Germany certain to exceed 9.8 billion euro LNG terminal bill – EconMin

By Vera Eckert FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Germany said on Friday that new infrastructure for floating liquefied natural gas terminals (LNG) will exceed previously expected costs, forewarning taxpayers that there will be a price to pay for energy security. The Bundestag lower house of parliament has approved 9.8 billion euros ($10.40 billion) for the 2022-2038 period, …

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Carlos de Inglaterra realizará sus primeras visitas de Estado como monarca a Francia y Alemania

Por Michael Holden LONDRES, 3 mar (Reuters) – El rey Carlos viajará a Francia y Alemania en sus primeras visitas de Estado desde que sucedió a su madre, la reina Isabel, como monarca británico el pasado mes de septiembre, informó el viernes el Palacio de Buckingham. Carlos se dirigirá a las cámaras de los parlamentos …

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Newspaper says Hungary to move Israel embassy to Jerusalem, Budapest says no decision yet

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Hungarian President Katalin Novak said on Friday that no decision had yet been made on whether Budapest would move its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem next month despite an Israeli newspaper report that it would do so next month. The Times of Israel said on Friday that the move would take place …

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Italy prosecutors ask to drop obstruction of justice case for Eni, CEO

MILAN (Reuters) – Italian prosecutors have asked for a case against Eni and its head over alleged obstruction of justice in corruption cases in Nigeria and Algeria to be dropped, two sources with direct knowledge of the matter said on Friday. Eni Chief Executive Claudio Descalzi had been investigated by prosecutors in the preliminary proceedings, …

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Sami protesters, Greta Thunberg, end demonstrations against wind turbines

By Victoria Klesty and Nora Buli OSLO (Reuters) – Hundreds of Indigenous and environmental campaigners, including Greta Thunberg, blocked the main road to Norway’s royal palace on Friday as they ended their nine-day protest to tear down wind turbines built on reindeer pastures used by Sami herders. Demonstrators had urged government action after Norway’s supreme …

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Zimbabwe adopts new inflation rate based on U.S. dollar, local currency

HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe will from now on measure inflation using a weighted average of items priced in Zimbabwean dollars and U.S. dollars, the government said on Friday. Previously the official rate was based only on items in the local currency. The U.S. dollar is widely used in the southern African country alongside the Zimbabwean …

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Myanmar military has caused ‘perpetual human rights crisis’, UN report says

GENEVA (Reuters) – A report published by the United Nations on Friday accused Myanmar’s military of creating “a perpetual human rights crisis” in the southeast Asian country and called for an immediate end to violence there. Since a junta seized power two years ago, Myanmar has been plunged into chaos, with a resistance movement fighting …

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