European shares hit two-week low as Trump's tariff plans slam automakers
European shares fell to a two-week low on Thursday, led by auto stocks after U.S.
March 27, 2025European shares fell to a two-week low on Thursday, led by auto stocks after U.S.
March 27, 2025Ukraine's state-owned railway Ukrzaliznytsia, the country's largest carrier, has partially restored online services after a large-scale cyber attack hit passenger and freight
March 27, 2025$100 million coin collection, buried for decades, up for auction
March 27, 2025British Steel says it is planning to close its two blast furnaces and steelmaking operations in the north England town of Scunthorpe, after its Chinese owner Jingye failed to agree a rescue package with the U.K. government
March 27, 2025Germany's economy minister and its autos association slammed Donald Trump's newly-announced 25% tariff on imported vehicles to the U.S. as bad for European and U.S. economies,
March 27, 2025Turkey's justice minister said on Thursday the decision to arrest Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was based on criminal reports and not linked to the timing of the opposition CHP
March 27, 2025Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday that the proposed Black Sea Initiative was a new deal - not an extension of an earlier agreement.
March 27, 2025German car parts supplier Bosch said it is still banking on the North American region with expansion plans there, while stressing that it was globally positioned in a statement
March 27, 2025Serbian oil company NIS, majority-owned by Russia's Gazprom Neft and Gazprom, is likely to get a last-minute, 30-day extension to its waiver from U.S. sanctions, the CEO of state
March 27, 2025Meta Platforms' WhatsApp on Thursday got the backing of an adviser to Europe's top court in its fight against the EU privacy watchdog, which had ordered the Irish
March 27, 2025German carmaker BMW on Thursday urged the European Union and United States to strike a deal to prevent a spiralling trade conflict, in a statement issued in response to President
March 27, 2025Euro zone banks are resilient but need to be ready for geopolitical shocks and their consequences, including the risk liquidity could dry up amid jittery financial markets,
March 27, 2025Protectionist tendencies are complicating foreign business for German companies, particularly in the United States, and postponing a recovery in exports, a survey
March 27, 2025NATO is clarifying comments that Secretary-General Mark Rutte made when he suggested that four U.S. soldiers who went missing while training in Lithuania had died, even though the U.S. Army said their fate was not yet confirmed
March 26, 2025British clothing retailer Next joined the one billion-pound profit club on Thursday, but while investors celebrate, they are also starting to worry about the lack of
March 27, 2025Norway's central bank kept interest rates on hold at a 17-year high of 4.50% on Thursday, in line with most forecasts, as an unexpected resurgence of inflation led policymakers to
March 27, 2025Euro zone lending growth accelerated further last month, suggesting that credit growth bottomed out in late 2024 and a mild expansion is now underway as interest rates fall,
March 27, 2025The global heads of German automakers BMW and Mercedes, as well as chip giant Qualcomm are among foreign business leaders due to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping this week,
March 27, 2025A court in Bosnia has issued an international arrest warrant for Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik who is accused of attacking the constitutional order and has gone abroad in
March 27, 2025European Central Bank supervisors watch banks' liquidity "very closely" and continue to work well with their Federal Reserve colleagues, the ECB's chief regulator Claudia Buch
March 27, 2025The French car lobby PFA said on Thursday that there can only be losers in the looming trade war between the United States and Europe "This emerging trade war will impact our
March 27, 2025H&M's sales were up just 1% in March after a weaker than expected first quarter, the Swedish fast-fashion retailer reported on Thursday, in a sign of a slow start to
March 27, 2025Flight chaos and lost profits: The real cost for airlines of the Heathrow shutdown
March 27, 2025French President Emmanuel Macron says that a proposed European armed force for possible deployment in Ukraine in tandem with an eventual peace deal could “respond” to a Russian attack if Moscow launched one
March 26, 2025North Korea has sent 3,000 more soldiers to bolster Russia’s war on Ukraine, South Korea says
March 27, 2025The moon will appear to take bites out of the sun during a partial solar eclipse in the Northern Hemisphere
March 26, 2025UK's Warehouse REIT said on Thursday it could recommend Blackstone's 489 million-pound ($631.5 million) final all-cash takeover proposal if the asset manager comes up with a firm offer.
March 27, 2025A Turkish court on Thursday freed Agence France-Presse journalist Yasin Akgul, detained this week while covering mass protests over the jailing of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the
March 27, 2025Spanish lenders Santander and BBVA are negotiating with the European Central Bank (ECB) to get a more favourable capital treatment for their holdings in insurance businesses,
March 27, 2025Thousands of Romanians gathered in the capital Bucharest on Wednesday to protest the December cancellation of a presidential election and the banning of its far-right frontrunner
March 26, 2025Russian forces launched a massive drone attack overnight on Ukraine's Kharkiv region, injuring 21 people and damaging residential buildings and storage facilities, emergency services
March 26, 2025French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot has begun a two-day visit to China
March 27, 2025Britain's vehicle output, including those of electric and hybrid automobiles, fell in February, industry data showed on Thursday, underscoring the persistent challenges faced by the auto
March 26, 2025The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom will on Tuesday hear arguments to overturn a judgment that could cost Britain's financial industry billions of pounds in
March 27, 2025France's public sector budget deficit widened last year but not quite as much as the government had expected, official data showed on Thursday.
March 27, 2025The European Central Bank could lower borrowing costs further if the current economic trajectory is maintained, Governing Council member Martins Kazaks told Bloomberg News in an interview
March 27, 2025Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that he wanted the United States and Kyiv's other Western allies to remain strong in countering Russia's demands and narrative in
March 27, 2025NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte warned the United States and Europe on Wednesday against any temptation to "go it alone" on security,
March 26, 2025A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Ankur Banerjee Investors will be fixated on European auto stocks on Thursday after Trump's announcement of duties on imported cars and light
March 27, 2025Italian wine and spirits exports to the United States are stalling due to the uncertainty over possible tariffs that President Donald Trump could impose in the coming weeks, trade
March 26, 2025Germany's government rejected on Wednesday calls for a boycott of U.S. goods despite disagreements over tariffs, saying Europe's biggest economy wanted to foster good trade
March 26, 2025Coca Cola bottlers were raided by EU antitrust regulators earlier this month, a person with direct knowledge of the matter said.
March 26, 2025The European Union's top trade negotiator Maroš Šefčovič expects U.S. President Donald Trump to hit the bloc with tariffs of about 20% next week, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.
March 26, 2025One of Switzerland's main political parties could soon propose capping UBS's investment banking activities as part of a regulatory overhaul aimed at making the sector
March 26, 2025Microsoft has abandoned data center projects set to use 2 gigawatts of electricity in the U.S. and Europe in the last six months due to an oversupply relative to its current demand forecast
March 26, 2025France will provide some 2 billion euros ($2.15 billion) of extra military aid to Ukraine, President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday, accusing Russia of reinterpreting and rewriting
March 26, 2025PAI Partners and Bain Capital are among the buyout firms considering bidding for Swiss food giant Nestle's water business, which could be valued at about 5 billion euros ($5.38 billion) or
March 26, 2025A team of butchers representing Spain are competing for the first time in what has been dubbed the World Cup of butchery, a tournament pitting
March 26, 2025Actor Gerard Depardieu, on the third day of a sexual assault trial, told a Paris court on Wednesday that he did not consider placing a hand on a person's
March 26, 2025The withdrawal of all Russian forces from Ukraine would be one of the main conditions to lift or amend EU sanctions, the European Commission
March 26, 2025Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez suggested on Wednesday his government could roll over the budget for a second year and start working on a new bill for 2026, as the chances of
March 26, 2025Bulgaria's parliament on Wednesday approved an $82.7 million purchase of Javelin anti-tank guided missiles from the United States to modernise the country's army and protect its
March 26, 2025Britain's Royal Society has decided the scientific academy will not take any action against a famous member, U.S. tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, after fellows met to discuss potential
March 26, 2025Lithuanian prosecutors said on Wednesday they believe that human error was the likely cause of the crash of a DHL cargo airplane in Vilnius in November and have
March 26, 2025The Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine could come back online within months of a ceasefire, but it would probably take more than a year to
March 26, 2025Kenya has recognised Kosovo as an independent state, the first country to do so after nearly five years of stalled efforts to gain further international recognition.
March 26, 2025Kosovo plans to boost its defence spending by 60% over the next four years and to focus on acquiring Black Hawk helicopters and building plants to produce ammunition and drones,
March 26, 2025Ukraine accused Moscow on Wednesday of being incapable of managing safety at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant after what it said were reports of a huge spillage of
March 26, 2025An agreement on freedom of navigation in the Black Sea to ensure the protection of civilian vessels and port infrastructure "will be a crucial
March 26, 2025A Russian military court on Wednesday handed down long prison sentences to 12 members of Ukraine's Azov regiment, which led the defence of the city of Mariupol in the
March 26, 2025Ukraine and Russia accused one another on Wednesday of flouting a truce on energy strikes brokered by the United States, and the European Union
March 26, 2025European shares closed lower on Wednesday, dragged by technology and healthcare stocks, while investors remained concerned about impending U.S. tariffs set to take effect
March 26, 2025British finance minister Rachel Reeves, facing a weak economy, trimmed her spending plans in a budget update on Wednesday that
March 25, 2025Irish opposition parties called on the speaker of the lower house of parliament to resign on Wednesday, just three months into her term, over a dispute about speaking rights that
March 26, 2025Denmark on Wednesday welcomed a U.S. decision to confine a planned visit to Greenland to a military base after the
March 26, 2025Istanbul's opposition-run municipal council on Wednesday elected an interim mayor to run the city, after mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was jailed pending trial over graft charges that he and
March 26, 2025A search for four U.S. soldiers continued in Lithuania after their vehicle was found submerged in a training area, the U.S. Army said on Wednesday.
March 26, 2025British equities closed higher on Wednesday, buoyed by rising energy stocks, after finance minister Rachel Reeves pushed back government spending plans in a long-anticipated budget update.
March 26, 2025In the Russian region of Kursk, where Ukraine has been fighting for more than seven months, people say they want peace but fear there will be more war.
March 26, 2025The United States will evaluate demands made by Russia after Moscow had agreed "in principle" to a U.S.-brokered ceasefire with Ukraine in the Black Sea to allow
March 26, 2025Italy has handed tax demands to Meta, X and LinkedIn in an unprecedented VAT claim against the U.S. tech giants that could have repercussions across the European
March 26, 2025A once-powerful former North Dakota lawmaker has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty last year to traveling to Europe with the intent to pay for sex with a minor
March 26, 2025Russia may be ‘dragging feet’ on achieving peace in Ukraine, Trump says
March 26, 2025Russia and Ukraine have accused each other of breaking the terms of a tentative U
March 26, 2025EU urges citizens to stockpile 72 hours’ worth of supplies amid war risk
March 26, 2025A woman accusing French actor Gérard Depardieu of sexual assault has told a landmark trial in Paris that he groped her buttocks and her breasts several times on a film set
March 26, 2025The U.K. Treasury chief says the economy will only grow by 1% this year, half the rate previously anticipated
March 26, 2025A German international trade lobby on Wednesday warned against calls to boycott U.S. products amid tensions between European governments and President Donald Trump's administration,
March 26, 2025The Kremlin said on Wednesday that a number of conditions must be met before a Black Sea maritime security deal negotiated with the United States can be activated, pointing to an
March 26, 2025London-listed miner Glencore has declared force majeure on copper shipments from its Chilean Altonorte smelter, where production has been suspended, two industry sources said.
March 26, 2025Russia on Wednesday condemned the arrest of the leader of Moldova's pro-Russian Gagauz ethnic minority, saying it was a blatant example of trying to use the methods of a police
March 26, 2025The Kremlin said on Wednesday that Moscow was continuing its intensive contacts with the U.S. and was pleased with how talks with Washington had gone so far after the United States
March 26, 2025The Trump administration is unsettling the multilateral economic system, harming the U.S. economy in the process and to a lesser extent Europe as well, the head of France's central
March 26, 2025China will continue to invest more in new computer chipmaking equipment than any other geographical region in 2025, despite a significant year-over-year decline, industry group
March 26, 2025Balancing France's budget for the 2026 calendar year will be a tough challenge due to needing to both cut the deficit and make room for higher military spending, government
March 26, 2025ATHENS -Chevron has expressed an interest in hydrocarbon exploration off the island of Crete in the Mediterranean Sea, the second such expression for Greek energy by the U.S. oil producer this year,
March 26, 2025Relatively wet and mild weather has kept Norway's hydropower reservoirs well-filled over the winter but also limits the risk of a large spring flood that could see water
March 26, 2025What matters in U.S. and global markets today By Mike Dolan, Editor-At-Large, Financial Industry and Financial Markets The darkest U.S. consumer confidence outlook in
March 26, 2025The German government is not aware of any planned changes to European Union sanctions against Russia, a spokesperson said on Wednesday, commenting on Moscow's demand that Russian
March 26, 2025Russia has attacked at least eight Ukrainian energy facilities since March 18 when Moscow says it halted such attacks, a senior Ukrainian presidential official said on Wednesday.
March 26, 2025The British public's expectations for inflation over the longer term have risen this month to their highest since October 2022, when surging energy prices had pushed headline
March 26, 2025Sweden provisionally aims to raise defence spending to 3.5% of GDP by 2030, a bigger and faster ramp-up than previously planned as part of its
March 26, 2025Europe should enhance stockpiling of critical equipment and encourage the public to maintain sufficient supplies for at least 72 hours in case of emergencies, the European
March 26, 2025British inflation is set to average 3.2% in 2025, British finance minister Rachel Reeves said on Wednesday, citing forecasts from the Office for Budget Responsibility.
March 26, 2025Last year was Ukraine's worst year for wildfires in more than three decades of record-keeping, as shelling along front lines in the war with Russia triggered an
March 26, 2025Germany's conservatives and Social Democrats (SPD) agreed on Wednesday to go into the next round of negotiations on forming a coalition government
March 26, 2025Relations between Kyiv and Washington are "back on track", the chief of staff to Ukraine's president told Reuters, after a fraught Oval Office
March 26, 2025Britain's economy is forecast to grow by 1.0% this year, the Office for Budget Responsibility said on Wednesday, halving its estimate made in October.
March 26, 2025Italian sports car maker Maserati, one of the worst performing brands within the Stellantis group, said on Wednesday it was boosting lucrative customisation services while working on
March 26, 2025The top procurement official at one of Europe's largest airlines urged GE Aerospace and other engine makers on Wednesday not to overlook durability when it comes to designing the
March 26, 2025Gérard Depardieu reigned over French cinema for half a century, a national icon as familiar as the baguette
March 25, 2025Russia has convicted 23 captured Ukrainians on terrorism charges stemming from the war in Ukraine in a trial that Kyiv denounced as a sham and a violation of international law
March 26, 2025Cyprus says it will make money available to subsidize construction of private desalination plants at hotels on the tourism-reliant island nation as dwindling fresh water reserves in 108 dams are reaching alarmingly low levels
March 26, 2025Environmental groups and residents are suing the Spanish state and the region of Galicia in a landmark case over alleged decades-long mismanagement of pollution caused by intensive
March 26, 2025Flanked by a gaggle of smartphone-wielding onlookers, Irish farmer Joe Phelan ushered two alpacas down the corridor of a local nursing home
March 26, 2025Greenland and Denmark appear cautiously relieved by the news that U.S. Vice President JD Vance and his wife are changing their itinerary for their visit to Greenland Friday
March 26, 2025MFE-MediaForEurope, the TV group controlled by Italy's Berlusconi family, has called a board meeting on Wednesday to review a
March 25, 2025Sweden's central bank is set to hold the interest rate steady for the foreseeable future, but rate-setters are ready to act if inflation deviates too much from the target,
March 26, 2025British house prices rose at their fastest pace in two years in the 12 months to January, according to official data published on Wednesday.
March 26, 2025Sanctions-hit Belarusian flag carrier Belavia is on the cusp of adding three Airbus planes to its depleted fleet after repurposing aircraft that had previously belonged to Gambian
March 26, 2025Spain, which has NATO's lowest defence spending as a share of its economy, will outline and start implementing a plan to boost the defence sector before the summer, Prime Minister
March 26, 2025Porsche SE, Volkswagen's largest shareholder, is eyeing defence and infrastructure as possible new long-term investment areas, it said on Wednesday, adding
March 26, 2025The commitment of NATO to defend Poland in any situation is crucial, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk told reporters in Warsaw after meeting the head of the pact Mark Rutte.
March 26, 2025Chinese electric truck startup Windrose is increasing its final round of funding to $300 million, a person with direct knowledge of the matter said, as it plans more assembly
March 26, 2025Russian court hands long jail terms to Ukrainian fighters who defended Mariupol
March 26, 2025Britain's Prince Harry has quit as a patron of Sentebale, a British charity he set up to help young people with HIV and AIDS in Lesotho and Botswana, following a dispute between
March 26, 2025President Donald Trump’s Oval Office meeting with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky devolved into a shouting match, with the US president telling Ukraine’s leader “make a deal or we’re out” during an angry exchange about the nature of US support, and whether Zelensky had demonstrated enough gratitude.
March 26, 2025Israel embraces France’s far-right, turning a blind eye to its Nazi past
March 26, 2025Police raids in six German states have targeted a group alleged to be “part of an international network whose aim is to overthrow the government in Eritrea.”
March 26, 2025Pope Francis is now recovering in the Vatican, but what’s next for his papacy?
March 26, 2025JD Vance will visit Greenland, but a controversial US trip just got a lot more low-profile
March 26, 2025Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet in Jerusalem on Sunday, two Greek sources told Reuters on Wednesday.
March 26, 2025A moving memoir by Swedish singer Neneh Cherry and the gripping story of a heart transplant by British doctor Rachel Clarke are among finalists for the Women’s Prize for Nonfiction
March 26, 2025British inflation slowed more than expected in February, bringing some relief to consumers ahead of a likely new pick-up in price growth and to
March 26, 2025Two years since it acquired Credit Suisse to create a Swiss banking giant, UBS is trying to head off tougher regulations by offering to limit the
March 26, 2025The Warsaw Stock Exchange reported a more than 2% year-on-year increase in full-year core profit late on Tuesday, primarily driven by higher sales revenue from strong growth in the
March 26, 2025The European Central Bank must be pragmatic and data-driven in setting its interest rates, governing council member Fabio Panetta said on Wednesday in a letter to the Financial Times.
March 26, 2025European companies that are spending big on generative artificial intelligence need to start showing returns on their massive outlays by next year, or risk investors
March 26, 2025A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Kevin Buckland The relief rally in global stocks was still in place on Wednesday in Asia, but with dwindling conviction.
March 26, 2025Serbia's populist government is facing increased public scrutiny over reports that it used a sonic weapon against a peaceful crowd during a massive anti-corruption rally in the capital, Belgrade, on March 15
March 26, 2025Police in ex-Soviet Moldova detained the leader of the country's pro-Russian Gagauz ethnic minority at Chisinau's international airport late on Tuesday,
March 25, 2025The Black Sea maritime security deal aims to bring Moscow back to predictable grain and fertiliser markets that would allow for profit and ensure global food security, Russian Foreign
March 25, 2025Pope Francis made his first public appearance in more than five weeks at the hospital where he was being treated for double pneumonia. The pope’s hospitalization has been the 88-year-old's longest stay in Gemelli since his election 12 years ago.
