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RTL to slash up to 1,000 jobs in Germany, WirtschaftsWoche reports

BERLIN, Dec 1 (Reuters) - European broadcaster RTL plans to cut up to 1,000 jobs in Germany, busines...

1st December, 2025

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Blackstone mulls abandoning bid for UK's Big Yellow Group, Sky News reports

Dec 1 (Reuters) - Blackstone is "seriously contemplating" abandoning its bid for British self-storag...

1st December, 2025

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Top Russian banker says the EU faces 50 years of litigation if it takes Russia's frozen assets

By Gleb Bryanski MOSCOW, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Top Russian banker Andrei Kostin said that Moscow would r...

1st December, 2025

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HSBC taps French start-up Mistral to supercharge generative-AI rollout

Dec 1 (Reuters) - HSBC said on Monday it had signed a multi-year deal with French start-up Mistral A...

1st December, 2025

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BoE's Greene sees weaker jobs, consumption as key to any rate cut vote

(Corrects paragraph 2 quote to read "deteriorate", not "generate") LONDON, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Bank of...

1st December, 2025

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EU drops complaint against Chinese trade curbs on Lithuania at WTO - document

GENEVA, Dec 1 (Reuters) - The European Union on Monday said it had ended a trade dispute it launched...

1st December, 2025

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England's resident doctors plan pre-Christmas strikes over pay

LONDON, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Resident doctors in England will stage a five-day strike starting on Decem...

1st December, 2025

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Norway government budget in peril over oil, wealth fund's Israel investments

By Terje Solsvik and Gwladys Fouche OSLO, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Norway's Labour government failed to win...

1st December, 2025

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VTB CEO says Russian firms are eyeing Global South for expansion

By Elena Fabrichnaya and Gleb Bryanski MOSCOW, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Russian companies are eyeing expans...

1st December, 2025

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Russian Railways cargo volumes keep falling, data shows

MOSCOW, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Cargo volumes handled by state-owned Russian Railways continued to fall in...

1st December, 2025

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Turkey cuts Russian Urals oil imports in November, diversifies with Kazakh, Iraqi supply

MOSCOW/LONDON, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Turkey sharply reduced its imports of Russia's flagship Urals crude...

1st December, 2025

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UK budget watchdog head quits over early release of Reeves' budget

LONDON, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Britain's fiscal watchdog said on Monday the early release of details of f...

1st December, 2025