(Reuters) – Double Olympic mountain bike champion Tom Pidcock has joined Swiss outfit Q36.5 Pro on a three-year contract after announcing his departure from Ineos Grenadiers at the end of the season, the Briton said on Friday. The 25-year-old all-rounder, who has been racing with Ineos since 2021, had signed a new five-year deal in …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s goal remains to find an amicable solution in negotiations on a trade deal with South America’s Mercosur bloc and it is in talks with all partners, including France, which opposed the agreement, said a government spokesperson in Berlin. “Our aim was and remains to find an amicable solution in the negotiations, …
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By David Milliken (Reuters) -The Bank of England needs to cut interest rates further as its policy stance is still very restrictive and is hurting living standards, business investment and potentially longer-term productivity, policymaker Swati Dhingra said on Friday. “A combination of all of those factors – the weak consumption, the weak investment and possible …
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(Reuters) – Jose Mourinho said the Premier League trophies he won at Chelsea were achieved fairly, responding to Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola’s comments that he had six English top-flight titles while the Portuguese coach only had three. Guardiola, whose team lost 2-0 at Liverpool on Sunday, held up six fingers to home fans to …
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By Andrius Sytas VILNIUS (Reuters) -Lithuania’s President Gitanas Nauseda said on Friday that there was a quite high probability that the two undersea fibre-optic cables that were damaged last month in the Baltic Sea were cut intentionally. Both cables, one connecting Finland and Germany and the other connecting Sweden and Lithuania, were repaired and are …
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By Robert Harvey, Marek Strzelecki and Anna Hirtenstein LONDON (Reuters) – European energy firm Varo Energy is in talks to acquire Preem’s two Swedish refineries in a bet on growing demand for low-carbon biofuels, four industry sources told Reuters. Varo has been expanding fast in Europe’s refining and fuel trading in recent years. The company …
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By Gianluca Lo Nostro, Leo Marchandon and Florence Loeve (Reuters) – Vivendi will seek shareholder approval on Monday for a proposed break-up of the French media conglomerate, facing opposition from an activist investor who says the deal only benefits its top shareholder, the Bollore group. The group led by Yannick Bollore is backing a proposal …
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa will deport Janusz Walus, a far-right extremist who assassinated anti-apartheid leader Chris Hani in 1993, to his native Poland on Friday, the government said. Walus, 71, served nearly 30 years of a life sentence for Hani’s murder in a South African prison. In 2022 he was released on parole, sparking …
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By Gwladys Fouche OSLO (Reuters) -Norway’s $1.8 trillion sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest, can start selling stocks it holds in Russian companies, as long as it complies with international sanctions, the deputy finance minister told Reuters on Friday. “Permission to sell the fund’s Russian stocks is given on the condition that the sale can …
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LONDON (Reuters) – The United Nations’ world food price index rose in November to its highest level since April 2023, recording its biggest gain in 19 months on the back of surging vegetable oil prices, data showed on Friday. The price index, compiled by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to track the most …
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