A handful of international stories worth a skim this morning:

  • Libya’s eastern commander Khalifa Haftar’s forces recaptured Benghazi from Islamist militants and other armed groups, Reuters reports.
  • Volvo is joining in on the auto industry’s recent shift towards electric vehicles, announcing yesterday it will “offer only hybrid or full-electric motors on every new model launched in 2019 or later,” according to Bloomberg.
  • American payment processing company Vantiv is set to purchase Britain’s Worldpay in a USD 10 bn merger, pushing up Worldpay’s shares by nearly 28%, Reuters reports.
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