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New Zealand push on clean power comes with high political, economic risks

WELLINGTON/MELBOURNE (Reuters) - New Zealand has set out to burnish its clean, green image by becoming Asia Pacific's first developed economy to stop using fossil fuels to generate power, although the pitfalls encountered by a Maori iwi, or tribe, may signal trouble ahead. Source: Reuters World News

By | 2018-06-01T05:25:49+00:00 June 1st, 2018|Uncategorized|Comments Off on New Zealand push on clean power comes with high political, economic risks

Italy's anti-establishment leaders revive governing coalition

ROME (Reuters) - Italy's two anti-establishment parties revived their coalition plans on Thursday, promising to end three months of political turmoil with a government that aims to ramp up spending, challenge European Union fiscal rules and crack down on immigration. Source: Reuters World News

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Trump plays down chances of quick breakthrough; North Koreans bring letter

NEW YORK/ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday played down the chances of a quick breakthrough in getting North Korea to abandon its nuclear arms, as a delegation from Pyongyang headed to meet him with a letter from North Korea's leader that suggested a planned summit may be back on. [...]

By | 2018-05-31T23:40:57+00:00 May 31st, 2018|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Trump plays down chances of quick breakthrough; North Koreans bring letter

Journalist who faked death: I didn't want to share Skripal's fate

KIEV (Reuters) - Arkady Babchenko, the dissident Russian journalist who faked his own death in Ukraine, said on Thursday he felt he had to undertake the ruse because he feared he would share the fate of poisoned former Russian spy Sergei Skripal. Source: Reuters World News

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