Europeans plan to keep ballistic missile sanctions on Iran

By John Irish, Arshad Mohammed and Parisa Hafezi PARIS/WASHINGTON/DUBAI (Reuters) -European diplomats have told Iran they plan to retain European Union ballistic missile sanctions set to expire in October under the defunct 2015 Iran nuclear deal, four sources said, a step that could provoke Iranian retaliation. The sources cited three reasons for keeping the sanctions:…

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Spain’s 12-month inflation falls to 1.9% in June, lowest since March 2021

(Reuters) – Spain’s consumer prices rose 1.9% year-on-year in June, their slowest increase since March 2021, preliminary data from the National Statistics Institute (INE) showed on Thursday. Spain is the first among the euro zone’s large economies to have inflation fall below 2%, the European Central Bank’s target, the Economy Ministry said in a statement….

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Presumed human remains and shattered Titanic submersible returned to shore

By Ismail Shakil and Steve Gorman OTTAWA (Reuters) -Presumed human remains and debris from the tourist submersible crushed to pieces in an undersea implosion that killed all five people aboard were recovered from the ocean bottom and brought ashore to Canada on Wednesday, the U.S. Coast Guard said. The possible remains and shattered bits of…

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