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Bunge to buy Viterra in $18 billion deal that would create an agricultural powerhouse

Published Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:15:49 GMT

Bunge is buying Viterra in a deal valued at approximately $18 billion to create a global agricultural giant. Viterra shareholders will receive about 65.6 million shares of Bunge stock, valued at approximately $6.2 billion and about $2 billion in cash. Bunge will assume $9.8 billion of Viterra debt.Bunge’s grain and softseed handling capacity will grow while it expands origination capabilities in key regions and crops where Bunge doesn’t have a strong presence. “The combination of Bunge and Viterra significantly accelerates Bunge’s strategy, building on our fundamental purpose to connect farmers to consumers to deliver essential food, feed and fuel to the world,” Bunge CEO Greg Heckman said in a prepared statement Tuesday.The deal would create a scale that puts Bunge closer to Archer-Daniels Midland and one of the nation’s largest private companies, Cargill. But the buyout will also likely put it in the crosshairs of anti-trust regulators in the U.S.The combined bus...

GM, Samsung SDI teaming to build more than $3B EV battery cell plant in Indiana

Published Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:15:49 GMT

General Motors and Samsung SDI have selected New Carlisle as the site of a new electric vehicle battery cell plant in Indiana.The companies announced in April the joint venture to build the more than $3 billion electric vehicle battery cell plant without specifying the location. The plant will create 1,700 manufacturing jobs, Governor Eric Holcomb said in a statement on Tuesday.The project is GM’s fourth joint venture battery cell factory. It has announced three others with South Korea’s LG Energy Solution. A 900-worker factory near Warren, Ohio, is starting to build cells, while plants in Spring Hill, Tennessee, and Lansing, Michigan, are in the works.The new Indiana plant will house production lines to build nickel-rich prismatic and cylindrical cells and is expected to help significantly increase the accessibility and affordability of electric vehicles. The facility will have more than 30 GWh of capacity once finished.GM has five plants in Indiana with more than 5,700 employees. ...

Mbappé desmiente que vaya a fichar por el Real Madrid en el próximo mercado de pases

Published Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:15:49 GMT

(Reuters) — Kylian Mbappé desmintió este martes una información publicada por el diario francés L’Equipe, que indicaba que el delantero había comunicado al Paris Saint-Germain que no se acogería a la opción de una prórroga de un año en su contrato cuando expire el próximo mes de junio, informó este lunes L’Equipe. El medio, además, aseguraba que el capitán de la selección francesa tenía decidido marcharse al Real Madrid en este mismo verano europeo.El reconocido medio francés publicó este lunes que Mbappé, campeón del mundo con Francia en 2018, había informado su decisión en una carta al club e incluso especulaba con una posible venta en el próximo mercado de pases si el PSG quería evitar su salida gratuita, según informaciones locales.La información detallaba que el delantero sería libre de negociar y firmar un precontrato con un nuevo club a partir de enero en caso de que decida cumplir el año que le queda de contrato en el PSG.Sin embargo, el propio futbolista d...

Are the champion hats given to the Denver Nuggets misspelled?

Published Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:15:49 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — For the first time ever, the Denver Nuggets are NBA champions. As the team raised the Larry O'Brien trophy a mile high, they were also awarded new hats. But those hats make them look more like "champians" than "champions."Multiple retailers across the state opened their doors early to fans looking to grab some merch to show off their Nuggets pride. One coveted item is the champions hat that the team wore right after they won. 11 people shot downtown after Denver Nuggets win NBA Finals However, there seems to be a difference between the one worn by the team and the one being sold on the NBA's website. Some fans have noticed that the hats given to the team don't do a very good job of differentiating the "o" and the "a," with the cursive font making it look like the team was crowned "champians."Denver Nuggets owner Josh Kroenke, center right, hugs head coach Michael Malone after the team won the NBA Championship with a victory over the Miami Heat in Game 5 of basketba...

Police shoot, kill barricaded suspect in Greeley

Published Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:15:49 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- A man was shot and killed by police after he allegedly fired shots in a shared duplex in Greeley early Monday, according to police.At approximately 4:40 a.m., Greeley Police responded to a shots fired call in the 603 block of 46th Avenue Court, a press release from the Weld County Sheriff's Office said.When officers arrived on the scene, they said they found a hole in the wall of the shared duplex and heard another gunshot coming from the residence. Officers then surrounded the residence and tried to get the suspect to come out of the house, but he barricaded himself in the attached garage and refused to exit. Man wanted after armed robbery in Aurora The Greeley SWAT team responded and the suspect continued to fire at officers from the garage, police said. Officers tried several methods to safely apprehend the suspect, but at approximately 9:30 a.m., Greeley officers returned fire, killing the 35-year-old suspect, according to WCSO.The man's identity has not yet b...

