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Turkish drone maker Baykar buys Italy’s Piaggio Aerospace
Date: December 27, 2024
ROME (Reuters) – Turkish drone maker Baykar has bought Italian aircraft producer Piaggio Aerospace, Italy’s industry ministry said on Friday, without disclosing financial details. Piaggio Aerospace – unconnected to Vespa scooters maker Piaggio – had been under government-controlled special administration since filing for protection from creditors in 2018. In a statement, the ministry said Baykar’s...
China’s Xi will visit Russia in 2025, Russian ambassador says
Date: December 27, 2024
(Reuters) – China’s President Xi Jinping will visit Russia in 2025, Russia’s state-run RIA news agency quoted Moscow’s ambassador to Beijing as saying early on Friday. “As for concrete bilateral events, I can say that the appropriate plans are actively being drawn up,” Ambassador Igor Morgulov told RIA. “What can be said that is no...
South Korea’s parliament impeaches acting president Han, as Yoon goes on trial
Date: December 27, 2024
By Hyunsu Yim, Joyce Lee SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea’s parliament impeached acting President Han Duck-soo on Friday, less than two weeks after suspending President Yoon Suk Yeol’s powers over his short-lived declaration of martial law, plunging the country deeper into political chaos. The impeachment of Han, the acting president since Yoon was impeached on Dec....
Pope opens special ‘Holy Door’ for Catholic Jubilee at Rome prison
Date: December 27, 2024
By Joshua McElwee ROME (Reuters) – Pope Francis made a visit on Thursday to one of the largest prison complexes in Italy, opening a special “Holy Door” for the 2025 Catholic Holy Year, in what the Vatican said was the first such action by a Catholic pontiff. Speaking to hundreds of inmates, guards and staff...
Azerbaijan Airlines flight to Russia turns back to Baku after airspace closure, TASS says
Date: December 27, 2024
MOSCOW (Reuters) – An Azerbaijan Airlines flight to the southern Russian town of Mineralnie Vody turned back to Baku on Friday after being told a chunk of airspace in southern Russia had been closed, Russia’s TASS news agency reported. An Azerbaijani Airlines flight from Baku to Russia’s Grozny crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday. Russia has...
Japan’s SMFG expects more than $7.65 billion net profit in FY 2025
Date: December 27, 2024
By Anton Bridge and Miho Uranaka TOKYO (Reuters) – Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group’s CEO said the firm may make more than 1.2 trillion yen ($7.65 billion) net profit in the year from next April, as a resurgent Japanese banking sector cashes in on efforts to diversify income sources abroad alongside interest rate normalisation. The forecast...