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Wood to sell nuclear business for $300m

Bloomberg Wood Plc has agreed to sell its nuclear business for 302 million, as it cuts debt associated with the 2017 acquisition of Amec Foster Wheeler Ltd. and a prolonged oil-price slump. The Scottish engineering and services business will sell the unit to a subsidiary of Jacobs Engineering Group Inc., and expects the deal to close in the first three ...

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UK regulator opens probe in London blackout

Bloomberg National Grid Plc will investigate how to better incorporate the UK’s increasing share of renewable energy in the power mix after a blackout earlier this month saw more than one million homes lose power. The probe was sparked by the August 9 blackout, that also caused havoc on the transport networks, after a lightening strike north of London led ...

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Trump tries to play peacemaker with India, Pakistan on Kashmir

Bloomberg US President Donald Trump spoke separately with the leaders of India and Pakistan in a bid to calm tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours over a territorial dispute. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has kept Kashmir under lockdown for more than two weeks after scrapping the region’s autonomy, a move condemned by Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan. Both nations claim ...

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