Analysis: Gazprom loss shows struggle to fill EU gas sales gap with China
By Vladimir Soldatkin MOSCOW (Reuters) - Kremlin-owned energy kingpin Gazprom, once Russia's most profitable company, could face a long period of poor performance as it struggles to fill the gap of lost European gas sales with its domestic market a...
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Armenian police detain 88 people during anti-government protests - IFX
TBILISI (Reuters) - Armenian police detained 88 people at a protest in the capital Yerevan by demonstrators demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan over his decision to cede several border villages to Azerbaijan, Interfax news a...
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SoftBank swings to Q4 profit of $2.1 billion
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese technology giant SoftBank Group swung to a quarterly profit on Monday, reporting a net profit of 328.9 billion yen ($2.11 billion) for the January-March period. The Vision Fund investment unit booked an investment loss of...
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Factbox-Key issues for South African voters in wide open 2024 election
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africans will vote in a national election on May 29 with an unprecedented sense of uncertainty about the outcome, as polls suggest the African National Congress will lose its majority after 30 years in power. With coa...
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Glencore seeks Australian carbon capture approval amid farmer protests
By Peter Hobson CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australia's Queensland state will decide this month whether to give Glencore a key approval to bury liquefied carbon dioxide in the country's largest aquifer, a plan farm groups say must be blocked because it ri...
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Amazon to invest $1.3 billion in France, create 3,000 jobs
By Supantha Mukherjee STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Amazon said on Monday it would invest more than 1.2 billion euros ($1.3 billion) in its French operations and create more than 3,000 permanent jobs in the country. The French presidency had said on Sunday...
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Morning Bid: With US inflation, every decimal counts
By Wayne Cole (Reuters) - A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Wayne Cole. It's finally the week of the U.S. consumer price lottery, and never has a second decimal been so important. The median forecast for core CPI is 0.3%, ...
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Sanofi pledges new 1 billion euros worth of investments in French production sites
PARIS (Reuters) - Sanofi on Monday announced it would invest over 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) to create new medicines and vaccine production capacities at three of its French sites. The announcement came ahead of this year's "Choose France" even...
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Gazans strive to study as war shatters education system
By Dawoud Abu Alkas, Nidal al-Mughrabi, Aidan Lewis and Saleh Salem AL-MAWASI, Gaza (Reuters) - Pupils sitting cross-legged on the sand take classes in a tent near Khan Younis in Gaza. Two sisters connect online to a West Bank school from Cairo. A ...
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Philippine coast guard won't allow China reclamation at disputed shoal, official says
MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) is committed to sustain a presence in a disputed area of the South China Sea to ensure China does not carrying our reclamation activities at the Sabina Shoal, its spokesperson said on Monday. The ...
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