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DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Israeli military on Monday renewed its calls for mass evacuations from the southern town of Khan Younis, where tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians have sought refuge in recent weeks, as it widened its ground offensive and bombarded targets across the Gaza Strip. The expanded offensive, following the collapse of a weeklong cease-fire, is aimed at eliminating Gaza’s Hamas rulers, whose Oct. 7 […]

By Makiko Yamazaki and Ritsuko Shimizu TOKYO (Reuters) – The Tokyo stock bourse’s rare call for better capital efficiency has made Japanese companies scrambling to compile action plans to avoid being seen as laggards, the chief of Mizuho Financial Group’s trust banking unit told Reuters. “There has been a sense of urgency brewing among companies” ahead of January, when the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) starts publishing a list of companies […]

(Reuters) – There is no “plan B” for the opening ceremony of the Paris 2024 Olympic Summer Games, the French sports minister said on Monday, after a man armed with a knife and hammer killed a German tourist and left two people wounded near the Eiffel Tower on Saturday. “We have no plan B, we have a plan in which there are several sub-plans with a certain number of adjustment […]

ROME (Reuters) – Two people have been arrested in Italy for spreading online terrorist propaganda linked to militant groups Palestine Islamic Jihad, Islamic State and al-Qaeda, police in the northern city of Brescia said Monday. The suspects are a Pakistani national and an Italian citizen of Pakistani origin, a statement said. They were apprehended following a investigation that started in October 2022, they said. On Sunday, Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi […]

BEIJING (Reuters) – The China-EU summit will be held on Thursday in Beijing, China’s foreign ministry said on Monday, where leaders of both sides will discuss strategic and global economic issues of common interest. “China and Europe are partners, not rivals … our common interests far outweigh our differences,” foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said at a regular press briefing. Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet with President of the […]

BERLIN (Reuters) – German exports unexpectedly fell in October, edging down 0.2% on the previous month as demand in the European Union slumped, data from the federal statistics office showed on Monday. The result compared with a forecast 1.1% increase in a LSEG poll, following a strong 2.5% fall in September. Exports to EU countries shrank by 2.7% in October, the office said. The trade data follows a November survey […]

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Aspen Pharmacare will buy the Chinese business of Swiss group Sandoz, including commercialisation rights and intellectual property for some established products and those in the pipeline, for up to 92.6 million euros ($100.6 million), the South African company said on Monday. Aspen Global Incorporated, a subsidiary of Aspen, will also dispose of the commercialisation rights and related intellectual property for four anaesthetic products currently sold by Aspen […]

KYIV (Reuters) – The first 30 lorries passed through the newly opened Uhryniv-Dolhobychuv crossing on the Ukrainian-Polish border, which Kyiv expects will unblock main land corridors amid protests by Polish drivers, Ukraine’s border service said on Monday. Those protests, over what Polish truckers see as unfair competition from their Ukrainian peers, started on Nov. 6, with four border crossings now under blockade. Polish hauliers’ main demand is to stop Ukrainian […]

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Spotify will reduce its total headcount by around 17% across the company, it said in an email on Monday, after laying of 6% of this staff in January citing higher costs. In the latest third quarter, the company swung to a profit aided by price hikes in its streaming services and growth in subscribers in all regions, and forecast that its number of monthly listeners would reach […]