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Erlangen (Germany), Aug 6 (EFE / EPA), (Camera: Philipp Guelland).- Germany-based Siemens Healthineers announced Sunday its plans to acquire the US cancer research and therapy company Varian Medical Systems, in a deal worth $16.4 billion.FOOTAGE OF THE SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS PLANT IN ERLANGEN, GERMANY.
Shell has agreed to buy BG Group for £47 billion, in what is the first oil super merger in a decade. Kirsty Basset looks at why the M&A route is an attractive option.
Turkey's President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, announces the extension of the Black Sea grain deal that allowed the export of Ukrainian grain to resume following Russia's invasion. "This agreement" he says, "is of vital importance in terms of global food supply". Ukraine's infrastructure minister, Oleksandr Kubrakov, tweeted that the deal has been extended for 120 days. COMPLETES EN_33BK8BL SOUNDBITE
At a press conference in Matignon, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne announces three new devices to contain energy prices for businesses and communities, for a total effort increased to "12 billion euros". SOUNDBITE
During her visit to Warsaw, British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss announces that Britain has frozen $350 billion of "Putin's war chest". SOUNDBITE