By Terje Solsvik and Kate Holton
OSLO/LONDON, March 9 (Reuters) – Norway has suspended a planned asset sale by engine maker Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc to a Russian-controlled company as it assesses the security implications for the country’s navy, the justice ministry said on Tuesday.
Norway’s NSM security agency is assessing the 150 million-euro ($178 million) sale of Bergen Engines to a company controlled by Russia’s TMH Group, the ministry said.
Britain’s Rolls-Royce announced the planned sale on Feb. 4 as part of a disposal plan aimed at helping the maker of engines for aircraft and ships survive the pandemic.
Based in the city of Bergen on Norway’s west coast, Bergen Engines is, among other things, a supplier to NATO member Norway’s navy which is headquartered nearby.
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DAMASCUS, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Syria s health minister said on Thursday it had received COVID-19 vaccination doses from a friendly country and healthcare workers would start receiving inoculations next week.
Hassan Ghabash s comments, carried by state news agency SANA, did not specify which country provided the vaccines or how many doses had arrived.
Health officials had said Syria was engaged with Russia and China on vaccines but no bilateral deals have been announced yet.
China said earlier this month it would send 150,000 doses of vaccine to Syria as aid but a source told Reuters on Thursday those had not been delivered yet.
By Eliana Raszewski
BUENOS AIRES, Feb 26 (Reuters) - An Argentine laboratory has struck a deal to help produce Russia s COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V, according to a company statement shared by the country s government on Friday, helping boost the local firm s share price.
Laboratorios Richmond has signed a memorandum of understanding with Russia s RDIF sovereign wealth fund to be able to manufacture the vaccine, which has so far been the main drug used in Argentina s fledgling inoculation program.
Argentina was one of the first countries in the region to sign an agreement with Russia to buy Sputnik V and has already received 1.22 million doses from the Russian Gamaleya Institute.