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By Sybille de La Hamaide PARIS, July 7 (Reuters) – France’s scorching summer is stunting grape growth in wine regions including Champagne, Bordeaux and Burgundy, threatening a smaller crop and bringing one of ​the earliest harvests on record, producers said on Tuesday. A record-breaking ‌heatwave in late June, followed by more hot, dry weather since last week, has slowed grape growth and damaged younger vines in France, the world’s second-largest wine producer.

By Michael S. Derby July 7 (Reuters) – Federal Reserve Bank of New York President John Williams said in a television interview on Tuesday he has grown a little less worried about the state of price pressures in the economy. “Inflation is still ​too high,” Williams said in an interview on Fox Business’ Mornings with Maria ‌program.

By Elizabeth Piper, Sam Tabahriti and William James LONDON, July 7 (Reuters) – Nigel Farage, leader of the populist Reform UK party, said on Tuesday he was standing down as ​a lawmaker to fight a new local election against “the ‌establishment”, which he accused of waging war against him with accusations about his finances.

LONDON, July 7 (Reuters) – A total of nine countries have committed to supporting a new global defence bank, Mark Carney, the prime minister of host country Canada, said on ​Tuesday.

By Helen Reid PARIS, July 7 (Reuters) – Chanel Creative Director Matthieu Blazy drew on the world of fairy tales for his ​second haute-couture collection for the Parisian ‌fashion house, shown on Tuesday in Paris. Green vines embroidered on a sheer skirt and jacket, white feathered wings on the back of a dress, and ‌an ​outfit made of appliquéd ⁠embroidered swans were among ⁠the references to classic stories like Jack and the Beanstalk, which Blazy scattered throughout the show.

COPENHAGEN, July 7 (Reuters) – Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, ​the world’s ‌largest, said on Tuesday it signed a deal with ‌retail ​real ⁠estate investment firm ⁠Asana Partners for a strategic partnership in which ​it will own a 49% ⁠stake.

July 7 (Reuters) – The Nasdaq opened lower on Tuesday ​amid declining ‌chip stocks, with investors questioning the momentum of the AI-led ‌rally ​despite ⁠Samsung’s strong earnings, ⁠while a report on China’s DeepSeek making its own ​AI chip also hit sentiment. The ⁠Dow Jones ⁠Industrial Average ​rose 48.1 points, or ​0.09%, at the open ‌to 53104.06.

ANKARA, Turkey, July 7 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he had spoken ​with Russian President Vladimir ‌Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and he hoped the war in Ukraine would soon be settled. “I had a very good ‌talk ​with President Putin,” ⁠Trump said during a ⁠meeting with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan at the NATO summit in Turkey. “We had a long talk, ​it lasted a long time. And I also spoke with ⁠President Zelenskiy right after ⁠that.

(Amends language in headline) ANKARA, Turkey, July 7 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said he would lift ​sanctions off Turkey and make ‌a decision on a potential sale of F-35s to Ankara as he began a meeting on Tuesday with Turkish President ‌Tayyip ​Erdogan at a ⁠NATO summit. “We’re going to ⁠be taking the sanctions off,” Trump told reporters when asked about the measures imposed under the Countering ​America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act.

By Chiranjit Ojha July 7 (Reuters) – Kyle Snyder and Abdulrashid Sadulaev will face off for the first time in five years at a Real American Freestyle event in the Georgian capital Tbilisi on Saturday, reviving a rivalry widely seen as the greatest in ​modern wrestling. With three Olympic and 10 World Championship gold medals between them, they have ‌clashed four times in all, and always for a World Championship title or an Olympic gold medal.