PARIS (Reuters) – Malteries Soufflet, a branch of French agribusiness group InVivo, said on Monday it had signed an agreement to take over Belgian malthouse Castle Malting, one of the oldest producers of the beer ingredient in the world. When InVivo announced the takeover of its peer Soufflet late 2021, it said it aimed to …
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By Nell Mackenzie (Reuters) -World stocks inched higher, European bond yields dropped and the dollar held firm in light trading on Monday following warnings from the International Monetary Fund’s managing director that a third of the world will fall into recession in 2023. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan rose 0.04%, just short …
BENGALURU (Reuters) -Zomato Ltd said on Monday Gunjan Patidar, the company’s co-founder and chief technical officer, had resigned after more than a decade with the Indian food delivery firm. “Patidar was one of the first few employees of Zomato and built the core tech systems for the company,” it said in a stock exchange filing. …
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BRASILIA (Reuters) -Brazil’s new finance minister, Fernando Haddad, said on Monday he would propose a new fiscal anchor in the first half of this year as leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s team works to “restore” public accounts. “We are not here for adventures,” he said, seeking to calm market jitters over the return …
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By Pavel Polityuk KYIV, Ukraine (Reuters) -Russia acknowledged on Monday that scores of its troops were killed in one of the Ukraine war’s deadliest strikes, drawing demands from nationalist bloggers for commanders to be punished for housing soldiers alongside an ammunition dump. Russia’s defence ministry said 63 soldiers had died in the fiery blast which …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s Prince Harry said his troubled relationship with the royal family “never needed to be this way” and he wants to get his father King Charles and his brother “back”, in an excerpt from an interview with broadcaster ITV released on Monday. “It never needed to be this way,” he said in the …
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) -The Bank of Israel on Monday raised its benchmark interest rate by half a point, the seventh straight meeting at which it has increased rates to try to curb inflation that remains above 5%. The central bank as expected lifted its key rate to a 14-year high of 3.75% from 3.25%. In April, …
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(Reuters) -Russia’s Defence Ministry said on Monday that 63 Russian soldiers had been killed in a Ukrainian New Year’s Eve attack on their quarters in the Russian-controlled part of Ukraine’s Donetsk province. Footage posted online showed a building purported to be a vocational college in the town of Makiivka, twin city of the regional capital …
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By Josh Arslan and Norihiko Shirouzu BEIJING (Reuters) -Some people in the Chinese cities of Beijing, Shanghai and Wuhan braved the cold and a rise in COVID-19 infections to return to regular activity on Monday, raising the prospect of a boost to the economy as more recover from infections. Among those who gathered to sled …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) -India has proposed a body for the online gaming industry to regulate itself as concerns rise over the addictiveness of games and as patchy state laws disrupt business, in draft amendments to its information technology rules published on Monday. The proposal comes after a government panel recommended new rules to regulate a …
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