By Michael Holden and Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) -Prince Harry on Tuesday lost his legal bid to challenge the British government’s refusal to let him pay for his own police protection when he is in the United Kingdom. Harry, King Charles’ younger son, was stripped of the police security usually afforded to royal figures in …
By Michel Rose and Tassilo Hummel PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron will meet Sam Altman, the Silicon Valley businessman who rose to fame with ChatGPT, on Tuesday to discuss the place of France and Europe in the global race for artificial intelligence (AI), his office said. Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI who recently …
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By Svea Herbst-Bayliss NEW YORK (Reuters) – One of Diversified Healthcare Trust’s (DHC) largest shareholders is opposing the real estate investment trust’s merger with Office Properties Income Trust (OPI), saying the deal undervalues the REIT by 90% and there are better alternatives to an all-share deal. Flat Footed LLC, which holds a 7.4% stake, said …
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By Sergio Goncalves LISBON (Reuters) – Portugal’s government plans to further slash one of Europe’s heaviest public debt burdens and reach a debt-to-GDP ratio below that of Spain and France in 2023 by sticking to budget controls, Finance Minister Fernando Medina said on Tuesday. Despite a Europe-wide economic slowdown, the government is targeting a budget …
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By Foo Yun Chee LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) -EU competition regulators appealed to the bloc’s highest court on Tuesday to override a lower tribunal and make Apple pay a record 13 billion euros ($14.3 billion) in Irish back taxes. The case, which has far-reaching implications for corporate tax bills, is the most high-profile of EU antitrust chief …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Britain said on Tuesday it would remove the right of some international students to bring family members into the country, part of measures to bring down annual net migration which reached a record last year. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has pledged to bring down legal migration and said last week that he was …
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By Pietro Lombardi MADRID (Reuters) – Big Western wind turbine makers need direct financial support to make the investments needed to aid decarbonisation, Siemens Gamesa’s operating chief said on Tuesday. The challenge for a turbine maker like Siemens Gamesa, a unit of Germany’s Siemens Energy, to grow is that it needs to invest billions of …
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By Philip Blenkinsop BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union and the United States are set to step up cooperation on artificial intelligence with a view to establishing minimum standards before legislation enters force, the EU’s tech chief Margrethe Vestager said on Tuesday. The European Union’s AI Act could be the world’s first comprehensive legislation governing …
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By Chiara Elisei LONDON (Reuters) – The share of lower-rated European junk debt coming due within the next three years is at its highest since at least 2015, Deutsche Bank said on Tuesday, a sign the weakest borrowers may struggle to repay their debt as rates rises bite. The bank added that in the absence …
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By Kirstin Ridley LONDON (Reuters) -The UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has agreed to pay a substantial settlement a former prosecutor who was wrongfully fired while leading one of the agency’s highest-profile bribery investigations. Â Â Â Tom Martin, who led the British part of the global investigation into the Ahsani family and their Monaco-based energy consultancy …
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