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By Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) – Piers Morgan, the former editor of British tabloid the Daily Mirror, knew about phone hacking, Prince Harry’s biographer said on Monday as he gave evidence as part of the royal’s lawsuit against the newspaper’s publisher. Harry, King Charles’ younger son, and more than 100 others are suing Mirror Group …

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MILAN (Reuters) – Italian eyewear group Safilo is discussing the sale of its biggest plant in Italy to another company active in the sector, union sources told Reuters on Monday. Earlier this year Safilo said it was studying the sale of its plant in Longarone, in the northeast of Italy, due to overcapacity. The potential …

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PAPHOS, Cyprus (Reuters) – A British pensioner on trial for murder over the death of his terminally ill wife told a Cyprus court on Monday she had repeatedly begged him to end her torment and help her die. David Hunter, 75, is accused of killing his wife of 56 years, Janice, who suffered from terminal …

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BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany will almost halve planned capacity for liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals in the Baltic Sea, a government source said, as Berlin revaluates its LNG needs given local resistance and an easing of energy bottlenecks. Two floating LNG terminals are to be sited at Mukran off the Ruegen coast with annual capacity …

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By Dmitry Zhdannikov, Marwa Rashad and Christoph Steitz LONDON/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – German energy firms Sefe and Uniper have awarded some traders millions of dollars in bonuses for 2022, four sources familiar with the matter said, just months after the companies were rescued with multi-billion bailouts as Russia halted gas supplies. Germany has so far provided …

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(Reuters) -Ofcom, Britain’s communications regulator, said it launched an investigation on Monday into Royal Mail’s failure to meet delivery targets over the past year, adding it would consider imposing a financial penalty. Royal Mail blamed union disputes that led to strikes for its failure to meet the targets for the year to end-March, 2023. In …

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ROME (Reuters) – Italy on Monday earmarked 30 million euros ($33 million) to improve the skills of unemployed people as well as those workers whose jobs could be most at risk from the advance of automation and artificial intelligence. According to the Fondo per la Repubblica Digitale (FRD), set up in 2021 by the Rome …

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By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Microsoft has won EU antitrust approval for its $69 billion Activision takeover, which was vetoed by Britain, after regulators said its offer of free 10-year licensing deals to gamers and cloud streaming rivals addressed their concerns. The European Commission said on Monday that the biggest-ever deal in gaming …

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SOFIA (Reuters) – European Commissioner Mariya Gabriel, a member of Bulgaria’s centre-right GERB party, received a mandate on Monday to form a new cabinet following last month’s elections. President Rumen Radev met Gabriel, who is European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, to give her the mandate. She will have seven days to …

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By Blake Brittain WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc’s challenge to a $235 million award to GlaxoSmithKline LLC in a patent dispute over generic drugs involving a heart medication. The justices turned away Israel-based Teva’s appeal of a lower court’s ruling reinstating the jury award …

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