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UK to launch new billion-pound home insulation programme
Date: November 28, 2022
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s government intends to make 1 billion pounds ($1.2 billion) of public funding available for home insulation projects from early next year, widening access to assistance that was previously only available to poorer households. The government said the proposed scheme would run from early 2023 until March 2026 and would help meet...
Prague Christmas market returns after COVID but with fewer lights
Date: November 28, 2022
PRAGUE (Reuters) – Thousands of people poured into Prague’s medieval Old Town Square at the weekend for the lighting of a 25-metre (80-foot) Christmas tree and the reopening of the annual market after a two-year COVID-19 shutdown, but the energy crisis meant fewer lights than usual. The market, which is popular with Czechs and foreign...
UK to fine tech companies that fail to remove self-harm material
Date: November 28, 2022
By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s government intends to make it illegal to encourage others to harm themselves online and will fine social media companies that fail to remove such material, as part of a revamp of legislation governing online behaviour. Promoting suicide is already illegal, but Britain’s digital, culture, media and sport ministry...
Airbus may delay some 2023 jet deliveries: sources
Date: November 28, 2022
By Tim Hepher PARIS (Reuters) – Airbus is preparing the ground for further delays to planned delivery dates of some medium-haul aircraft in 2023 even as it races to meet delivery targets for 2022 in the face of supply chain and labour problems, three industry sources said. The twin-speed approach comes as uncertainty remains over...
Credit Agricole is weighing foray into German car-sharing: media report
Date: November 28, 2022
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – French bank Credit Agricole is weighing plans to offer car-sharing financial services in Germany because the growing market offers opportunities to challenge incumbent players, an executive told trade publication Automobilwoche. The French bank’s consumer finance arm has been in a push to increase mobility-related revenues from its car leasing joint venture with...
OPEC+ meeting to take into account market conditions – Iraqi official
Date: November 28, 2022
CAIRO (Reuters) – The OPEC+ meeting in December will take into account the condition and balance of the market, Iraq’s state news agency quoted Saadoun Mohsen, a senior official at the country’s state oil marketer SOMO, as saying on Saturday. OPEC+’s October decision to reduce production by two million barrels per day (bpd) had played...