By Jessica DiNapoli (Reuters) – Hudson’s Bay Co <HBC.TO> Chairman Richard Baker and his partners have approached the retailer’s minority stockholders, including bidding rival Catalyst Capital, to potentially raise their take-private bid, a source familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. Baker and his partners have floated the idea of increasing their bid to around […]
Killings have surged at a huge refugee camp in Syria housing Islamic State sympathisers, prompting warnings it is the “womb” for a new generation of extremists. Twenty men and women were killed last month in al Hawl, which houses more than 60,000 people in the north east of the country. It is more than triple […]
By Tracy Rucinski (Reuters) – When Reuters photographer Carlos Barria boarded American Airlines flight 4511 from Washington Reagan National Airport to New Orleans on Friday for an assignment, he was the only passenger on the 76-seat jet. “There were some awkward moments,” Barria said. Like when the gate agent announced a formal boarding process only […]
