By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) -EU antitrust regulators are investigating the video licensing policy of the Alliance for Open Media (AOM), whose members include Alphabet unit Google, Amazon, Apple and Meta, the European Commission said on Thursday….
Disney says Disneyland’s Facebook, Instagram accounts hacked
(Reuters) – Disneyland Resort’s Facebook and Instagram accounts were hacked earlier on Thursday with a series of inappropriate posts that were subsequently taken down, Walt Disney Co said. “We worked quickly to remove the reprehensible content, secure …
UK coal mine decision delayed as politics intervenes
By Susanna Twidale LONDON (Reuters) -A UK government decision on whether to allow a new coal mine in Cumbria, northwest England, was delayed for up to six weeks after Michael Gove, the minister responsible for the relevant department, was sacked by Pri…
Putin says Russia just starting in Ukraine, peace talks will get harder with time
By Mark Trevelyan LONDON (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia had barely got started in Ukraine and dared the West to try to defeat it on the battlefield. In an ultra-hawkish speech to parliamentary leaders more than four mo…
Motor racing-Hamilton believes he will win again this year
By Alan Baldwin (Reuters) – Seven-times Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton is confident he will win again with Mercedes this season after recent car upgrades. The 37-year-old Briton said it would be hard to win Sunday’s Austrian Grand Prix, home…
Genoa bridge trial opens 4 years after disaster, set to last months
By Emilio Parodi GENOA, Italy (Reuters) -The trial of 59 people facing an array of charges over the deadly collapse of a motorway bridge in the Italian port city of Genoa opened on Thursday in front of relatives of the victims, but then adjourned for t…
Russia joins G20 meeting overshadowed by Ukraine conflict
By Stanley Widianto NUSA DUA, Indonesia (Reuters) -Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will have his first close encounter with the fiercest critics of his country’s invasion of Ukraine at a G20 gathering in Indonesia that was getting under way on T…
MFE secures control of 83% of Mediaset Espana after tender offer
MILAN (Reuters) – Italy’s top commercial broadcaster MFE-MediaForEurope has secured control of around 83% of its Madrid-listed TV subsidiary Mediaset Espana’s capital, data from Spain’s stock market regulator CNMV showed on Thursday. Previously known a…
BoE’s Pill will consider bigger rate rises if needed
LONDON (Reuters) -Bank of England chief economist Huw Pill said on Thursday that he would consider a faster pace of interest rate rises to tackle “uncomfortably high” inflation, but only if needed to stop long-term price pressures from becoming entrenc…
Stocks climb with Treasury yields, Sterling climbs
By Sinéad Carew and Huw Jones NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. equities were rising with Treasury yields on Thursday as investors looked beyond upcoming rate hikes while oil prices rose with a focus on supply concerns outweighing recession fears. In fo…