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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – NATO allies have delivered almost all their promised combat vehicles to Ukraine, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday. “More than 98 percent of the combat vehicles promised to Ukraine have been delivered,” said Stoltenberg, as he spoke at a news briefing alongside Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel. (Reporting by Bart Meijer; Editing by Sudip Kar-Gupta) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

By Elizabeth Piper and Vitalii Hnidyi VYSHNEVA, Ukraine (Reuters) – Doctor Oleg Marchenko never knows what he will find when he visits villages retaken by Ukrainian forces in the east of the country last autumn. Mines lie scattered around and often there are no medical facilities left. He can be certain of one thing, however: many patients he meets will be suffering from high blood pressure after living for months […]

By Martin Coulter LONDON (Reuters) -European chipmaker STMicroelectronics beat first-quarter results forecasts on Thursday, defying signs of a slowdown in the semiconductor industry. However, it shares fell around 4% in early trade as investors worried the slowdown would eventually catch up with the company, which counts iPhone maker Apple and carmaker Tesla among its customers. STMicro reported first-quarter earnings per share (EPS) of $1.10 on a 20% increase in revenues […]

BEIRUT (Reuters) – European investigators in Beirut questioned an assistant to Lebanon’s central bank governor on Thursday as part of a probe into whether the governor embezzled and laundered hundreds of millions of dollars in public funds, local media and a judicial source said. Governor Riad Salameh is being investigated in Lebanon and in at least five European countries over allegedly taking more than $300 million from the central bank […]

By Anna Mackenzie (Reuters) -German online takeaway food company Delivery Hero on Thursday forecast single-digit percentage growth in 2023 gross merchandise value (GMV) against a challenging comparison period after parts of Asia reopened from lockdowns. The Berlin-based company expects its GMV to grow between 5% and 7% in constant currency terms this year, citing a “promising start” to the second quarter. It expects the growth to accelerate throughout the year. […]

By Tom Sims and Marta Orosz FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Deutsche Bank is to cut 800 jobs in a new cost-saving drive after reporting a bigger than expected rise in profit for the first quarter, a volatile period globally for finance companies. Germany’s biggest bank produced solid earnings at a time when banks had to be rescued in the United States and in Switzerland. The turmoil caused investors to panic and […]

BUDAPEST (Reuters) -After talks with the European Commission, Hungary’s government will submit a key judicial reform bill to parliament as part of its efforts to unlock suspended EU funds, Justice Minister Judit Varga said on her official Facebook page on Thursday. “We have the green light from Brussels (to the judicial bill),” Varga said, adding that based on notification from the European Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders, the government would […]

MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian court on Thursday fined the WikiMedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, two million roubles ($24,510) for not deleting what it said was “banned content” related to the Russian military, Interfax reported. ($1 = 81.6000 roubles) (Reporting by Reuters) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

By Tom Sims and Marta Orosz FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Deutsche Bank is to cut 800 jobs in a new cost-saving drive after reporting a bigger than expected rise in profit for the first quarter, a volatile period globally for finance companies. Germany’s biggest bank produced solid earnings at a time when banks had to be rescued in the United States and in Switzerland. The turmoil caused investors to panic and customers […]