Italy’s Meloni meets Musk in Rome

ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni met with Tesla CEO Elon Musk in Rome later on Thursday, a government source said, after holding brief talks with Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani in the morning. Talks between Meloni and Musk focused on the low birth rate in Italy, the issue of deregulation in the European …

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Tanzania sees spending rising 7% in 2023/24 budget – finance minister

DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) – Tanzania plans a 7% increase in overall government spending in the next fiscal year during which it will prioritise spending on railways, the national airline, electricity production and natural gas, Finance Minister Mwigulu Nchemba said on Thursday. Tanzania expects overall spending to reach 44.39 trillion Tanzanian shillings ($18.6 billion) in …

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Nine people arrested over deadly migrant shipwreck off Greece – official

KALAMATA, Greece (Reuters) – Nine people have been arrested over a deadly migrant shipwreck off Greece this week, a Greek shipping ministry official told Reuters on condition of anonymity on Thursday. The official said that Greek authorities have arrested nine Egyptians who are accused of setting up a criminal organisation, migrant smuggling and causing a …

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US Supreme Court rejects race-based challenge to Native American adoption law

By Andrew Chung (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday upheld decades-old federal standards that give preferences to Native Americans and tribal members in the adoption or foster care placements of Native American children, rejecting a challenge that claimed that parts of the law were racially biased against non-Native Americans. The 7-2 ruling threw …

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U.S. House Republicans target deeper spending cuts, raising shutdown threat

By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republicans in the U.S House of Representatives on Thursday adopted government spending targets for the next fiscal year below the level agreed by Speaker Kevin McCarthy and Democratic President Joe Biden, setting up a fight with the Democratic-led Senate that could again risk a government shutdown. The House Appropriations …

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Argentina incrementa equivalente a 40,5 million $ en segunda licitación de letras

BUENOS AIRES, 15 jun (Reuters) – El Tesoro argentino tomó el jueves 10.067 millones de pesos efectivos (unos 40,5 millones de dólares) en una licitación de letras realizada el jueves entre formadores de mercado, dijo el Ministerio de Economía. Agregó que se recibieron 11 ofertas, adjudicándose un total nominal (VNO) de 7.049 millones de pesos. …

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Cyclone Biparjoy damages power lines, uproots trees as it makes India landfall

By Francis Mascarenhas, Sumit Khanna and Gibran Naiyyar Peshimam MANDVI, India/KARACHI (Reuters) – Strong winds, heavy rain and high tides lashed India’s Gujarat coast late on Thursday as cyclone Biparjoy made landfall after authorities there and in neighbouring Pakistan had evacuated more than 180,000 people to safety. Deserted coastal towns were battered in the dark …

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