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By Sabine Siebold and John Chalmers BRUSSELS (Reuters) -EU leaders on Monday made clear they would fail to agree on a Russian oil import ban at a summit in Brussels, prompting swift criticism from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy who chastised t…

By Khalid Abdelaziz KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudanese authorities freed several dozen political detainees on Monday though others remain jailed, a lawyers’ group said, a day after Sudan’s military ruler announced the lifting of the state of emergency impos…

PARIS (Reuters) – The Mona Lisa was left shaken but unharmed on Sunday when a visitor to the Louvre tried to smash the glass protecting the world’s most famous painting before smearing cream across its surface in an apparent climate-related publicity s…

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Euro zone economic sentiment barely changed in May as slightly greater optimism in services and among consumers offset an ebbing of confidence in industry, data showed on Monday. The European Commission’s monthly survey showed econ…

By Wayne Cole and Danilo Masoni SYDNEY/MILAN (Reuters) – World shares rose on Monday and the dollar was pinned near five-week lows on hopes of an eventual slowdown in U.S. monetary tightening following sharp interest rate hikes in June and July. Helpin…

By Sudip Kar-Gupta and Tassilo Hummel PARIS (Reuters) -The French government on Monday blamed massive ticket fraud and Liverpool’s handling of their fans for the crowd trouble which marred the club’s Champions League soccer final against Real Madrid in…

(In paragraph 4, corrects “Chestertons’ appointment” to “Gittins’ appointment”) (Reuters) -London-based real estate agent Foxtons Group has decided to appoint rival Chestertons’ CEO Guy Gittins as its new CEO, Sky News reported on Sunday. Gittins will …

BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s VDMA engineering association cut its 2022 machinery production growth forecast again on Monday as the conflict in Ukraine, global supply chain difficulties and lockdowns in parts of China outweighed the industry’s strong or…

By Alex Lawler LONDON (Reuters) – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has reconfigured the global oil market, with African suppliers stepping in to meet European demand and Moscow, stung by Western sanctions, increasingly tapping risky ship-to-ship transfers …

(Reuters) -China Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with counterparts from 10 Pacific island nations in Fiji on Monday, midway through a diplomatic tour of the region where China’s ambitions for wider security ties has caused concern among U.S. allies. Pacif…