Olympic sprinter Tori Bowie died from complications of childbirth, autopsy report concludes

Published Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:15:49 GMT

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — U.S. Olympic champion sprinter Tori Bowie died from complications of childbirth, according to an autopsy report.Bowie, who won three medals at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, was found dead last month. She was 32.The report from the office of the medical examiner in Orlando, Florida, said Bowie was estimated to be eight months pregnant. It said she was found in bed in a “secured residence” with possible complications including respiratory distress and eclampsia. The autopsy report said “the manner of death is natural.”According to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded in early May to a home in the area “for a well-being check of a woman in her 30s who had not been seen or heard from in several days.” She was later identified as Frentorish “Tori” Bowie.The toxicology reports were negative and listed bipolar disorder in her medical history.Bowie grew up in Mississippi after being taken in by her grandmother as an infant. She considered herself a ba...

Heat won the East but will enter offseason with bigger goals for 2024

Published Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:15:49 GMT

MIAMI (AP) — There will be a new banner over Miami’s home floor next season. It’ll have a Heat logo and will be added to the rafters quietly, without any ceremony or sounds of fans cheering.Eastern Conference champion banners don’t merit a Heat party.Only NBA championship banners get the blowout celebrations, and the Heat will have to wait at least one more year to get another of those. It was a surprising run — from nearly getting bounced in the play-in tournament to making the NBA Finals — but it ended with Miami falling in the title series for the third time in its last three appearances.Denver topped Miami 4-1 in the finals, giving the Nuggets their first title and making the Heat wait yet again for their fourth.“We didn’t get the final win, but sometimes that’s true in sport and also in life — that you don’t always get what you want,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. “But there’s no regret from our side. Everybody, staff, players alike in the locker room put themselves out there...

France exposes mega Russian disinformation campaign

Published Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:15:49 GMT

PARIS — France has uncovered a wide-ranging Russian disinformation campaign to undermine Western support to Ukraine, the country’s agency in charge of spotting foreign interference online announced today. “The involvement of Russian embassies and cultural centers that actively participated in amplifying this campaign, including via their institutional accounts on social networks, is a further illustration of the hybrid strategy Russia is implementing to undermine the conditions for democratic debate,” French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna said, according to Agence France-Presse. According to agency Viginum’s report, the campaign consisted of spreading pro-Russian content; impersonating media such as Le Monde, Le Figaro and Le Parisien, as well as government websites including France’s ministry of European and foreign affairs; creating websites on francophone news with polarizing angles; and coordinating fake accounts to spread the content creat...

Google forced to postpone Bard chatbot’s EU launch over privacy concerns

Published Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:15:49 GMT

Google will have to postpone starting its artificial intelligence chatbot Bard in the European Union after its main data regulator in the bloc raised privacy concerns. The Irish Data Protection Commission said Tuesday that the tech giant had so far provided insufficient information about how its generative AI tool protects Europeans’ privacy to justify an EU launch. The Dublin-based authority is Google’s main European data supervisor under the bloc’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).“Google recently informed the Data Protection Commission of its intention to launch Bard in the EU this week,” said Deputy Commissioner Graham Doyle. The watchdog “had not had any detailed briefing nor sight of a data protection impact assessment or any supporting documentation at this point.”The Irish regulator said it asked and is waiting for the company to provide a detailed assessment and answer additional questions about how Bard complies with EU&#...

Researchers spot rare sight: Orcas in New England waters, along with dozens of other whales, dolphins

Published Fri, 14 Feb 2025 00:15:49 GMT

Research scientists with the New England Aquarium made a rare find during an aerial survey over the weekend – killer whales in southern New England waters.The whales, also known as orcas, were spotted as researchers scanned the ocean surface during surveys conducted some 40 miles south of Nantucket on Sunday.“Initially I could just see two splashes ahead of the plane,” assistant research scientist Katherine McKenna said in a statement. “As we circled the area, two whales surfaced too quickly to tell what they were. On the third surfacing, we got a nice look and could see the tell-tale coloration before the large dorsal fins broke the surface.”Given the species’ small population in the western North Atlantic, associate research scientist Orla O’Brien said it is “always unusual to see killer whales in New England waters.” “Seeing them swim in formation was just unreal,” said O’Brien, who leads the aerial survey team. “We believe the sighting to be two males and two fe...