(Reuters) -Online gaming company Kindred Group confirmed on Sunday it has received a cash takeover bid from French group La Francaise des Jeux. The offer will be announced on Monday before the market opens, Kindred said in a statement, noting that FDJ would acquire its entire outstanding share capital. The Wall Street Journal first reported …
By Andrew Osborn and Maxim Rodionov (Reuters) -Russian energy company Novatek said on Sunday it had been forced to suspend some operations at a huge Baltic Sea fuel export terminal due to a fire started by what Ukrainian media said was a drone attack. The giant Ust-Luga complex, located on the Gulf of Finland about …
BOURNEMOUTH (Reuters) -Liverpool moved five points clear at the top of the Premier League with a 4-0 demolition of Bournemouth that extended their unbeaten league run to 14 games on Sunday. The visitors were frustrated in a cagey first half of few goal-scoring chances but found a higher gear after the break with Darwin Nunez …
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DUBLIN (Reuters) -British journalist Ian Bailey, chief suspect in the 1996 murder of a French film producer in Ireland that triggered an extradition battle between the countries, died on Sunday of a suspected heart attack, his solicitor said. Bailey was sentenced in absentia to 25 years in jail by a French court in 2019 for …
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AL-ARISH, Egypt (Reuters) – About 1,000 people from Gaza have been treated in a French field hospital aboard a ship off the coast of Egypt, its captain said, providing care for some as health infrastructure in the war-devastated enclave collapses. The Dixmude, a French helicopter carrier, has been docked in the Egyptian port of al-Arish, …
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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis on Sunday called for the release of hostages, including six nuns, who were kidnapped on a bus in Haiti on Friday, and said he was praying for social harmony in the country. Armed gunmen hijacked a bus in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince with at least six nuns on board and …
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WARSAW (Reuters) -Polish President Andrzej Duda on Sunday criticized the European Commission for blocking EU funds in what he said had been “an attempt to force Poland to change” its government, adding he was open to negotiations over changes in the justice system. Poland’s last government led by the nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party …
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(Reuters) – Russia’s state RIA news agency said on Sunday it had calculated that the West stood to lose assets and investments worth at least $288 billion if it confiscated frozen Russian assets to help rebuild Ukraine and Moscow then retaliated. After President Vladimir Putin sent forces into Ukraine in February 2022, the U.S. and …
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(Reuters) – Switzerland hosting peace talks on Ukraine would be “pointless”, Russia’s ambassador to Switzerland said in an interview published on Sunday. At the World Economic Forum in Davos last week, Ukraine’s President Volodymr Zelenskiy asked Switzerland to organise a peace summit. Neutral Switzerland has acted as a broker to resolve international conflicts in the …
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(Reuters) -England batter Harry Brook has withdrawn from the squad for their tour of India due to personal reasons, the country’s cricket board (ECB) said on Sunday. England have called up Dan Lawrence, who last played a test match in March 2022, to replace 24-year-old Brook in the squad. “The Brook family respectfully requests privacy …
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