FRANKFURT/LONDON (Reuters) – A consortium led by Dutch pension fund APG has agreed to buy German offshore wind park Merkur in a deal valuing one of Europe’s largest renewable energy projects at about 2 billion euros ($2.2 billion), two sources close to the matter said. Merkur, where construction was completed last year, was put on […]

FRANKFURT (Reuters) – A consortium led by Dutch pension fund APG has agreed to buy German offshore wind park Merkur in a deal valuing one of Europe’s largest renewable energy projects about 2 billion euros ($2.20 billion), two sources close to the matter said. Merkur, whose construction was completed last year, was put on the […]

Before the UK general election was even called, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar predicted that Boris Johnson would win if he campaigned on the new Brexit deal. The remarks were made at a private Fine Gael meeting in October and look set to be borne out. The received wisdom as we head into the last four days […]

Uber has released its long-awaited safety report, detailing sexual assaults, fatal physical assaults and motor vehicle fatalities in the United States. The results on sexual assault are disturbing: nearly 6,000 incidents in 2017 and 2018 combined, ranging from “nonconsensual touching” to rape. Though most of the reported rape victims were riders, Uber drivers were victims […]

(Want to get this briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up.) Good morning. We’re covering renewed energy in the Hong Kong protests, a week that could produce official impeachment charges against the U.S. president and a very expensive work of art you may have had for breakfast today. Hong Kong protests spread miles The city’s front-line […]

Sir – For 40 years working in English Catholic secondary schools (including 15 as a principal), I was very aware of the great advantage to the Catholic community of the close co-operation between schools, parishes and homes in respect of sacramental preparation. For almost 50 years parish catechists have played a major and ever-increasing role […]

To Cork, to give a reflection at a small ceremony at the Aula Maxima of UCC in memory of the 40 staff and students who died in the Great War. Brian Bermingham and his small voluntary committee put together a short, simple and moving recital of music and poetry. The emotions they evoked proved once […]

BEIJING — One day last winter my mother sent me an odd message over WeChat. “Has Laolao said anything strange to you today?” she asked. I immediately sensed that something was amiss. My mother is a typical Chinese parent. She always feels obliged to withhold bad news from me until she has no other choice. […]

HELSINKI, Finland — Two years ago we were living in a pleasant neighborhood in Brooklyn. We were experienced professionals, enjoying a privileged life. We’d just had a baby. She was our first, and much wanted. We were United States citizens and our future as a family should have seemed bright. But we felt deeply insecure […]

WASHINGTON — When people ask me about my work, or comment on it, there is one word that always makes me bristle. “Hate.” When I wrote about George W. Bush relying on souped-up intelligence to invade Iraq, people would ask, “Why do you hate W.?” When I wrote about how Barack Obama was hampered as […]