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LONDON(Reuters) - Peter Hargreaves, the biggest shareholder in UK retail investment platform Hargreaves Lansdown, is open to taking the company private and has held talks with investors recently about a transaction, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Hargreaves Lansdown said on Thursday it rejected a 4.67 billion pound ($5.95 billion) takeover proposal from a consortium led by CVC Advisers and the Abu... (continue reading...)
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department and a group of 30 states and the District of Columbia Thursday sued to break up Live Nation, arguing the big concert promoter and its Ticketmaster unit illegally inflated concert ticket prices and hurt artists.
"It is time to break up Live Nation,” said U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland.
Concert fans and politicians for years have been calling for a... (continue reading...)
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ROME (Reuters) - Pope Francis has not done enough to stamp out clerical sex abuse and its cover-up, activists and abuse survivors said on Thursday, protesting before a Vatican-hosted World Children's Day festival.
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(Reuters) - Baltimore's former top prosecutor will be sentenced on Thursday for lying about suffering a work-related hardship in order to improperly access her city employee retirement account, as well as for making a false statement on a mortgage application.
Marilyn Mosby, 44, was the youngest chief prosecutor for any major U.S. city at the time of her election as Maryland's state attorney for Baltimore in 2014. A year... (continue reading...)
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Warm sea temperatures and a falling wind shear at the height of the hurricane season, which begins on June 1, are expected to contribute to more and stronger... (continue reading...)
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