By Valentina Za MILAN (Reuters) -UniCredit is ready to sit down with Credit Agricole, a spokesperson for the Italian bank said in a LinkedIn post after the French lender increased its potential stake in Unicredit’s takeover target Banco BPM. UniCredit’s bid for its smaller peer prompted Credit Agricole to say on Friday it had entered …
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(Reuters) – Burkina Faso’s military government has appointed Rimtalba Jean Emmanuel Ouedraogo as prime minister of the transition after it fired Apollinaire Joachim Kyelem de Tambela, and dissolved the government on Friday, a statement said on Saturday. Ouedraogo was communication minister and spokesman of the previous government. No reason was given for the dismissal of …
By Suleiman Al-Khalidi and Timour Azhari AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) -Syrian government forces abandoned the key city of Homs on Saturday after less than a day of fighting, leaving President Bashar al-Assad’s 24-year rule dangling by a thread with insurgents also advancing towards the capital Damascus. Since the rebels’ sweep into Aleppo a week ago, government defences …
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Hamas released a video claiming to show Israeli hostage Matan Zangauker in captivity on Saturday. In the video a man who introduces himself as Matan Zangauker, 24, can be seen pleading with the Israeli leaders to make a deal that would bring captives being held by Hamas in Gaza back to Israel. …
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MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) – Solving Manchester United’s dreadful defending at set pieces has quickly become one of the main priorities for new head coach Ruben Amorim, whose best-laid tactical plans have been left in ruins due to his side’s failure to clear the danger at corners. Nottingham Forest needed just 90 seconds to score from …
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(Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron shared an intense series of handshakes on Saturday, reminiscent of the white-knuckled grip-off that marked a meeting between the two leaders more than seven years ago. Visiting Paris to attend the reopening of the Notre-Dame cathedral, Trump was greeted by Macron at the steps …
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By Maxwell Akalaare Adombila and Christian Akorlie ACCRA (Reuters) -Ghana voted in a presidential and parliamentary election on Saturday amid hopes for an economic revival after the worst financial crisis in a generation, which led to a major debt default in the West African nation. President Nana Akufo-Addo is stepping down next month after serving …
PARIS (Reuters) -Iran’s acceleration in its enrichment of uranium to close to bomb grade is “extremely serious”, has no civilian justification and contradicts Tehran’s assertions on wanting serious nuclear negotiations, a Western diplomatic source said on Saturday. Iran has long denied seeking nuclear weapons. Its foreign ministry said on Saturday that Tehran’s nuclear programme is …
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By Ju-min Park, Joyce Lee and Cynthia Kim SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol survived an impeachment vote in parliament on Saturday prompted by his short-lived attempt to impose martial law this week, but the leader of his own party said the president would eventually step down. Yoon’s People Power Party boycotted the …
MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) – Manchester United’s weakness from set pieces was exploited again as they fell to a 3-2 Premier League defeat by Nottingham Forest at Old Trafford on Saturday, continuing a rocky start to the reign of new head coach Ruben Amorim. Forest’s first win at Old Trafford in 30 years moves them up …
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