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Murdoch's REA ups offer for property website Rightmove
Murdoch's REA ups offer for property website Rightmove
by  AFP

REA Group, the Australian online property website majority-owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp empire, said Monday it has made a third multi-billion-pound offer to buy British peer Rightmove. REA reiterated that should it succeed in buying Rightmove, it would apply for a secondary stock market listing in London, in addition to its current trading on the Australian Securities Exchange.

Angry French cognac makers see red over Chinese tariffs threat
Angry French cognac makers see red over Chinese tariffs threat
by  AFP

Frustrated cognac producers in southwestern France are growing increasingly anxious over the looming threat of Chinese tariffs on European brandy, a move industry representatives worry could force French liquor from the Chinese market.

Protect the prosciutto: Italy battles swine fever
Protect the prosciutto: Italy battles swine fever
by  AFP

Pig farmer Alberto Cavagnini has slaughtered 1,600 of his hogs due to swine fever, a virus threatening the 20-billion-euro pork industry in Italy, including its world-famous prosciutto.