LONDON (Reuters) – The United Kingdom will begin seeking an improved trade deal with Israel this week when trade minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan travels to meet her Israeli counterpart Orna Barbivai. Britain is looking to build new trade ties around the …
GSK announces $1.25 billion settlement between ViiV Healthcare, Gilead
(Reuters) – GlaxoSmithKline PLC announced a settlement worth $1.25 billion between its ViiV Healthcare and Gilead Sciences Inc on Tuesday in relation to patent violations by Gilead’s Biktarvy, a medicine to treat human immunodeficiency virus. The compa…
British police apologise for messages about rape, beating women and racist slurs
LONDON (Reuters) – British police apologised on Tuesday after an investigation found that officers had discussed beating women and made racist and homophobic slurs and that one officer had messaged a female colleague to say he would rape her. Confidenc…
Generali to buy Credit Agricole’s health business for 435 million euros
MILAN (Reuters) – Generali said on Tuesday it has agreed to buy Credit Agricole’s health insurance business La Medicale for 435 million euros ($489 million). The Italian insurer said it expected a negative impact from the deal on its solvency ratio, wh…
Conflict with Russia would mean full scale war in Europe, Zelenskiy says
KYIV (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday that a military conflict with Russia would not just involve Ukraine but lead to a full scale war in Europe. Speaking alongside British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in Kyiv, Zelens…
Putin accuses U.S. of trying to lure Russia into war
By Natalia Zinets and Vladimir Soldatkin KYIV/MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the West on Tuesday of deliberately creating a scenario designed to lure it into war and ignoring Russia’s security concerns over Ukraine. In his …
UK’s Johnson says Putin is holding a gun to Ukraine’s head
KYIV (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin is holding a gun to Ukraine’s head in an effort to force a change to the architecture of European security, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Tuesday, stressing he was not exaggerating Russia…
Russia must ‘step back’ and take diplomatic path on Ukraine, UK’s Johnson says
KYIV (Reuters) – Russia must “step back” from any military action against Ukraine and pursue diplomacy, Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson said at a press conference with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Tuesday. “It is vital that Russia …
UK’s Johnson: Russia sanctions will kick in immediately if it invades Ukraine
LONDON (Reuters) – British sanctions will be automatically imposed on Russia the moment any incursion into Ukraine takes place, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Tuesday. “It’s vital that in Moscow, they understand that there will be automaticity in…
UK’s Johnson says a Russian invasion of Ukraine would be a military disaster
KYIV (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned on Tuesday that a Russian invasion of Ukraine would lead to a military and humanitarian disaster. Russia, which seized Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 and backs separatists in the east of the cou…