DUBLIN (Reuters) -Ireland will boost spending on infrastructure projects over the next five years by 23%, to 112 billion euros ($131 billion), as it takes advantage of a windfall of multinational tax, including a 14 billion euro Apple back-tax payment.
Ireland has for years failed to turn a multinational-driven corporate tax boom into improving creaking energy, water and housing supply. The IMF recently estimated that Ireland's infrastructure lags... (continue reading...)
BEIJING (Reuters) -Apple supplier Goertek Inc said on Tuesday it plans to buy two units of Hong Kong's Luen Fung Commercial Holdings for about combined HK$10.4 billion ($1.32 billion).
The acquisition of Mega Precision Technology and Channel Well Industrial would help Goertek strengthen competitiveness in the field of precision structural components, the company said in a Shenzhen stock exchange filing.
($1 = 7.8499 Hong Kong dollars)
... (continue reading...)BEIRUT (Reuters) -A Syrian fact-finding committee said on Tuesday that 1,426 people, including 90 women, were killed during the March 7-9 massacres of Syrian Alawites along the country's Mediterranean coast.
The committee had come up with an initial list of 298 suspects and had sent two lists of names to the courts, spokesperson Yasser Farhan said.
(Reporting by Maya Gebeily; Writing by Tala Ramadan; Editing by Andrew Heavens)
LONDON (Reuters) -A British man who offered personal information about former defence minister Grant Shapps to Russian intelligence for money was on Tuesday found guilty of assisting a foreign intelligence service.
Howard Phillips offered Shapps' home address and phone number to two people he believed were Russian agents but were in fact British undercover officers, prosecutors said.
The 65-year-old denied one count of engaging in conduct... (continue reading...)
BRUSSELS (Reuters) -All options are on the table if Israel does not deliver on its pledges to facilitate humanitarian aid in Gaza, the European Union's top diplomat said on Tuesday.
"The killing of civilians seeking aid in Gaza is indefensible," EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas wrote in a post on X, adding that she spoke with Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar "to recall our understanding on aid flow and made clear that IDF must stop killing people at... (continue reading...)
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