March 25, 2025Britain urged Russia on Tuesday to agree to the "full, immediate and unconditional ceasefire" proposed by Ukraine after both countries reached a truce covering the Black Sea and
March 25, 2025Pope Francis came so close to death that his medical team considered stopping treatment
March 25, 2025Turkey detains more than 1,400 protesters and multiple journalists after jailing of leading opposition figure
March 25, 2025Oil refineries, oil and gas pipelines and nuclear power stations are among the targets on which Russia and Ukraine agreed to temporarily suspend strikes, the Kremlin said on Tuesday
March 25, 2025The United States reached separate deals on Tuesday with Ukraine and Russia to pause their attacks at sea and against energy
March 25, 2025The European Union's trade commissioner Maros Sefcovic met with U.S.
March 25, 2025The United States is exerting "unacceptable pressure" on Greenland, Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said on Tuesday, ahead of
March 25, 2025Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant was a Russian facility and transferring control of it to Ukraine or any other country was impossible.
March 25, 2025The United States says it has reached a tentative agreement for Ukraine and Russia to stop fighting and ensure safe navigation in the Black Sea
March 25, 2025The head of Turkey’s main opposition party has visited jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu after six nights of massive protests calling for his release
March 25, 2025Allies of the United States see a group chat about attack plans by top U.S. officials that accidentally included a journalist as a jaw-dropping security breach
March 25, 2025Lisa Sólrun Christiansen gets up at 4 a.m. most days and gets to work knitting thick wool sweaters coveted by buyers around the world for their warmth and colorful patterns celebrating Greenland’s traditional Inuit culture
March 25, 2025King Charles and his wife Queen Camilla's state visit to the Vatican has been postponed because of medical advice that suggested Pope Francis would benefit from an extended period of
March 25, 2025Beset by weak growth and rising borrowing costs, Britain will bump up its issuance of government bonds in the coming financial year, and some primary
March 25, 2025Two British service members have admitted they broke and stole half of a statue of Paddington Bear
March 25, 2025Russia, the world's top wheat and fertiliser exporter, said on Tuesday that Western sanctions against companies involved in food and fertiliser exports and shipping
March 25, 2025Any lifting of sanctions on Russian energy is likely to be slow and patchy, meaning a return of its oil and gas to markets beyond Asia would
March 25, 2025Anti-government protesters in Turkey said they planned to keep up a campaign of demonstrations triggered by the jailing of Istanbul's
March 25, 2025Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said a truce with Russia covering the Black Sea and energy strikes was effective immediately on Tuesday,
March 25, 2025Actor Gérard Depardieu has testified on Day 2 of his trial in Paris on sexual assault charges
March 25, 2025Pope Francis’ medical team briefly considered suspending treatment after a Feb. 28 breathing crisis but instead decided on an aggressive treatment course
March 25, 2025Ukrainian state railways Ukrzaliznytsia, the country's largest cargo carrier, said on Tuesday that a large-scale cyber attack had also hit its online freight services.
March 25, 2025Executives from the world's top commodity trading houses expect a well-supplied oil market this year, with concerns remaining over global
March 25, 2025In a messaging group that mistakenly disclosed plans by the U.S. to attack Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis to a journalist, senior Trump administration officials including persons
March 25, 2025Yevheniia Stepanets fled to Poland with her family after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 but her children begged her to return home to the city of Sumy.
March 25, 2025Portuguese oil company Galp Energia's gasoline exports to the United States could be curtailed if U.S.
March 25, 2025Thousands of people protested in Budapest on Tuesday against a new law that aims to ban the annual Pride march by LGBTQ+ communities and allows the use of facial recognition
March 25, 2025Russia said on Tuesday the United States had agreed to help it lift a series of Western sanctions and restrictions on food, fertiliser and shipping companies as
March 25, 2025European shares ended higher on Tuesday in conjunction with global markets as investors grew optimistic about U.S.
March 25, 2025British stocks closed higher on Tuesday amid optimism that U.S. tariffs might be less onerous than feared, with gains in the commodities and construction sectors leading the way.
March 25, 2025French movie star Gerard Depardieu admitted in court on Tuesday that he had grabbed by the hips a woman who has accused him of sexual assault, but denied it was
March 25, 2025Energy costs lifted Spanish industrial prices in February to their highest level in two years, the National Statistics Institute (INE) said on Tuesday.
March 25, 2025Volkswagen Group said on Tuesday it would collaborate with Valeo and Mobileye as it deepens its network of suppliers to develop assisted and autonomous driving.
March 25, 2025Norway's defence minister said he believes the United States remains committed to Europe's defence but the continent must take a bigger share of the costs of
March 25, 2025Europe's largest tour operator TUI aims to raise the profit margin for its markets and airline unit to more than 3% in the medium term, it
March 25, 2025Turkey and the United States want to remove obstacles to defence industry cooperation, a Turkish Foreign Ministry source said on
March 25, 2025The wildfires that used to burn each summer in the woods above the Spanish village of Barro have diminished to almost none since Lucia Perez
March 25, 2025German business morale rose in March, a survey showed on Tuesday, as companies expect a recovery after two years of contraction in Europe's largest economy.
March 25, 2025Australia's Qantas will start Project Sunrise ultra-long-haul flights in early 2027 after receiving the first of 12 dedicated Airbus A350-1000 aircraft at the end of next
March 25, 2025Accelerated climate action could boost global GDP by 0.2% by 2040 compared with current policies, a study showed on Tuesday, as delegates from 40 countries meet in
March 25, 2025Support for the European Union among citizens is at a record high, with three quarters saying membership of the bloc is beneficial because of its role in
March 25, 2025Swiss logistics group Kuehne und Nagel on Tuesday said it has been capitalizing on increasingly complex global trade issues - from U.S.
March 25, 2025Ukraine's SBU security service said on Tuesday it had detained a serviceman it accused of helping Moscow attack Ukrainian troops fighting in Russia's Kursk region by giving away their
March 25, 2025As talks aimed at ending the war in Ukraine continue, a potential relief in sanctions imposed on Russia, including its vast energy sector, is one of the issues on the agenda.
March 25, 2025One of the last surviving alleged members of the Red Army Faction group that carried out murders and kidnappings in Germany from the 1970s went on trial on Tuesday after she
March 25, 2025Europe must acquire all means to defend itself against military aggression, European Council President Antonio Costa said on Tuesday, adding that peace without defence is an
March 25, 2025BlackRock has launched its first bitcoin exchange-traded product in Europe, in a bid to tap growing demand for cryptocurrency exposure in new markets after attracting more than $50
March 25, 2025British security ties with the United States are as strong as ever, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner said on Tuesday in response to the mistaken disclosure to a journalist of a
March 25, 2025Former FIFA President Sepp Blatter and France soccer great Michel Platini were both cleared of corruption charges by a Swiss court on Tuesday, two and a
March 25, 2025Austria's top court on Tuesday sentenced former Austrian Finance Minister Karl-Heinz Grasser to four years in prison, dismissing his appeal against his 2020 conviction on corruption
March 25, 2025A fire at an oil depot in southern Russia's Krasnodar region after a suspected Ukrainian drone attack has been extinguished nearly a week after it started, region governor Veniamin
March 25, 2025British police said a fire which caused Heathrow Airport to close for 18 hours last week was no longer being treated as a potentially criminal matter.
March 25, 2025The United States said on Tuesday it has made separate agreements with Ukraine and Russia to ensure safe navigation in the Black Sea and to implement a ban strikes against
March 25, 2025Airbus on Tuesday gave a glimpse of technologies for its next airplane, a replacement for its best-selling A320neo family due to enter service between 10 and
March 25, 2025Tests are underway at Cortina’s controversial Olympic sliding track
March 25, 2025Apple is set to stave off a possible fine and an EU order over its browser options on iPhones after it made changes to comply with landmark EU rules aimed at
March 25, 2025Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko has been sworn in for a seventh term, and he mocked those who derided him as “Europe’s last dictator” by saying his country has more democracy “than those who cast themselves as its models.”
March 25, 2025Chinese and Italian shareholders in Pirelli are at odds over the group's governance, two sources said, with the Chinese investor potentially a hurdle for the
March 25, 2025The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) took up its largest-ever share of the seats as Germany's new parliament met for its first session on Tuesday, demanding
March 24, 2025Pope Francis came so close to death at one point during his 38-day fight in hospital against pneumonia that his doctors considered ending treatment so he
March 25, 2025Please disregard EU--France-Depardieu-Trial-Explainer, published on Mar
March 23, 2025French carmaker Renault said Josep Maria Recasens would become the new CEO of Renault's electrical vehicles unit Ampere on April 1, replacing group CEO Luca de Meo in that role.
March 25, 2025German residential property prices rose in the fourth quarter, halting a decline in place since 2022 by gaining 1.9% year-on-year, federal statistics
March 25, 2025Chinese foreign minister met with his Portuguese counterpart in Beijing on Tuesday, calling for closer ties with Europe as Chinese and European leaders navigate intensifying global
March 25, 2025Tesla's market share in Europe continued to shrink in February as sales of the all-electric car maker dropped for a second month even as EV
March 25, 2025A Russian missile attack hit a densely-populated district of Ukraine's northeastern city of Sumy, wounding 88 people, including 17 children, on Monday as ceasefire talks ploughed on,
March 24, 2025Shell on Tuesday pledged to return more cash to shareholders on the back of higher LNG sales, mainly via buybacks, trimmed its investments
March 25, 2025U.S.
March 25, 2025European sales of Tesla electric vehicles tumbled 49% in the first two months of the year even as overall sales of EVs grew
March 25, 2025‘Exceptional’ Iron Age hoard unlocks secrets of life in Britain 2,000 years ago
March 25, 2025Grandparents arrested for murder of French toddler who disappeared from their garden
March 25, 2025Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini have won again in court and now lead 2-0 in trial verdicts against Swiss federal prosecutors
March 25, 2025Five traumatized lions rescued from the war zone in Ukraine who are settling into a new home in England after an international effort to bring them to safety
March 25, 2025Highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, has increasingly spread to mammals and infected hundreds of people, raising concerns that it may lead to human-to-human
March 24, 2025Ukrainian and U.S. delegations are scheduled to meet on Tuesday in Saudi Arabia following Russia-U.S. talks there a day earlier on a limited Black Sea ceasefire proposal that
March 25, 2025One of Japan's largest property developers has struck a deal with Legal & General to build more than 1,000 homes in Britain's rental housing market, where demand for
March 25, 2025Talks between Russia and the United States were challenging but useful and the United Nations and other countries will be involved in additional discussions, a member of the Russian
March 25, 2025Thousands gathered in Belgrade on Monday to remember a NATO bombing campaign in 1999 and protest against the development of a luxury compound by an investment company set up by
March 24, 2025A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Ankur Banerjee The prospect of narrower-than-feared U.S. tariffs rekindled some investor optimism in recent days but the relief rally in
March 25, 2025A media workers' union says Turkish authorities have arrested several journalists at their homes
March 24, 2025U.S. negotiators are working with Russian representatives on a proposed partial ceasefire in Ukraine
March 24, 2025Tesla EV sales in Europe have fallen in February behind legacy brand Volkswagen and the BMW group, as well as rivals from China, data by research platform JATO
March 24, 2025Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that protests over the jailing of Istanbul's mayor had become a "
March 24, 2025U.S. and Russian officials wrapped up day-long talks on Monday focused on a narrow proposal for a ceasefire at sea between Kyiv and Moscow, part of a diplomatic effort that
March 23, 2025French actor Gérard Depardieu went on trial at a Paris courthouse on sexual assault charges
March 24, 2025Airbus is in discussions with European nations on new defence and space orders as the continent increases spending and is seeing an improvement in supply chains for its
March 24, 2025Tuberculosis (TB) infections among children in the European region rose 10% in 2023, indicating ongoing transmission and the need for immediate public
March 24, 2025Thousands of protesters have marched in North Macedonia's capital Skopje demanding accountability for a nightclub fire in Kocani on March 16 that killed 59 people and injured over 100
March 24, 2025Some U.S. embassies in European nations are taking to social media with pointed warnings to would-be visitors: Watch your step
March 24, 2025A powerful cyberattack knocked out the online ticketing system for Ukraine's state railway service, causing long queues at stations on Monday in what
March 24, 2025Greenland's people are bracing for another visit from U.S. President Donald Trump’s inner circle
March 24, 2025Danish traveller Kennet Brask loved his fishing trip to Florida two years ago and was planning to return this
March 24, 2025Second lady Usha Vance is set to travel to Greenland this week as President Donald Trump continues to suggest the U.S. could take control of the mineral-rich Artic island
March 23, 2025President Donald Trump on Monday doubled down on his suggestion that the U.S. should take over Greenland
March 23, 2025Answering for America has become an increasingly delicate experience under Trump 2.0, a dozen U.S. citizens in other countries have told The Associated Press in recent weeks
March 24, 2025Greenland’s leader says US officials’ visit is ‘highly aggressive.’ Trump says it’s ‘friendliness, not provocation’
March 24, 2025A group of Republican and Democratic U.S. senators is pushing President Donald Trump's administration to transfer - and push allies to transfer - more than $
March 24, 2025HSBC is considering outsourcing some of its fixed income trading order flow to a third-party firm, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing sources familiar with the matter.
March 24, 2025Turkey detains more than 1,000 protesters after jailing of Istanbul mayor
March 24, 2025Victims’ relatives have traveled to the scene in the French Alps of the crash of Germanwings Flight 9525 10 years ago while hundreds of people marked the anniversary in a German town that was home to an 18-strong school group on board the plane
March 24, 2025A court has formally arrested the mayor of Istanbul and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's key rival and ordered him jailed pending trial on corruption charges
March 23, 2025Major rival to Turkey’s Erdogan vows to fight on as court jails him on corruption charges ahead of trial
March 21, 2025German beauty retailer Douglas said on Monday it had been surprised by the speed at which the market had deteriorated in the last three months, which caused it to cut its guidance for 2025
March 24, 2025Marex Group has bought warehousing and logistics company Edgemere Terminals, which did not have the money to meet the London Metal Exchange's new capital adequacy
March 24, 2025Britain on Monday imposed sanctions on three former senior Sri Lankan military commanders and one former Tamil Tiger rebel commander over human rights violations during a civil war
March 24, 2025Members of the European Parliament on Monday urged the European Commission to launch a new support programme for the region's semiconductor
March 24, 2025Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury said on Tuesday the planemaker's next single-aisle jet would be "evolutionary rather than revolutionary", but that this could
March 24, 2025Here are some of the issues that Russia, the U.S. and Ukraine are discussing in talks aimed at paving the way for an end to the war in Ukraine: ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE President Vladimir
March 23, 2025After 38 days in hospital battling double pneumonia almost entirely out of sight, Pope Francis made his first public appearance on Sunday since February 14
March 24, 2025European shares ended flat on Monday as caution prevailed, even as hopes grew that U.S.
March 24, 2025Britain's benchmark stock index edged lower on Monday, though gains in mining stocks kept losses in check, as investors awaited details of U.S. reciprocal levies.
March 24, 2025Heathrow executives are defending their response to a fire that shut down Europe’s busiest air hub for almost a day
March 24, 2025A bold move by Germany’s prime minister-in-waiting Friedrich Merz to ease longstanding caps on government spending has won praise internationally but signs are
March 24, 2025Credit rating firm S&P Global warned on Monday that the troubles triggered by the arrest of President Tayyip Erdogan's main political rival could be a setback for
March 24, 2025Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk has bought global rights to China-based United Laboratories International's so-called "triple-G" weight-loss drug candidate in a deal worth up
March 24, 2025Actor Gerard Depardieu went on trial on Monday over alleged sexual assaults on a film set, in a case that placed one of France's best-known
March 24, 2025A fire at a drone-hit oil depot in southern Russia raged for a fifth day on Monday, the regional administration said, as firefighters tried to contain the blaze at the facility that
March 24, 2025Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez, the celebrated design duo behind Proenza Schouler, will take over as creative directors at Loewe
March 24, 2025A private European aerospace company has scrubbed the first test flight of its orbital launch vehicle
March 24, 2025Portugal's Foreign Minister Paulo Rangel and Chinese counterpart Wang Yi will hold talks in Beijing on Tuesday, as EU member states fret over the prospect of a
March 24, 2025Aircraft lessor Air Lease Corp said on Monday it has received $328.5 million in cash, as part of certain insurance settlements related to its aircraft which were blocked from leaving
March 24, 2025Working groups for Germany's election-winning conservatives and the centre-left Social Democrats will submit findings on a possible coalition on Monday, a step
March 24, 2025Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke to United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan about OPEC+ cooperation and Russia-U.S. talks on Ukraine, the Kremlin
March 24, 2025Businesses in Britain's huge services sector reported a pickup this month, according to a survey that offered some comfort to finance minister Rachel Reeves ahead of a
March 24, 2025The European Commissioner for trade, Maros Sefcovic, is heading to Washington to meet U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on Tuesday, a Commission spokesperson said on Monday.
March 24, 2025Global hedge funds sold European stocks for the second straight week in a row with a focus on the region's financial, materials, energy and industrial companies,
March 24, 2025Self-proclaimed misogynist Andrew Tate and his brother appear at police station in Romania
March 24, 2025Turkey's opposition, galvanized by widescale protests over the jailing of Istanbul's mayor, is hoping to keep the momentum going in part
March 24, 2025It was around six years ago, when newcomer Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu called election board officials "idiots" for cancelling his initial victory at the polls,
March 24, 2025The case for another European Central Bank interest rate cut is strengthening, ECB board member Piero Cipollone said on Monday, even if others on the rate-setting Governing
March 24, 2025Online services of Ukraine's state-owned railway Ukrzaliznytsia are not working due to a technical failure, the company said on Sunday, providing no additional details.
March 23, 2025The people of the frontline Ukrainian city of Kherson have more reason than most to want an end to the three-year-old fight with Russia.
March 24, 2025Influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate checked in at a police station near Romania's capital on Monday, complying with judicial requirements in the case in which they are charged with human trafficking and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women
March 24, 2025Trump wants Ukraine to repay the US for the military aid it sent Kyiv. Once upon a time, the US was more generous: It rebuilt Western Europe after World War II.
March 24, 2025French actor Gérard Depardieu arrives in court for sexual assault trial
March 24, 2025Blind Bulgarian ultramarathon runner Victor Asenov defied sleeplessness and exhaustion to repeatedly scale Vitosha mountain near Sofia non-stop for nearly two
March 24, 2025The Kremlin said on Monday that a Russian moratorium on striking energy infrastructure in Ukraine remained in place despite reports of continued Ukrainian attacks on Russian energy
March 24, 2025Russia and the United States will discuss resuming a deal to ensure the safety of merchant shipping in the Black Sea, the Kremlin said on Monday, noting that what Moscow saw as key
March 24, 2025Elliott Associates is considering further action against the London Metal Exchange (LME) following a fine on the exchange by a watchdog last week for allowing nickel
March 24, 2025What matters in U.S. and global markets today By Mike Dolan, Editor-At-Large, Financial Industry and Financial Markets The final week of a bruising quarter for U.S.
March 24, 2025A former Russian deputy defence minister went on trial in Moscow on Monday in the first of a series of cases that signal a drive by President Vladimir Putin to punish corruption in
March 24, 2025German software company SAP overtook Danish healthcare company Novo Nordisk as Europe's largest company by market capitalisation on Monday.
