By Ayenat Mersie and Mukelwa Hlatshwayo NAIROBI (Reuters) -Mohamed Ali doesn’t believe gay Africans exist. He says homosexuality is a Western invention imposed on the continent. Openly gay Africans are liars seeking visas to the West or money from rights groups, he adds. Ali is a member of Kenya’s parliament. He is desperate to follow…
By Tristan Veyet and Gaelle Sheehan (Reuters) -Accor plans to open more than 1,200 hotels in the next five years, increasing the number of its resorts by more than one-fifth, it said on Tuesday, the latest sign the industry is betting on strong travel demand long-term following the pandemic. Europe’s biggest hotel group also said…
(Reuters) – Canadian investment firm Brookfield’s insurance arm has offered to buy American Equity Investment Life Holding in a deal valued at nearly $4.3 billion, the annuities provider said on Tuesday. The deal comes months after AEL rejected a nearly $4 billion takeover offer from insurance firm Prosperity Life and its principal shareholder Elliott Investment…
By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) -Bank of England policymaker Swati Dhingra said there are “promising signals” for a further decline in British inflation, based largely on a steep fall in the rate of increase in prices which manufacturers charge to retailers. Dhingra is one of two members of the BoE’s nine-member Monetary Policy Committee (MPC)…
By Elisa Anzolin MILAN (Reuters) – Shares in Italian yacht-maker Ferretti reversed course on Tuesday, as it began its listing on the Milan bourse, allowing its main Chinese investor to cut its stake and new European investors to buy in. Floated in Hong Kong last year, Ferretti priced its offer for the listing in Milan…
BERLIN (Reuters) – Volkswagen’s head of its business in China said on Tuesday that the carmaker needed clarity on cross-border data transfers in a meeting with the country’s Premier Li Qiang, asking how China would cooperate with Europe amid rising political tensions. “As a globalized industry, the transformation of the automotive sector highly depends on…
(This June 21 story has been refiled to remove the picture) LONDON (Reuters) – U.S.-based ACE Green Recycling, which has developed a lead battery recycling process with no greenhouse gas emissions, said it will deploy its technology to Israel’s Hakurnas Lead Works. The deal to set up the processing at Hakurnas’ facilities in Israel and…
By Balazs Koranyi and Francesco Canepa FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Euro zone inflation has entered a new phase which could linger for some time, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said on Tuesday, outlining a lengthy fight against price growth that must dampen demand and force firms to curb prices. The ECB has raised rates at each…
A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan Flagging world markets got a lift on Tuesday as China moved to shore up the falling yuan from the year’s lows and nodded to more government stimulus to underpin its spluttering economic recovery instead. With falling Chinese interest rates diverging markedly…
By Raul Cortes and Daniel Ramos LA PAZ (Reuters) – Bolivia’s “economic miracle,” a boom in the 2000s and 2010s that saw years of state spending lift millions of people into the middle class, is creaking, a warning sign to the wider region battling high inflation, shrinking government coffers and tepid growth. For years the…
