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By Andrius Sytas VILNIUS (Reuters) – Nobel Peace Prize winner Ales Byalyatski chose to return to his native Belarus despite warnings he faced jail there in order to help civil society by distributing international aid donations, a friend of the human r…

(Reuters) – London-listed information technology firm Softline said on Friday it would sell its Russian business to its founder Igor Borovikov or an entity controlled by him. (Reporting by Muhammed Husain in Bengaluru; Editing by Shailesh Kuber)

By Crispian Balmer ROME (Reuters) – Life is tough for asylum seekers in Italy – most are denied refugee status, barred from legal employment and, polls suggest, face discrimination. Now things look set to get even worse. Fresh from her election victory…

By Joan Faus BARCELONA (Reuters) – Catalonia’s pro-independence coalition government was on the verge of collapse on Friday after its junior member decided to abandon it, in the most significant crisis within the Spanish region’s separatist movement in…

By Devik Jain and Amruta Khandekar (Reuters) -European shares dropped sharply on Friday, after strong growth in U.S. jobs strengthened the case for the Federal Reserve to keep raising interest rates aggressively in its quest to stamp out high inflation…

By Emma-Victoria Farr and Pamela Barbaglia FRANKFURT/LONDON (Reuters) -Providence Equity Partners has entered exclusive talks to buy French automotive data firm A2Mac1 for about 1.4 billion euros ($1.36 billion), clinching one of Europe’s rare private …

LONDON (Reuters) -British lawmaker Conor Burns was sacked as a junior trade minister on Friday and suspended from the parliamentary Conservative Party following a “complaint of serious misconduct” at its annual conference this week. Prime Minister Liz …

By Stephen Nellis, Karen Freifeld and Alexandra Alper (Reuters) – The Biden administration on Friday published a sweeping set of export controls, including a measure to cut China off from certain semiconductor chips made anywhere in the world with U.S….

PRAGUE (Reuters) – EU leaders on Friday cleared up “misunderstandings” about a 200 billion euro relief package initiated by Berlin to mitigate the effects of high energy prices, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said, after Poland criticised the measures a…

By Valentina Za and Giuseppe Fonte MILAN (Reuters) – Monte dei Paschi di Siena’s (MPS) plan to proceed with a capital raise is entering a decisive stage with CEO Luigi Lovaglio and the banks due to guarantee the sale still hammering out final details, …