March 24, 202517-year-old Lamine Yamal scores wonder goal, misses penalty and mocks pundit in dramatic Spain win
March 24, 2025France's private sector activity contracted for a seventh consecutive month in March as business confidence in the euro zone's second-biggest economy fell to its
March 24, 2025Business activity in Germany's private sector rose at the quickest rate for ten months in March, amid a first increase in manufacturing production for almost two
March 24, 2025Greece's tourism jewel, Santorini, welcomed its first cruise ship of the year on Sunday after thousands of small earthquakes in
March 24, 2025A veteran of Russia's FSB security service and a former long-serving diplomat are representing Russia at the latest round of talks with the United States over Ukraine, taking place on
March 24, 2025Britain's Heathrow defended its decision to shut down operations at Europe's busiest airport last Friday as the blame game intensified over an 18-hour closure which
March 24, 2025Germany's issuance plan for the second quarter of 2025 remains unchanged on its December forecast, the Federal Finance Agency said on Monday, ahead of an anticipated sea change in
March 24, 2025Trump’s foreign envoy touts Kremlin talking points, in interview that will alarm Europe
March 22, 2025Airbus and Boeing are preparing the aerospace industry for sharp increases in output of the next generation of workhorse jets to some 100 a month each, as they explore
March 24, 2025Euro zone business growth remained weak in March despite expanding at its fastest pace in seven months supported by an easing in the long-running manufacturing downturn
March 24, 2025Large fund managers expect the bulk of Russia's assets to remain closed to Western investors, despite a flurry of "exotic"
March 24, 2025Klarna's upcoming U.S. initial public offering could help unlock a pipeline of British fintech flotations after a barren period for new technology listings,
March 24, 2025Some European central banking and supervisory officials are questioning whether they can still rely on
March 22, 2025A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Vidya Ranganathan It's too soon to say "Salud" but the week begins with somewhat conciliatory messages from U.S.
March 24, 2025Russia launched its third consecutive overnight air attack on Kyiv, wounding one person and damaging several houses in the region surrounding the Ukrainian capital, a Kyiv's regional
March 24, 2025Pope Francis will be discharged from hospital on Sunday and will need two months of rest at the Vatican, one of the doctors treating him said on Saturday.
March 22, 2025China's embassy in Spain said Stellantis and its
March 21, 2025The Swiss town of Neuchâtel is offering residents a novel form of preventative or preparatory medicine
March 23, 2025At least seven people were killed when Russia launched a barrage of drones across Ukraine overnight, according to local Ukrainian officials and emergency services
March 23, 2025Parisians voted in a referendum on Sunday to pedestrianise a further 500 of the city's streets, giving fresh momentum to efforts by the French capital's left-leaning town hall to
March 23, 2025Defending champion Spain and France have needed penalty shootouts to reach the Nations League semifinals and join Germany and Portugal
March 23, 2025A Turkish court on Sunday jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, President Tayyip Erdogan's main political rival, pending trial on
March 22, 2025A weak and frail Pope Francis has returned home to the Vatican from the hospital after a five-week, life-threatening bout of pneumonia
March 23, 2025U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff expressed optimism on Sunday ahead of high-stakes talks in Saudi Arabia over the war in Ukraine and said he believed Russian
March 23, 2025Ukrainian and U.S. delegations discussed on Sunday proposals to protect energy facilities and critical infrastructure, Ukraine's defence
March 23, 2025Pope Francis returned to the Vatican on Sunday after surviving a five-week battle in hospital against double pneumonia that became the most serious health
March 23, 2025Germany is unlocking billions to supercharge its military at a seismic moment for Europe
March 23, 2025‘We don’t believe the volcano will erupt’: Quake-hit tourism island of Santorini prepares for a different summer
March 23, 2025Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S.
March 23, 2025‘We will fight’: Activists are unbowed after Hungary bans Pride events as part of wider LGBTQ+ crackdown
March 23, 2025A large-scale Russian drone attack on Kyiv killed at least three people, including a 5-year-old child, causing fires in high-rise apartment
March 22, 2025Turkish opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) members and others head to polling stations on Sunday for a primary election to endorse detained Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu
March 23, 2025Teenage boys are in crisis. The creators of Netflix’s ‘Adolescence’ want adults to pay attention
March 22, 2025Pope Francis appears frail as he’s discharged from hospital to continue recovery at Vatican
March 23, 2025Pope Francis has returned home to the Vatican after he was hospitalized for five weeks with a life-threatening bout of pneumonia
March 22, 2025Pope Francis will be released from the hospital on Sunday, his doctors have said, after 38 days battling a life-threatening case of pneumonia in both lungs
March 22, 2025Switzerland has highlighted the country's contribution to the U.S. economy as it seeks to avoid tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump, Swiss economic affairs minister Guy
March 23, 2025U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that efforts to stop further escalation of the Russia-Ukraine war are "somewhat under control."
March 23, 2025Three European allies have been pressing the Trump administration to get back money they sent to the United States to help low-income countries
March 23, 2025An oil products spill occurred at the oil depot that caught fire in southern Russia's Krasnodar region after a drone attack last week, regional officials said on Sunday.
March 22, 2025Iceland’s minister for children resigns over relationship with teen when she was 22
March 22, 2025British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said U.S.
March 23, 2025Prosecutors have requested that detained Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the top challenger to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, be formally arrested over allegations of corruption and terror links
March 22, 2025After weeks in the U.S., influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate have arrived back in Romania, where they face charges of human trafficking and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women
March 21, 2025British finance minister Rachel Reeves is eyeing spending cuts for government officials who work in departments to the value of over 2 billion pounds ($2.58 billion) a year by 2029-
March 22, 2025Britain will invest 600 million pounds ($775 million) to train construction workers and help tackle severe skills shortages that could undermine its plan to build 1.5 million homes
March 22, 2025President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that he had met top military commanders in the country's northeast to discuss the frontline in Ukraine's war with Russia and meetings
March 22, 2025London's Heathrow Airport resumed full operations on Saturday and ordered a probe into how it dealt with a power outage that shut Europe's busiest air
March 21, 2025The British government has ordered an investigation into the country's “energy resilience” after an electrical substation fire shut Heathrow Airport for almost a day
March 22, 2025Pope Francis to be discharged from hospital on Sunday
March 22, 2025Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, a potential challenger to longtime President Tayyip Erdogan, appeared in a Turkish court on Saturday for the first time since his
March 22, 2025Heathrow boss defends response as airport resumes flights after fire brought facility to standstill
March 22, 2025Ukrainian officials say Russian drones have struck the city of Zaporizhzhia, killing three people and wounding 14
March 22, 2025Pope Francis, who has been battling pneumonia for more than five weeks, will be discharged from hospital on Sunday but will need a further two months of rest
March 22, 2025Over 12 years, Francis has sought to normalize the papacy with his informal style and disdain for pomp while still wielding the awesome power of the papacy
March 22, 2025Germany has temporarily closed its embassy in South Sudan's capital Juba because of rising tensions that have brought the East African country to the verge of civil war, the German
March 22, 2025Russia and Ukraine trade blame over attack on Russian gas metering station
March 21, 2025Former KGB officer Oleg Gordievsky has died aged 86 in England
March 22, 2025Barcelona finally turned on its crowds of tourists. Now the city faces a major problem
March 22, 2025Bayer was ordered by a jury in the U.S. state of Georgia to pay about $2.1 billion to a plaintiff who claimed the company's Roundup weed killer caused his cancer, the plaintiff's law
March 22, 2025‘We’re here to clear our names’: Tate brothers, sexist online celebrities, back in Romania to face trafficking charges
March 22, 2025Turkish authorities have detained 343 people during overnight protests in several cities against the detention of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the Interior Ministry said on
March 22, 2025Sergei Shoigu, the secretary of Russia's Security Council, has met Serbia's outgoing deputy prime minister Alexandar Vulin in Moscow and discussed anti-government protests in his
March 22, 2025Two of Pope Francis’ closest advisers are predicting that he will recover from pneumonia and that a “new stage” in his pontificate will open after he is released
March 21, 2025Russian attacks killed a family of three late on Friday in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia and four more people in the country's north and east, officials said.
March 21, 2025Hundreds of flights to and from London’s Heathrow Airport were canceled after a fire at a nearby substation knocked out power to Europe’s busiest airport
March 21, 2025When Mariia Pankova last exchanged messages with her close friend Pavlo in December, she had no idea that he was among the Ukrainian troops
March 22, 2025Global travel is disrupted by Heathrow’s closure. Here’s what we know
March 21, 2025The closure of Britain's Heathrow is set to affect the global aviation system for days and cost tens of millions of dollars, experts say,
March 21, 2025Pope Francis is slowly regaining his strength in hospital but must "relearn to speak" after prolonged use of high-flow oxygen therapy, Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez said on Friday.
March 21, 2025The governments of Germany, France and Britain called for an immediate return to a ceasefire in Gaza in a joint statement on Friday that also called on Israel to restore humanitarian access
March 21, 2025Ukraine accused Russia on Friday of illegally pressuring Ukrainians in occupied territory to change their legal status or leave, and said it would report the practice to the International
March 21, 2025Germany's budget committee cleared the way on Friday for another 3 billion euros ($3.25 billion) in military aid for Ukraine, after chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich
March 21, 2025Flights at Britain's Heathrow resumed late on Friday after a fire knocked out its power supply and shut Europe's busiest airport for
March 21, 2025Online influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan left the United States for Romania on a private flight on Friday to fulfil legal obligations related to a criminal
March 21, 2025British factories have reported a downturn this month with April's increases in tax and wages weighing on the mood but some firms are seeing a boost from an expected rise in defence
March 21, 2025Nine European Union countries are working to speed up plans to boost the bloc's computer chip industry and aim to present their proposals by the summer, one of
March 21, 2025The detention of Istanbul's popular mayor risks undermining Turkey's move to end the PKK militant group's 40-year-old insurgency - a plan relying heavily
March 21, 2025Britain will accelerate plans next week for a potential peacekeeping force in Ukraine, including a discussion about how it can operate and the structure, a spokesman for Prime
March 21, 2025European Union leaders are now in agreement that the EU must be fully capable of defending itself against a Russian attack by 2030, despite earlier resistance
March 21, 2025Thirteen people including a former government minister were remanded in custody for 30 days in North Macedonia on Friday over a nightclub blaze, believed to have been caused by
March 21, 2025A teenager injured in the November roof collapse at a railway station in Serbia's Novi Sad died on Friday, becoming the 16th fatality linked to a disaster that has triggered a
March 21, 2025The International Olympic Committee on Friday declined to comment on Russian President Vladimir Putin's congratulatory note to newly-elected IOC president
March 21, 2025Britain's National Grid said on Friday the network of the North Hyde substation, in west London, has been reconfigured to restore power to the parts of Heathrow Airport connected to
March 21, 2025Ukraine is continuing to hold talks with the United States about a minerals deal, a foreign ministry spokesman said on Friday.
March 21, 2025The share of Portuguese voters who remain undecided ahead of a May general election hit 39% in the first opinion poll conducted since the government's collapse this month,
March 21, 2025Last year was the deadliest on record for migrants, with nearly 9,000 people dying on perilous routes and one in 10 of those killed violently in incidents such as shootings, the U.N.
March 21, 2025Serbia's deputy prime minister said on Friday Russia's spy services had helped the Belgrade authorities respond to months of anti-government protests, remarks which critics said
March 21, 2025Italy's Constitutional Court ruled on Friday that single people can adopt foreign children, overturning a 40-year-old law limiting adoption to married couples in a country
March 21, 2025Italy's education ministry on Friday instructed schools to ban the growing use of gender-neutral symbols, saying they were unclear and flouted the rules of Italian grammar.
March 21, 2025A European Central Bank rate cut in April is increasingly likely since inflation is slowing, wage growth is moderating and service price pressures are easing, Greek central bank
March 21, 2025Protests against the detention of Istanbul's mayor grew on Friday and turned increasingly tense, Turkey's
March 21, 2025London firefighters are working with police to investigate the cause of a huge fire at an electrical sub-station which shut down Heathrow Airport on Friday, a fire-fighting chief
March 21, 2025A fire at an electrical substation knocked out power to Heathrow Airport for most of Friday, forcing Europe’s busiest hub to shut down for roughly 18 hours, causing widespread cancellations and rerouting headaches, and stranding roughly 200,000 passengers
March 21, 2025A fire that closed London’s Heathrow Airport has sparked one of the most serious disruptions to air travel in years
March 21, 2025Heathrow Airport is stirring back to life, with flights slowly resuming about 18 hours after an inferno at an electrical substation caused a power outage that shuttered Europe’s busiest air travel hub and left 200,00 passengers stranded
March 21, 2025U.S. authorities have arrested and detained Canadian and European travelers at U.S. borders in recent weeks
March 21, 2025Airline staff ‘were as shocked as we were.’ The passengers caught up in the flight chaos
March 21, 2025A new exhibition in Paris celebrates the history of fashion, as worn by Snoopy and the Peanuts gang
March 21, 2025Ireland's domestic economy could be up to 1.8% smaller than it otherwise would be by 2032 if permanent 'tit-for-tat' tariffs are introduced between the United
March 20, 2025Russian forces launched a mass drone attack on Ukraine's Black Sea port of Odesa late on Thursday, injuring three people and damaging a high-rise apartment building and a shopping centre,
March 20, 2025Russia pounded Ukraine's Black Sea city of Odesa with one of its biggest drone attacks, injuring three teenagers, damaging residential
March 21, 2025Prince William donned battle gear to visit British troops in Estonia on Friday on a trip aimed at underlining his country's support for NATO operations in Eastern Europe.
March 21, 2025European shares fell alongside other major global stock markets on Friday on uncertainty over trade tensions and geopolitical conflicts, while travel and
March 21, 2025British stocks closed lower on Friday on continued worries about the economic impact of U.S. tariff policy, while a shutdown of Heathrow Airport pressured travel stocks.
March 21, 2025Denmark said on Thursday it has begun advising transgender people to contact the U.S. embassy in Copenhagen before visiting the United States, amid concerns that President Donald
March 21, 2025Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu has denied corruption charges brought against him, according to a court document seen by Reuters on Friday, after he was detained on Wednesday for
March 21, 2025Britain's Heathrow Airport said on Friday that it had begun reopening after a massive fire at a nearby electrical substation knocked out power, forcing a shutdown at Europe's busiest
March 21, 2025An ancient bronze griffin head, stolen nearly a century ago, has been returned to the Archaeological Museum of Olympia
March 21, 2025Dozens of flights originating between London’s Heathrow Airport and LAX have been cancelled as the British airport turns away all incoming air traffic Friday due to a fire nearby. Heathrow Airport is closed most of Friday after a fire at an electrical substation cut power to the entire facility. More than 600 flights were scheduled to land, carrying as many as 145,000 people. The disruption has raised questions about the resiliency of Britain’s infrastructure. “I know the situation in Heathrow is causing distress and disruption, especially for those travelling or without power in their homes,” said British Prime Minister Keir
March 21, 2025‘It’s not what he expected’: Rubio has competition for the role of America’s top diplomat
March 21, 2025World’s longest-standing Michelin-starred restaurant loses a star
March 21, 2025How long will global air chaos last? Here’s what we know
March 21, 2025Global air travel chaos caused by Heathrow closure may last days and cost hundreds of millions in losses
March 21, 2025Thousands of travellers stranded by a huge fire near London's Heathrow, Europe's busiest airport, scrambled to find ways to get home and reunite with their
March 21, 2025Britain has in recent weeks revised its advice for citizens travelling to the United States to include a warning that anyone found breaking its entry rules could face arrest or
March 20, 2025Angry friars plan to barricade themselves in historic Florence monastery destined for sale to developer
March 21, 2025The Swedish government will increase spending by 5.8 billion crowns ($573 million) this year to boost the economy, with the bulk of the money spent on supporting the construction
March 21, 2025Spanish airport operator Aena said that 54 flights to and from its terminals were affected by the Heathrow power outage on Friday and 20 of them were already cancelled as of 0900
March 21, 2025The U.S. administration suggested this week the United States could help run and possibly own Ukraine's power plants and energy infrastructure as part of a
March 21, 2025Germany's upper house of parliament on Friday passed a reform of the country's borrowing rules and a 500-billion-euro ($542 billion) fund to revamp its infrastructure and revive
March 21, 2025Germany gave the final green light on Friday to a massive surge in borrowing seen as boosting the country's anaemic economy and
March 21, 2025British anti-Muslim activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, who counts U.S. billionaire Elon Musk among his supporters, was on Friday refused permission to bring a legal challenge over the
March 21, 2025French actor Gerard Depardieu faces trial on Monday over alleged sexual assaults of two women on a film set, a case placing one of the world's best known movie
March 21, 2025Automated systems splutter as raw materials are fed into the machines to begin the process of creating highly-explosive pellets ready to be harnessed for use
March 21, 2025Britain's statistics office, already under fire for its unreliable labour market data, paused publication of industrial inflation figures on
March 21, 2025Britain's Heathrow Airport, a major global travel hub, said it would be closed for all of Friday after a huge fire at a nearby electrical substation wiped out its power, disrupting flight
March 21, 2025Germany's Bundesrat upper house of parliament on Friday approved plans for a spending splurge that aims to revive growth in Europe's largest economy
March 21, 2025Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni finds herself playing a political balancing act as Europe moves to bolster its defences.
March 21, 2025Russian drones have pummeled the Ukrainian Black Sea port city of Odesa, injuring three people and sparking fires
March 21, 2025Turkish stocks were set for their worst week since the aftermath of 2008's Lehman Brothers collapse on Friday as concerns about this week's
March 21, 2025The Russian central bank kept its key interest rate on hold at 21%, its highest level in more than 20 years, despite President Vladimir Putin's
March 21, 2025Russia and Ukraine accused each other on Friday of blowing up a Russian gas pumping station in a border area where Ukrainian troops have been
March 21, 2025A mountainous region in Italy is offering €100,000 to move there. But there’s a catch
March 21, 2025Western officials have accused Russia and its proxies of staging dozens of attacks and other incidents across Europe since the invasion of Ukraine three years ago
March 21, 2025‘A roller coaster in pain and pleasure’: Why this American couple say moving to Spain was like ‘leaving a bad relationship’
March 21, 2025Kosovo ex-President Hashim Thaci has been released from a court based in the Netherlands to visit the tomb of his father who died last weekend
March 21, 2025Novak Djokovic says he agrees and disagrees with parts of legal action launched by his players’ association
March 21, 2025Carlos Alcaraz says he doesn’t agree with the legal action launched by Novak Djokovic’s players’ association
March 20, 2025Ukraine port city ‘on fire’ after ‘massive’ Russian attack as Trump projects optimism ahead of peace talks
March 21, 2025The Netherlands wants to increase its army personnel from 74,000 to 200,000, with a special focus on enlarging the reservist capacity, Dutch public broadcaster NOS said, citing
March 21, 2025Russia inflicted unimaginable suffering on millions of Ukrainian children and violated their rights since its full scale invasion of Ukraine begun in 2022, a
March 21, 2025Britain's BT has approached telecommunication companies AT&T and Orange over possible partnerships to help turn around its international business, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing
March 21, 2025BP has agreed to sell a stake in a firm invested in the TANAP gas pipeline linking Azerbaijan and Turkey for $1 billion to Apollo Global Management, the two firms said
March 21, 2025Residents of the Tuscan beach enclave of Orbetello are seeking a state of emergency declaration to help combat an invasion of midges that are keeping people indoors and threatening businesses catering to tourists
March 20, 2025Conor McGregor announces run for Irish presidency on anti-immigration platform
March 21, 2025German steel group Salzgitter said on Friday there was no end in sight to the stagnation of the German economy, and that uncertainty is on the rise when
March 21, 2025Greece has extended by a year a visa scheme for Turkish nationals wishing to visit 12 islands in the Aegean Sea for up to a week, diplomatic sources said, continuing a programme
March 21, 2025Pasqal, a fast-growing French quantum computer start-up company, announced on Friday a partnership with chip giant Nvidia whereby Pasqal's customers would gain access to more tools
March 21, 2025UK-based gas producer Energean said on Friday it was terminating a deal with private equity fund Carlyle for the sale of some of its assets due to
March 21, 2025A slump in luxury fashion is prompting designer reshuffles at top houses Gucci, Chanel and
March 20, 2025Austrian manufacturer RHI Magnesita spends about 1 million euros of its roughly 400 million euros earnings a year ensuring it complies with EU rules on corporate
March 21, 2025Hedge funds have crowded into debt-fuelled bets on UK government bonds, increasing the potential for instability in the gilts market, a benchmark
March 21, 2025A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Vidya Ranganathan Britain's government gets another report card on its efforts to curtail spending while Germany, in contrast, goes for a
March 21, 2025Russia's foreign ministry said on Thursday that Ukraine had already violated a proposed ceasefire on energy sites in the three-year-old war by attacking a Russian oil depot.
