Reuters

By Clara Denina and Felix Njini

LONDON/JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - BHP's resolve to add more copper to its portfolio will be tested by Anglo American investors' demands for a simpler offer for the whole company or a cash sweetener to clinch a deal that could become the biggest in mining history.

Anglo on Wednesday gave BHP, the world's biggest listed miner, additional time to present a binding offer, after rejecting three takeover... (continue reading...)

VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia (Reuters) - Fourteen-year-old Russian schoolboy David learned something new this month: firing accurately with a Kalashnikov is trickier than with a pistol.

With other pupils, he got to try out the weapons as part of basic military training - a feature of the school programme that was dropped in the final years of the Soviet Union but has been reintroduced since the start of Russia's war in Ukraine.

In the southern... (continue reading...)

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Israeli military said on Friday it had recovered the bodies of three hostages taken into the Gaza Strip after they were killed during the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas-led militants.

It said the bodies of Hanan Yablonka, Michel Nisenbaum and Orion Hernandez were recovered overnight in a joint operation by the army and the intelligence services in Jabaliya, in northern Gaza where there has been intense fighting in recent days.

PARIS (Reuters) - Five activists from campaign group Greenpeace climbed up TotalEnergies' Paris headquarters on Friday and unfurled a banner criticising the oil major's climate change strategy, a Reuters journalist at the site said.

Greenpeace opposes Total's continued exploration of oil and gas, despite a 'climate emergency', a Greenpeace spokesperson told Reuters.

The banner included a large photo of Total CEO and Chairman Patrick... (continue reading...)

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A court in the Russian city of Vladivostok ruled on Friday to keep U.S. military serviceman Gordon Black under arrest, the Interfax news agency reported.

Participating in the court via video link from a pre-trial detention centre, Black, charged with theft, had sought to have the arrest decision overturned. He said through an interpreter that he would stay in Russia during the investigation and trial.

The prosecution... (continue reading...)