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Novo Holdings’ $16.5 billion Catalent buy wins EU antitrust approval

By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Novo Holdings on Friday gained unconditional EU antitrust approval for its $16.5 bln acquisition of U.S. contract drug maker Catalent after EU regulators said they did not see any competition issues. Novo Holdings, the controlling shareholder of Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk, which makes the blockbuster weight-loss drug Wegovy, said …

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Clashes break out in Athens after march to mark 2008 student killing by police

ATHENS (Reuters) – Clashes broke out between police and protesters in Athens on Friday after thousands marched to mark the 16th anniversary of the police killing of a teenage boy, whose death triggered Greece’s worst riots in decades. About 5,000 people joined the annual march to commemorate the fatal shooting of Alexandros Grigoropoulos, who was …

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Norwegian watchdog fines broker Fearnley Securities $2.3 million

OSLO (Reuters) – Norway’s Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA) said on Friday it had issued a fine to brokerage Fearnley Securities AS of 25 million Norwegian crowns ($2.26 million) for improper handling of insider information. The FSA said the brokerage had provided inside information to investors in connection with three different capital market transactions in violation …

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US State Dept approves possible $807 million sale of missiles to the Netherlands

(Reuters) – The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale of medium-range air-to-air missiles to the Netherlands for an estimated cost of $807 million, the Pentagon said on Friday. The principal contractor for the sale will be RTX Corp, the Pentagon said in a statement. (Reporting by Costas Pitas and Ismail Shakil)

Israeli forces storm into Gaza hospital, expel some staff, displaced people, its director says

By Nidal al-Mughrabi CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli forces stormed into Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya in north Gaza on Friday and expelled some staff and displaced people before withdrawing, and bodies of people killed by airstrikes littered the streets outside, its director said. The attack had begun with a series of airstrikes on the western …

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Macron, refusing to resign, struggles on in search for stable French government

By Benoit Van Overstraeten PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron began his latest search for a prime minister on Friday as the centre-left Socialists signalled they were open to joining a broad government coalition, sparking tensions inside an increasingly fragile leftwing bloc. Macron this week rejected demands to resign to resolve France’s political crisis, saying …

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Exclusive-Iran dramatically accelerating uranium enrichment to near bomb grade, IAEA says

By Alexander Cornwell, Francois Murphy and John Irish MANAMA/VIENNA (Reuters) – Iran is “dramatically” accelerating its enrichment of uranium to up to 60% purity, close to the roughly 90% level that is weapons grade, U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi told Reuters on Friday. The International Atomic Energy Agency later confirmed in a confidential report …

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Ukraine’s Zelenskiy heads to Paris with possible Trump talks in mind, sources say

PARIS (Reuters) – Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will travel to Paris to attend the re-opening of Notre-Dame cathedral on Saturday, and could use the trip to hold talks with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, two diplomatic sources said. There were efforts to arrange the meeting between Zelenskiy and Trump, who is also attending the celebrations, the …

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