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Air India on Thursday announced that it has entered an intermodal interline agreement with WorldTicket, the exclusive distributor for Europe’s largest railway operator, Deutsche Bahn. With this collaboration, Air India passengers will be able to travel on a single intermodal ticket beyond Frankfurt with train connections to or from other cities and towns across Germany, including those without airports, on Deutsche Bahn. The agreement will allow travellers to connect to and from over 5600 train stations in Germany on the Deutsche Bahn network. Travellers can also take train connections on Deutsche Bahn to and from Amsterdam, Brussels, and Zurich via Air India’s Frankfurt gateway, said the airline in a statement. Travellers will get the benefit of the same baggage allowance on the rail routes as offered by Air India on its own flights.

The heirs of the late soccer star Diego Maradona have won a legal battle over the use of his trademark

Olive oil is continuing its staggering rise in prices in Europe.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) — Euro zone economic growth was weaker than expected in the third quarter, a flash estimate showed on Tuesday, with gross domestic product contracting slightly quarter-on-quarter and the year-on-year growth rate slowing sharply.

BRUSSELS : The Group of Seven industrial countries will on Monday agree a code of conduct for companies developing advanced artificial intelligence systems, a G7 document showed, as governments seek to mitigate the risks and potential misuse of the technology. The voluntary code of conduct will set a landmark for how major countries govern AI, amid privacy concerns and security risks, the document seen by Reuters showed.

European Union leaders believe it's time to lay the foundations for a future relationship between Israel and the Palestinians where the militant group Hamas does not control Gaza

The European Union summit showed that Ukraine will be facing tougher times to get all the attention and political, economic and military aid that it wants

Hamas to get aid into Gaza, after hours of negotiations at a summit of the bloc in Brussels. The European Union has struggled for both unity and influence in the face of the crisis that has engulfed the Middle East since Hamas launched its bloody attack on Israel on October 7. The surge in bloodshed has divided Europe's attention at a time of rising doubts about the West's ability to keep supporting Ukraine in its fight against Russia. After five hours of talks, the leaders called for «continued, rapid, safe and unhindered humanitarian access and aid to reach those in need through all necessary measures including humanitarian corridors and pauses for humanitarian needs». They said the EU «will work closely with partners in the region to protect civilians, provide assistance and facilitate access to food, water, medical care, fuel and shelter». European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen insisted early on Friday there was «no contradiction between showing solidarity to Israel and, of course, acting on the need of humanitarian aid for the people of Gaza» after the leaders' talks ended. The 27-nation bloc has long been split between more pro-Palestinian members such as Ireland and Spain, and staunch backers of Israel including Germany and Austria. There has been strong condemnation of the Hamas attack, which Israel says killed at least 1,400 people and resulted in more than 220 people being taken hostage. But there was less consensus on urging any halt to Israel's retaliatory bombardment of Gaza, which the Hamas-run health ministry says has killed more than 7,000 people. The EU's call fell short of the demands from the United Nations for a «ceasefire», despite a last-ditch push from Spain to toughen the

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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban will be the center of attention at an EU summit on Thursday following his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week

Originally the rules placed limits on bonuses for employees to two times base salary in an attempt by the EU to deter the risky behaviour that led to the 2008 Global Financial Crisis.

BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) -Heineken retained its full-year outlook on Wednesday, bolstering shares in the world's second largest brewer even as it sold less beer.

Euroclear has launched a digital securities issuance service and settled a 100-million-euro ($106 million) digital World Bank bond. This is the first step in the Brussels-based settlement house’s digital infrastructure strategy, it said.

fire. Five years after the GDPR came into force, concerns are being expressed about how inconvenient it is that everyone who has anything to do with Europe, no matter how remote, still has to comply with its provisions.

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has compared Hungary’s membership in the European Union to more than four decades of Soviet occupation

Recep Tayyip Erdogan has submitted a protocol for Sweden's admission into NATO to Turkey's parliament for ratification, his office said Monday. Erdogan had been delaying ratification of Sweden's membership, accusing Stockholm of being too soft on Kurdish militants and other groups he considers to be security threats. Turkey also was angered by a series of Quran-burning protests in Sweden.

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European Union will host leaders of some 20 countries next week to boost its global infrastructure plan aimed at competing with China in strategic regions, according to people familiar with the matter. The summit will come a week after China gathered representatives of more than 130 countries to celebrate the 10th anniversary of its own global investment plan, the Belt and Road Initiative. Heads of state or government who will attend the EU’s Global Gateway Forum on Oct.

The European Union has ratcheted up its scrutiny of Big Tech companies with demands for Meta and TikTok to detail their efforts to curb illegal content and disinformation during the Israel-Hamas war