By Amindeh Blaise Atabong YAOUNDE (Reuters) – At least five banana plantation workers were killed and several wounded on Friday in Cameroon’s Southwest region that is riven by separatist violence, a union leader said. The unidentified assailants shot at a truck carrying employees of Cameroon Development Corporation (CDC) – the country’s largest state-owned agro-industrial firm …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Indian regulators are aware of concerns regarding the Adani Group conglomerate, the finance minister said on Saturday, responding to comments by the Supreme Court regarding the need for investor protection. The regulators were experienced and seized of the matter, Nirmala Sitharaman told reporters after meeting the central bank’s directors in New …
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(Reuters) – The release of Iranian-French academic Fariba Adelkhah is final, though it is still unclear how much longer she will have to stay in Iran before returning to France, her lawyer said on Saturday. In announcing Adelkhah’s release on Friday, the French foreign ministry, called that Adelkhah’s freedoms be restored, “including returning to France …
By Kemal Aslan, Maya Gebeily and Khalil Ashawi ANTAKYA, Turkey/JANDARIS, Syria, (Reuters) -Rescue crews saved a 10-day-old baby and his mother trapped in the ruins of a building in Turkey on Friday and dug several people out from other sites as President Tayyip Erdogan said authorities should have reacted faster to this week’s huge earthquake. …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – The head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency fears that China is expanding its spy activities against Berlin, he said in a newspaper interview published on Saturday, adding that Beijing was focusing increasingly on political espionage. “China is developing wide-ranging spying and influence activities. We must be prepared for these to increase in …
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By Aditi Shah and Tim Hepher BENGALURU/PARIS (Reuters) -Air India has sealed a jumbo deal for about 500 new planes worth more than $100 billion at list prices, in what could become the single largest order by any airline as it seeks to reinvent itself under its new owners, industry sources told Reuters. The deal, …
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By Sarah N. Lynch and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The FBI recovered one additional government page with classified markings during a consensual search on Friday at the Indianapolis residence of former Vice President Mike Pence, after classified documents were discovered at his house last month, a Pence spokesman said. The search, confirmed earlier in the …
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By Alexandra Alper and Karen Freifeld WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Biden administration on Friday added six Chinese entities connected to Beijing’s suspected surveillance balloon program to an export blacklist. The new restrictions come after the White House said it would consider broader efforts to “expose and address” China’s larger surveillance activities that threaten U.S. national security …
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CIUDAD DE MÉXICO, 10 feb (Reuters) -El argentino Rubén Omar Romano debutó el viernes como director técnico de Mazatlán con una derrota de 3-1 ante Puebla en la sexta jornada del torneo Clausura del fútbol mexicano. Romano fue designado el lunes entrenador de Mazatlán en sustitución del argentino Gabriel Caballero, quien fue despedido el 29 …
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By Andrea Shalal, Steve Holland and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. F-22 fighter jet on Friday shot down an unidentified object flying high over Alaska, U.S. officials said, less than a week after the military brought down a Chinese balloon that had flown across the United States. A Sidewinder missile downed the latest craft, …
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