LONDON (Reuters) – A man appeared in court on Saturday charged with three counts of murder, the BBC reported, following a stabbing and van attack in the central English city of Nottingham earlier this week which left three people dead. Valdo Calocane, aged 31, of no fixed address, was remanded in custody by magistrates, after …
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By Steve Holland and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Jens Stoltenberg is expected to be asked to remain as NATO secretary general for another year, according to a source familiar with the discussions and a U.S. official, as the alliance has struggled to decide on a replacement ahead of a mid-July summit in Lithuania. Stoltenberg’s …
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By Anna Mehler Paperny TORONTO (Reuters) – Canada’s Supreme Court on Friday upheld a border pact under which Canada and the United States send back asylum seekers crossing the land border, finding the agreement does not violate asylum seekers’ right to life, liberty and security of the person. But it sent the case back to …
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ZURICH (Reuters) – UBS’s Chief Executive sought to reassure Switzerland on Saturday over its new banking giant, created by the Swiss bank’s historic takeover of former rival Credit Suisse. “The prospects for UBS are better than ever,” Sergio Ermotti wrote in an opinion piece published in the Swiss paper Tages-Anzeiger. “This also applies to the …
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TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan’s central bank said on Saturday it has smooth communication channels with the U.S. Treasury Department and will keep talking with them about foreign exchange policies, after the United States kept the island on a monitoring list. Treasury said on Friday it found that no major U.S. trading partners had manipulated their …
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BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) – Libya’s eastern forces under commander Khalifa Haftar support a proposal to set up a new interim government, they said late on Friday, setting up a challenge to the existing administration in Tripoli. Haftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA) said it supported the recommendations of the 6+6 committee, a group drawn from two …
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TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan plans to stoke competition in smartphone app payments, dominated by Apple and Google, by banning major app store operators from forcing software developers to use the operators’ own payment systems, a government panel said. The final report by the panel, released on Friday, also said major suppliers of smartphone operating systems …
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NAIROBI (Reuters) – Ugandan defence forces are pursuing the attackers of a school in the country’s west with the aim of rescuing those they abducted, its spokesperson said on Saturday. Militants linked to Islamic State killed 25 people in the attack late on Friday near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ugandan police …
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By Jonathan Allen (Reuters) – Police in Minneapolis routinely use excessive force and discriminate against Black and Native American people, the U.S. Justice Department said on Friday after a two-year investigation prompted by the police killing of George Floyd. The city has agreed to what will likely be years of federal oversight as it works …
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SEOUL (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he supports South Korea’s efforts to develop a “healthy and mature” cooperative relationship with China, South Korea’s foreign ministry said on Saturday. Blinken, who arrives in Beijing on Sunday for the highest-level visit by an official of President Joe Biden’s administration, discussed bilateral relations, relations …
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