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(Bloomberg) -- A consortium led by KKR & Co. offered to buy Ramsay Health Care Ltd., Australia’s largest private hospital operator, for A$20.1 billion ($15 billion). Investors led by the U.S. private equity firm bid A$88 for each share, Ramsay said in a statement Wednesday.

(Bloomberg) -- All the polls show French President Emmanuel Macron is likely to win a second term Sunday. But from Citigroup Inc. to asset manager Amundi SA, the warnings are piling up that markets are underestimating the risk of a surprise.

(Bloomberg) -- Ukrainian defenders at a sprawling steel plant in the key port city of Mariupol said they were outnumbered and appealed to world leaders for help as they faced what might be their last stand. Russia is demanding that they lay down their arms and surrender.

(Bloomberg) -- Sri Lanka is reaching out to several nations for bilateral credit as a comprehensive aid package from the International Monetary Fund may require about six months.  India is providing “every conceivable assistance,” Foreign Minister G.L.

(Bloomberg) -- Israel’s central bank has made the biggest changes to its allocation of reserves in over a decade, adding the Chinese yuan alongside three other currencies to a stockpile that last year exceeded $200 billion for the first time ever.

(Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Treasury Department imposed sanctions on crypto mining company BitRiver, targeting one of the industry’s largest data-center service providers over its operations in Russia in its first such action.

(Bloomberg) -- Bank of America Corp. has hired Standard Chartered Plc’s Yazaid Al-Salloom to run its business in Saudi Arabia, according to people familiar with the matter.

(Bloomberg) -- Ghana’s economy grew at the fastest rate in two years in 2021, beating forecasts by the government and the International Monetary Fund after a better-than-expected fourth quarter. Gross domestic product grew 5.4% last year after expanding a revised 0.

(Bloomberg) -- Russia’s military shelled southern and eastern Ukraine overnight, with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy saying Moscow had launched a new campaign focused on conquering the eastern Donbas region.  U.S. President Joe Biden will hold a call with key allies Tuesday to discuss Ukraine.

(Bloomberg) -- Sri Lanka’s opposition leader warned the country is facing a period of “extreme austerity” as he pushes to build support in parliament to change the constitution and remove the Rajapaksa family from power.