FACTBOX-Companies sell their businesses in Russia Updates Unilever Oct 10 (Reuters) - Many Western companies have sold their Russian assets or handed them over to local managers to comply with sanctions over the war in Ukraine and respond to threats from the Kremlin that it may seize foreign-owned assets. Below are some companies that have sold their businesses in Russia, divided by sector: AUTOS Continental CONG.DE sold its Russian tyre plant to holding company S8 Capital in May 2023. Renault R

UPDATE 4-Brookfield to buy Tritax EuroBox for $1.44 bln, sparking potential takeover battle Tritax EuroBox to withdraw support for Segro offer Brookfield's offer values Tritax at 69 pence apiece Tritax EuroBox shares rise 2.2% after Brookfield bid Adds Segro's response in paragraph 4, updates share moves in paragraph 5 By Shanima A and Tommy Reggiori Wilkes Oct 10 (Reuters) - Canada's Brookfield Asset Management BAM.TO will buy European logistics real estate firm Tritax EuroBox EBOX.L , the comp

ANALYSIS-Dominating US cigarette sales, a combined 7-Eleven, Circle K would face risk from vapes, cheap smokes Circle K, 7-Eleven are the two top U.S. convenience store chains by store count Combined, they may be able to leverage size to cut prices on tobacco, nicotine products Threats to tobacco revenues like deep discount cigarettes, vapes remain U.S.

UPDATE 6-Nobel prize in physics goes to machine learning pioneers Hopfield and Hinton Prize awarded for work laying foundation for machine learning Hinton quit Google last year to speak more freely about dangers of AI Princeton professor Hopfield created an associative memory that can store and reconstruct images Physics second award in this year's Nobel line-up Prizes announced through course of week Adds comments from Hopfield in paragraphs 7-9 By Niklas Pollard and Johan Ahlander STOCKHOLM, O

UPDATE 2-Soccer-Friedkin Group reach agreement to buy Everton Adds Dan and Ryan Friedkin statement, details Sept 23 (Reuters) - The Friedkin Group have reached an agreement with Blue Heaven Holdings over the terms of the sale of Farhad Moshiri's majority stake in Everton, the Premier League club said on Monday. The announcement comes two months after the Friedkin Group had abandoned plans to buy a majority stake in the Merseyside club after being granted a period of exclusivity.