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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Vatican police arrested a former employee for allegedly trying to sell to the city-state a 17th-century manuscript by Italian Baroque master Gian Lorenzo Bernini that had previously disappeared from archives, a Vatican spokesman said.

Experts said the 18-page document, with gilded miniatures, contains the first details of the decorative features in the canopy of St. Peter's Basilica designed by sculptor and architect Bernini.... (continue reading...)

PARIS (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelenskiy thanked France on Friday for its support and said he hoped to see French jets in Ukrainian skies soon, a day after President Emmanuel Macron said France plans to provide Mirage 2000 warplanes to Ukraine.

Zelenskiy has long expressed his frustration at how long Western allies are taking to make key decisions on military support for Ukraine and actually send help in its war against Russia's... (continue reading...)

By Makiko Yamazaki

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's advisory panel tasked with growth strategies called on Friday for the government and the Bank of Japan (BOJ) to be vigilant to the impact of the yen's depreciation.

The call reflects the government's growing concerns about a weak yen, a headache for Kishida's administration as the currency's decline pushes up households' cost of living by inflating the price of... (continue reading...)

LONDON (Reuters) - Former Goldman Sachs banker Asante Berko who is wanted in the United States for allegedly paying bribes to Ghanaian officials on Friday won part of his appeal, but still faces extradition to the United States.

Berko was charged with six offences in New York in 2020 relating to his time working for Goldman Sachs.

He appealed against the decision to extradite him at London's High Court last month after a judge sent his... (continue reading...)

DUBAI (Reuters) - Houthi security forces have detained at least 15 Yemeni employees of international organisations including the United Nations, three officials of Yemen's internationally recognised government told Reuters on Friday.

In a series of raids on Thursday, armed Houthi intelligence officers detained nine U.N. employees, three employees of the U.S.-funded pro-democracy group National Democratic Institute (NDI) and three employees of a local... (continue reading...)