By Lisa Richwine and Rollo Ross LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Hollywood film and television writers went on strike on Tuesday, shutting down late-night TV shows, and took their demands for higher pay to the doors of major studios in a labor dispute that hinges on how the streaming boom is changing show business. Hundreds of …
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By Mathieu Rosemain and Matthieu Protard PARIS (Reuters) -BNP Paribas’s first-quarter sales beat market expectations as trading business at the eurozone’s biggest bank outperformed most of its peers, while it started to reap the benefits from rising interest rates. BNP’s quarterly profit more than doubled in the first quarter from a year earlier, bolstered by …
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By Gabriel Burin BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – The Chilean peso is set for a period of stability as economic and political worries continue to fade, validating the central bank’s decision to unwind an intervention program implemented last year to calm market turmoil, a Reuters poll showed. In July last year, the peso plunged to a …
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Three Russian navy ships were observed in the Baltic Sea in the area of the Nord Stream pipeline blasts prior to the sabotage that halted Russian gas flows to Europe in September last year, an investigation by four Nordic broadcasters has found. The Russian navy ships were traced using satellite images and …
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GENEVA (Reuters) – U.N. aid chief Martin Griffiths said on Wednesday he was working on obtaining commitments by the warring parties in Sudan to protecting humanitarian assistance to ensure it can be delivered to those in need. “We will still require agreements and arrangements to allow for movement of staff and supplies,” he told reporters …
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Por Gabriela Baczynska BRUSELAS (Reuters) – El órgano ejecutivo de la Unión Europea propuso el miércoles nuevas leyes para intensificar la lucha contra la corrupción mediante la armonización de las definiciones y penas de los delitos de corrupción en todo el bloque, así como la introducción de sanciones para los extranjeros corruptos. El proyecto entrará …
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MILAN (Reuters) – Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi will remain in hospital for treatment of leukaemia, his doctors said on Wednesday, after media speculation that he could be allowed to return home soon. Berlusconi, 86, was hospitalised on April 5 and was in intensive care for more than 10 days, stirring speculation that his …
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) – German industry still needs help with high electricity prices, the head of the country’s second-largest steelmaker Salzgitter said on Wednesday, arguing that without support it would not be possible to finance a shift to clean technologies. Plans to be firmed up soon by the economy ministry to subsidise industrial power, possibly by …
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STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Sweden’s parliament has been hit by a so called distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that has disrupted access to its web page, it said on Wednesday. The web page was partially down on Tuesday and appeared slow on Wednesday. “The analysis shows that it is a denial-of-service attack,” a parliament spokesperson said. “Right now …
LONDON (Reuters) – The Scottish National Party (SNP) on Wednesday said it had appointed auditors ahead of a July deadline to file its annual accounts with Britain’s electoral body as police continue to probe the party’s finances. The husband of former Scottish leader Nicola Sturgeon was held by police last month as part of an …
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