By Sergio Goncalves LISBON (Reuters) – Irish-Spanish consortium IberBlue Wind plans to invest more than 4 billion euros ($4.36 billion) in two wind farms off the Atlantic coasts of Portugal and Spain, it said on Tuesday. IberBlue said in a statement it aimed to create a combined installed capacity of 1.96 gigawatts (GW), enough to …
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By Raphael Satter WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Ukrainian hackers claim to have broken into the emails of a senior Russian military spy wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for hacking the Hillary Clinton campaign and other senior U.S. Democrats ahead of Donald Trump’s election to the presidency in 2016. In a message posted to Telegram …
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(Reuters) -Britain now looks set for a shallower economic hit this year than previously thought but remains on course to suffer the sharpest contraction among the world’s big economies, the International Monetary Fund said on Tuesday. British gross domestic product will contract by 0.3% in 2023, the IMF said in its latest set of global …
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PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, Russia (Reuters) -One of Russia’s most active volcanoes erupted on the far eastern Kamchatka peninsula on Tuesday, shooting a vast cloud of ash far into the sky that smothered villages in drifts of grey volcanic dust and triggered an aviation warning. The Shiveluch volcano erupted just after midnight and reached a crescendo about six …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Up to one million smokers will be encouraged to swap cigarettes for “vapes”, with pregnant women offered financial incentives to make the change in what will be a world first, the British government said on Tuesday. Under the scheme, almost one in five smokers will be given a vape – an e-cigarette …
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(Reuters) – British EV startup Arrival SA said on Tuesday its shareholders, on April 6, approved a reverse stock split at a ratio of one-for-fifty to gain compliance with Nasdaq’s listing regulations. Arrival’s stock fell about 8% to $0.13 in trading before the bell. The reverse stock split will be effective on April 14. Last …
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By Andrew Osborn and Filipp Lebedev MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia is ready to introduce electronic military draft papers for the first time in its history in an effort to make it harder for men to avoid being drafted after the lower house of parliament gave its backing to the move. The State Duma, the lower chamber, …
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By James Davey LONDON (Reuters) – Sainsbury’s, Britain’s second-largest supermarket group, on Tuesday began offering lower prices on more than 300 items to the 18 million members of its Nectar loyalty scheme, rivalling a similar initiative at market leader Tesco. Dominated by Tesco and challenged by German discounters Aldi and Lidl, Britain’s supermarket sector has …
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By Muvija M LONDON (Reuters) -Britain named Anne Keast-Butler as the first female director of its intelligence communications agency GCHQ on Tuesday, tasked with protecting the country from terrorists, cyber-criminals and malign foreign powers. She will take over the role in May, succeeding Jeremy Fleming who is stepping down after a six-year tenure. Foreign Secretary …
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By Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) – A 23-year-old bank employee armed with a rifle shot dead five colleagues and wounded nine other people at his workplace in Louisville on Monday while livestreaming the attack on social media, police said. The gunman was fatally shot at the scene, Louisville police said. It was unclear whether he was …
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