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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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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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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By Michel Rose and Dominique Vidalon PARIS (Reuters) -U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, French President Emmanuel Macron and Ukraine’s leader Volodymyr Zelenskiy held talks in Paris on Saturday, brought together by a grand ceremony to mark the reopening of Notre-Dame Cathedral. Macron convened the trilateral meeting ahead of an evening event he was hosting to celebrate …
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Factory shutdowns would be a wrong move by Volkswagen, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said, adding that Europe’s largest carmaker had a responsibility to its employees. Volkswagen is in a bitter dispute with staff over pay cuts and possible plant closures aimed at countering high costs in Germany and massively cheaper Asian rivals …
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By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli strikes in Gaza killed at least 34 Palestinians on Saturday, health officials in the enclave said, as Qatar voiced hope of fresh momentum in efforts to reach a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas. The health officials said that an Israeli strike hit a house in Gaza City late …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Manchester City’s Rico Lewis bagged a second-half goal before being shown a red card in the dying minutes as his struggling team could only manage a point in a 2-2 Premier League draw with Crystal Palace at a wet and windy Selhurst Park on Saturday. Erling Haaland also scored for Pep Guardiola’s City, …
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By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Francis led a ceremony in St. Peter’s Basilica on Saturday to install 21 new Catholic cardinals with a large bruise on his chin, which the Vatican said was the result of a minor fall the previous morning. Francis, who turns 88 this month, appeared otherwise on good form, …
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By Alexander Cornwell MANAMA, Bahrain (Reuters) – The U.S. believes that an alleged sweeping Chinese cyber espionage campaign known as Salt Typhoon targeted and recorded telephone calls of “very senior” American political figures, a White House official said on Saturday. The comments by Anne Neuberger, the U.S. deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging …
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