Bloomberg GlaxoSmithKline Plc said it rejected an offer from Unilever Plc for the drugmaker’s consumer healthcare unit last year that valued the business at about 50 billion pounds ($68 billion). Glaxo in a statement said that it had received three unsolicited offers from Unilever for its consumer healthcare business, the final one on Dec. 20 for 41.7 billion pounds …

  Bloomberg Russia has nothing to do with the energy crisis in Europe, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said, rejecting allegations from the International Energy Agency this week that it’s holding back supplies and driving up prices of natural gas. “Neither Russia nor our main exporter Gazprom have anything to do with this,” Novak told state television, according to the …

  Bloomberg Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd., which supplies almost all of South Africa’s power, will take two of the continent’s largest generating units offline this year for maintenance, increasing the risk of power cuts after the nation had record outages in 2021. The extended unavailability of the units with capacity of 920 megawatts each due to the “planned long outages …