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By America Hernandez, Riham Alkousaa and Marwa Rashad PARIS/BERLIN (Reuters) – More than three years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Europe’s energy security is fragile. U.S. liquefied natural gas helped to plug the Russian supply gap in Europe during the 2022-2023 energy crisis.  But now that President Donald Trump has rocked relationships with Europe established …

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By Sam Tabahriti and Dominic Lipinski SCUNTHORPE, England (Reuters) – Britain expressed confidence on Monday that it could secure enough raw materials to keep the blast furnaces burning at its last maker of virgin steel, after the government seized operational control from its Chinese owners. Ministers said British Steel’s owners, China’s Jingye Group, had wanted …

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By Mateusz Rabiega and Amy-Jo Crowley (Reuters) -Ageas has agreed to buy British car and home insurer esure from Bain Capital for 1.3 billion pounds ($1.7 billion) in a move that will create the third largest personal lines platform in the UK. The deal, set to be closed in the second half of 2025, will …

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(Reuters) – (This April 11 story has been corrected to say that Golub was founded in 1994, not 1991 in paragraph 3, to remove an unrelated stock symbol in paragraph 1 and to drop paragraph 4 to remove the reference to shares) European private equity firm CVC is exploring a deal for $75 billion private …

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By Alex Lawler, Olesya Astakhova and Vladimir Soldatkin LONDON (Reuters) -OPEC cut its 2025 global oil demand growth forecast on Monday for the first time since December, citing the impact of data received for the first quarter and trade tariffs announced by the United States. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, in a monthly …

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By Maria Martinez BERLIN (Reuters) – With global trade deeply uncertain and a tariff war causing havoc on financial markets, Germany’s next government is hoping to unleash domestic consumption to revive stalled growth in an economy that has been driven for decades by exports. Conservative chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz, in a newly forged coalition with the …

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