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Mexico's America Movil closed the sale of its TracFone wireless unit to Verizon Communications Inc , the telecoms company said on Tuesday, in a deal worth more than $6 billion in cash and Verizon stock.

The Indo-Pacific region will be a priority for France when it takes the presidency of the European Union next year, its foreign minister said on Wednesday during a visit to Indonesia.

Sweden's parliament voted to confirm Social Democrat leader Magdalena Andersson as the country's first ever woman prime minister on Wednesday, ending weeks of uncertainty about who would lead the country.

Japan will release a few hundred thousand kilolitres of oil from its national reserve, but the timing of the sale has not been made, the country's industry minister, Koichi Hagiuda, told reporters on Wednesday.

Poland will have to tighten COVID-19 restrictions if it does not see daily cases decreasing in the near future, the health minister said on Wednesday, after infections surged to their highest level of the fourth wave of the pandemic.

Lidl GB's boss said its German owner is not concerned about low profitability in the British business because it is investing for the long term, after on Wednesday setting a new target of reaching 1,100 stores by 2025.

Germany will enable multiple citizenship and simplify the process of acquiring German nationality, according to a coalition deal seen by Reuters on Wednesday.

Mexico's president on Wednesday proposed a senior finance ministry official as the first woman to run the central bank after ditching his previous choice, stirring uncertainty over monetary policy and helping to push the peso lower.

At least 31 people died on Wednesday after their dinghy capsized while crossing the Channel from France to Britain, in the worst disaster on record involving migrants in the waters separating the countries.

Britain on Wednesday called on its nationals to leave Ethiopia immediately due to an intensification of conflict in the East African country.