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By Amy-Jo Crowley, Oliver Hirt, Andres Gonzalez and Pablo Mayo Cerqueiro LONDON(Reuters) – Swiss stock market operator SIX Group is considering a bid for fund distribution company Allfunds, according to two sources with knowledge of the situation, a move that could be complicated by the difficulty of raising acquisition financing. Allfunds management is expected to …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin made his first public appearance, virtually and from home since his secret hospitalization, during a meeting on Ukraine’s military needs on Tuesday but skipped over prepared remarks that would have addressed his health. Austin, 70, was admitted to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland on Dec. …

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By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) – The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has released a slickly produced Russian-language video to try to persuade Russian intelligence employees to switch sides and work as double agents for Washington. CIA Director William Burns said in July that disaffection among some Russians over the war in Ukraine was creating a …

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By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber GENEVA (Reuters) -The World Food Programme said on Tuesday that very little food aid had made it beyond southern Gaza since the start of the conflict with Israel, and pockets of the Palestinian enclave remained at risk of famine. Israel’s offensive, launched in the wake of a deadly rampage by Hamas militants …

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(Reuters) – Microsoft’s search engine Bing, brower Edge and advertising services are likely to be out of the purview of Europe’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. European watchdogs concluded that the products are not dominant enough to be regulated as part of a five-month-long investigation …

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By Bhanvi Satija and Patrick Wingrove (Reuters) -Johnson & Johnson on Tuesday reported quarterly results just above Wall Street expectations, helped by strong sales of its blockbuster psoriasis drug Stelara, which is expected to face fresh U.S. competition from biosimilar versions next year. Separately, the New Jersey-based drugmaker has tentatively agreed to pay about $700 …

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By Daria Sito-Sucic SARAJEVO (Reuters) – European envoys, headed by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, urged Bosnia and Herzegovina on Tuesday to accelerate reforms needed for the EU to open accession negotiations with the country in March. “There is more work to be done, we need to see progress, especially … adopted laws …

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PARIS (Reuters) -French regulator CNIL said on Tuesday it had fined Amazon France Logistique 32 million euros ($35 million) for what the CNIL said was an “excessively intrusive” surveillance system set up to monitor the performance of staff. The CNIL said indicators tracking the inactivity time of employees’ scanners had been put in place, and …

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