March 20, 2025US denies French claims a space researcher was expelled over messages about Trump
March 20, 2025Kirsty Coventry has been elected president of the International Olympic Committee
March 20, 2025Senior military officers from countries across Europe and beyond are meeting outside London to flesh out plans for an international peacekeeping force for Ukraine as details of a partial ceasefire are worked out
March 20, 2025British consumer morale ticked higher for a second month running in March as people turned a little more optimistic about the economic outlook, although less so over their own finances, a
March 20, 2025The Kremlin said on Wednesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S.
March 19, 2025During a call between U.S. President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart, the U.S. leader apparently suggested Volodymyr Zelenskyy consider transferring ownership of Ukraine’s power plants to the U.S. for long-term security, according to a U.S. statement
March 20, 2025German media group ProSiebenSat.1 said on Thursday it has approved an agreement with U.S. private equity firm General Atlantic on the acquisition of the
March 20, 2025European Union leaders said on Thursday that they will continue to support Ukraine, but they did not immediately endorse a call by
March 20, 2025Cyprus and the United Nations agency for refugees are clashing over allegations that the east Mediterranean island nation continues to engage in so-called pushbacks against migrant boats departing from neighboring Syria or Lebanon
March 20, 2025A new global report says that people in Finland are the happiest in the world
March 19, 2025Russia's key peace demand that Western allies stop providing military aid and intelligence to Ukraine is quietly being ignored by the European Union
March 20, 2025Europe's biggest military powers are drawing up plans to take on greater responsibilities for the continent's defence from the U.S., including a pitch to the Trump administration for a
March 20, 2025President Donald Trump said on Thursday the United States will sign a minerals and natural resources deal with Ukraine shortly and
March 20, 2025Thousands of Turks ramped up protests on Thursday despite a ban on street gatherings over what they called the undemocratic
March 20, 2025International Olympic Committee's newly-elected President Kirsty Coventry wants to sit down with United States President Donald Trump to make sure the Los
March 20, 2025The British public's expectations for inflation in the short term hit their highest level in more than a year in February, according to a Citi/YouGov survey on Thursday that
March 20, 2025Thousands of people have gathered outside Istanbul’s city hall for a second consecutive night to rally against the arrest of the city’s popular mayor
March 20, 2025Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday the main opposition party was seeking to cover up its own mistakes and deceive people with "theatrics", in his first comments on
March 20, 2025A French scientist has been denied entry into the United States, apparently because the scientist had expressed a personal opinion on the Trump administration's research policy, the
March 20, 2025Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez will travel to China in April to meet with President Xi Jinping, a government spokesperson said.
March 20, 2025Detained Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu appeared to address Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in a social media post on Thursday, accusing him of corruption and calling on members of his
March 20, 2025Kirsty Coventry smashed through the International Olympic Committee’s glass ceiling on Thursday to become the
March 20, 2025Europe delays tariffs on US goods, including whiskey
March 20, 2025Spain's parliament voted to remove wolves' protected status on Thursday, four years after their inclusion, opening the way for the predators to be hunted again in the country's
March 20, 2025The Bank of England kept interest rates on hold and warned investors against assuming they would be cut quickly as it grappled with deep
March 20, 2025The chairman of Spain's Sabadell urged the government to be transparent about any conditions it may put on the hostile takeover bid the bank faces from bigger
March 20, 2025UBS Group AG is exploring options to relocate its headquarters if Switzerland enforces a requirement for the bank to hold an extra $25 billion in capital, Bloomberg News reported on
March 20, 2025The FTSE 100 closed little changed on Thursday, after the Bank of England kept interest rates unchanged and warned against expectations of future cuts given an increasingly uncertain
March 20, 2025Potential U.S. tariffs on European-made products could hit revenue at Lamborghini, its CEO said, as the sports carmaker posted strong results for last year, despite a contraction in
March 20, 2025Nuclear experts pour cold water on US idea to restore and run Ukrainian power plant
March 20, 2025Nestle will divest two factories in Germany, the world's largest packaged food company said on Thursday, citing overcapacity due to rising costs and consumer price sensitivity.
March 20, 2025ABB is evaluating the impact of U.S.
March 20, 2025British anti-Muslim activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, who counts U.S. billionaire Elon Musk among his supporters, on Thursday challenged a decision to hold him in segregation in
March 20, 2025Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said on Thursday that the central bank would have be careful about cutting interest rates because the fall in inflation pressures has been
March 20, 2025Munich Re is buying the 71% of Next Insurance that it doesn't already own, strengthening its foothold in the United States and valuing the
March 20, 2025European shares closed lower on Thursday, after four sessions of gains, as investors booked some profits and assessed interest rate decisions by major
March 20, 2025Kirsty Coventry smashed through the International Olympic Committee’s glass ceiling on Thursday to become the
March 20, 2025Turkey's main opposition leader said on Thursday any move to legally bar Istanbul's detained mayor from running for president would only strengthen support for
March 20, 2025Europe's dependence on American payment providers leaves it open to economic coercion, European Central Bank chief economist Philip Lane said on Thursday, outlining a key risk in
March 20, 2025British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Thursday it was important Britain and its allies were able to react immediately should there be a peace deal struck between Russia and
March 20, 2025A bid by French munitions maker Europlasma for a former Renault foundry is being closely watched by struggling auto suppliers, eager to tap a surge in defence
March 20, 2025Donald Trump's idea of U.S. interests taking control of Ukraine's biggest nuclear power station has a catch for the man who coined the art of the
March 20, 2025Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said on Thursday that he did not consider buying U.S. weapons a security risk, though he added that it might be good for Europe to become
March 20, 2025Kirsty Coventry elected new IOC president, becomes first woman and African in the role
March 20, 2025The European Commission is looking to cut Ukrainian sugar imports sharply after EU producers complained that large shipments have
March 20, 2025Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez pledged on Thursday to boost Spain's defence spending along with the rest of the EU, though a parliamentary vote
March 20, 2025Germany reopened its embassy in Syria on Thursday, establishing official diplomatic ties with the new leadership in Damascus as it faces deep humanitarian and security problems in
March 20, 2025Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday Ukrainian experts would be present at upcoming talks involving the United States and
March 20, 2025British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Western military talks on Thursday would focus on the details of a support plan for Ukraine, a
March 20, 2025A guard protecting ancient sites in northern Greece has been charged with involvement in a crime ring smuggling out artefacts and selling them abroad, police officials said on
March 20, 2025Germany’s foreign minister has reopened its embassy in Damascus, 13 years after it was shut in the early days of Syria’s civil war
March 20, 2025Thousands of mourners have flocked to funerals in North Macedonia for the dozens of victims of last weekend’s devastating nightclub fire, bringing flowers and photographs and some of them collapsing in grief
March 20, 2025NatWest and OpenAI have joined forces to enhance the lender's digital assistants and customer support processes using artificial intelligence, in the first
March 20, 2025Europe is justified in increasing defence spending but this will boost debt and make inflation or monetary policy direction more difficult to predict, Dutch central bank chief
March 20, 2025Swedish police should be allowed to use real-time, AI-powered face-recognition to combat crime, Sweden's government proposed on Thursday, as it seeks new tools to stop sometimes
March 20, 2025Big developed market central banks are turning cautious after a series of interest rate cuts and as uncertainty in global economics and politics grows.
March 20, 2025The Bank of England held interest rates at 4.5% on Thursday and warned against assumptions that they would fall over its next few meetings, as policymakers grapple with deep
March 20, 2025First-time applications from people seeking asylum in European Union countries fell by 13% last year, the first such decline since 2020,
March 20, 2025Thousands of mourners gathered at cemeteries across North Macedonia on Thursday for the funerals of dozens of people killed in a
March 20, 2025Around 3,000 workers at Tesla's German plant signed a union petition for longer breaks and more staff, even as the company said most workers were satisfied with their jobs, in a
March 20, 2025Russian and U.S. experts will discuss ways to ensure the safety of shipping in the Black Sea at talks on a possible Ukrainian peace settlement in Riyadh on Monday, the Kremlin said.
March 20, 2025Ukraine struck a major Russian strategic bomber airfield on Thursday with drones, triggering a huge blast and fire about 700 km (435 miles) from the front lines of the war, Russian
March 20, 2025Millions of lives are at risk from "brutal funding cuts" from donors, the U.N. refugee chief said on Thursday, warning that women refugees are already at greater risk
March 20, 2025The following candidates will stand for election to replace Thomas Bach as the president of the
March 17, 2025A French citizen imprisoned in Iran for over 880 days has been freed
March 20, 2025For the second time in a month, all European Union nations but Hungary signed a joint statement Thursday backing Ukraine
March 20, 2025In 2020, British Conservatives cited cost-cutting to force the UK’s foreign aid office into a merger. Five years later, it hasn’t recovered its budget or expertise.
March 19, 2025European Union leaders must pay more attention to increased instability in the Western Balkans, specifically in Bosnia and Serbia, Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said on Thursday
March 20, 2025President Vladimir Putin sent a message to Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa backing efforts to ensure Syria's territorial integrity and offering Russia's "practical cooperation" on a
March 20, 2025Sweden's central bank kept its policy rate unchanged at 2.25% as expected on Thursday, predicting rates would remain steady in the near term, but said it was
March 20, 2025Container shipping firm Hapag-Lloyd said on Thursday net profit fell nearly 19% in 2024 and is expected to decline further this year, with U.S. tariffs and Houthi
March 20, 2025Poland is ready to start work on resuming the production of anti-personnel mines, its defence minister said on Thursday, after Warsaw joined the Baltic states this week in announcing a plan
March 20, 2025The Swiss National Bank cut its main interest rate to just above zero on Thursday and flagged increased uncertainty over the global impact of U.S.
March 20, 2025The European Union has delayed its first counter-measures against the United States over President Donald Trump's metals tariffs until mid-April, allowing it
March 20, 2025Ex-Formula 1 team owner and media personality Eddie Jordan has died
March 20, 2025The Bank of England has kept its main U.K. interest rate unchanged at 4.50% even though the economy is barely growing and the nation faces more uncertainty in light of the tariff policies being enacted by the Trump administration in the U.S. The decision by the nine-member Monetary Policy Committee on Thursday was widely expected, and comes a day after the U.S. Federal Reserve also kept interest rates unchanged
March 20, 2025As one of the European Union's top negotiators, Sabine Weyand has battled Britain over Brexit and driven tough trade talks around the world.
March 19, 2025When do state investments in arms factories, or the wages of tank crews and pilots not count as defence spending? Answer: When the EU rules say they don't.
March 20, 2025The Swiss National Bank will continue to use foreign currency market interventions if necessary, Chairman Martin Schlegel said on Thursday, adding the central bank was not a
March 20, 2025Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov inspected navy training in the Caspian Sea and ordered the rapid completion of work on new facilities there, his ministry said on Thursday.
March 20, 2025Ukrainian soldiers in Kursk have lost ground in recent days but are not encircled by Russian forces, contrary to recent comments by U.S.
March 20, 2025Europe must continue to give strong backing to Ukraine regardless of any talks between Washington and Moscow to ensure Kyiv is in a position of strength and that any ceasefire is
March 20, 2025Boxing was included on Thursday in the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics programme after a unanimous vote from the International Olympic Committee, ending years
March 20, 2025Sodexo lowered its yearly outlook on Thursday, bringing it below analysts' estimates, saying organic revenue growth in North America was slower than it had initially
March 20, 2025Germany's Commerzbank hasn't had talks with UniCredit since the Italian lender last week got approval from the European Central Bank for taking a stake of just under
March 20, 2025German speciality chemicals maker Lanxess on Thursday said U.S. customers had rushed to stockpile its products, joining consumers and companies hoping to get ahead
March 20, 2025Eddie Jordan, former F1 team owner who gave Michael Schumacher his debut, dies aged 76
March 20, 2025Famous artist couples: What happens when one is better known than the other?
March 20, 2025ATHENS - Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday that illegal migrants denied asylum by Greece should be returned to their country of origin, and he urged the European Union to
March 20, 2025French banking group Credit Mutuel Alliance Federale is buying German lender Oldenburgische Landesbank (OLB), a surprise move after the
March 20, 2025Russia launched a new barrage of drones at Ukraine in an overnight attack, wounding at least 10 people, including four children, and damaging residential houses in the city of
March 20, 2025Evi Tsapari is slowly healing from the trauma of escaping bloodied through the window of a burning passenger train after a collision that left dozens dead in
March 20, 2025London is gaining ground on New York in a closely-watched index of the world's leading financial centres, in a first sign that efforts by policymakers to reboot
March 20, 2025The European Central Bank will bring in a major auditing firm to investigate an outage that hit its payment system last month and caused delays in payments and financial trades
March 20, 2025European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde spelled out the cost of a trade war with the United States for the euro zone's economy for the first time on Thursday and
March 20, 2025London’s mayor: ‘Clearly a link’ between Trump and Americans wanting to become Brits
March 20, 2025Germany's federal and state government tax revenue rose again strongly in February, by 8.1% on the previous year, the finance ministry said in its monthly report on Thursday.
March 19, 2025Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that Moldovan police had violated diplomatic protocol by blocking entrances to its embassy in the capital of Moldova.
March 19, 2025French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday he spoke with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and the two leaders condemned the resumption of Israeli strikes on Gaza.
March 19, 2025The top two Republican lawmakers who lead the Pentagon's oversight committees in the U.S.
March 19, 2025The Bank of England looks set to keep interest rates on hold on Thursday as it awaits the impact on the economy of U.S.
March 19, 2025A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Rae Wee With the Federal Reserve's policy meeting out of the way, the central bank spotlight now turns to some of its European counterparts
March 20, 2025BlackRock is betting on an expanded range of retail-focused products, including more exchange-traded funds, to attract a new generation of Europeans into investing,
March 20, 2025China has not shipped any antimony to European Union countries since October, customs data showed on Thursday, after the dominant supplier imposed export controls
March 20, 2025Sanofi on Thursday announced an agreement with biopharmaceutical company Dren Bio for the acquisition of its autoimmune disease treatment DR-0201.
March 20, 2025Norway's sovereign wealth fund said on Thursday it had bought stakes in two real estate portfolios from Shaftesbury Capital and AXA Lifestyle housing for a total amount of $1
March 20, 2025German speciality chemicals maker Lanxess said on Thursday it expected full-year 2025 earnings to be impacted by slow economic growth and a high likelihood of
March 20, 2025European Central Bank (ECB) member Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Thursday that while a ramp-up in defence spending was needed in France, spending on this could not be limitless
March 20, 2025The pace of British pay growth was little changed and there were others signs of stability in the jobs market, according to official data that
March 20, 2025Berlin's borrow-to-spend splurge is driving up borrowing costs, further choking embattled property companies seeking fresh loans and
March 20, 2025Ukrainian and U.S. teams could meet in Saudi Arabia in the coming days to discuss technicalities of partial ceasefire, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said after what he described as "very
March 19, 2025Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that a halt on energy strikes in the war with Russia could be established quickly, but warned
March 19, 2025Turkish police have arrested Istanbul’s mayor — a popular opposition leader and key rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan — and several other prominent figures as part of investigations into alleged corruption and terror links
March 19, 2025Turkey detains Istanbul’s mayor, a key rival of President Erdogan
March 19, 2025Researchers have lost access to evidence of alleged Russian war crimes following Trump admin funding cut
March 19, 2025Ukraine and Russia agreed in principle to a limited ceasefire after President Donald Trump spoke with the countries’ leaders this week, though it remains to be seen when it might take effect and what possible targets would be off limits to attack
March 19, 2025Russia and Ukraine say they have each swapped 175 prisoners in one of the largest exchanges of the war began
March 19, 2025These are the world’s happiest countries in 2025
March 20, 2025Christo Grozev, an investigative journalist on Russia's "wanted list", joins CNN's Erin Burnett to discuss the call between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin where they negotiated a month-long mutual pause on attacks against “energy infrastructure,” which Putin has already violated.
March 19, 2025Zelensky agrees to pause attacks on energy in call with Trump, but questions remain about what Trump and Putin hammered out
March 19, 2025Campaigner wants everyone to stop groping Dublin’s famous Molly Malone statue
March 19, 2025George Simion, the leader of Romania's second-largest party, became the hard right's candidate in a May presidential election re-run after an ally withdrew from the race on
March 19, 2025Amazon lost its fight against a record 746 million euro ($812.4 million) fine handed out by Luxembourg's privacy regulator four years ago as a court sided with the
March 19, 2025UBS CEO Sergio Ermotti on Wednesday urged authorities to improve their ability to detect problems at banks as he sought to find common ground over efforts to overhaul the Swiss
March 19, 2025French engine and aircraft equipment maker Safran has offered the sale of a business in North America which it agreed in December, as a remedy to address EU
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March 19, 2025Several U.S. national security agencies have halted work on a coordinated effort to counter Russian sabotage, disinformation and cyberattacks,
March 19, 2025Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump talked about the fighting in Ukraine, of course
March 19, 2025Italy will ask the European Union to prepare compensatory measures for sectors that could be impacted by U.S tariffs, Industry Minister Adolfo Urso said on Wednesday, adding that he
March 19, 2025U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he discussed Russian and Ukrainian requests and needs for a peace deal in an hour-long call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
March 19, 2025The chair of British public inquiry examining how Lucy Letby was able to murder seven babies in her care on Wednesday rejected calls for her investigation to be paused until a
March 19, 2025HSBC Holdings is in advanced talks to sell its German fund administration business to private-equity firm BlackFin Capital Partners, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people
March 19, 2025Britain will urgently look at how to tighten regulations on the private sales of firearms, interior minister Yvette Cooper said on Wednesday, reacting after a 19-year-old was
March 19, 2025The European Union will take "a bit of time" before it responds to the new reciprocal tariff rates U.S.
March 19, 2025Russia has now transferred property worth 2.4 trillion roubles ($28.7 billion) to the state, Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov said on Wednesday.
