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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The economy, migration and international conflicts were the top concerns for voters in the European Union election, data from the bloc's biggest member countries suggested on Monday.

Provisional results in the European Parliament election on Sunday night showed gains for nationalist and euro-sceptic parties that campaigned on tickets including clamp-downs on migration, citizens' economic woes and scrapping green policies.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian broadcaster Nine Entertainment Co Holdings Ltd said its chairman Peter Costello resigned on Saturday and has been replaced by non executive deputy chair Catherine West.

"Catherine West has been appointed Chair of NEC," the company said in a June 9 statement.

"The board wishes to thank Mr Costello for his contribution to Nine over more than a decade including eight years as chairman."

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By Timour Azhari and Khalid Al-Mousily

MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - It was the simple night-time act of watering flowers on his street in Mosul's Old City that made Saqr Zakaria stop and think about just how safe this last bastion of Islamic State militants had become since it was liberated in 2017.

"I thought for a second, 'where am I?'" said Zakaria, who left the city in 2005 but returned to set up a cultural centre, the Baytna Foundation,... (continue reading...)

By Paritosh Bansal

(Reuters) - The United States is merrily chipping away at the pillars that hold up the dollar as the world's reserve currency, with the latest blows coming from some powerful Americans questioning the rule of law following the conviction of Donald Trump.

In doing so, it is effectively daring the rest of the world to find an alternative - and so far, it appears to be winning. 

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By Daphne Psaledakis

CAIRO (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is set to arrive in Cairo on Monday at a critical time as Washington seeks to increase pressure on Hamas and Israel to reach a ceasefire in Gaza and ensure the war does not expand onto Lebanon.

In his eighth visit to the region since Hamas militants attacked Israel on Oct. 7, triggering the bloodiest episode in the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the... (continue reading...)