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Italy's antitrust authority said on Thursday it had given a conditional green light to Nexi's acquisition of smaller rival SIA to create an Italian payments champion.

Chinese military exercises near Taiwan are targeted at forces promoting the island's formal independence and are a "just" move to protect peace and stability, China's Taiwan Affairs Office said on Wednesday.

Slovak Finance Minister Igor Matovic said on Wednesday it was up to central bank Governor and European Central Bank policymaker Peter Kazimir himself to decide whether he would stay in his post after prosecutors charged him with bribery.

Britain said on Wednesday that people should buy normally for Christmas and there would be no shortage of gifts after shipping containers carrying toys and electrical goods were diverted from the country's biggest port because it was full.

The World Health Organization said on Wednesday its newly formed advisory group on dangerous pathogens may be "our last chance" to determine the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and urged China to provide data from early cases.

Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Wednesday said the World Health Organization (WHO) should certify COVID-19 vaccines in public use, amid fears some vaccinated Mexicans will not be able to enter the United States.

Mexico's president on Wednesday cheered a U.S decision to open their shared border in November after more than 18 months of pandemic restrictions, though millions of Mexicans inoculated with Chinese and Russian vaccines face being shut out.

G20 finance leaders on Wednesday endorsed a global tax deal that calls for the elimination of unilateral digital services taxes, but Italy's economy minister said it may take up to two years to eliminate the digital levy imposed by Rome.

Italy is taking an active part in European Union discussions to head off gas shortages, including the use of storage sites across the bloc currently unused, the Energy Transition minister said on Wednesday.

Projections for the 2022 dry season in Brazil, which is facing its worst drought in over 90 years, remain "very worrying," the director general of Brazil's national power grid operator ONS said on Wednesday.