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By Joan Faus and Belén Carreño BARCELONA/MADRID (Reuters) – A Catalan pro-independence party could hold the key to unlocking Spain’s political gridlock after a national election ended in a hung parliament. The centre-right People’s Party (PP) and the far-right Vox won the most parliamentary seats in Sunday’s ballot with a combined 169 – short of the 176 seats needed for a majority despite poll predictions the bloc was on course […]

By Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House on Monday called it “unfortunate” that the Israeli parliament ratified part of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s contested judicial overhaul plan and urged work toward a broad consensus with the opposition. U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration reiterated its long-standing concerns after Israel’s Knesset approved the first bill that limits the Supreme Court’s powers, despite months of street protests as well as appeals […]

(Reuters) – American Airlines’ pilot union has indefinitely postponed the ratification vote for a tentative contract agreement, it said in a memo on Sunday. The voting will now take place “at a date and time to be determined”, the union said. American Airlines pilots were due to vote on Monday after the company on Friday raised the value of its contract offer to pilots by more than $1 billion. The […]

PARIS (Reuters) – Luxury giant LVMH unveiled on Monday a deal to sponsor next year’s Olympic Games in Paris with top fashion brands Louis Vuitton and Dior, Moet Hennessy champagne and spirits labels and jeweller Chaumet, which will design medals for the event. The group will also sponsor athletes, including French swimmer Leon Marchand, and its beauty retailer Sephora will sponsor the Olympic torch relay, LVMH said. The French delegation […]

By Joan Faus and Belén Carreño BARCELONA/MADRID (Reuters) – A Catalan pro-independence party could hold the key to unlocking Spain’s political gridlock after a national election ended in a hung parliament. The centre-right People’s Party (PP) and the far-right Vox won the most parliamentary seats in Sunday’s ballot with a combined 169 – short of the 176 seats needed for a majority despite poll predictions the bloc was on course […]

AMMAN (Reuters) – The Jordanian army said on Monday it had shot down a drone carrying drugs from Syria into its northern frontier region in the third such incident in recent weeks. The plane, which was carrying two kilos of‮ ‬crystal methamphetamine, was intercepted and downed on Jordan’s side of the border, it said. It comes a day after army and security chiefs from Jordan and Syria met to discuss […]

By Supantha Mukherjee and Martin Coulter STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Elon Musk and Twitter Chief Executive Officer Linda Yaccarino unveiled a logo for the social media platform on Monday that featured a white X on a black background as a replacement for the familiar blue bird symbol. “X is here! Let’s do this,” tweeted Yaccarino, who also posted a picture of the logo projected onto the company’s offices in San Francisco. Both […]

By Mrinmay Dey and Michelle Conlin (Reuters) -Twitter Inc owner Elon Musk on Sunday signaled he would do more to take the social media company in a new direction with a rebranding that will replace its well-known blue bird logo with an X after acknowledging advertisers have been slow to return. The change, which was not evident on the website on Sunday evening, followed Musk’s recent admission that advertising revenue […]

KYIV (Reuters) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that the extension of a European Union ban on Ukrainian grain imports in September would be “unacceptable”. Five central European countries want the EU ban extended at least until the end of the year. The ban is set to expire on Sept. 15. “Our position is clear: blocking (Ukrainian) exports by land after September 15, when the relevant restrictions expire, is […]