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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain reported 58,899 new COVID-19 cases and 193 deaths within 28 days of a positive test on Friday, according to government data. The number of cases in the last seven days has fallen 28.7% compared with the previous seven days, w…

By Julien Pretot, Karolos Grohmann and Iain Axon BEIJING (Reuters) – Russian skating prodigy Kamila Valieva’s failed drug test prior to her dazzling Winter Games team gold threw the 15-year-old’s Olympic future into doubt and reawakened global anger ov…

By Stephen Culp and Chris Prentice NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Wall Street tumbled in choppy trade on Friday, European shares finished lower but still eked out their first weekly gain of the year as traders grappled with decades-high inflation and …

By Michel Rose PARIS (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron refused a Kremlin request that he take a Russian COVID-19 test when he arrived to see President Vladimir Putin this week, to prevent Russia getting hold of Macron’s DNA, two sources in M…

ZURICH (Reuters) – The Swiss Trade Union Federation (SGB) decided on Friday to launch a campaign for a referendum on tapping into the Swiss National Bank’s cash pile to help shore up the national pension scheme. “Due to extraordinarily high profits and…

By Victoria Waldersee BERLIN (Reuters) – BMW will pay 3.7 billion euros ($4.2 billion) to take majority control of its Chinese joint venture after securing the necessary licence from Beijing, as global automakers seek a tighter grip on business in the …

By Toby Sterling AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Venture capitalists have invested billions of dollars in fast grocery delivery services such as Turkey’s Getir and Germany’s Gorillas and Flink, in a race to expand across Europe to meet soaring demand during COVI…

By Simon Jessop LONDON (Reuters) – A group of European development banks plan to double its funding for global efforts to stop plastic waste from polluting the world’s oceans to 4 billion euros ($4.6 billion). The Clean Oceans Initiative, led by the Fr…

BELGRADE (Reuters) – Protesters have pitched tents in front of Serbia’s presidency building demanding a halt to lithium exploration on environmental grounds, fearing a project that has its licence revoked will be resurrected after April’s election. The…

LONDON (Reuters) – German industrial companies BASF and Heraeus said on Friday they would build a facility in China to recover precious metals such as platinum and palladium from vehicle exhaust systems. Heraeus said the companies would invest $75 mill…