UPDATE 1-Shares in Italian motorway group ASTM soar on buyout offer

[ad_1] (Adds comments from sources) MILAN, Feb 22 (Reuters) – Shares in ASTM jumped 27% on Monday after the Italian motorway group’s top investor made a $2 billion offer for…

REFILE-FEATURE-Scared by global warming? In Iceland, one solution is petrifying

[ad_1] By Alister Doyle, Thomson Reuters Foundation (Adjusts dateline) OSLO, Feb 4 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – On a barren hillside in southwest Iceland, workers are installing huge fans to suck…

UPDATE 2-Hungary’s OTP Bank aims to buy foreign rivals as pandemic cost set to ease

[ad_1] * One of three acquisition talks to conclude in 2021 * Two possible acquisitions explore new markets * Risk costs expected to fall, easing profit squeeze (Adds CEO comments…

GLOBAL-MARKETS-Stocks gain as trade talk hopes rise, rate-cut pressure ebbs

[ad_1] * Graphic: World FX rates in 2019 tmsnrt.rs/2egbfVh * Fed’s Powell, Bullard temper July rate cut expectations * European stocks gain after CNBC fuels trade talk optimism * U.S.…

FEATURE-Danish social enterprise manufactures self-esteem for disabled

[ad_1] By Thin Lei Win, Thomson Reuters Foundation AARHUS, Denmark, May 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – J eanett Dian Amonsen was a high-flying TV journalist with a state broadcaster when…

Sweden and Denmark, the neighbours at opposite ends of the coronavirus fight

[ad_1] MALMO/COPENHAGEN, March 26 (Reuters) – Only an 8-kilometre bridge separates neighbours Sweden and Denmark, but while the streets of the Danish capital Copenhagen lie deserted, life in Swedish city…

Danish supermarket to help small, shuttered businesses survive lockdown

[ad_1] (Repeats to restore dropped dateline) COPENHAGEN, Feb 17 (Reuters) – Danish supermarket cooperative Kvickly has pledged to set aside some of its extra proceeds made while smaller retailers were…

UPDATE 1-Soccer-Italy warns fans from England not to use travel loopholes

[ad_1] (Adds quote from fan, taxi driver) ROME, July 1 (Reuters) – Italy has warned any fans from England not to try to use loopholes in COVID travel restrictions to…