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(Reuters) -Cineworld has scrapped plans to sell its U.S., UK and Ireland businesses after failing to find a buyer, the cinema chain operator said on Monday, as it proposed a new debt restructuring plan. The world’s second-largest cinema chain operator behind AMC Entertainment placed the majority of the business under U.S. Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in September. Under a new tentative deal with lenders it said it aimed to reduce […]

(Reuters) -Cineworld has scrapped plans to sell its U.S., UK and Ireland businesses after failing to find a buyer, the cinema chain operator said on Monday, as it proposed a new debt restructuring plan. The world’s second-largest cinema chain operator behind AMC Entertainment placed the majority of the business under U.S. Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in September. Under a new tentative deal with lenders it said it aimed to reduce […]

By Anne Kauranen HELSINKI (Reuters) – Outgoing Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin was left to consider her future after she conceded defeat in a tight parliamentary election on Sunday that handed her centre-right rival Petteri Orpo the right to try and form a coalition. Despite gaining three seats, Marin’s left wing Social Democratic Party (SDP) came third with 43 of parliament’s 200 seats behind Orpo’s centre-right National Coalition Party with […]

ATHENS (Reuters) – Greek passenger trains resumed service at lower speeds and with stricter safety rules on Monday along the route where dozens of people travelling to northern Greece were killed in a crash in February. Greece last month reopened some passenger and freight rail routes that had been halted since a passenger and a cargo train carrying more than 350 people collided head-on on Feb. 28 on the same […]

By Karen Freifeld and Rich McKay NEW YORK/PALM BEACH, Florida (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Donald Trump is set to fly from Florida to New York City on Monday, ahead of his scheduled arraignment related to hush money paid to a porn star before the 2016 election, as security tightens in Manhattan. Trump, the first former U.S. president to face criminal charges, is due to be arraigned, fingerprinted and photographed […]

By Jonathan Allen and Karen Freifeld NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City police have thrown up metal barriers around Trump Tower and blocked roads near Manhattan Criminal Courthouse as they brace for potential protests ahead of Donald Trump’s expected surrender to prosecutors on Tuesday. The former president is due to be arraigned at the courthouse Tuesday afternoon, after his indictment in a grand jury probe over hush money paid […]

By Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Even before Russia detained Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich on Wednesday, the Biden administration was at an impasse over another American held by Moscow: Paul Whelan, a former U.S. Marine serving a 16-year sentence in a Russian prison. With relations between the world’s two largest nuclear powers strained to the breaking point by Russia’s war in Ukraine, officials in Washington have for months […]

By Sumit Khanna SURAT, India (Reuters) – Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi Monday lodged an appeal against his conviction for defamation, hoping to overturn a judgement that resulted in his expulsion from parliament a year before a general election is due. The court accepted his petition and posted it for hearing on April 13. Gandhi, 52, was found guilty of defamation last month in a case brought by a state […]

By Julie Steenhuysen CHICAGO (Reuters) – The U.S. National Institute on Aging (NIA) is funding a 6-year, up to $300 million project to build a massive Alzheimer’s research database that can track the health of Americans for decades and enable researchers to gain new insights on the brain-wasting disease. The NIA, part of the government’s National Institutes of Health (NIH), aims to build a data platform capable of housing long-term […]