AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Dutch brewer Heineken has asked regulators in the Russian Federation to approve the sale of its business in Russia. “If and when we have approval, we will share further details about the buyer,” the company said on Wednesday. The disclosure was made in a trading update in which the company forecast its …
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OSLO (Reuters) -Danish police said on Wednesday they have apprehended eight employees of an energy trading company and charged them with market manipulation. The company is believed to have earned illegal profits of 100 million Danish crowns ($14.73 million) or more, police said in a statement. “Police have raided several addresses,” they said in a …
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By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday gave a boost to Texas death row inmate Rodney Reed’s bid for DNA testing of crime-scene evidence that he argues will help exonerate him in the 1996 abduction, rape and murder of a 19-year-old woman. The justices, in a 6-3 decision, overturned a lower …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Oil loadings from Russia’s western ports in April will rise to the highest since 2019, above 2.4 million barrels per day (bpd), despite Moscow’s pledge to cut output, trading and shipping sources said. Russian crude exports and transit from the ports of Primorsk, Ust-Luga and Novorossiisk in April will rise above 10 …
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BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Romania will seal and monitor Ukrainian grain cargoes transiting the country and conduct quality checks on food products at border checkpoints, the agriculture ministry said on Wednesday, stopping short of a ban on imports. European Union member states Poland, Hungary and Slovakia have imposed import bans to protect their markets from an …
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(Reuters) – The Supreme Court in military-ruled Myanmar will hear an appeal by deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi against her convictions for corruption and violating election and state secrets laws, according to a source familiar with the matter. The 77-year-old Nobel laureate is serving 33 years in prison after convictions in more than a …
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By Valentina Za MILAN (Reuters) -An Italian investor in both UniCredit and Banco BPM said on Wednesday that a merger would have “strategic value”, but any decision lay with management not shareholders. Italy’s No.2 bank UniCredit was preparing an offer for number three Banco BPM in 2022, before the Ukraine conflict forced CEO Andrea Orcel …
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