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Norway's sovereign wealth fund earned $247 billion in 2025
Date: January 29, 2026
OSLO, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Norway's sovereign wealth fund earned a return on investment in 2025 of 15.1%, or 2.36 trillion crowns ($247.42 billion), Norges Bank Investment Management said on Thursday. (...
New malaria vaccines helped Ghana slash child deaths. Then Trump, others cut aid
Date: January 29, 2026
By Jennifer Rigby and Emmanuel Bruce LONDON/ACCRA, Jan 29 (Reuters) - New vaccines are helping Ghana approach a long-sought goal of ending child deaths from malaria, demonstrating the potential of the...
H&M flags slow winter sales even as fourth-quarter profits beat expectations
Date: January 29, 2026
STOCKHOLM, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Swedish fashion retailer H&M reported on Thursday a bigger rise than expected in September-November operating profit but said sales in December and January were expected...
EU's Kallas: We expect to list Iran's Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organisation
Date: January 29, 2026
BRUSSELS, Jan 29 (Reuters) - The European Union will most likely include Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on its list of terrorist organisations, the bloc's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas...
US Carlyle Group agrees to buy Lukoil's global assets after sanctions pressure
Date: January 29, 2026
MOSCOW, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Russia's No.2 oil producer Lukoil said on Thursday it has agreed to sell its unit, LUKOIL International GmbH, which oversees the company's foreign assets, to U.S. private...
Sanofi vaccine sales face headwinds from US policy shifts
Date: January 29, 2026
LONDON, Jan 29 (Reuters) - French drugmaker Sanofi said on Thursday it expects sales to grow by a high-single-digit percentage in 2026, banking on strong demand for its blockbuster asthma drug...