March 19, 2025The United Nations' Secretary-General condemned on Wednesday attacks on UN personnel and added in a statement from his spokesperson that all parties in Israel's attack on Gaza knew
March 19, 2025Russian stocks are likely to need more time to reenter the widely followed MSCI global equity indexes that the most optimistic scenario of two years from June, JPMorgan analysts
March 19, 2025Ukraine's international government bonds pared steep losses on Wednesday after a "positive" call between Ukrainian President Volodymyr
March 19, 2025Pope Francis is no longer using mechanical ventilation for help breathing at night and his doctors believe he will continue to improve, the Vatican said on
March 19, 2025Europe should further boost military spending, pool resources on joint defence projects and buy more European arms, according to an EU blueprint
March 19, 2025Google was hit with two charges of breaching landmark EU rules on Wednesday, while Apple was ordered to help rivals connect with its iPhones and iPads, as Europe's
March 19, 2025Serbia's parliament formally accepted the resignation of the Prime Minister Milos Vucevic on Wednesday, triggering a 30-day deadline for the formation of a new government or the
March 19, 2025The Italian postal service has seen a huge increase in mail addressed to Pope Francis since his Feb. 14 hospitalization
March 19, 2025The central Dutch city of Utrecht has installed a “fish doorbell” that lets viewers of an online livestream help fish in their springtime swim to shallow spawning grounds
March 19, 2025Ukraine and Russia exchange attacks, hours after Trump-Putin call
March 19, 2025Pope Francis’s condition has continued to improve and he no longer needs to use noninvasive mechanical ventilation to help him breathe at night
March 19, 2025The European Commission announced on Wednesday an action plan to make Europe's ailing steel sector more competitive and to shield it from the impact of
March 19, 2025A planned 3-billion-euro ($3.3 billion) site Thyssenkrupp is building in Duisburg to make carbon-neutral steel could be stranded unless Germany ensures there's sufficient green
March 19, 2025Apple was ordered by EU antitrust regulators on Wednesday to open up its closed ecosystem to rivals, with the latter spelling out details on how to go about it in
March 19, 2025Russia accused Ukraine on Wednesday of trying to sabotage a 30-day moratorium on striking each other's energy infrastructure, a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S.
February 03, 2025Russia and Ukraine have exchanged 175 prisoners of war each, both sides said on Wednesday, following a phone call between U.S.
March 19, 2025Computer chip makers and semiconductor supply chain firms called on the European Commission to launch a follow up to the 2023 Chips Act on
March 19, 2025President Emmanuel Macron said France would order
March 18, 2025European shares closed slightly higher on Wednesday, after logging gains in the previous session when Germany inched closer to plans for a massive
March 19, 2025Two years of hard work to build international investor confidence in Turkey's economic turnaround story has been dealt a major setback by a long-feared detention of
March 19, 2025The chairman of Stellantis said on Wednesday that Europe's automotive industry does not need to convert to defence production, while confirming
March 19, 2025The European Union on Wednesday outlined that steps that Apple must take to open up its iPhone and iPad operating systems to work better with competing technologies
March 19, 2025Germany updated its travel advisory for the United States to emphasise that a visa or entry waiver does not guarantee entry for its citizens after several Germans were detained at
March 19, 2025The European Union has announced a new drive to break its security dependency on the United States
March 19, 2025This week's European Union summit will discuss ways of strengthening Europe's ability to defend itself alone but try to avoid creating the impression Europe is distancing itself
March 19, 2025Serbian oil company NIS, majority-owned by Russian Gazprom Neft and Gazprom, has submitted a second request to the U.S. for a waiver of sanctions, the CEO of state gas company
March 19, 2025By Ossian Shine PYLOS, Greece - The slow-burn race for the most powerful job in world sport roared into life on Wednesday, set against the dazzling backdrop of the Ionian Sea, where the seven
March 19, 2025Siemens is seeing some hesitancy among customers in the United States due to political uncertainties, Chief Financial Officer Ralf Thomas said on Wednesday, although he does not
March 19, 2025France's central bank reported on Wednesday a fresh loss for 2024, but said the worst was behind it and a return to profit in the coming years was in sight.
March 19, 2025Swiss drugmaker Novartis is ending its use of diverse panels for all of its hiring in the United States, the company told Reuters on Wednesday, citing
March 19, 2025Around 400 teachers and students from EU schools in Brussels went on strike for half a day on Wednesday to protest against employment conditions for locally
March 19, 2025Sweden's right-wing government on Wednesday hiked its forecast for inflation this year and said it would monitor the development of price pressures as the economy slowly
March 19, 2025U.S. President Donald Trump will hold a call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy at 10:00 a.m. ET (1400 GMT) on Wednesday, a White House official confirmed.
March 19, 2025The European Union should fund Ukraine's access to space services that can be provided by EU-based commercial providers, the European Commission said in its white
March 19, 2025President Vladimir Putin wants U.S.
March 19, 2025Prominent Russian philosopher and political theorist Alexander Dugin has told CNN that he believes President Trump is closer ideologically to President Putin than to Washington’s Western allies. The Russian scholar has often been referred to as "Putin's brain" or "Putin's philosopher" and is considered by many to be the ideological architect of the Kremlin chief’s invasion of Ukraine. CNN’s Fred Pleitgen spoke to him in Moscow.
March 18, 2025Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed on Tuesday to stop attacking Ukrainian energy facilities temporarily but declined to endorse a full 30-day
March 18, 2025The European Union will tighten steel import quotas to reduce inflows by a further 15% from April, a senior EU official said on Wednesday, in a
March 19, 2025Vladimir Putin has edged closer to his goal of repairing Russia's relations with the United States and driving a wedge between the U.S. and Europe, while offering
March 19, 2025Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico strengthened his hold over parliament on Wednesday, winning back more rebel lawmakers to fully restore a lost majority after disputes and defections had
March 19, 2025Russia’s illegal seizure of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine exactly 11 years ago on March 18, 2014, was quick and bloodless
March 18, 2025Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said that Russian leader Vladimir Putin had effectively rejected a U.S. proposal for a full ceasefire on
March 18, 2025France to distribute ‘survival manual’ to prepare households for emergencies – including armed conflict
March 19, 2025A resumption of fighting in the war between Israel and Hamas threatens the peace efforts of Arab states, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Wednesday ahead of her
March 19, 2025Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he would speak to President Donald Trump on Wednesday and urged the United States to monitor a ceasefire between Ukraine and
March 19, 2025Deutsche Bank will cut the headcount of its retail bank by almost 2,000 people in 2025 with a "significant" reduction in the number of branches, Chief Executive Officer Christian
March 19, 2025A European space telescope launched to explore the dark universe has released a trove of new data on distant galaxies
March 19, 2025A long-lost Klimt painting of an African prince goes on show
March 19, 2025Questions are mounting in Canada and in Europe over whether big-ticket purchases of high-end U.S. weaponry are still a wise strategic choice
March 19, 2025France's foreign minister is planning a two-day visit to China on March 27 and 28, the head of cognac lobby group BNIC said on Wednesday, repeating calls for an easing of trade
March 19, 2025The European Space Agency has released its first tranche of data from the Euclid space telescope's mission to map the universe's large-scale structure in order to better
March 19, 2025A deadline for German antitrust authorities to give possible initial approval for Italy's UniCredit in taking a substantial stake in Germany's Commerzbank expires on April 14,
March 19, 2025What matters in U.S. and global markets today By Mike Dolan, Editor-At-Large, Financial Industry and Financial Markets Like most of its central banking peers, the
March 19, 2025Protesters near Istanbul's main police headquarters on Wednesday said the detention of President Tayyip Erdogan's main political rival and the city's mayor
March 19, 2025Ukraine's gross domestic product grew up 0.7% in February year on year, the country's economy ministry said on Wednesday.
March 19, 2025A consortium that includes Allianz, BlackRock and T&D Holdings are investing in Viridium Group in a 3.5 billion euro ($3.82 billion) deal that will see the private equity company
March 19, 2025Russia's "widespread and systematic" use of enforced disappearances and torture of Ukrainians during its full-scale invasion of Ukraine amount to crimes
March 19, 2025UniCredit's CEO Andrea Orcel said on Wednesday he may need to wait until 2027 before deciding whether to try and take over Commerzbank, as Germany's fiscal
March 19, 2025Swiss drugmaker Roche has abandoned global diverse workforce targets and compatriot Novartis is ending its use of diverse panels for U.S. hiring, the
March 19, 2025Britain's Prudential Regulation Authority on Wednesday proposed reforms to rules governing recognised exchanges, with a view to ensuring the continued safety and soundness of
March 19, 2025Hungary's president has signed a law proposed by Prime Minister Viktor Orban's ruling party that will ban LGBTQ+ communities from holding their annual Pride march, defying
March 19, 2025Euro zone inflation was lower last month than first estimated, mostly because of a revision in Germany, Eurostat said on Wednesday, easing concerns that unexpectedly strong price
March 19, 2025Exor NV, the investment arm of Italy's Agnelli family, has increased its stake in health technology company Philips to 18.7%, a filing at the U.S.
March 19, 2025German media group Axel Springer is considering a sale of its affiliate marketing unit Awin, according to three people familiar with the matter
March 19, 2025Pope Francis says in a letter to an Italian newspaper that his lengthy illness has made clearer to him the absurdity of war and the power of words to shape the truth and facts
March 18, 2025European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Wednesday that Moscow cannot be trusted, after a phone call between U.S.
March 19, 2025Danish lender Nykredit said on Wednesday it has secured a stake of more than 80% in Spar Nord Bank following a $3.6 billion bid for its domestic rival last year, and aims to
March 19, 2025The International Olympic Committee kicked of its session in Olympia, site of the ancient Games, on Tuesday that will culminate with the election of a new president
March 18, 2025Germany's outgoing government has agreed to release additional 3 billion euros ($3.3 billion) in military aid for Ukraine this year after lawmakers passed plans for
March 19, 2025North Macedonia has shut down dozens of nightclubs following a fire in the eastern town of Kocani that killed 59 people
March 19, 2025Euro zone economic growth is already taking a hit from the Trump administration's trade war but the expected surge in defence spending at home could prop up growth, European
March 18, 2025Turkey detained Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu on Wednesday on charges such as graft and aiding a terrorist group, a step the main opposition party criticised as a "
March 19, 2025Volkswagen said on Wednesday it sold a 2.2% stake in Traton for 360 million euros ($393 million) or 32.75 euros per share for better trading in shares of the commercial-vehicles
March 19, 2025Drugmaker Pfizer has sold its entire stake in Haleon for about 2.5 billion pounds ($3.24 billion) to institutional investors and the consumer healthcare firm at 385 pence per share, a
March 19, 2025Human Rights Watch Turkey Director Emma Sinclair-Webb condemned the detention of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and others from the Istanbul municipality on Wednesday, calling it a "
March 19, 2025Germany's largest real estate group Vonovia on Wednesday posted a third consecutive annual loss for 2024, reporting further writedowns of its
March 19, 2025Barclays raised its year-end target for Europe's benchmark STOXX 600 index on Wednesday, as Germany's fiscal reform will raise long-term growth prospects for the region.
March 19, 2025Russia and Ukraine accused each other on Wednesday of launching air attacks that sparked fires and damaged infrastructure just hours after their leaders agreed to a
March 17, 2025A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Tom Westbrook Investors' attention looks set to switch, briefly, to monetary policy for the rest of the week, from its usual recent fixation
March 19, 2025Democratic U.S. lawmakers will call on President Donald Trump's administration to restore a program that helps track thousands of Ukrainian children abducted
March 18, 2025Hungary has passed a new anti-LGBTQ+ law that bans Pride events and allows authorities to use facial recognition software to identify those attending the festivities
March 18, 2025Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said on Tuesday that Kyiv was not the obstacle for a peace deal with Russia and believes it can achieve just and lasting
March 18, 2025After call with Trump, Putin agrees to pause attacks on Ukraine’s energy and infrastructure targets
March 18, 2025U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff policy has made the European Central Bank's monetary policy decisions more difficult, its Vice President Luis de Guindos said on Monday.
March 17, 2025A French politician has suggested the U.S. is no longer worthy of keeping the Statue of Liberty
March 17, 2025A bellowing deer and a roadside swan: British photo award shows surprising city wildlife
March 19, 2025Pay increases granted by British employers have fallen back in line with inflation for the first time since October 2023, according to data from human resources data firm Brightmine
March 18, 2025Bentley on Wednesday posted its lowest annual revenue since the COVID pandemic struck in 2020 as the British luxury automaker faced a tough global market in 2024, but
March 18, 2025Ireland's economy is set to grow a little slower this year due to an "unprecedented" rise in global risks that may have a much larger impact on the foreign multinational-focused
March 18, 2025Chinese EV maker Leapmotor has started selling two electric vehicle models at Stellantis dealerships in Britain via its joint venture with the world's No. 4 automaker,
March 18, 2025Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty - the U.S.-funded news outlet set up to reach people under Communism during the Cold War - said on Tuesday it sued the
March 18, 2025Authorities in North Macedonia are appealing for calm as protests have again been held across the country over the nightclub fire in the eastern town of Kocani that killed 59 people over the weekend
March 18, 2025British Prime Minister Keir Starmer spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Tuesday evening, discussing progress U.S.
March 18, 2025British Prime Minister Keir Starmer spoke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Tuesday evening, a spokeswoman for Downing Street said.
March 18, 2025The Professional Tennis Players' Association (PTPA) has filed a lawsuit against the sport's governing bodies, accusing them of anti-competitive practices and a
March 18, 2025Deutsche Bank will give its asset management arm preferred access to private credit deals it originates, the companies said on Tuesday, as the German institutions look for an edge
March 18, 2025The White House says President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin have agreed to an immediate pause in strikes against energy infrastructure in the Ukraine war
March 18, 2025Pfizer will sell its remaining stake in British consumer healthcare group Haleon, the companies said on Tuesday.
March 18, 2025Defying Trump, several US-funded international broadcasters are still reporting the news
March 18, 2025Emergency services in southern Spain are searching for a married couple after flash floods swept away their vehicle as rising waters prompted the evacuation of hundreds of homes
March 18, 2025Why everyone is talking about ‘Adolescence,’ the Netflix limited series that’s every parent’s nightmare
March 18, 2025Germany's outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz called a ceasefire on attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure agreed by U.S.
March 18, 2025The Belgian prosecutor's office said on Tuesday that it has charged five people in connection with a bribery investigation in the European Parliament allegedly linked to China's
March 18, 2025United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday talks on the future of Cyprus had made progress for the first time in years, with both sides agreeing a series of
March 18, 2025Volkswagen intends to sell up to 11 million shares in commercial vehicle manufacturer Traton, the German carmaker said on Tuesday, representing up to a 2.2% stake worth about 391
March 18, 2025Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to a proposal by U.S.
March 18, 2025A ceasefire in Russia’s 3-year-old war in Ukraine hinges on Moscow accepting the U.S. proposal of a 30-day pause in fighting as a confidence-building measure for both sides to hammer out a longer-term peace plan
March 17, 2025A thief who swiped a golden toilet from an English palace has been convicted along with an accomplice who helped cash in on the spoils of the 18-carat work of art valued at more than $6 million
March 18, 2025German pharmaceuticals company Stada has postponed a planned initial public offering (IPO) in Frankfurt because of market volatility, two people familiar
March 18, 2025Air France-KLM is in talks to take a stake in Spanish airline Air Europa and is looking to boost its existing holding in Scandinavian carrier SAS to
March 18, 2025Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni cautioned European partners on Tuesday against escalating a trade dispute with the United States through
March 18, 2025France's economy will barely grow in the first half of the year as consumer spending struggles to offset the impact of weak business activity and government belt tightening, the
March 18, 2025A Polish presidential candidate faced accusations on Tuesday he took self-promotion too far, after local media reported he praised his own work as a historian in a 2018 interview in
March 18, 2025The Dutch parliament on Tuesday approved a law criminalizing digital espionage and diaspora espionage, which refers to foreign powers attempting to influence communities in the
March 18, 2025Widely used prescription medicines could get caught up in the Trump administration's tariff trade wars and EU retaliation.
March 18, 2025Heavy rains hit Spain for a third week in a row on Tuesday, with at least two people missing and hundreds evacuated in the southern region of Andalusia, where several rivers had
March 18, 2025German equities closed higher on Tuesday, after the parliament approved plans for a massive spending surge, while investors awaited details from a call
March 18, 2025Europe should be included in Ukraine peace talks, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on his arrival in Helsinki on Tuesday, as U.S.
March 18, 2025Germany's outgoing parliament on Tuesday passed a massive increase in government borrowing, including a sweeping change to the country's debt rules.
March 18, 2025Istanbul University said on Tuesday it had annulled the degree of President Tayyip Erdogan's main political rival over irregularities, dealing a blow to the opposition days before
March 18, 2025The Turkish Cypriot leader said on Tuesday that talks in Geneva on Cyprus were positive, and that he hopes to open a new page on a sustainable future for the island.
March 18, 2025Hungary's parliament passed a law on Tuesday to ban the Pride march by LGBTQ+ communities, triggering the blockade of a bridge in central Budapest in protest against the changes
March 18, 2025Air France on Tuesday unveiled a new first-class suite as it expands efforts to lure wealthy travellers from business jets and lend a 'French touch
March 18, 2025French politician suggests US should give back Statue of Liberty for taking ‘the side of the tyrants’
March 18, 2025The European Union is debating ways to keep Radio Free Europe afloat after the Trump administration stopped grants to the pro-democracy media outlet over the weekend
March 18, 2025A judge looking into the murder of newborn babies by British nurse Lucy Letby said on Monday she would hear arguments why the inquiry should be paused, after requests from hospital
March 17, 2025John “Paddy” Hemingway, the last surviving pilot who flew during the Battle of Britain, has died at the age of 105
March 18, 2025Russia is preparing itself for a confrontation with European democracies as the United States shifts its focus towards the Indo-Pacific region, European Commission head Ursula von
March 18, 2025Mercedes-Benz is trialling using humanoid robots made by U.S.-based company Apptronik for tasks such as moving components to the production line or carrying
March 18, 2025Germany's top AAA credit rating could face pressure in the longer run if a vast spending effort is not offset by consolidation measures, or doesn't lead to a lasting improvement in
March 18, 2025German premium carmakers exposed to U.S. import tariffs are weighing long-term strategies from
March 18, 2025French police raided a theatre in central Paris at dawn on Tuesday, briefly using tear gas to evict more than 400 migrants who had been squatting
March 18, 2025Apple lost its challenge at Germany's top civil court on Tuesday against its classification as a significant market power, a label which gives antitrust
March 18, 2025Siemens will cut 5,600 jobs at its Digital Industries business, the engineering company said on Tuesday, in the latest blow for German industry shaken by weak demand
March 18, 2025Germany's parliament approved plans for a massive spending surge on Tuesday, throwing off decades of fiscal conservatism in hopes of reviving
March 18, 2025Drugmakers are urging the Trump administration and European Union officials to exclude medical goods from expanding tariff wars, hoping to avert price spikes on top-
March 18, 2025Germany’s Merz wins vote to massively expand borrowing and super-charge military spending
March 18, 2025Western companies that "slammed the door defiantly" when they left Russia will not be allowed to buy back the businesses they quit for small
March 18, 2025German 10-year borrowing costs could rise to 4%, their highest since 2008, in coming years as it massively increases its spending on defence and
March 18, 2025Police cells will temporarily be used to hold prisoners in a stop-gap measure to cope with overcrowding in jails, the British government said on Tuesday.
