By Stefania Spezzati LONDON (Reuters) – The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority is scrutinising allegations that some former Credit Suisse employees shared confidential information over the WhatsApp messaging platform, documents seen by Reuters show. The FCA, which regulates financial firms in the United Kingdom, is reviewing the conduct of several Credit Suisse staff in its roughly …
TBILISI (Reuters) – Two Georgian opposition leaders were ordered detained by courts in the South Caucasus country on Friday amid a crackdown on pro-European Union groups that have backed protests against the government’s freezing of EU accession talks. Protests against the EU accession freeze were set to continue on Friday, with the ruling Georgian Dream …
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By Vladyslav Smilianets and Max Hunder KYIV (Reuters) – Ukraine showed off a new locally-produced “rocket-drone” on Friday which it said could fly 700 km (430 miles) – more than twice the longest range attributed to missiles supplied by Western allies. The unmanned craft, called “Peklo” – which means hell in Ukrainian – is the …
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(Reuters) – Norwegian decathlete Sander Skotheim has been given the International Fair Play Award by World Athletics, for the unselfish support he showed to teammate and gold medallist Markus Rooth at the Paris Olympics. The 22-year-old Skotkeim failed to clear a height in the pole vault — the eighth of the 10 decathlon disciplines — …
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MILAN (Reuters) -Italian bank Banco BPM is preparing to hire Citigroup and Lazard to advise over how to confront a takeover bid by rival UniCredit which has thwarted its growth strategy, three people close to the matter said. Banco BPM, Citi and Lazard all declined to comment. Banco BPM has rebuffed UniCredit’s 10.1 billion euro …
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By Luiza Ilie, Lili Bayer, Andrew Gray BUCHAREST/BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Calin Georgescu, whose stunning victory in the first round of Romania’s presidential election was declared void on Friday, is a hard-right, self-styled outsider critical of NATO who wants to end his country’s support for its neighbour Ukraine. Romania’s top court annulled the results of the Nov. …
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MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) – The European Union and the South American bloc Mercosur of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay finalised a free trade agreement on Friday, although it faces a tough battle to secure approval by the 27 EU member states. The trade deal would be the EU’s largest in terms of the population of its …
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The Dutch government on Friday said it had extended the permit for gas drilling at the relatively small Warffum field in the north of the Netherlands to 2032. The field is close to, but not connected to, the massive Groningen field, where production has permanently been halted due to seismic risks. The …
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OSLO (Reuters) -The value of Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest, rose to a record 20 trillion crowns ($1.80 trillion) on Friday, doubling its value in just five years as oil and gas revenue flowed in and stock markets rose. Built since 1996 as rainy-day savings, the fund owns about 1.5% of all listed …
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ABU DHABI (Reuters) – Britain’s Abbi Pulling won the 2024 all-female F1 Academy title for the second time in a week on Friday after taking pole position for three season-ending races in Abu Dhabi. The Alpine driver was declared champion in Qatar last Saturday but organisers then scheduled an extra race for Yas Marina, the …
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