(Reuters) -Pendragon Plc said on Monday it had received an unsolicited preliminary proposal from its largest shareholder Hedin Mobility Group offering to buy the British car dealer for about 406 million pounds ($429.67 million) The cash offer, made on …
Japan won’t intervene to defend 145 yen line-in-the-sand: ex-top FX diplomat
By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan likely won’t intervene in the currency market to defend a line-in-the-sand such as 145 yen versus the dollar, and instead limit any further action to smoothing operations aimed at taming volatility, former top cu…
Cricket-Late drama as Pakistan level T20 series against England
(Reuters) – Mohammad Rizwan scored a fluent 88 and Haris Rauf and Mohammed Nawaz took three wickets each as Pakistan edged England by three runs in a rollercoaster finish to the fourth Twenty20 in Karachi on Sunday to square the seven-match series at 2…
Eyes on Belgium as some EU states push for Russian diamond ban
By Gabriela Baczynska and Philip Blenkinsop BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union must stop importing diamonds from Russia, five of the bloc’s 27 countries said in a joint proposal seen by Reuters, as the EU prepares new sanctions against Moscow for …
Italy’s right-wing, led by Meloni, set to win election
By Crispian Balmer and Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) – A right-wing alliance led by Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party was on course for a clear majority in the next parliament, giving the country its most right-wing government since World War Two…
Lavrov, at the UN, pledges ‘full protection’ for any territory annexed by Russia
By Michelle Nichols, Humeyra Pamuk and Daphne Psaledakis UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -Russia’s top diplomat on Saturday said regions of Ukraine where widely-derided referendums are being held would be under Russia’s “full protection” if they are annexed b…
Iran protests Western stance on mass protests over woman’s death
DUBAI (Reuters) -Iran summoned the British and Norwegian ambassadors over what it called interference and hostile media coverage of the nationwide unrest triggered by the death of a woman detained by morality police. Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdoll…
British PM Truss tells allies to stand firm on Ukraine
By Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Liz Truss said allies should stand firm on Ukraine and ignore Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “sabre-rattling”. Truss, who met U.S. President Joe Biden and France’s Emmanuel Macron on her fi…
Russia’s partial mobilization prompts online insults from Ukraine
KYIV (Reuters) -The Ukrainian Defence Ministry on Sunday ridiculed Moscow’s partial mobilization to bolster its forces in Ukraine, posting on Twitter a mash-up of social media videos of Russian police beating and arresting men protesting the call-up. T…
In Moldova, thousands in new call for government’s resignation
By Alexander Tanas CHISINAU (Reuters) -Several thousand people protested in Moldova’s capital on Sunday for the second straight weekend to demand the resignation of the country’s pro-Western government amid mounting anger over spiralling natural gas pr…