Berlin / AFP Germany’s Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere is preparing to unveil a slew of new anti-terror measures, reports said on Wednesday, after two attacks in July claimed by the IS extremist group. The new measures to be announced Thursday include speeding up the expulsion process for asylum seekers convicted of crimes, Bild daily reported, quoting anonymous security ...

  Bloomberg EON SE posted a first-half loss after taking 3.8 billion euros ($4.2 billion) in charges linked to the listing next month of its Uniper unit. Its shares slumped the most in more than six weeks. The impairments and contingency losses for its power stations burning fossil-fuel and natural gas storage assets led to a net loss of 3.03 ...

  London / AFP British workers on the Eurostar cross-Channel rail service will strike for seven days this month, including over a public holiday weekend, in a dispute over hours, a union said on Wednesday. Fifty-five members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union will begin the action this Friday, which the company said would see a maximum of ...