March 18, 2025The U.N. migration agency said on Tuesday that unprecedented cuts in donor funding this year will force it to scale back or shut down projects around the world,
March 18, 2025Russia's finance ministry on Tuesday said it intends to revive plans for privatisations of state assets and hopes to sell stakes in seven large
March 18, 2025The European Union needs to be pragmatic and seek common ground on tariffs with the United States to avert a trade war, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni told parliament on
March 18, 2025Three people are believed to have died when a plane originally from Denmark crashed on Monday evening in Switzerland, police from the eastern Swiss canton of Graubuenden said on
March 18, 2025NATO members Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia plan to withdraw from the Ottawa convention banning anti-personnel landmines due to the
March 18, 2025Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump will hold a phone call between 1300 and 1500 GMT on Tuesday to talk about settling the Ukraine conflict and normalising relations between
March 18, 2025Germany’s would-be next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, won lawmakers’ approval Tuesday for ambitious plans to loosen the nation’s strict debt rules for higher defense spending as doubts mount about the strength of the trans-Atlantic alliance, and to set up an enormous fund for investment in its creaking infrastructure
March 18, 2025Trump suggests Ukraine’s largest nuclear plant is on the line in talks with Putin. What’s next for Zaporizhzhia?
March 18, 2025The European Union’s law enforcement agency is warning that artificial intelligence is turbocharging organized crime that is eroding the foundations of societies across the 27-nation bloc as it becomes intertwined with state-sponsored destabilization efforts
March 18, 2025(The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a columnist for Reuters.)
March 18, 2025Organised crime gangs are turning to AI-powered scams and payment systems to target victims, allowing them to rapidly and more cheaply scale up operations globally and making them harder
March 18, 2025British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has updated U.S.
March 18, 2025A leading assessor of company climate goals on Tuesday proposed new rules to better help companies set high-quality emissions-reduction plans,
March 18, 2025Iron Maiden’s plane has been cut into pieces and put up for sale
March 18, 2025A public inquiry examining how British nurse Lucy Letby was able to murder babies in her care should be suspended because new evidence casts real doubt on her
March 18, 2025Financial markets operator CME Group said on Tuesday that it plans to launch cash-settled futures for European rapeseed oil next month, using an Argus Media index for Dutch prices.
March 18, 2025President Vladimir Putin told Russian business leaders on Tuesday not to count on fully free trade or movement of capital being restored in the event of Western sanctions on Russia
March 18, 2025Graphic artist Victoria Lomasko’s journey highlights how censorship has intensified in Russia.
March 18, 2025Kenya is hosting the Netherlands king and queen for a state visit against the backdrop of allegations of human rights abuses in the East African country
March 18, 2025German investor morale improved more than expected in March, the ZEW economic research institute said on Tuesday, reporting an increase in its economic sentiment
March 18, 2025The administration of U.S.
March 18, 2025Ukraine's leading mobile operator Kyivstar is moving ahead with its planned U.S. listing, its parent VEON said on Tuesday, even as President Donald Trump's chaotic
March 18, 2025Chinese electric vehicle maker XPeng on Tuesday forecast first-quarter revenue above estimates, betting on the launch of its lower-priced G6 and G9 SUV models as well as its foray into
March 18, 2025Nicolai Tangen has been appointed to a second term as CEO of Norway's vast sovereign wealth fund, Norges Bank Investment Management, the central bank said on Tuesday.
March 18, 2025The Swiss government trimmed its economic growth forecasts for 2025 and 2026 on Tuesday, citing global trade tensions, although it expects the country to avoid a
March 18, 2025Germany's lower house of parliament is set to vote on Tuesday on a massive surge in borrowing that could boost Europe's largest economy and
March 05, 2025Audi to cut 7,500 jobs as Germany’s auto industry struggles
March 18, 2025Conor McGregor draws Irish leader’s ire after anti-immigration comments at White House
March 18, 2025France unveils ‘incredible’ new high-speed TGV trains with double-decker dining car
March 18, 2025Magnus Carlsen rules out classical World Chess Championship return, shifting focus to new era
March 18, 2025SARAJEVO - The chairperson of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Elina Valtonen, on Tuesday urged rival leaders in Bosnia to respect constitutional order and engage in talks to
March 18, 2025Germany's lower house of parliament is set to vote on Tuesday on a massive surge in borrowing that could boost Europe's largest economy and stimulate growth across
March 14, 2025The Kremlin confirmed on Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin would talk to U.S. President Donald Trump by phone on Tuesday.
March 17, 2025Weaknesses in the capital regime for the Swiss banking sector still need to be addressed after the 2023 collapse of Credit Suisse, the Swiss National Bank said on Tuesday, backing
March 18, 2025Building permits for apartments in Germany rose 6.9% in January from a year earlier, statistics office data showed on Tuesday, a second consecutive month of increases after three
March 18, 2025Euro zone banks need to get into the habit of tapping the European Central Banks for cash, preparing for the continued decline in excess liquidity in the banking system, two top
March 18, 2025Allocation to U.S. stocks saw the biggest drop ever in March with concerns over stagflation, trade wars and end of U.S. exceptionalism driving a "bull crash" in sentiment, a survey
March 18, 2025The Swiss National Bank bought foreign currency worth 1.2 billion Swiss francs ($1.36 billion) in 2024, the central bank said on Tuesday, dramatically reducing its interventions
March 18, 2025French far-right leader Marine Le Pen, who in two weeks will learn her fate in an embezzlement trial, says prosecutors demanding she face an instant five-year
March 18, 2025Only one Englishman who had a great Olympic career ever stood for the IOC presidency before Sebastian Coe
March 18, 2025A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Tom Westbrook A phone call between Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin is on markets' radar this morning as the U.S.
March 18, 2025New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has met with the leaders of Britain and France during his first official overseas trip
March 17, 2025Irish mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor used a St.
March 17, 2025With U.S. support for Ukraine in doubt, Kyiv’s European allies are weighing whether to seize $300 billion in frozen Russian assets
March 18, 2025U.S. President Donald Trump will speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday as efforts continue to end the war in Ukraine, a move that could represent a possible pivot point in the conflict and an opportunity for Trump to continue reorienting American foreign policy
March 17, 2025Britain's King Charles is still hoping to see Pope Francis during a state visit to the Vatican and Italy next month, a Buckingham Palace source said on Tuesday, more than a month
March 17, 2025Britain and the European Union will ramp up pressure on Russia and boost defence initiatives, as the EU's foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, meets British foreign minister David Lammy and
March 17, 2025Britain's business and trade secretary Jonathan Reynolds travels to Washington on Tuesday to meet his U.S. counterparts in the hope of strengthening economic ties, as President Donald
March 17, 2025North Macedonia’s leaders are vowing to hold those responsible to account after a nightclub fire in the eastern town of Kocani left 59 people dead and 155 injured
March 17, 2025King Charles III is scheduled to have an audience with Pope Francis during a state visit next month to the Vatican, suggesting the Holy See is optimistic the pontiff will be back at work by then
March 17, 2025UK business minister Jonathan Reynolds will meet with U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and U.S.
March 17, 2025Donors at a European Union-led conference on Monday pledged 5.8 billion euros ($6.3 billion) to help Syria's new authorities as they struggle with humanitarian and
March 16, 2025Britain’s King Charles and Queen Camilla to visit Pope Francis next month
March 18, 2025Germany's constitutional court threw out new challenges by opposition parties against a plan by the prospective coalition government to push a massive public borrowing initiative
March 17, 2025Canada’s Carney sends a message to Trump as he chooses Europe for first foreign trip as PM
March 17, 2025The European Union and its partners have pledged 5.8 billion euros ($6.3 billion) for Syria and its neighbours, said the EU's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas on Monday.
March 17, 2025Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney said it was important to strengthen ties with "reliable allies" in Europe, as he met British and French leaders on his first
March 17, 2025U.S.
March 17, 2025Germany's constitutional court on Monday threw out new challenges by opposition parties against a plan by the prospective coalition government
March 17, 2025Pope Francis is registering new slight improvements in his monthlong treatment for double pneumonia
March 17, 2025International donors have pledged almost $6.5 billion in aid for Syria
March 17, 2025Italy and Spain made clear on Monday they were not ready to back a European Union proposal to pledge up to 40 billion euros ($43.67 billion) in
March 17, 2025Russia's state-controlled gas giant Gazprom recorded a net loss of 1.076 trillion roubles ($12.89 billion) in 2024 under Russian accounting standards (RAS), Interfax news agency reported.
March 17, 2025Bosnian Serb separatist leader Milorad Dodik announced a law on Monday to establish a border police force for his Serb-dominated region, after a top Bosnian court sought his
March 17, 2025Only one tank filled with jet fuel was damaged after the U.S. military-contracted tanker that was transporting a shipment was struck by a cargo ship off England's
March 17, 2025Honda and Suzuki will pool carbon emissions with U.S. electric vehicle maker Tesla in 2025 to comply with European Union rules, an EU filing showed on Monday.
March 17, 2025The bodies of seven people were recovered off Cyprus on Monday after authorities mounted a search and rescue operation following the capsize of a boat carrying migrants, Cyprus's
March 17, 2025A Peruvian farmer who says German energy giant RWE's emissions have contributed to the melting of Andean glaciers, increasing the flood risk to his home,
March 16, 2025The dollar hovered near a five-month low against the euro on Monday as worries about the economic fallout from U.S.
March 17, 2025The Belgian actor who won a top Cannes prize for her breakout role in “Rosetta,” Émilie Dequenne has died at 43
March 17, 2025Lawyers for convicted baby killer Lucy Letby and former executives at the hospital where she worked have asked a judge to halt an inquiry into the deaths after a panel of medical experts found no evidence of a crime
March 17, 2025China is willing to work with the United Kingdom to deepen cooperation in financial services, trade and investment, as well as green and low-carbon development, Ding Xuexiang,
March 17, 2025The supervisory board of ProSiebenSat.1 has put on hold a potential deal that could hand U.S. private equity firm General Atlantic a minority
March 17, 2025Volkswagen's Audi will cut up to 7,500 jobs in Germany by 2029 in areas like administration and development, the premium carmaker said on Monday, the latest German auto industry
March 17, 2025The German insurer Allianz said on Monday that it was selling its 26% stake in two joint ventures with India's Bajaj Finserv to the Bajaj Group for around 2.6 billion euros ($2.84
March 17, 2025British stocks closed higher on Monday, driven by energy and mining shares, while investors geared up for a slew of central bank decisions this week including from the Bank of England.
March 17, 2025European shares closed higher for a second day on Monday, supported by energy and healthcare stocks, with the focus on Germany's debt reform plans and the
March 17, 2025Consumers across Europe furious over President Donald Trump’s policies are boycotting U.S. goods
March 17, 2025The International Olympic Committee executive board on Monday recommended the inclusion of boxing in the Los Angeles 2028 summer Olympics, ending a years-
March 17, 2025EU powers said on Monday they would try to save Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty - the U.S.-funded news outlet set up to reach people under communism during the
March 17, 2025European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Monday that it was sad to hear that the U.S. was withdrawing funding for Radio Free Europe but that the EU cannot
March 17, 2025Slovak prosecutors have filed terrorism charges against the attacker who shot and seriously wounded Prime Minister Robert Fico last year, the general prosecutor's office said on Monday.
March 17, 2025The Russian central bank will keep its benchmark interest rate on hold at a board meeting on March 21, all 29 analysts who took part in a Reuters poll predicted
March 17, 2025Norwegian police said on Monday they are investigating a break-in at a disused electricity transformer station near Oslo where an oil spill was discovered on Sunday.
March 17, 2025French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Monday that he had proposed at a European Union meeting for sanctions to be placed on those behind attacks against Syria's
March 17, 2025Hundreds of thousands of people have packed the streets of Dublin to watch Ireland’s national St. Patrick’s Day parade
March 17, 2025French engine and aircraft equipment maker Safran has offered remedies in an attempt to secure EU antitrust approval for its $1.8 billion bid for Collins
March 17, 2025Sporadic violence broke out in North Macedonia on Monday as thousands of people demanded justice for 59 people killed in a nightclub blaze and called
March 17, 2025Hungary’s ruling coalition is continuing its crackdown on the country’s LBGTQ+ community
March 17, 2025Concerns that the Trump administration’s metals tariffs could divert a wave of aluminium to Europe have prompted the European Commission to consider possible curbs
March 17, 2025Automaker Stellantis is investing 38 million euros ($41 million) in its Verrone plant in Northern Italy to manufacture parts for electric engines for its upcoming small-size models,
March 17, 2025A "significant number" of countries are willing to provide peacekeeping troops in Ukraine in the event of a peace deal with Russia, a spokesperson for British Prime Minister Keir
March 17, 2025A consortium including KKR and Warburg Pincus has submitted a non-binding bid for Gerresheimer AG, which makes pens used to inject
March 17, 2025Lithuanian prosecutors accused Russia's military intelligence on Monday of orchestrating an arson attack on an IKEA store in Vilnius in May, and suggested it may
March 17, 2025British defence and security company QinetiQ warned on Monday of delays in short-term contracts being awarded in the U.S. and UK, where new policies are being implemented after changes in
March 17, 2025A court in Georgia has handed another prison sentence to imprisoned former President Mikheil Saakashvili
March 17, 2025Tariffs got you down? How to substitute American alternatives for European wines
March 15, 2025Trump says Ukraine-Russia peace talks looking at ‘dividing up certain assets’
March 17, 2025Soccer match in France postponed after fans throw flares and start fire in stands
March 17, 2025A transformation of women’s soccer in Europe is well under way
March 17, 2025German pharma firm Stada plans to launch its initial public offering (IPO) as soon as Wednesday, two people familiar with the matter said, in a test for
March 17, 2025 Global ratings agency Moody's on Monday downgraded Volkswagen
The battle for the most powerful job in world sport is hurtling toward its climax as International Olympic Committee members descend on Greece this week
March 17, 2025Belgium and Rwanda announced the expulsion of each other's diplomats, as relations deteriorated over allegations about their respective roles in the conflict in eastern Democratic
March 17, 2025Tech companies must start putting in place measures to protect users from child sexual abuse images and other illegal content in Britain from Monday as enforcement of its online
March 17, 2025Food price controls launched by Prime Minister Viktor Orban went into effect in Hungary on Monday after inflation hit the highest level in
March 17, 2025A hard-right candidate is seen leading in the first round of Romania's presidential election rerun in May, according to a survey on Monday, in a vote that will
March 17, 2025Former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili was sentenced on Monday to four-and-a-half more years in jail after being found guilty of illegally crossing the state border, Georgian
March 17, 2025Britain's Financial Conduct Authority said on Monday it has fined Crispin Odey, founder of the now defunct hedge fund Odey Asset Management, 1.8
March 17, 2025Airbus, Dassault Systemes and more than 90 smaller European technology firms and lobby groups have urged European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to
March 17, 2025Hungary's ruling party submitted a bill to parliament on Monday that would ban the Pride march by LGBTQ+ communities and impose fines on organisers and people attending the event
March 17, 2025A German court has started hearing a Peruvian farmer’s case against major energy company RWE
March 17, 2025Another Italian town gears up to sell dollar homes
March 17, 2025Germany's economic weakness carried over into the start of 2025, but fiscal policy plans by the country's future government could help stabilise expectations and provide planning
March 17, 2025Britain's economy will grow more slowly than previously expected in 2025 and 2026 as global growth is hit by uncertainty, the OECD said on Monday, underscoring the challenge facing
March 17, 2025South Korea's Foreign Minister Cho Tae-yul sought Kyiv's cooperation in the handling of North Korean prisoners of war during a telephone call on Monday with his Ukrainian counterpart
March 17, 2025A decision by U.S.
March 17, 2025UBS CEO Sergio Ermotti's total pay was 14.9 million Swiss francs ($16.9 million) last year, with the bank keeping his remuneration in check as it navigates a tense
March 17, 2025UBS's auditors have expressed an "adverse opinion" on the bank's internal controls over its financial reporting for 2024 after it
March 17, 2025Fire ripped through a packed and unlicensed nightclub early on Sunday in the North Macedonian town of Kocani, killing 59 people and injuring more than
March 16, 2025Pavel Durov, the Russian-born founder and CEO of Telegram, said on Monday that he had returned to Dubai.
March 17, 2025Telegram CEO Pavel Durov says that he has travelled from France to Dubai, even as the French authorities continue to investigate criminal activity on his messaging app
March 17, 2025Is Guinness really ‘good for you’?
March 17, 2021Chinese electric vehicle giant BYD is considering Germany for a possible third assembly plant in Europe, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters, after
March 17, 2025The euro zone housing market has already recovered from its recent slump and prices are likely to rise further, challenging affordability in a potentially unhealthy development,
March 17, 2025U.S.
March 17, 2025LVMH label Loewe said on Monday that creative director Jonathan Anderson was leaving the Spanish luxury house after 11 years in the role.
March 17, 2025Germany is pledging a further 300 million euros ($326 million) in aid for Syrians through the United Nations and select organisations, said Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on
March 17, 2025The week ahead is crammed with central bank decisions, first and foremost the U.S.
March 14, 2025UBS on Monday said frequently "ill-informed" public debate about potential risks from its business activities and size has created uncertainties going into 2025 as Switzerland
March 17, 2025The Bank of England is likely to keep interest rates on hold on Thursday and stick to its mantra of only gradual moves ahead as it grapples with the fallout from U.S.
March 17, 2025Swiss private bank Julius Baer delivered a total pay package to its ad interim chief executive officer Nic Dreckmann of 5.8 million Swiss francs ($6.56 million) in 2024, the firm said in
March 17, 2025The U.S.-European tariff conflict is jeopardising transatlantic business worth $9.5 trillion annually, the American Chamber of Commerce to the EU warned on
March 17, 2025A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Rae Wee Market movement on Monday continued the narrative of investors falling out of love with U.S. stocks and flocking to European and
March 17, 2025Britain's public finances, strained by growing debt and sluggish growth, face a crucial test this month that investors say could prompt another
March 17, 2025Fire rips though North Macedonia nightclub, killing 59 people
March 16, 2025By Indradip Ghosh BENGALURU -Optimism was already building among economists on German and euro zone growth in a Reuters poll taken just before key political parties in Germany agreed a historic deal
March 14, 2025Russia will seek "ironclad" guarantees in any peace deal on Ukraine that NATO nations will exclude Kyiv from membership and that Ukraine will remain neutral, a Russian deputy
March 16, 2025Russian teenager Mirra Andreeva has come back to beat No. 1-ranked Aryna Sabalenka 2-6, 6-4, 6-3 in the BNP Paribas Open
March 16, 2025Serbian officials are denying that security forces illegally used a military-grade sonic weapon to disperse and scare protesters at a huge anti-government rally
March 16, 2025Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appointed Andrii Hnatov as the new chief of the general staff of Ukraine’s military, replacing Anatoliy Barhylevych
March 16, 2025The Vatican on Sunday released the first image of Pope Francis in hospital since he began treatment for double pneumonia, in which the 88-year-old pontiff
March 16, 2025Missing but not forgotten: How Ukrainians are searching for those missing in war using AI and an army of families
March 16, 2025To many in Europe, Trump has punched holes in NATO’s nuclear umbrella
March 16, 2025Newcastle has ended its 70-year-wait for a major domestic trophy by beating Liverpool 2-1 in the English League Cup final
March 16, 2025Lithuania on Sunday backed an EU proposal to pledge up to 40 billion euros ($43.5 billion) in military aid for Ukraine this year and said a similar
March 16, 2025An in tray of Olympic challenges spanning political, social, sporting and operational issues awaits the next International Olympic Committee president
March 16, 2025The Vatican has released the first photograph of the pope in more than a month, showing Pope Francis wearing a purple Lenten liturgical vestments sitting in a wheelchair in front of an altar in the hospital chapel
March 16, 2025President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are expected to speak this week as the U.S. tries to broker a ceasefire in the Russia-Ukraine war, according to Trump special envoy Steve Witkoff
March 16, 2025President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Sunday appointed Major-General Andriy Hnatov as Ukraine's chief of the general staff as Kyiv seeks to speed up army reform.
