By James Davey LONDON (Reuters) -Updates next week from Britain’s biggest retailers including Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Marks & Spencer are expected to confirm that while Christmas was not the disaster that some had feared, consumer demand is set to weaken in 2023, denting profit. Ahead of Christmas, European retailers fretted that the key trading period …
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By Krishn Kaushik and Devjyot Ghoshal PANIPAT, India (Reuters) – An old Bollywood film song playing on loop exhorted travellers to keep walking as opposition leader Rahul Gandhi and an entourage marched through northern India’s Panipat city on a frigid morning last week, trailed by hundreds of people. Gandhi began walking the length of the …
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By Siddhi Nayak MUMBAI (Reuters) – The Indian government will target reducing its budget deficit ahead of the upcoming national election in 2024 without losing focus on long-term economic growth, DBS Bank’s chief economist told Reuters on Monday. “We expect the budget to chart a path towards some fiscal consolidation,” said Taimur Baig, who is …
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Por Christoph Steitz, Stephane Nitschke y Andreas Kranz CASTROP-RAUXEL, Alemania, 8 ene (Reuters) – La policía alemana ha detenido a un ciudadano iraní de 32 años sospechoso de haber adquirido los venenos mortales cianuro y ricina para cometer un ataque “de motivación islamista”, según informaron el domingo las autoridades del oeste de Alemania. La residencia …
Por Anthony Boadle BRASILIA, 9 ene (Reuters) – El Tribunal Supremo de Brasil destituyó a última hora del domingo al gobernador de Brasilia durante 90 días por fallos en la seguridad de la capital, después de que miles de partidarios del expresidente ultraderechista Jair Bolsonaro saquearan edificios gubernamentales. El juez del Tribunal Supremo Alexandre de …
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Frankfurt (Reuters) – Der Pharmakonzern AstraZeneca will mit einem Milliardenzukauf in den USA sein Angebot an Herz- und Nierenmedikamenten ausbauen. Für die US-Biotechfirma CinCor legt AstraZeneca bis zu 1,8 Milliarden Dollar auf den Tisch, wie das Unternehmen am Montag mitteilte. Je CinCor-Aktie zahlt der Konzern 26 Dollar in Bar – ein Aufschlag von rund 121 …
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BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Monday condemned the storming of key government buildings in Brazil by supporters of former president Jair Bolsonaro, saying the coordinated invasion represented an attack on democracy and cannot be tolerated. “The violent attacks on democratic institutions are an attack on democracy that cannot be tolerated,” said Scholz …
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By Gabriel Stargardter RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – The United States has a Jair Bolsonaro problem. The far-right former Brazilian president flew to Florida two days before his term ended on Jan. 1, having challenged the Oct. 30 election he lost to leftist rival Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. But Bolsonaro left behind a violent …
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Por Gabriel Stargardter RIO DE JANEIRO, 9 ene (Reuters) – Estados Unidos tiene un problema con Jair Bolsonaro. El expresidente brasileño de extrema derecha voló a Florida dos días antes de que terminara su mandato el 1 de enero, tras haber impugnado las elecciones del 30 de octubre que perdió frente a su rival izquierdista …
(Reuters) – UK competition watchdog on Monday called for an in-depth probe into the potential joint venture between Dutch animal feed maker ForFarmers and British firm Boparan. The Competition and Markets Authority said the undertakings offered by ForFarmers and Boparan did not provide reasonable solution to the substantial lessening of competition pointed out by the …
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