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SEOUL, Aug 21 (Reuters) – Samsung SDI said on Friday it will sell 13.09 million shares in affiliate Samsung Display to the display maker for about 4.45 trillion won ($3.21 billion), to raise funds for investments in future growth engines. Samsung Display plans to buy the shares as treasury stock at 340,000 won each, Samsung SDI said in a regulatory filing. The transaction is scheduled to close on August 27, […]

Aug 21 (Reuters) – Britain’s Spire Healthcare on Friday extended for the fifth time the deadline for Toscafund Asset Management to make a formal takeover offer for the private hospital operator to September 3. • Toscafund tabled its 250 pence-per-share proposal on May 14, representing a 66% premium to Spire’s closing price the previous day and valuing the company at about £1 billion ($1.36 billion). • The company, Spire’s second-largest […]

MOSCOW, Aug 21 (Reuters) – Russian authorities arrested eight people for planning an attack on an enterprise in the Moscow region and separately detained one foreign national for scouting out government buildings and strategic infrastructure, state news agencies reported on Friday. The first arrests concerned eight people who were found to have been using 35 drones equipped with explosives smuggled from the European Union to attack a strategic defence enterprise […]

MAIDUGURI, Aug 21 (Reuters) – Parents of children abducted from Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state protested in Uba town on Thursday, demanding the federal government secure their release nearly 100 days after they were taken. The children were seized from their classrooms on May 15 in Mussa, a community on the fringes of the Sambisa Forest, a long-time stronghold of Islamist militants.  The protest underscored families’ frustration as kidnappings persist despite years […]

LUSAKA, Aug 21 (Reuters) – Zambian police have summoned for questioning opposition leader Brian Mundubile, who came second in last week’s election but alleges it was rigged to hand President Hakainde Hichilema a second term. • Hichilema, in power since 2021 in the mineral-rich Southern African nation, denies the election was fraudulent. • Mundubile has said he will challenge the result in court. • In a statement late on Thursday, […]

WARSAW, Aug 21 (Reuters) – Polish police have detained a 23-year-old man accused of calling for the assassination of senior Polish politicians, the Central Bureau for Combating Cybercrime said on Friday. Officers discovered a post on an online platform that called for the “elimination” of multiple people and proposed organising an assassination attempt against leading Polish politicians, the bureau said in a statement. The post appeared in a group dedicated […]

INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Jacob Cowing returned a punt for an 83-yard touchdown, Eddy Pineiro kicked a pair of field goals and the San Francisco 49ers beat the Los Angeles Chargers 41-18 on Thursday night in a preseason game. 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy saw his first preseason action, going 4 of 6 for 29 yards in the first quarter. Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert played the opening series in his first […]

N’DALI, Benin (AP) — Sabi Bera Zakari didn’t appear to care much how tall his children would grow. The farmer said he only sometimes wished they could gain more weight. “For me, height is not a problem,” Zakari said. “It’s mainly their weight that sometimes worries me.” Aboudou Salamatou, the farmer’s wife, seemed to disagree, as did development sociologist Boris Gloni, who shook his head as he listened. He believed […]

GÁRDONY, Hungary (AP) — A fisherman disembarked from his boat in a small harbor on Lake Velence in Hungary last week, trudging up the dock plank that had become extremely steep as the water receded to record lows. Árpád Selmeci said navigating even a small fishing boat on Hungary’s third-largest lake is becoming increasingly difficult as the water level has ebbed to around 20 centimeters (8 inches), well below the […]