(Reuters) – British drugmaker GSK plc, has poached Burberry Group’s finance chief to create a rare all-female executive leadership team, Sky News reported on Saturday. GSK could announce as soon as Monday morning that it has recruited Julie Brown to re…
More than 730 detained in anti-mobilisation protests across Russia – rights group
MOSCOW (Reuters) – More than 730 people were detained across Russia at protests against a mobilisation order on Saturday, a rights group said, three days after President Vladimir Putin ordered Russia’s first military draft since World War Two for the c…
Germany’s Scholz seeks to deepen energy partnership with Saudi Arabia
JEDDAH (Reuters) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Saturday after a meeting with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman that he wants to deepen the energy partnership between the two countries. Speaking to reporters, Scholz said that the…
Complaints about Russia’s chaotic mobilisation grow louder
By Kevin Liffey LONDON (Reuters) -The strongly pro-Kremlin editor of Russia’s state-run RT news channel expressed anger on Saturday that enlistment officers were sending call-up papers to the wrong men, as frustration about a military mobilisation grew…
Poland says Baltic Pipe gas supplies may be double expected level in Q4
WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland should get double the amount of gas originally expected through the new Baltic Pipe from Norway in the fourth quarter thanks to work in Denmark being completed earlier than expected, a top Polish official was quoted as saying …
Hedge funds dashed to exit energy positions last week – data
(This Sept 23 story corrects to remove paragraph 7 to take out quote, no other changes to text) By Nell Mackenzie LONDON (Reuters) – Hedge funds around the world fled positions in energy stocks, bonds and futures last week just in time to miss this wee…
Credit Suisse aims for stronger franchise from global review – memo
By Scott Murdoch HONG KONG (Reuters) – Credit Suisse’s top two executives have told staff the bank is working to establish a stronger franchise in the longer term, according to a memo seen by Reuters on Saturday, amid uncertainty over a global review o…
Storm Fiona rips into Canada’s east coast destroying homes and roads
By Eric Martyn and John Morris HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (Reuters) -Powerful storm Fiona slammed into eastern Canada on Saturday with hurricane-force winds, forcing evacuations, blowing over trees and powerlines, and reducing many homes to “just a pile of r…
French MPs want inquiry into alleged Russian party financing
PARIS (Reuters) – Members of the French National Assembly said on Saturday they had asked the president of the lower house of the country’s parliament to set up an investigation committee to look into alleged Russian financing of political parties. In …
Ukraine ports have shipped around 4.7 million tonnes of food under grain deal – ministry
KYIV (Reuters) – A total of 211 ships with 4.7 million tonnes of agricultural products on board have left Ukraine so far under a deal brokered by the United Nations and Turkey to unblock Ukrainian sea ports, the Ukrainian infrastructure ministry said o…