March 16, 2025Germany's parliamentary budget committee on Sunday approved plans for a massive increase in state borrowing aimed at bolstering defence and reviving growth in Europe's biggest
March 16, 2025A fire has torn through an overcrowded nightclub in North Macedonia, killing 59 and injuring 155 during a concert
March 16, 2025First photo of Pope emerges since hospitalization
March 16, 2025U.S.
March 16, 2025Once the United States has imposed tariffs on its major trading partners it could engage in bilateral talks with countries on new trade arrangements, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on
March 16, 2025Prime Minister Francois Bayrou on Sunday rejected the idea of reverting to 62 as the basic retirement age in France, appearing to narrow options for unions and employers negotiating
March 16, 2025Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan spoke by phone with U.S.
March 16, 2025The European Union was probably mistaken in targeting American whiskey in its riposte to U.S. tariffs, French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou said on Sunday, calling for talks to
March 16, 2025Zelensky says ‘no encirclement’ of Ukrainian troops in Russia’s Kursk region, accusing Putin of lying
March 15, 2025The supervisory board of ProSiebenSat.1 will meet later on Sunday to discuss a potential deal that could hand U.S. private equity firm General Atlantic a minority stake in the German
March 16, 2025Record-breaking Erling Haaland makes Premier League history as fastest player to 100 goals and assists
March 16, 2025One worker was killed and three other were injured in an explosion at an oil refinery in Russia's city of Ryazan, TASS and RIA news agencies reported.
March 16, 2025The pay package of UBS CEO Sergio Ermotti came in just above 15 million Swiss francs ($17 million) in 2024, Swiss daily Blick reported, not citing where it obtained the
March 16, 2025The stationing of peacekeeping troops in Ukraine, as proposed by Britain and France as part of a ceasefire agreement with Russia, is a question for Kyiv to decide and not Moscow,
March 16, 2025Italy is preparing an industrial plan aimed at fostering connections between its automotive, defence and aerospace sectors, to be unveiled in June, Industry Minister Adolfo Urso said
March 16, 2025Russia battled on Sunday to drive the last Ukrainian soldiers from western Russia, Russian officials said, after a seven-month incursion by Ukraine that aimed
March 16, 2025A fire at a nightclub in the town of Kocani in North Macedonia has killed 59 people and injured more than 150 others, according to authorities
March 16, 2025Porsche SE, Volkswagen's biggest shareholder, is not considering selling voting shares in Europe's largest carmaker, the holding firm said on Sunday following a newspaper report
March 16, 2025Chinese President Xi Jinping has declined an invitation to visit Brussels for a summit to mark the 50th
March 16, 2025Russia and Ukraine continued aerial attacks on each other, inflicting injuries and damages, officials said early on Sunday, as the fate of a proposed ceasefire to the three-year-old war
March 16, 2025Volkswagen is in talks with digital cockpit system developer Ecarx to put the Chinese company's technologies in cars it sells in developed markets, such as Europe, Ecarx's CEO said
March 12, 2025Russia and Ukraine have traded heavy aerial blows with both sides reporting more than 100 enemy drones over their respective territories overnight
March 15, 2025Pope Francis signals intention to remain in post with sign-off on three-year reform plan
March 15, 2025Tens of thousands of Italians have joined a pro-Europe rally in the center of Rome, waving blue European Union flags in a sign of support and unity amid a European push for rearmament that has split the country
March 15, 2025Romania’s electoral body has rejected the candidacy of controversial far-right politician Diana Sosoaca in the presidential election rerun in May, but approved George Simion, the leader of the country’s most popular far-right party
March 15, 2025Pope Francis is improving slowly as he battles double pneumonia in hospital and is reducing the use of mechanical ventilation at night to help with breathing,
March 15, 2025At least 100,000 people have converged in Belgrade for a massive rally in the Serbian capital seen as a culmination of months-long protests against populist President Aleksandar Vucic
March 15, 2025French President Emmanuel Macron will host Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney for a meeting in Paris on Monday in Carney's first foreign visit since taking office, Macron's office
March 15, 2025Thousands of Romanians took to the streets of Bucharest on Saturday to show their support for the European Union, amid political disputes
March 15, 2025Pope Francis approved a new three-year process to consider reforms for the global Catholic Church, the Vatican said on Saturday, in a sign the 88-year-old
March 15, 2025Champions League qualification is getting tantalizingly close for Nottingham Forest but there's still plenty of work to do for Manchester City
March 15, 2025Pope Francis was hospitalized on Feb. 14, after suffering a bout of bronchitis for weeks and after increasingly finding it hard to speak publicly
March 14, 2025French authorities have allowed Pavel Durov, the Russian-born founder and CEO of Telegram, to leave France temporarily in a loosening of his obligations under a probe into criminal
March 15, 2025Ukrainian troops are still fending off Russian and North Korean forces in Russia's Kursk region but face a potential new attack on Ukraine's northeast Sumy region,
March 15, 2025Pope Francis has entered the fifth week of hospital treatment for double pneumonia very much looking ahead as he worked on a signature priority of his papacy
March 15, 2025A gender row involving two female boxers at the Paris 2024 Olympics was the result of a Russian fake news campaign and had little to do with reality,
March 15, 2025British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Saturday that Western allies other than the U.S. were stepping up preparations to support Ukraine in
March 14, 2025More than 100,000 protesters descended on Serbia's capital Belgrade on Saturday in one of the largest rallies in decades, with students and workers facing
March 15, 2025Tens of thousands rallied in Budapest against Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Saturday, waving the national flag as the leader of the surging opposition Tisza
March 15, 2025The owner of one of France's top Bordeaux wine chateaux hopes U.S.
March 14, 2025Greece’s center-right government has welcomed a credit rating upgrade by Moody’s, the last major ratings agency to lift junk status on government bonds that began 15 years ago during a severe debt crisis
March 15, 2025British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has challenged Russian President Vladimir Putin to sign up to a ceasefire in its war against Ukraine now, if he is serious about peace
March 15, 2025Renault is testing a new driverless mini-bus in Barcelona this week
March 15, 2025The nuns who operate the Vatican’s switchboard are fielding a growing number of calls
March 15, 2025Putin’s response to Ukraine ceasefire not good enough, UK PM says, as Kyiv allies seek to pressure Russia
March 15, 2025Russian captain in North Sea ship crash appears in court on gross negligence manslaughter charges
March 15, 2025The man on a mission to visit every Irish pub in the world
March 15, 2025Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday he had urged Kyiv's Western allies to give "a clear position" on security guarantees including about a potential foreign troop
March 15, 2025How America’s online right became obsessed with a low-profile European country
March 15, 2025Poland’s prime minister has made a tongue-in-cheek offer to U_S_ actor and director Jesse Eisenberg, who recently gained Polish citizenship, to give him military training that would land him “the new James Bond role.”
March 15, 2025European Union countries are discussing making the bloc's binding gas storage goals more flexible, over concerns that the rules risk inflating gas prices, a negotiating document
March 15, 2025The captain of a container ship that crashed into a U.S. tanker earlier this week off Britain's east coast appeared in an English court on Saturday charged with gross negligence
March 15, 2025The Russian captain of a cargo ship that collided with a U.S. tanker earlier this week appeared in a U.K. court where he was remanded in custody over the death of a crew member, who is missing and presumed dead
March 15, 2025Italian unions are mobilising against possible job cuts for local staff
March 14, 2025U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has told global leaders to “keep the pressure” on Russian President Vladimir Putin to back a ceasefire in Ukraine
March 15, 2025London's West End theatres are enjoying record ticket sales and drawing millions of pounds of investment as a pandemic-era tax break that will become
March 15, 2025It's been two years since we last heard from Ted Lasso but the show is officially set to return for a fourth season
March 14, 2025Global ratings agency Moody's upgraded Greece's rating to "Baa3" from "Ba1" on Friday, citing quicker-than-expected improvement in public finances and the country's greater resilience to
March 14, 2025Fitch Ratings has affirmed Poland's long-term foreign-currency issuer default rating (IDR) at 'A-' with a stable outlook, the agency said late on Friday.
March 14, 2025Putin calls on Ukrainian troops in Kursk to surrender, as Zelensky asks US to put pressure on Russia
March 14, 2025A Russian missile struck a residential area in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih on Friday, injuring 11 people, including two children, the regional governor said.
March 14, 2025Swedish fintech company Klarna on Friday reported a 24% surge in 2024 revenue, as the buy now, pay later pioneer made public its paperwork for a long-
March 14, 2025Tens of thousands of people have swarmed the streets in Serbia’s capital Belgrade
March 14, 2025All five parties in Greenland’s parliament have issued a joint statement on Friday rejecting President Donald Trump’s latest effort to take control of the strategic Arctic island
March 14, 2025Portugal could replace its ageing American-made F-16 fighter jets with European jets rather than F-35s following U.S.
March 14, 2025British police said on Friday that they have charged the Russian captain of a container ship that crashed into a U.S. tanker earlier this week.
March 14, 2025German carmaker BMW said on Friday it expected tariffs to cost it 1 billion euros ($1.09 billion) this year, while
March 14, 2025Greenland's political parties must set aside disagreements and swiftly form a broad coalition government to show unity in the face of a U.S. campaign to annex the island, the
March 14, 2025British police said on Friday they have charged the Russian captain of a container ship that crashed into a U.S. tanker earlier this week with manslaughter and gross negligence.
March 14, 2025Thousands of protesters, mainly students, descended on Serbia's capital on Friday ahead of a planned weekend of massive anti-government rallies, many
March 14, 2025French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday that Russia must accept a proposed 30-day ceasefire deal put forward by the United States and Ukraine.
March 14, 2025British police said the Russian captain of a cargo ship that collided with a U.S. tanker has been charged over the death of a crew member, who is missing and presumed dead
March 14, 2025Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says Russian President Vladimir Putin met with U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff to discuss details of the American proposal for a 30-day ceasefire in the war with Ukraine
March 14, 2025Kering lost around $3 billion in stockmarket value on Friday after the group chose in-house talent Demna to reinvigorate its Gucci label
March 14, 2025Thyssenkrupp is moving ahead with a planned spin-off of a minority stake in its warship division, the group said on Friday, adding the newly created holding would be listed on
March 14, 2025Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday that Ukrainian troops remaining in the Kursk region of Russia will be ruthlessly destroyed if they continue to fight.
March 14, 2025A London court hearing, reported to be Apple's appeal against a British government order to create a "back door" to its encrypted cloud storage systems, was held
March 14, 2025Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday that he saw a good chance to end the war with Russia after Ukraine accepted a U.S. proposal for a 30-day interim ceasefire and
March 14, 2025Investors seeking shelter from political and economic volatility triggered by the new U.S. administration are increasingly moving into gold Exchange-Traded Funds,
March 14, 2025Russia will spare the lives of Ukrainian soldiers in its western Kursk region if Kyiv tells them to surrender, President Vladimir Putin said on Friday
March 14, 2025The euro rose on Friday after German parties agreed on a fiscal deal that could boost defence spending and revive growth in Europe's largest
March 14, 2025U.S.
March 14, 2025Top diplomats from the Group of 7 industrialized democracies are jointly expressing support for Ukraine and a U.S. ceasefire proposal in the three-year-old war
March 14, 2025Jailed former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has appeared by videoconference before judges at the International Criminal Court
March 14, 2025European stocks rallied on Friday, with German equities leading gains after the country's political parties agreed a historic deal to ramp up state
March 14, 2025British stocks closed higher on Friday, driven by gains in defence and mining shares, ending a choppy week filled with uncertainty around U.S. tariffs.
March 14, 2025The European Union and the United States have a lot of work to do before they can ease trade tensions, EU trade chief Maros Sefcovic said on Friday after talks with his American
March 14, 2025Two British diplomats expelled in a spying row. A blistering statement from Russia's foreign intelligence service calling Britain "a warmonger."
March 14, 2025Russia accused Norway of militarising the Svalbard archipelago, a claim Norway denied in a comment to news agency NTB after Russia on Friday had summoned the Norwegian ambassador
March 14, 2025CNN Poll: Most Americans disapprove of Trump’s approach to Ukraine war, doubt it will yield peace
March 14, 2025European Union authorities are considering an accounting change that would increase Italy's towering public debt, two sources with knowledge of the matter told
March 14, 2025Germany's constitutional court threw out several challenges by opposition parties against a plan by the prospective coalition government to push a massive public spending initiative
March 14, 2025Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Olha Stefanishyna said on Friday that the United States was still deciding on the terms required to sign the minerals deal with Kyiv.
March 14, 2025By Stephanie van den Berg and Anthony Deutsch THE HAGUE -Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was "abducted" before being taken to The Hague to face murder allegations and is too ill to give
March 14, 2025German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz said on Friday he had secured the crucial backing of the Greens for a massive increase in
March 14, 2025Museums and auction houses should not hold human remains, UK lawmakers say
March 14, 2025A groundbreaking climate lawsuit is heading to trial in Germany next week, with Peruvian farmer Saúl Luciano Lliuya challenging German energy giant RWE
March 14, 2025Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has briefed Russian President Vladimir Putin on a finalised draft peace agreement wirh Azerbaijan in a phone call, the Armenian government said on
March 14, 2025The trial for historical sex offences of Jeffrey Donaldson, the former leader of Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), and his wife Eleanor has been delayed by at
March 14, 2025Former Philippines leader Duterte appears in Hague courtroom via video link on ‘war on drugs’ charges
March 14, 2025Global equity funds saw weaker demand in the week through March 12, amid a global stock sell-off driven by concerns over U.S. tariffs and its escalating trade wars.
March 14, 2025The European Parliament says he lobbyists working for Huawei have been suspended from entering its premises following the arrests of several people in a corruption probe linked to the European Parliament and the Chinese company
March 14, 2025Germany's conservative leader and would-be next chancellor Friedrich Merz has agreed what amounts to a fiscal policy sea-change with support from the Social
March 07, 2025Russian air defences repelled an attack by four drones flying towards Moscow, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said on Friday, with no injuries reported in the capital or in an earlier attack
March 14, 2025Luxury fashion group Prada's CEO Andrea Guerra has flown to New York, a source close to the matter told Reuters, as the group is in talks to buy Capri Holdings-owned Versace in a
March 14, 2025Canada has requested WTO dispute consultations with the U.S. over its imposition of import duties on certain steel and aluminium products from Canada, the trade body said on Thursday
March 13, 2025A Russian man was jailed for life by a Finnish court on Friday for war crimes committed in 2014 in eastern Ukraine, where his paramilitary group was found to have killed an injured
March 14, 2025Raw coffee price shocks take about a year to feed through to consumers while the residual impact lasts at least four years, according to a report published on Friday by
March 14, 2025What matters in U.S. and global markets today By Mike Dolan, Editor-At-Large, Financial Industry and Financial Markets It's Friday, so today I'll provide a quick overview of what's happening in global
March 14, 2025European Central Bank policymaker Robert Holzmann backs keeping interest rates unchanged next month as higher trade tariffs and more government spending raise the risk of a new
March 14, 2025The European Union is expected to sanction nine individuals in connection with violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, two EU diplomats said on Friday.
March 14, 2025Kyiv has begun examining how to monitor any ceasefire along the frontline of its war with Russia, which runs for over 1,300 km (800 miles), Ukraine's foreign minister said on Friday,
March 14, 2025The Swiss government said on Friday Martin Pfister will be the country's new defence minister when Viola Amherd steps down at the end of the month.
March 14, 2025Britain's government wants to tame its ballooning bill for supporting people with disabilities and long-term health conditions which, despite the cost, leaves many
March 14, 2025An agreement has been reached on plans by German chancellor hopeful Friedrich Merz to massively ramp up public borrowing, a source from the Greens party said on Friday, adding: "We
March 14, 2025The United States has reached out to Denmark and other European nations asking if they can export eggs as Americans face surging egg prices, the Nordic country's egg association
March 14, 2025German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz reached an agreement with the Greens on Friday on a massive increase in state borrowing just days ahead of a parliamentary vote next week
March 14, 2025G7 nations emphasised on Friday the need for robust "security arrangements" to ensure a ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia, warning Moscow to follow Kyiv in agreeing a
March 14, 2025European stock markets rallied on Friday as news of an agreement between German political parties on a historic debt deal added
March 14, 2025Liberty Global has approached Britain's Vodafone over a possible acquisition of its stake in their Dutch joint venture VodafoneZiggo, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people
March 14, 2025The British public's expectations for inflation in the long run rose in February to their highest level in more than five years, according to a Bank of England survey on Friday that is
March 14, 2025The European Union agreed on Friday to renew sanctions on Russian individuals and entities but kept Russian tycoon Mikhail Fridman on the list
March 14, 2025United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres is hosting talks next week in Geneva to discuss the future of Cyprus, with Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders, and representatives
March 14, 2025Germany's planned 500-billion-euro infrastructure fund could raise economic output by an average of more than two percentage points per year over the next 10 years
March 14, 2025BMW said newly imposed trade tariffs could dent the carmaker's earnings by 1 billion euros ($1.09 billion) this year, as escalating trade tensions between China
March 14, 2025The European Central Bank has given UniCredit the green light to buy up to 29.9% of Commerzbank, the Italian bank said, adding it would likely wait until
March 14, 2025Putin lays out sweeping questions and tough demands about 30-day ceasefire proposal
March 13, 2025How not to end a war: 3 lessons from the last time Ukraine and Russia agreed a ceasefire deal
March 14, 2025The British economy unexpectedly shrank during January, piling pressure on Treasury chief Rachel Reeves before a key statement about the state of the public finances later this month
March 14, 2025Stellantis and Iveco said on Friday they have agreed for the automaker to supply the Italian truckmaker two fully-electric (EV) van models, helping Iveco further expand its EV van
March 14, 2025Britain's economy unexpectedly contracted in January, extending a run of stop-start data that has dogged finance minister Rachel Reeves' attempts to
March 14, 2025He made Ikea bags chic and sold ‘destroyed’ sneakers. Now, he’s the designer of Gucci
March 13, 2025European region sees highest number of measles cases in 25 years, WHO says
March 14, 2025Donald Trump's second presidency is having a dramatic impact on currencies around the world, though not in the way investors anticipated just a few months ago.
March 14, 2025Investors pulled $2.8 billion from stock funds in the week to Wednesday in the biggest weekly outflow this year, Bank of America said on Friday, in a sign of a souring of the mood
March 14, 2025Spain's European Union-harmonised 12-month inflation rate remained unchanged at 2.9% in February from the period through January, final data released by the National Statistics Institute,
March 14, 2025The European Central Bank has given UniCredit approval to buy up to 29.9% of Commerzbank, the Italian bank said on Friday, adding it would likely
March 14, 2025President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia supported a U.S. proposal for a ceasefire in Ukraine in principle,
March 13, 2025The European Union should be prepared to go as far as doubling its military aid to Ukraine this year to 40 billion euros ($43 billion) if necessary,
March 14, 2025German inflation unexpectedly fell in February, the statistics office said on Friday, pointing to a downward revision of euro zone figures that would back further
March 14, 2025Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday that Russia's Vladimir Putin is preparing a rejection of a ceasefire proposal, but is scared to say this directly to U.S.
