BEIJING (Reuters) – China will speed up the process to allow private firms to access infrastructure of major national scientific research projects and will encourage private businesses to partic[...]
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Italy’s Meloni meets Musk in Rome
ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni met with Tesla CEO Elon Musk in Rome later on Thursday, a government source said, after holding brief talks with Foreign Minister Ant[...]
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Cyberattacks on renewables: Europe power sector’s dread in chaos of war
By Nora Buli, Nina Chestney and Christoph Steitz OSLO/LONDON/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Saboteurs target a nation leading the world in clean energy. They hack into vulnerable wind and solar power sys[...]
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Pirelli CEO ‘confident’ Rome will act to curb Chinese influence over tyremaker -source
(Corrects first name of incoming Pirelli CEO in para 11) MILAN (Reuters) – Pirelli’s CEO said in a recent private meeting that he is “very confident” Rome will use its Golden P[...]
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Mondelez plans to separate Russia operations by year-end
(Reuters) – Oreo-maker Mondelez International said on Thursday it has scaled down operations in Russia and plans to make it a stand-alone business with a self-sufficient supply chain before the[...]
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Italy reassessing GLAM scheme to handle state-guaranteed loans, sources say
By Giuseppe Fonte and Valentina Za ROME (Reuters) – Italy is reassessing how it plans to deal with billions of euros’ worth of loans it guaranteed during the pandemic and energy crises in[...]
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Small funds eyeing big gains pile on Venezuela debt
By Mayela Armas, Corina Pons and Rodrigo Campos CARACAS/MADRID/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Small funds and investors outside the United States are looking to increase their exposure to Venezuelan bonds[...]
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World Bank’s new chief wants ‘better bank’ before pushing for bigger bank
By David Lawder MANDEVILLE, Jamaica (Reuters) -World Bank President Ajay Banga wants to focus on improving the development lender so that he can earn the right to press member countries for more capit[...]
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Japan’s Kishida to focus on spending, wages in policy roadmap – draft
By Takaya Yamaguchi TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s administration will pledge to boost childcare spending and focus on sustaining wage hikes in its mid-year economic po[...]
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