(Reuters) -The European Commission on Friday said it had approved the takeover by chip design software maker Synopsys of software company Ansys, with conditions to the $35 billion cash-and-stock deal announced in January last year. The deal would see Synopsys snap up the maker of software used in creating products from airplanes to tennis rackets …
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By Timothy Gardner, Daphne Psaledakis, Nidhi Verma and Dmitry Zhdannikov WASHINGTON/NEW DELHI/LONDON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration imposed its broadest package of sanctions so far targeting Russia’s oil and gas revenues on Friday, in an effort to give Kyiv and Donald Trump’s incoming team leverage to reach a deal for peace in Ukraine. The …
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(Reuters) – It is not viable for Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez to enter the country, his ally Maria Corina Machado said on Friday, shortly after President Nicolas Maduro was sworn in for a third term despite months of controversy over the country’s contested July election. On Thursday Machado was briefly detained after leaving a …
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By Matt Spetalnick and Marianna Parraga WASHINGTON/HOUSTON (Reuters) -The United States on Friday imposed new sanctions on eight Venezuelan officials and increased to $25 million the reward it is offering for the arrest of President Nicolas Maduro on the day of his inauguration to a third term following a disputed election last year. It was …
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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations and Israel are arguing over who must fill the gap if U.N. Palestinian relief agency UNRWA stops working in the Gaza Strip and West Bank later this month when an Israeli law comes into force. UNRWA still operates in the Palestinian territories but it is …
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OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada on Friday imposed sanctions on 14 current and former senior officials of the Venezuelan government, alleging that they had engaged in activities that have supported human rights violations in Venezuela. The sanctions coincide with measures taken by Canada’s allies including the United States and United Kingdom, and “demonstrate a message of …
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By Timour Azhari and John Irish BEIRUT/DAMASCUS (Reuters) – U.S., French and German envoys have warned Syria’s new Islamist rulers that their appointment of foreign jihadists to senior military posts is a security concern and bad for their image as they try to forge ties with foreign states, two sources familiar with the matter said. …
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By Jonathan Stempel and Chris Prentice WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Vince McMahon, the former World Wrestling Entertainment chief executive, settled U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charges he concealed from the company’s board two settlement agreements worth $10.5 million with women who had potential claims against him. The SEC said on Friday that McMahon’s actions circumvented …
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BEIRUT (Reuters) – Newly elected Lebanese President Joseph Aoun will hold consultations with members of parliament from Jan. 13 to nominate a prime minister, the presidency said on Friday. Once named, the new prime minister must form a government, a process that often takes many months. Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati is widely seen as …
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By Sara Merken (Reuters) – Damian Williams, the former top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, will return to law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison as a partner in New York, the firm said on Friday. Williams was appointed U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York in 2021 by outgoing Democratic President Joe …
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