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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Gibraltar is encouraged by Spain’s “pragmatism” on its key demand that their mutual border remain fully open after the Brexit transition period expires at the end of … Read More

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday after meeting U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last week that he had felt a more constructive approach from … Read More

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab, who is getting the cold shoulder from Gulf Arab states, on Monday met Iran’s parliament speaker, the first senior foreign official to … Read More

By Hilary Russ NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York on Sunday dropped its fight against the $40 billion merger of U.S. wireless carriers T-Mobile US Inc <TMUS.O> and Sprint Corp … Read More

By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Putting more masterpieces in Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel to join his ceiling frescoes and Last Judgement wall might seem as superfluous as adding more … Read More

By Angela Ukomadu and Nneka Chile LAGOS (Reuters) – It is dark when Abisoye Adeniyi leaves home on the packed Lagos mainland, weaving through cars and minibuses. She reaches her … Read More

By Michel Rose PARIS (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron picked his widely respected health minister on Sunday to reinvigorate a campaign to win over Paris City Hall that fell … Read More

By Christoph Steitz, Tom Käckenhoff, Arno Schuetze and Edward Taylor FRANKFURT/DUESSELDORF, Germany (Reuters) – Germany’s Thyssenkrupp <TKAG.DE> has shortlisted two private equity consortia in the sale of its 16 billion … Read More

By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) – Hardliners are set to tighten control of Iran this week in a parliamentary election stacked in their favor, as the leadership closes ranks in … Read More

By Andrew MacAskill LONDON (Reuters) – A British lawmaker, who chairs an all-party group on Kashmir, has been denied entry to India after she criticized the government’s decision to strip … Read More