By Costas Pitas LONDON (Reuters) – Uber’s [UBER.UL] top boss in Britain will quit the taxi hailing app, according to an email seen by Reuters on Monday, as the company prepares to meet the London transport regulator in a bid to keep operating in one of its most important foreign markets. Transport for London (TfL) […]
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BAMENDA, Cameroon (Reuters) – At least 17 people have died in clashes between security forces and protesters in Cameroon’s English-speaking regions, Amnesty International said, as violence broke out in an area where a separatist movement is gathering strength. The clashes began on Sunday after local groups called protests against what they say is their marginalisation […]
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LUSAKA (Reuters) – Zambia has awarded Austria’s Kapsch TrafficCom AG a joint venture contract to design, install and operate a road traffic surveillance system to curb accidents, the company said on Monday. The number of vehicles on Zambia’s roads almost tripled to 700,000 in the 10 years to 2016, increasing road fatalities in the southern […]
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TRIPOLI (Reuters) – At least five civilians were killed and 12 others wounded among dozens of casualties in recent fighting in the Libyan migrant smuggling hub of Sabratha, the United Nations said on Monday. Sabratha’s university hospital has twice been hit by shelling, rendering the emergency and surgery units unusable, the U.N. Libya mission said […]
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By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union is drawing up guidelines on how much patent holders should charge for their technologies, a thorny issue that pits Apple and other users against Qualcomm and Ericsson. Trillions of dollars in sales are at stake as regulators ponder whether a fridge maker should pay a […]
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By Stine Jacobsen COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Offshore wind firm, DONG Energy, soon to be renamed Orsted, says big European companies are increasingly interested in buying renewable power directly from renewable developers as they seek to reduce their carbon footprint. The shift comes as the price of renewable power has plunged to levels that make it […]
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By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – Allergan Plc was sued on Monday by Shire Plc for allegedly scheming to block doctors from prescribing its new treatment for dry eye disease. In a complaint filed with the federal court in Newark, New Jersey, Shire accused Allergan of violating antitrust laws to preserve its roughly 90 percent share […]
Read More BERLIN (Reuters) – The German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg said it would appeal against a court ruling obliging it to ban diesel cars from the streets of its capital Stuttgart, meaning the ban will not come into force at the start of 2018 as planned. The government of the southwestern region, home to Mercedes-builder Daimler, said […]
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MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) – Britain will work with industry to launch a deposit return scheme for plastic bottles in a bid to clamp down on the huge waste that litters the land and sea every year, Environment Secretary Michael Gove said on Monday. The government says Britain recycled only 57 percent of the bottles that […]
Read More PARIS (Reuters) – France called on all sides to show restraint and reject violence after soldiers killed at least eight people and wounded others in Cameroon’s restless English-speaking regions on Sunday, during protests by activists calling for its independence. “France is following the situation in Cameroon carefully and is preoccupied by the incidents that took […]
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African mining company Sibanye-Stillwater said on Monday production has started three months ahead of schedule at its Montana-based Blitz project, boosting its platinum group metals (PGM) production in the United States. The project is expected to produce approximately 300,000 ounces annually by late 2021/early 2022, increasing total PGM production from Sibanye’s […]
Read More By Nina Chestney LONDON (Reuters) – Anglian Water’s issuance of the first water utility green bond in Europe should pave the way for more such instruments which should help the market grow, Dutch bank ING’s head of sustainable capital markets said. Green bonds are a growing category of fixed-income securities, which raise capital for projects […]
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