LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s Thames Water has received a joint bid from Covalis Capital and France’s Suez Group as it seeks more than 3 billion pounds ($3.8 billion) of new equity, in the latest part of a rescue aimed at preventing its collapse. Britain’s biggest water supplier has close to 18 billion pounds ($23 billion) of …
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By Mark Trevelyan and Ronald Popeski (Reuters) -Russia is open to talks with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump but will use “any means” to prevent Washington and its allies from defeating it in Ukraine, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told U.S. journalist Tucker Carlson. In an 80-minute interview released late on Thursday, Lavrov urged the West to …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s goal remains to find an amicable solution in negotiations on a trade deal with South America’s Mercosur bloc and it is in talks with all partners, including France, which opposed the agreement, said a government spokesperson in Berlin. “Our aim was and remains to find an amicable solution in the negotiations, …
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By Andrius Sytas VILNIUS (Reuters) -Lithuania’s President Gitanas Nauseda said on Friday that there was a quite high probability that the two undersea fibre-optic cables that were damaged last month in the Baltic Sea were cut intentionally. Both cables, one connecting Finland and Germany and the other connecting Sweden and Lithuania, were repaired and are …
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LONDON (Reuters) – The United Nations’ world food price index rose in November to its highest level since April 2023, recording its biggest gain in 19 months on the back of surging vegetable oil prices, data showed on Friday. The price index, compiled by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to track the most …
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By Tassilo Hummel and Ingrid Melander PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron will appoint a new prime minister in the coming days whose top priority will be getting a 2025 budget adopted by parliament, he said on Thursday after the government was toppled by lawmakers. Michel Barnier, a veteran conservative, became the shortest-serving prime minister …
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By Krisztina Than and Krisztina Fenyo SZOLOSGYOROK, Hungary (Reuters) – Andre Iwan and his wife moved to a village in Hungary from eastern Germany a few months ago, complaining of high taxes and a feeling that immigration had turned them into “second-class citizens”. Iwan, 55, bought a plot of land in 1998 in Szolosgyorok near …
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By Giulia Segreti and Tim Hepher (Reuters) -Europe’s Arianespace launched the Vega-C rocket on Thursday, marking a return to space for the upgraded Italian launcher two years after it failed during a debut commercial mission. Carrying the Sentinel-1C satellite into orbit for the European Union’s flagship Copernicus Earth observation programme, Vega-C blasted off into leaden …
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By Karam al-Masri and Maya Gebeily ALEPPO (Reuters) – A week after Islamist rebels seized Syria’s second-largest city, in a surprise advance deep into government-held territory, Aleppo is slowly coming back to life. A night-time curfew has lifted. Bread has returned to bakery shelves. Traffic police wave cars through intersections and internet coverage has improved …
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By Daren Butler and Birsen Altayli ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Doctor Mehdi Davut smiles as he describes his planned return to his homeland Syria for the first time in eight years to see how his aid association can help in Aleppo, a major city seized by rebels last week. “The liberation of Aleppo brought us such …
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