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French credit rating under more pressure
AFP, Published on 02/06/2023
» PARIS: France's surging national debt is causing increasing alarm with the country risking a fresh warning on Friday over its credit rating after a downgrade.
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Russia, Ukraine seal landmark grain deal in Istanbul
AFP, Published on 23/07/2022
» ISTANBUL: Ukraine and Russia on Friday signed a landmark deal aimed at relieving a global food crisis caused by blocked Black Sea grain deliveries, ending months of negotiations and sending wheat prices tumbling to levels last seen before Moscow's invasion.
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Heatwave-hit Farnborough airshow basks in bumper Boeing order
AFP, Published on 19/07/2022
» FARNBOROUGH: Britain's Farnborough airshow flew into view Monday under a sweltering heatwave, as US planemaker Boeing basked in the glow of the first gigantic order in global aviation's first get-together since Covid.
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Canada approves controversial Bay du Nord offshore oil project
AFP, Published on 07/04/2022
» OTTAWA: Canada's environment minister approved Wednesday a controversial offshore oil project expected to see 300 million barrels of oil extracted over 30 years -- and to set back efforts to curb climate change.
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Renault suspends work at Moscow factory: company
AFP, Published on 24/03/2022
» PARIS: French car giant Renault announced Wednesday it was immediately suspending operations at its Moscow factory after Kyiv called for a boycott of the company for remaining in Russia.
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UK to offer 10,500 post-Brexit visas to counter growing worker crisis
AFP, Published on 26/09/2021
» LONDON: Britain will issue up to 10,500 temporary work visas to lorry drivers and poultry workers to ease chronic staff shortages, the government announced Saturday, in a U-turn on post-Brexit immigration policy.
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European Parliament to wave through Brexit trade deal
AFP, Published on 27/04/2021
» BRUSSELS: The European Parliament will vote to ratify the EU trade deal with Britain Tuesday, turning the page on a difficult Brexit chapter but with little hope of smoothing relations with London.
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Covid-19, the knockout punch for multilateralism?
AFP, Published on 24/04/2020
» PARIS: The coronavirus pandemic blindsided international organisations, prompted individual states to unilaterally strike out alone and heralded a new chapter in the 21st century's chief geopolitical rivalry between the United States and China.
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No crime in Huawei 5G leak: British police
AFP, Published on 05/05/2019
» LONDON: The top-secret leak that Britain had conditionally allowed China's Huawei to develop its 5G network, which brought down the defence minister, does not amount to a criminal offence, police concluded Saturday.
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EU to derail train-maker merger, reaping France's fury
AFP, Published on 06/02/2019
» BRUSSELS: The European Union's powerful anti-trust sheriff, Margrethe Vestager, is set to veto the merger of the Siemens-Alstom rail businesses on Wednesday, in defiance of France and Germany.
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