By Fatos Bytyci
PRISTINA (Reuters) - In a Pristina apartment, gay actors laugh and cry their way through rehearsals for a play lampooning homophobic politicians and advocating equal rights for the LGBT community in Kosovo, which may soon become the first Muslim-majority country to allow same-sex unions.
The play is scheduled to run during Pride Week in June, but may also coincide with a vote in parliament on a new civil code legalising... (continue reading...)
DUBAI (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates' (UAE) economy grew 4.3% year-on-year in the fourth quarter of 2023, preliminary government data showed, with non-oil economic growth vastly outperforming overall GDP.
Non-oil GDP surged 6.7% in the same period, according to data from the Federal Competitiveness and Statistics Centre.
Financial and insurance activities, transportation and storage, real estate and construction sectors were among... (continue reading...)
(Reuters) - Supermarket group Ahold Delhaize expects to grow underlying earnings per share and increase savings over the 2025-2028 period, it said on Thursday, as it plans to boost digitalisation and the use of artificial intelligence (AI).
The group, which operates the Stop & Shop, Giant, Food Lion and Hannaford chains in the United States and the Albert Heijn and Delhaize chains in the Netherlands and Belgium, is targeting underlying earnings per... (continue reading...)
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel will reprimand the ambassadors of Ireland, Norway and Spain on Thursday over their governments' plan to recognise a Palestinian state next week, an Israeli official said.
The envoys have been summoned to the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem, where they will be shown a previously unpublished video of Hamas taking female captives during its Oct. 7 attack on Israel that triggered the Gaza war, the official said.
... (continue reading...)BERLIN (Reuters) - German private sector activity expanded in May for the second consecutive month, driven by strong activity in services, a preliminary survey showed on Thursday.
The HCOB German Flash Composite Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI), compiled by S&P Global, rose to 52.2 in May from 50.6 in April. That was above a Reuters poll forecast of 51.0.
The composite PMI index tracks the services and manufacturing sectors that together... (continue reading...)
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