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Russia maintains gas deliveries as Europe considers fresh sanctions
Date: April 4, 2022
By Nora Buli and Nina Chestney OSLO/LONDON (Reuters) – Russia maintained gas flows through key pipeline routes into Europe on Monday, despite uncertainty over payment terms and as European leaders urged further sanctions against Moscow amid allegations of war crimes in Ukraine. Physical gas flows through the Yamal-Europe pipeline, at Germany’s Mallnow border point see-sawed...
Exhausted volunteers run low on supplies as Ukraine refugee crisis drags on
Date: April 4, 2022
By Joanna Plucinska and Gerhard Mey MEDYKA/BORATYN, Poland (Reuters) – Five weeks after the start of the fighting in Ukraine, Kamil Prusinowski and his small band of volunteers are exhausted at their refugee shelter over the border in Poland. Supplies, funding and energy are all running low, Prusinowski said in a room filled with children’s...
Record cold night gives fruit and wine growers no respite
Date: April 4, 2022
PARIS (Reuters) – Record low temperatures in many parts of France in the night from Sunday to Monday is expected to have caused severe damage to some fruit and wine production in the country for a second year running, growers said. France recorded the coldest April night since at least 1947, at an average of...
Vienna’s Ukrainian school scrambles to cope with influx of children
Date: April 4, 2022
By Matteo Witt and Leonhard Foeger VIENNA (Reuters) – Volunteers running a Ukrainian Saturday school in Vienna have been scrambling to adapt as the number of children attending has more than tripled in a matter of weeks. The school is only too happy to accommodate the influx of refugee children fleeing the war at home,...
Russia, China woes risk worst EM corporate default wave since financial crash – JPMorgan
Date: April 4, 2022
By Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) – JPMorgan has warned that the combination of Russia’s war in Ukraine and China’s ongoing property crash could see the worst wave of corporate defaults since the global financial crisis. A new report from the bank’s analysts on Monday estimated the EM-wide default rate would now reach 8.5%, more than...
EU widens market access for U.S. derivatives clearers and exchanges
Date: April 4, 2022
By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) – The European Union said on Monday it has widened access for U.S. exchanges and clearing houses to investors in the bloc, a move which contrasts with Brussels’ intention to shut off clearing houses in London in 2025. The EU’s executive European Commission said a number of exchanges in the...