South Africa's Steinhoff International Holdings NV is in talks with insurers to help settle lawsuits instituted against the retail group by claimants who lost money when it revealed holes in its accounts in December 2017, the firm's CFO said on Monday.
* Chairman and CEO Faber under growing shareholder pressure (Adds detail)
Shares in Danone rose 1.9% on Monday after the French food group said it was taking a first step toward selling its stake in its Chinese dairy partner Mengniu Dairy Company Limited, and would use the gains to buy back its own shares.
MTN Group remains committed to negotiating a $65 million sale of its 75% stake in its Syrian unit, the South African mobile operator said on Sunday, despite the business being placed under judicial guardianship last week.
SoftBank Group Corp said on Friday it has reached a settlement with WeWork's special committee and the company's co-founder and former chief executive, Adam Neumann, putting to rest a legal battle dating back to 2019.
* Atlantia asks for substantial improvement of consortium bid
* Q1 sales recover slightly (Adds details, context and graph)
Japanese drugstore firms MatsumotoKiyoshi Holdings and Cocokara Fine Inc said on Friday they agreed to fully merge, after forming an alliance last year to cope with fierce price competition and rising labour costs.
Japanese drugstore firms MatsumotoKiyoshi Holdings and Cocokara Fine Inc said on Friday they agreed to merge, after forming a partial alliance last year.
France's Safran predicted a gradual recovery from the aviation industry's worst crisis, after seeing demand for its jet engines and other equipment drop sharply last year.
During a White House press briefing, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said it was a "moral imperative" to reunite families separated under former President Donald Trump's "zero tolerance" border strategy, and said the Biden administration will consider bringing deported parents back to the United States.
The Biden administration backed Democrats' efforts to overhaul voting rules and turn over the process of drawing congressional districts to independent commissions on Monday, weighing in on a political fight that is likely to dominate Washington in coming years.