Woman who threw milkshake at UK’s Farage handed suspended jail sentence

LONDON (Reuters) – A woman who threw a banana milkshake over Britain’s Reform Party leader Nigel Farage during this year’s general election campaign has been handed a suspended sentence, PA Media reported on Monday. Victoria Thomas Bowen’s 13-week prison sentence was suspended for 12 months after she admitted to assault, PA said, meaning she will …

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Singapore’s Wee Hur to sell Aussie student housing portfolio for $1 billion

(Reuters) – Wee Hur Holdings, a Singapore-based real estate investment management firm, said on Monday that it will sell its student accommodation portfolio to real estate asset manager Greystar for a gross price of A$1.6 billion ($1.02 billion). Under the agreement, Wee Hur will retain an indirect stake in the portfolio via its Australian unit …

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India’s Tata faces pressure in Starbucks joint venture as consumers cut back

By Praveen Paramasivam (Reuters) -India’s Tata Consumer Products will push back plans for some new Starbucks store openings until later in its existing schedule as fewer customers are walking into its cafes in the world’s most populous country, its top boss said on Monday. “We will calibrate for the short term — maybe instead of …

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UK employers cut staffing, turn more pessimistic as budget bites

By William Schomberg LONDON (Reuters) -British businesses cut staffing by the most since the COVID pandemic and reported the sharpest confidence drop also since the lockdowns, according to two surveys that placed much of the blame on the new government’s tax increases. The preliminary S&P Global Flash Composite Purchasing Managers’ Index for December and a …

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Ghana’s president-elect plans to reform cocoa sector, restructure regulator

By Maxwell Akalaare Adombila ACCRA (Reuters) – Ghana’s president-elect, John Dramani Mahama, has pledged to revamp the cocoa sector and reorganise the state-run regulator, aiming to stimulate growth and improve efficiency in the world’s second-largest cocoa producer. In an interview with Reuters on Friday, he criticised the cocoa industry structure where the cocoa marketing board …

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‘Chai and samosas’: US hotels welcome Indian tourist boom to revive revenue

(This Dec. 11 story has been corrected to fix the organization’s name from U.S. National Trade and Tourism Office to U.S. National Travel and Tourism Office in second graphic and in paragraph 2) By Aishwarya Jain (Reuters) – U.S. hotels and travel companies are aiming to tap a surge in Indian tourists to boost revenue …

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Cricket-India’s one-man army Bumrah says fine with bowling workload

(Reuters) – Pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah has been India’s one-man army in the ongoing test series against Australia and the 31-year-old said he has no problem shouldering the massive bowling workload. Bumrah is the leading wicket-taker in the five-test series with 18 dismissals from five innings despite little support from the other end. In the …

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