 450 […]

KABUL (Reuters) – The main spokesman for Afghanistan’s Taliban administration will move his office from the capital to the southern city of Kandahar, the information ministry said, a sign of the growing importance of the region that is home to its supreme leader. The province of Kandahar is the historical birthplace of the Taliban movement. Supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada lives there and rarely makes public visits to Kabul, about 450 […]

YEFREMOV, Russia (Reuters) – A Russian girl who was sent to a children’s home after drawing an anti-war picture and the conviction of her father for discrediting the armed forces has been taken out of the orphanage by her mother. Just hours before a court was due to hold hearing over the parental rights of the girl’s father, Russia’s children’s rights commissioner said that she had spoken to the girl’s […]

KABUL (Reuters) – The main spokesman for Afghanistan’s Taliban administration will move his office from the capital to the southern city of Kandahar, the information ministry said, a sign of the growing importance of the region that is home to its supreme leader. The province of Kandahar is the historical birthplace of the Taliban movement. Supreme leader Haibatullah Akhundzada lives there and rarely makes public visits to Kabul, about 450 […]

By Kevin Buckland TOKYO (Reuters) – Asian stocks and U.S. equity futures sank on Thursday while bonds and the safe-haven U.S. dollar and Japanese yen were bid as mounting evidence of a U.S. slowdown fuelled worries about a possible global recession. Crude oil also weakened. Equity investors were inclined to take money off the table after recent strong gains and with many global markets heading into a holiday for Good […]