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BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany extended its military mission in Mali for one final year on Friday as Berlin aims to wind up by May 2024 a decade-old mission that has been hampered by disputes with the ruling military junta in Bamako and the arrival of Russian forces. Lawmakers voted 375 to 263 to leave the German troops in the country for another year. There was one abstention. Berlin has deployed […]

By Riham Alkousaa and Toby Sterling BERLIN/AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The data protection watchdog for the Netherlands said on Friday it was aware of possible Tesla data protection breaches, but it was too early for further comment. Germany’s Handelsblatt reported on Thursday that Elon Musk’s Tesla had allegedly failed to adequately protect data from customers, employees and business partners, citing 100 gigabytes of confidential data leaked by a whistleblower. “We are […]

ROME (Reuters) – An Italian court on Friday suspended for at least another month a culling order for a bear blamed for the killing of a 26-year-old runner in the Italian Alps. The death of Andrea Papi, on April 5, reopened a debate in Italy on the co-existence between humans and wildlife in an area that was re-populated with bears from 1999 thanks to an EU-funded programme. The bear in […]

ROME (Reuters) – An Italian court on Friday suspended for at least another month a culling order for a bear blamed for the killing of a 26-year-old runner in the Italian Alps. The death of Andrea Papi, on April 5, reopened a debate in Italy on the co-existence between humans and wildlife in an area that was re-populated with bears from 1999 thanks to an EU-funded programme. The bear in […]

MILAN (Reuters) – The Italian Industry Ministry’s web portal and applications were hit by a “heavy cyberattack” on Friday and were out of order, it said. Technicians were working to “mitigate the consequences” of the attack, it wrote in a statement, adding that initial checks showed no evidence of data theft. It was too early to predict when activities would be back to normal, it said. The attack began in […]

(Reuters) – Russia’s Defence Ministry said on Friday that it carried out an overnight strike on Ukrainian ammunition depots, the RIA news agency reported. “The target of the strike has been achieved. All designated facilities were hit,” the defence ministry was quoted as saying. (Reporting by Reuters) Brought to you by www.srnnews.com

(Reuters) – U.S. money market funds saw big inflows in the week to May 24 as investors favored safer bets ahead of a deadline for politicians to agree an increase in the country’s debt ceiling. According to Refinitiv Lipper data, U.S. money market funds received a net $39.9 billion of inflows, the biggest week of net buying in four weeks. U.S. President Joe Biden and top congressional Republican Kevin McCarthy […]

By Victoria Klesty, Benjamin Mallet and America Hernandez (Reuters) -Pressure mounted on oil majors on Friday as Norway’s giant sovereign wealth fund said it would vote against CEOs at Chevron and Exxon and support for a climate activist resolution at TotalEnergies’ AGM surged to over 30%. Together with peers BP and Shell, the companies face a vocal minority of investors demanding faster emissions cuts as a majority of shareholders supports […]

(Reuters) – Five top contenders for the women’s title at the French Open, which starts on Sunday. IGA SWIATEK (POLAND) World number one Swiatek is the favourite to defend her crown on the Parisian clay but the odds of her success will depend on whether she has fully recovered from a thigh injury, which forced her to retire from her quarter-final match in Rome. The Pole has contested four finals […]