Lisin, NLMK’s chairman and main shareholder, said in a letter to staff that was posted on social networks by an employee that the company and its board of directors hoped that the conflict was resolved soon.

LONDON, March 7 (Reuters) – Vladimir Lisin, a Russian billionaire, told employees at steelmaker NLMK that lost lives in Ukraine were a tragedy that was hard to justify, and called for a peaceful diplomatic resolution to the conflict.

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A board meeting to draw up a response to the KKR proposal could be held on Sunday once TIM’s advisers complete an analysis to compare TIM’s planned in-house revamp with KKR’s plan, two sources close to the matter told Reuters on Monday.

The discussion included talk of an affair Bill Gates acknowledged with a Microsoft employee in 2000. Melinda French Gates laid out painful details of her divorce from Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates in an interview with Gayle King of CBS News that aired Thursday.

“While to many, it may seem like crowd chants at soccer matches may just be sophomoric attempts to distract the players on an opposing team, as a queer, Latino soccer fan, these discriminatory chants cut much deeper,” NCLR spokesman Christopher Vasquez said.

In a statement, Bill Gates said, “I will always be sorry for the pain that I caused Melinda and our family. I admire Melinda and everything she does to improve the lives of women and girls around the world, and I’m grateful for the work we continue to do together at our foundation.”

There just came a point in time where there was enough there that I realized it just wasn’t healthy, and I couldn’t trust what we had.” “So I thought we had worked through some of that. It wasn’t one moment or one specific thing that happened. “Well, I certainly believe in forgiveness,” French Gates told King.

“For LGBTQ Latinos, these chants – almost always using a highly-derogatory Spanish slur – create an atmosphere of hostility, recalling long-lasting memories of fear and rejection. Soccer for passing a ban on these homophobic chants.”

MILAN, March 8 (Reuters) – Shares in Telecom Italia (TIM) bounced more than 10% on Tuesday after an Italian newspaper reported that U.S.
fund KKR was still interested in a takeover deal, albeit at a lower price.

But a preliminary agreement on the plan failed to materialise so far, as Italy’s Innovation Minister Vittorio Colao warned it could create regulatory problems with EU funded tenders to boost fast connectivity across the country, people familiar with the matter said.

This week, Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries, whose brief includes football, told Parliament, ‘we have tolerated the investment of Russian kleptocrats for far too long’, as MPs discussed potential sanctions against oligarchs.

King also asked French Gates about The Giving Pledge, a promise from the world’s richest families to give away most of their wealth to charity. Gates, French Gates and investor Warren Buffett founded the pledge in 2010, recruiting other wealthy people from around the world to take the pledge.

Splitting TIM’s wholesale network operations from its retail arm could ease a mooted merger of the former phone monopoly’s fixed assets network with those of fiber optic rival Open Fiber, a move advocated by TIM second largest investor, state lender CDP.

The resolution says the federation should adopt a zero-tolerance policy on discriminatory chants and adopt FIFA´s three-step protocol, which calls for the match to be stopped and fans warned, the match to be suspended and players moved to the locker rooms, and the match to be abandoned.

‘We are looking at the next steps and whether more tests need to be added, whether we need to be more transparent about those decisions and whether independent scrutiny really needs to be on top of this,’ the Premier League chief said.

When Vladimir Putin attended an APEC Summit in Australia in September of 2007, Ms Gorbulina hosted gatherings between Russian and Australian political and business leaders through her business, DE & G McGor International.

The two were seen together at the wedding of their daughter Jennifer in October. French Gates said she is “friendly” but not friends with her ex-husband. They are still running the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, but she has reportedly decided to shift most of her donations away from their joint endeavor.

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