OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) -Armed men killed at least 100 civilians in a rural district of northern Burkina Faso over the weekend, a local and a security source said on Monday. The attackers struck on Saturday night in Seytenga commune, part of Seno provinc…
Bulgarian foreign, energy ministers quit, deepening coalition crisis
SOFIA (Reuters) -Bulgaria’s foreign and energy ministers resigned on Monday after their party, the populist ITN, quit the governing coalition last week, compounding the Balkan country’s political crisis. Prime Minister Kiril Petkov has said he will try…
NATO chief says Sweden has taken “important steps” to meet Turkey’s demands
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Sweden has take important steps to meet Turkey’s demands for approving Stockholm’s NATO membership application, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Monday during a visit to Sweden. Sweden and Finland applied to join the…
ECDC warns new Omicron subvariants likely to become dominant in Europe
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control on Monday warned that the two new Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5 were set to spread widely in the European Union over the next few weeks. Though most EU countries have so far d…
Lack of M&A prospects hits Atos’ shares ahead of investor day
By Mathieu Rosemain PARIS (Reuters) – Shares in IT consulting firm Atos tumbled 10% on Monday following a news report signalling that its investor day this week may offer little progress on the potential sale of part of its activities. The French firm,…
UK pubs giant takes on insurer trio in $1.2 billion COVID trial
By Kirstin Ridley and Carolyn Cohn LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s biggest pubs group Stonegate, which is suing Zurich Insurance and two peers for 1.0 billion pounds ($1.2 billion) over lockdown losses, battled the COVID-19 pandemic “day by day, venue by …
No bodies found in hunt for British journalist, Brazil police say
By Jake Spring ATALAIA DO NORTE, Brazil (Reuters) -Brazilian police and indigenous search teams dismissed reports on Monday that they had found the bodies of a British reporter and a Brazilian indigenous expert missing in the Amazon jungle, dashing hop…
Inflation angst drags S&P 500 into bear market; bonds skid
By Koh Gui Qing and Saikat Chatterjee NEW YORK (Reuters) -Global stocks and government bonds plunged again on Monday and the dollar hit two-decade highs, as red-hot U.S. inflation fuelled worries about even more aggressive policy tightening in a big we…
Victims of HBOS fraud offered 3 million pounds in compensation
By Iain Withers and Lawrence White LONDON (Reuters) -Victims of one of Britain’s biggest banking frauds will be offered 3 million pound ($3.66 million) compensation packages, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Monday. Halifax Bank of Sco…
Amazon offers to share data, boost rivals to dodge EU antitrust fines – sources
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Amazon has offered to share marketplace data with sellers and boost the visibility of rival products on its platform, trying to persuade EU antitrust regulators to close their investigations without a fine by the end…