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By Michelle Nichols, Arshad Mohammed and John Irish

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Three European powers have written to the U.N. Security Council detailing Iran's violations of its 2015 nuclear deal, a step diplomats said on Thursday aimed to pressure Tehran to resolve the issue diplomatically and to avoid reimposing U.N. sanctions.

The British, French and German letter did not explicitly threaten to "snap back" United Nations sanctions but... (continue reading...)

By Abhirup Roy and Jody Godoy

(Reuters) -Autonomy founder Mike Lynch was acquitted of fraud on Thursday by a jury in San Francisco, a major win for the entrepreneur who has been dogged by legal problems since the disastrous sale of his company to Hewlett-Packard (HP) for $11 billion in 2011.

Representatives for Lynch and U.S. prosecutors said Lynch was acquitted on all 15 charges -- one count of conspiracy, and 14 counts of wire fraud, each... (continue reading...)

By Abigail Summerville

(Reuters) - New Era Cap, a supplier of major U.S. sports league headware, has agreed to acquire sports lifestyle brand '47, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday.

The deal between two family-founded brands will create a company that generates around $2 billion in annual revenue, the sources said, requesting anonymity ahead of an official announcement.

New Era, which makes caps affiliated... (continue reading...)

By Simon Lewis and Kanishka Singh

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States encourages China to attend a planned summit on Ukraine this month in Switzerland, a U.S. State Department spokesperson told reporters on Thursday, with China thus far saying it will stay away as Russia had not been invited.

WHY IT IS IMPORTANT

Kyiv says more than 100 countries have accepted its invitation to the summit to discuss provisions of a peace... (continue reading...)

By Janis Laizans

ARROMANCHES-LES-BAINS, France (Reuters) - With a single piper playing bagpipes on deck, a restored World War Two amphibious vehicle landed on Gold Beach in Normandy on Thursday, exactly 80 years after the allied landing that started the liberation of France from Nazi occupation.

The son of a World War Two soldier, British lawyer and vehicle historian Nigel Stoate, 55, steered the craft ashore after driving off a Royal... (continue reading...)