LONDON (Reuters) – Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey has said he will voluntarily appear in Britain “as soon as can be arranged” to face sex crime charges, Good Morning America reported on Tuesday. Last week, Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) sa…
Poland to extend anti-inflation measures, government says
WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland will extend measures introduced to soften the impact of soaring inflation on consumers, a government spokesman said on Tuesday. Poland has slashed the value added tax on basic food products to zero as part of two sets of mesur…
DSM forges nutrition and fragrance giant with Firmenich deal
By Ludwig Burger and Bart H. Meijer AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -Dutch specialty chemicals maker DSM struck deals to take over Swiss flavour and fragrance maker Firmenich and sell its engineering plastics division to become a major player in the fast-growing f…
Dollar rises as inflation worries hurt risk sentiment
By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK (Reuters) -The U.S. dollar strengthened across the board on Tuesday as Treasury yields climbed and worries over a further acceleration in global inflation depressed investors’ risk appetite. The dollar was supported by dem…
Archaeologists discover passageways in 3,000-year-old Peruvian temple
By Carlos Valdez LIMA (Reuters) – A team of archaeologists has discovered a network of passageways under a more than 3,000-year-old temple in the Peruvian Andes. Chavin de Huantar temple, located in the north-central Andes, was once a religious and adm…
British airport disruption ominous for global travel recovery
By Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) – Cancelled flights, long queues and staff shortages have disrupted the travel plans of British holidaymakers during the half-term break, a grim sign of possible summer strife for a global sector battling to rebound f…
Ukraine’s giant seed bank at risk of being lost as war rages
By Maytaal Angel LONDON (Reuters) – In underground vaults near Ukraine’s battlefields, the genetic code for nearly 2,000 crops is in danger of being permanently destroyed. The risk came into sharp focus earlier this month when a research facility near …
Euro zone inflation hits new record, adding to case for big ECB rate hikes
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Euro zone inflation rose to yet another record high in May, challenging the European Central Bank view that gradual interest rate increases from July will be enough to tame stubbornly high price growth. Inflation in the 19 countrie…
Soccer-French trade unions hail strike success during Champions League final
PARIS (Reuters) – French transport trade unions on Tuesday hailed the success of their strike during the Champions League final between Liverpool and Real Madrid, which the French government said contributed to the public disorder that marred the showp…
LSE says it halts trading in Gazprom’s securities at company’s request
(Reuters) – The London Stock Exchange said on Tuesday it has cancelled securities of Russian energy company Gazprom from admission to trading at the company’s request. Gazprom said earlier this month that it had notified the Financial Conduct Authority…