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UK Competition Watchdog to Probe Ab Foods' Hovis Purchase
Date: December 19, 2025
Dec 19 (Reuters) - Britain's competition regulator will investigate Associated British Foods' deal to buy bread brand Hovis from private equity firm Endless, it said on Friday. AB Foods had announced...
Italy's Bper Strikes Deal With Unions on 800 Voluntary Exits, 650 Hires
Date: December 19, 2025
MILAN, Dec 19 (Reuters) - Italy's fourth-largest bank BPER has agreed with unions 800 voluntary exits and 650 new hires by 2028 as part of a generational turnover plan, unions said on Friday. The...
Canton Zurich Urges Government to Soften UBS Capital Requirements Plan
Date: December 19, 2025
ZURICH, Dec 19 (Reuters) - Zurich, the home canton of Switzerland's biggest banks, has called on the federal government to reconsider plans to tighten capital requirements for UBS, saying they risk...
UK Actors Vote to Reject Digital Scans in AI Rights Push, Echoing Hollywood Battles
Date: December 18, 2025
By Sam Tabahriti LONDON, Dec 18 (Reuters) - British film and television performers have voted overwhelmingly to refuse digital body scans unless they are given stronger protections against artificial...
Italy's Top Court Upholds Acquittal of Salvini in Migrant Kidnapping Case
Date: December 17, 2025
By Marco Roberti ROME, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Italy's Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld an acquittal verdict for Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini in a migrant kidnapping case, meaning no further...
Liverpool Parade Attacker Jailed for More Than 21 Years for Ploughing Car Into Fans
Date: December 16, 2025
LONDON, Dec 16 (Reuters) - A British man who injured more than 130 people by ploughing his car into a crowd of Liverpool soccer fans during May's Premier League victory parade was jailed for 21-and-a-...