FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Pilots at Lufthansa’s budget airline Eurowings plan to go on a three-day strike on Monday after talks failed, pilots’ union Vereinigung Cockpit (VC) said on Friday. A one-day strike earlier this month saw Eurowings operate at half…
Analysis-Battered UK markets need more than policy U-Turn before confidence returns
By Yoruk Bahceli and Nell Mackenzie LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Liz Truss and new finance minister Jeremy Hunt will have to do a lot more than Friday’s U-turn on corporation tax to restore Britain’s credibility with financial markets afte…
Some EU countries want billion-euro chip plan to also fund current chips
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Some EU countries want the bloc’s billion-euro chip plan to fund the production of current cutting edge chips and not just first-of-its kind chips proposed by the European Commission, according to an EU document see…
Polish foreign ministry summons Israeli ambassador over student trip comments
WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland’s foreign ministry has summoned Israel’s ambassador for Monday, a Polish deputy minister said on Friday, after the diplomat criticised the government for not allowing student trips from Israel to visit Holocaust memorial sites…
Chad names ex-rebels as ministers in new unity government
By Mahamat Ramadane N’DJAMENA (Reuters) – Chad has named several former rebels to ministerial posts in its new national unity government, which was formed on Friday and will lead the country for the next two years until elections. The government is the…
UK corporation tax to rise to 25% as PM Truss U-turns
LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s corporation tax will rise to 25% from April next year, Prime Minister Liz Truss said on Friday just hours after sacking her finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng, U-turning on a promise not to go ahead with the hike. In a Sept. 23…
CGT union shuns TotalEnergies talks as French petrol crisis drags on
By Caroline Pailliez PARIS (Reuters) -The CGT union at the core of a weeks-long strike at oil major TotalEnergies slammed the door to talks on Friday, leaving more moderate unions to reach a wage deal as industrial action continues to leave French petr…
Factbox-Turkey’s strict new press and social media ‘disinformation’ law
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey’s parliament on Thursday adopted a law proposed by President Tayyip Erdogan’s party that would jail journalists and social media users for up to three years for spreading “disinformation”, despite deep concerns over free speec…
Turkish opposition calls new media law ‘censorship’, will appeal to top court
By Mert Ozkan and Jonathan Spicer ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey’s main opposition group said on Friday it would ask the top court to throw out new media legislation that would jail people for spreading “misinformation”, calling the measures unprecedented c…
Harry Potter actor Robbie Coltrane dies aged 72
LONDON (Reuters) -Robbie Coltrane, the larger-than-life Scottish actor who played the beloved half-giant Hagrid in the Harry Potter films, died on Friday at the age of 72, his agent said. Coltrane’s more than four-decade-long career ranged from roles i…