By Elvira Pollina MILAN (Reuters) -Italian state lender CDP and its partners have asked for more time to clinch a deal to buy Telecom Italia’s (TIM) network assets, TIM said on Monday, further delaying a project to create a unified broadband champion. …
France taps strategic fuel stocks to avoid sugar factory stoppages
By Sybille de La Hamaide PARIS (Reuters) – France has released strategic fuel reserves for sugar producers after they warned that a lack of diesel impacting the harvesting of sugar beet could lead to factory stoppages, producer group SNFS said on Monda…
Cricket-Yorkshire’s Rafiq, Gale reprimanded for historical social media posts
(Reuters) – Former Yorkshire spinner Azeem Rafiq and ex-head coach Andrew Gale are among five players who have been reprimanded by England’s Cricket Discipline Commission (CDC) for historical social media posts, the country’s cricket board (ECB) said. …
UAE’s ADNOC to open Swiss trading office next year
LONDON (Reuters) – The trading arm of Abu Dhabi National Oil Co (ADNOC) is set to open an office in Geneva next year and a representative office in London, four sources familiar with the matter said. ADNOC declined to comment. It has been building up a…
Anti-nuclear Austria seeks allies against EU green investment rules
By Matthias Williams and Kate Abnett BERLIN/BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Austria said on Monday it is seeking to enlist other European Union countries to oppose labelling investment in gas and nuclear power as “green”. Vienna on Friday filed a legal challenge a…
Breakaway church gives gay ex-monk what Vatican would deny him: a holy wedding
By Louisa Off and Sarah Marsh MUNICH (Reuters) – Anselm Bilgri, a former monk and prior at one of Germany’s most famous monasteries, had to leave the Roman Catholic Church to wed his long-term male partner. Now he hopes their wedding within a breakaway…
Amazon.com to invest over 1 billion euros in European electric van, truck fleet
By Nick Carey LONDON (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc said on Monday it will invest more than 1 billion euros ($974.8 million) over the next five years in electric vans, trucks and low-emission package hubs across Europe, accelerating its drive to achieve ne…
Putin warns Ukraine of harsh response to any attack
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday warned Ukraine that there would be a harsh response if there were any further attacks such as that on the Crimean Bridge. Following are Putin’s remarks, translated by Reuters, at the opening…
Malaysian PM calls for early polls as ruling party seeks to rise above graft cases
By A. Ananthalakshmi, Rozanna Latiff and Mei Mei Chu KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) -Malaysian Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob on Monday called an early election, aiming to win a stronger mandate and end political instability since the multi-billion dollar …
Iran’s morality police sanctioned by UK for ‘repression of women’
LONDON (Reuters) -Britain said on Monday it had sanctioned senior Iranian security officials and the country’s “so-called Morality Police”, saying the force had used threats of detention and violence to control what Iranian women wear and how they beha…