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UPDATE 1-Belgium's Solvay names Ilham Kadri to replace Clamadieu as CEO

Belgian chemicals group Solvay has named Ilham Kadri, chief executive of U.S. hygiene technology and services company Diversey, to succeed Jean-Pierre Clamadieu as CEO next year...

TECHNOLOGY

Tencent's online music unit files for U.S. listing

Tencent Music Entertainment Group on Tuesday formally filed with regulators to list in the United States, under the symbol "TME", in what could be the biggest U.S. IPO by a Chin...

INDUSTRIALS

Israel releases images alleging Hezbollah missile project in Beirut

The Israeli military on Thursday released a video clip and photos of what it said were Hezbollah Shi'ite militia rocket building sites in Lebanon. The images were distrib...

CYCLICAL CONSUMER GOODS

Dutch police arrest seven for plotting attack

Dutch authorities on Thursday arrested seven men suspected of plotting a large attack with hand grenades, automatic weapons and explosives belts, prosecutors said. Three ...

HEALTHCARE

Anti-Kremlin activist taken under protection by German police

Pyotr Verzilov, an anti-Kremlin activist being treated in a Berlin hospital for suspected poisoning, has been given a police guard for his own protection, a close friend who vis...

BONDS

Germany's Merkel weakened by fall of long-serving ally

German Chancellor Angela Merkel suffered an unexpected blow to her authority on Tuesday when her conservatives cast out long-standing ally Volker Kauder as head of the parliamen...

NON-CYCLICAL CONSUMER GOODS

NZ supermarket chain halts Australian strawberry sales as needles found

A New Zealand supermarket chain pulled a brand of Australian strawberries off its shelves after needles were found in punnets purchased from a store in Auckland. A scare ...

FUNDS

As China builds biotech sector, cash floods U.S. startups

For three whirlwind days in June, U.S. scientist Zhi Hong went shopping at the Boston Bio Conference to find drugs to fill the pipeline of his two-week-old drug company. ...

FINANCIALS

Boutique firm Robey Warshaw delivered Comcast's knockout blow for Sky

A banker from one of Britain's leading boutique advisory firms pressed the button on Comcast's knockout $40 billion bid for broadcaster Sky. The U.S. cable giant emerged ...