March 13, 2025President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday that Ukraine saw Turkey as a partner in security guarantees for his country, and added that Kyiv was ready to ratify a free trade
March 14, 2025A full-scale global trade war would hurt the United States in particular and could re-energise Europe's push towards unity, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said
March 14, 2025By Georgi Slavov SOFIA (Rtrs) -Sixteen Bulgarian lawmakers lost their seats on Thursday after the Constitutional Court found they were wrongly elected during a partial recount of the October election.
March 13, 2025President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia agreed with U.S. proposals for a ceasefire in Ukraine but that any ceasefire would have to deal with the root causes of the
March 13, 2025A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Rae Wee.
March 14, 2025Volkswagen is working on back-up plans for how its passenger car brand could tackle U.S. tariffs on imports from Mexico, while BMW is preparing to absorb the
March 13, 2025European asset managers are reconsidering their policies on investing in defence, under pressure from clients and some politicians to
March 13, 2025The Trump administration’s warning last month that Europe must now take care of security in its own backyard raises troubling questions
March 14, 2025Pope Francis marked the 12th anniversary of his pontificate in the hospital as he received increasingly positive medical news on his recovery and hundreds of messages wishing him well
March 13, 2025Greenland’s prime minister summons party leaders after Trump doubles down on annexation
March 13, 2025The southern Italian city of Naples was struck by a 4.4-magnitude quake early Thursday that caused only minor damage
March 13, 2025The U.S. is suddenly looking less bubbly for European wines
March 13, 2025U.S. Vice Presiednt JD Vance said on Thursday he would be shocked if President Donald Trump wanted nuclear weapons extending further east into Europe.
March 13, 2025Russian officials have communicated to their counterparts in the United States that they do not want Russia-Ukraine envoy Keith Kellogg involved in top-level
March 13, 2025Measles cases in the European region doubled in 2024 to a more than 25-year-high, the World Health Organisation and UNICEF said on Thursday, as they urged action to restore
March 13, 2025Diplomats from the G7 nations were set to negotiate late into the night over a joint statement to show a united front in Canada on
March 13, 2025The world’s greatest places of 2025, according to TIME
March 13, 2025Donatella Versace has been replaced as creative director of the fashion house founded by her late brother Gianni Versace
March 13, 2025Belgian federal prosecutors say they've arrested several people as part of a corruption probe linked to the European Parliament and Huawei
March 13, 2025British officials held private talks with their U.S. counterparts to resolve concerns that UK is trying to force Apple to build a backdoor into Americans' encrypted data, Bloomberg News
March 13, 2025U.S.
March 13, 2025Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer has relented rather than risk a government shutdown
March 13, 2025Top diplomats from Group of 7 have held a first day of talks in Canada as U.S. President Donald Trump's trade and foreign policies have thrown the bloc's once solid unity into disarray
March 13, 2025The arrest of former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has given a timely boost to the International Criminal Court, which is facing U.S. sanctions
March 13, 2025Below are some of the sizable financial market moves prompted by the actions of U.S.
March 13, 2025Gucci has announced that the Balenciaga artistic director Demna, who goes by one name, will take over the creative direction of the Italian luxury fashion house starting in July
March 13, 2025Armenia and Azerbaijan agree to peace treaty after nearly four decades of war
March 13, 2025Germany's constitutional court on Thursday dismissed a complaint by the leftist Sarah Wagenknecht Alliance seeking to legally challenge the results of the national election due to
March 13, 2025Ukraine will not agree to a frozen conflict with Russia, the Ukrainian president's chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, said on Thursday after Kyiv and Washington jointly proposed a 30-day
March 13, 2025French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday that the agreement of peace treaty terms between Armenia and Azerbaijan should open the way for a lasting peace deal in the region.
March 13, 2025Italian luxury brand Gucci has appointed Georgian designer Demna as its artistic director, owner Kering said on Thursday, as it tries to revitalise
March 13, 2025British police said on Thursday they had widened an investigation into manslaughter at the hospital where nurse Lucy Letby, who was convicted of killing seven babies, had worked.
March 13, 2025Polish central bank Governor Adam Glapinski said on Thursday there were no reasons for cutting interest rates at the moment due to the outlook for inflation and he did not think
March 13, 2025Former Philippines leader Rodrigo Duterte will make his first appearance at the International Criminal Court on Friday at 1300 GMT, the court said on Thursday.
March 13, 2025Russian President Vladimir Putin said he agrees in principle with a U.S. proposal for a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine
March 13, 2025President Donald Trump is threatening a 200% tariff on European wine, Champagne and spirits if the European Union goes forward with a planned tariff on American whiskey
March 13, 2025A lawyer has argued in a London Court that global mining giant BHP should be held liable for Brazil’s worst environmental disaster 10 years ago when a dam collapse released toxic mining waste that killed 19 people and devastated villages
March 13, 2025A Ukrainian government official said on Thursday that Kyiv understood it could not recapture all its occupied territory through military force from Russian troops right now and that
March 13, 2025One of Spain's top courts on Thursday backed a plan by Barcelona to ban holiday apartment rentals by 2028, rejecting an appeal that argued the measure infringed on the rights of
March 13, 2025President Donald Trump's administration is inflicting more damage on the U.S. economy with its policies than on the rest of the world, France's central bank head said on Thursday.
March 13, 2025U.S. importers, distributors and retailers selling French champagne and Italian wines told Reuters that U.S.
March 13, 2025Belgian prosecutors said on Thursday they had detained several individuals over suspected bribery in the European Parliament allegedly for the benefit of China's Huawei.
March 13, 2025An Allianz-led consortium is close to winning a bid for Germany's largest life insurance administrator Viridium, being sold by financial investor Cinven in a 3.5
March 13, 2025NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte is praising President Donald Trump for motivating fellow transatlantic alliance members to step up defense spending and getting Russia to the negotiating table for talks about its grinding war against Ukraine
March 13, 2025U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that his special envoy Steve Witkoff is in serious discussions with Russia about ending the war in Ukraine.
March 13, 2025A party that favors a gradual path to Greenland’s independence from Denmark has won a surprise victory in parliamentary elections
March 12, 2025Armenia and Azerbaijan were locked in conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh for nearly four decades after the Soviet Union they were both members of collapsed.
March 13, 2025The former head of Airbus has urged Europe to shift attention for now from major arms projects to nimble new technologies like robotic drones to demonstrate to Moscow
March 13, 2025Anglo American has begun a consultation process in the United Kingdom and South Africa to cut jobs, amid a broader restructuring aimed at refocusing its operations on copper and iron ore
March 13, 2025Bosnia's Serb Republic on Thursday pushed ahead with separatist reforms in violation of the country's constitution, and its pro-Russian leader Milorad Dodik publicly goaded state
March 13, 2025TikTok users in Albania are experiencing difficulties accessing the popular short video app after a one-year government ban took effect on Thursday, prompted by concerns that social
March 13, 2025Donatella Versace is to step down as the main designer for the Versace brand after almost three decades, a move that has fanned talk of a sale of
March 13, 2025British stocks ended mixed on Thursday, with the benchmark index flat amid U.S. tariff concerns, while downbeat corporate results further dragged down the midcap index.
March 13, 2025Italian luxury group Brunello Cucinelli on Thursday said its operating profit had risen 12.9% last year and confirmed its expectations of sales growth of around 10% in 2025 and 2026.
March 13, 2025President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia had trapped the remaining Ukrainian soldiers in its western Kursk region, where they
March 13, 2025There were 127,350 reported cases of measles, including 38 deaths, in Europe and Central Asia last year, marking the highest total in nearly 30 years, according to figures from UNICEF and the World Health Organization
March 13, 2025European Union leaders have announced a 4.7 billion euro, or about $5.1 billion, investment package in South Africa to support green energy transition and vaccine production
March 13, 2025Trump threatens 200% tariff on European alcohol as trade war escalates
March 13, 2025Greece has pledged that a major underwater electricity cable project connecting Greece with Cyprus and Israel by the end of the decade will overcome a series of setbacks and move forward as scheduled
March 13, 2025Armenia and Azerbaijan will not deploy third-country forces along their border after the two sides sign a peace agreement, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said on Thursday.
March 13, 2025Donatella Versace, who helped to ensure the survival of the family fashion empire after the killing of her brother Gianni almost three decades ago, is
March 13, 2025Italy's biggest insurer Generali reported on Thursday a record profit for 2024, ahead of a key shareholder vote next month on the reappointment of CEO Philippe
March 13, 2025Armenian and Azerbaijani officials said on Thursday that they had agreed the text of a peace agreement to end nearly four decades of conflict
March 13, 2025Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz urged sceptical lawmakers on Thursday to back his proposals for a massive increase in state
March 13, 2025When the CEO of Russian state gas giant Gazprom, Alexei Miller, opened a lavish Italian palazzo-styled building in central St Petersburg to house the company's export arm 11 years ago, he
March 13, 2025Naples residents camp out after 4.4 magnitude earthquake hits amid weeks of seismic activity
March 13, 2025UEFA says it will look into the possibility of reviewing the double touch rule that helped lead to Atletico Madrid’s loss in a penalty shootout against Real Madrid in the Champions League
March 13, 2025OPEC+ has exported a record amount of refined products, blunting the impact of the group's crude output curbs, as members including Saudi Arabia, seek to boost
March 13, 2025With tears in their eyes, mothers of children who died in Brazil's worst environmental disaster - the 2015 Mariana dam collapse - demanded
March 13, 2025Spanish Energy Minister Sara Aagesen said on Thursday she did not see any risk in Europe's growing reliance on liquefied natural gas from the United States amid threats by President
March 13, 2025The Swiss upper house of parliament on Thursday backed a motion to intensify border controls in order to reduce illegal immigration and contain cross-border crime.
March 13, 2025The European Commission will invite EU countries to swiftly agree on their most pressing defence needs with a view to launching "large-scale pan-European flagship
March 13, 2025Three more ski jumpers have been suspended in a cheating scandal
March 13, 2025European Union leaders announced a 4.7 billion euro ($5.10 billion) investment package during a visit to South Africa on Thursday, at a time when both are on
March 13, 2025Italian ski star Federica Brignone has closed the gap to leader Lara Gut-Behrami in the World Cup super-G standings to 45 points
March 13, 2025How to see the moon turn red during March’s total lunar eclipse
March 13, 2025Each episode of new four-part Netflix drama “Adolescence” was filmed in a single continuous shot
March 13, 2025‘Valencia has helped us heal’: This woman left the US for Spain with her teenage son after a heartbreaking family tragedy
March 13, 2025Donatella Versace steps down as chief creative officer after 28 years
March 13, 2025Sweden will give more than 1.4 billion Swedish crowns ($137.7 million) to Ukraine to help with reconstruction and development, as well as urgent humanitarian needs, Sweden's
March 13, 2025Poland's president has called on the U.S. to transfer nuclear weapons to its territory as a deterrent against future Russian aggression, the Financial Times reported on Thursday.
March 13, 2025UBS is considering selling part of its asset management division that is largely focused on real estate investments, two people with knowledge
March 13, 2025A senior Greens legislator said there would still be a sufficient, albeit different, majority to reform Germany's debt brake once the newly elected parliament had been seated, in an
March 13, 2025The aftermath of a tanker crash off the English coast earlier this week is "reasonably contained," British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Thursday as fears of
March 13, 2025An earthquake of magnitude 4.4 hit near the southern Italian city of Naples early on Thursday, damaging buildings and causing locals to flee into the streets.
March 13, 2025Volkswagen is working on back-up plans for how its passenger car brand could tackle U.S. tariffs on imports from Mexico, while BMW is preparing to absorb the
March 13, 2025Ukraine’s consent to a 30-day ceasefire proposal has handed the Kremlin a difficult challenge at a time when its military has an upper hand in the war
March 12, 2025Ukraine loses grip on key Russian territory, as Trump says peace ‘is up to Russia now’
March 13, 2025Ireland’s Mallinckrodt will buy U.S. drugmaker Endo in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $6.7 billion
March 13, 2025Finland and Ukraine have signed a bilateral defence cooperation agreement, Finland's defence ministry said on Thursday.
March 13, 2025Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will announce a cabinet reshuffle in the coming days, five government officials told Reuters on Thursday, as he seeks to shore up support
March 13, 2025Euro zone industrial production grew faster than forecast in January, driven by a quick expansion in Germany, which erases some but not all earlier losses, data from Eurostat
March 13, 2025Olli Rehn, an ECB policymaker, said that the U.S. administration must be encouraged to avoid leveraging "unnecessary and very harmful" tariffs on Europe through a negotiations
March 13, 2025French antitrust authority said on Thursday it had approved the acquisition by Carrefour of the French business of Belgian retailer Louis Delhaize on the condition that eight stores
March 13, 2025(Corrects to read 'largely' not 'large' in paragraph 2) ATHENS -Greece's former parliament speaker Constantine Tassoulas, a lawyer and lawmaker of the centre-right ruling party, was sworn in as the
March 13, 2025Shares in European truck makers fell on Thursday after the U.S.
March 13, 2025Pope Francis will on Thursday mark the 12th anniversary of his election as leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics, but he will do so from Rome's Gemelli
March 12, 2025Ukrainian and Polish officials say U.S. arms deliveries to Ukraine have resumed
March 12, 2025The plane of U.S.
March 13, 2025Bernard Arnault, 76, could remain at the helm of the world's largest luxury group LVMH until he's 85 if shareholders back a company proposal at its annual shareholder meeting on
March 13, 2025Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Russia was ready to talk to the United States about a peace initiative discussed between the U.S. and Ukraine, and contacts
March 13, 2025Hugo Boss warned on Thursday of a further weakening in consumer confidence in the United States and China, sending its shares down as much as 5%, as the
March 13, 2025Pope Francis remains stable in hospital and a recent chest scan confirmed improvements in his condition, the Vatican said on Wednesday, in a further sign of
March 12, 2025Rheinmetall, Europe's biggest ammunition maker, has overtaken the continent's top carmaker Volkswagen in terms of market value, in the latest sign of soaring
March 13, 2025Deutsche Bank on Thursday labelled the auto sector as a key risk, a bleak warning from Germany's largest lender as the nation lines up big
March 13, 2025Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will pay an official visit to Hungary in the next few weeks, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's chief of staff said on Thursday, in
March 13, 2025On a Saturday morning in May, 2020, Italian police officers caught two men pouring chemical waste into the sewers in the southern port
March 13, 2025Look of the Week: Tyla brings the Chanel skirt suit back to its ’90s heyday
March 13, 2025Russia has presented the U.S. with a list of demands for a deal to end its war against Ukraine and reset relations with Washington,
March 12, 2025France's European Affairs Minister, Benjamin Haddad, said on Wednesday the European Union could go further in its response to U.S. tariffs, though a trade war was in no-one's interest
March 12, 2025Putin makes surprise visit to Kursk as Trump says peace is ‘up to Russia now’
March 13, 2025Former Barclays boss Jes Staley had sex with a member of serial paedophile Jeffrey Epstein's staff, the banker told a court on the third day of his evidence as he
March 12, 2025The Kremlin on Thursday declined to comment on a Reuters report that Russia had presented the U.S. with a list of its demands to end the war in Ukraine and reset relations with
March 13, 2025Europe was right to respond to U.S. tariffs but a trade war is a negative for all sides involved and could push Germany, the bloc's biggest economy, into recession this year,
March 13, 2025Germany's IfW economic institute raised its 2026 growth estimate for Europe's largest economy on Thursday, anticipating tailwinds from a public spending boost that conservative
March 13, 2025President Vladimir Putin donned military fatigues for a surprise visit to troops in Russia's western Kursk region on Wednesday where he ordered them to
March 12, 2025The Education Department’s civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration’s layoffs
March 12, 2025Poland’s President Andrzej Duda has again called on the United States to deploy nuclear weapons to Poland as a deterrent to Russia
March 13, 2025BNP Paribas BP, the Polish unit of lender BNP Paribas, posted a higher-than-expected jump in its full-year net profit on Thursday, supported by excess banking sector liquidity and
March 13, 2025Russian troops are close to ejecting Ukrainian forces from their foothold in Russia's Kursk region, where they grabbed a chunk of land last August and have held on to it
March 12, 2025A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Kevin Buckland Wall Street's mild bounce on the back of a tame CPI reading did not provide much impetus for Asian markets, leaving European
March 13, 2025Turkey has emerged as a key potential partner in restructuring European security, diplomats and analysts say, as Europe scrambles to bolster its defence and find
March 13, 2025French lawmakers have agreed unanimously to change the way they vote, opting to eliminate a balloting method that discriminated against a parliamentarian who uses a wheelchair because it required him to stand
March 12, 2025Pope Francis’ recovery from double pneumonia continues
March 12, 2025The International Criminal Court has taken custody of former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on a warrant accusing him of crimes against humanity for anti-drugs crackdowns he oversaw while in office
March 12, 2025President Donald Trump is hosting Ireland's prime minister, Micheál Martin, for the annual St. Patrick's Day celebration at the White House
March 12, 2025Britain's housing market had its slowest month in more than a year in February as a rush by buyers to close deals ahead of the expiry of a tax break ran out of steam, a survey
March 12, 2025Britain should not redefine terrorism in the wake of last summer's murders at a Taylor Swift-themed dance event but the government should consider a new law to
March 12, 2025The Kremlin said on Wednesday it would review details from Washington about a proposal for a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine before responding,
March 12, 2025The captain of a cargo ship that collided with a U.S. tanker is a Russian national who remains in U.K. police custody
March 12, 2025The International Criminal Court has had former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte arrested on a warrant containing charges of murder as a crime against humanity over deadly anti-drugs crackdowns he oversaw while in office
March 12, 2025U.S.
March 12, 2025Real Madrid beat Atletico Madrid in a Champions League penalty shootout — again — to keep its title defense alive Wednesday and advance to the quarterfinals
March 12, 2025Dakota Fanning, Jessica Alba and more: See what the stars wore at Paris Fashion Week
March 07, 2025The new Austrian government says it has decided to immediately stop family reunion procedures for migrants because the country is no longer able to absorb newcomers adequately
March 12, 2025Finland will definitely be part of any "coalition of the willing" that could help support Ukraine's security, Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen told Britain's Times Radio on Wednesday
March 12, 2025Ukraine's top army commander said on Wednesday that Kyiv's troops will keep operating in Russia's Kursk region as long as needed and that fighting continued in and around the town of
March 12, 2025Germany has regained its status as free of foot-and-mouth disease in most areas of the country, opening the way for the lifting of export restrictions on meat and dairy products,
March 12, 2025Britain warned on Wednesday that it would trigger a return of U.N. sanctions on Iran, if needed, to prevent it from getting a nuclear weapon as the
March 12, 2025Ireland announced on Wednesday a donation of 15 million euros ($16.3 million) to Brazil's Amazon Fund, the Brazilian government said.
March 12, 2025German automaker BMW is telling dealers in the U.S. it will absorb the added cost of new tariffs on its imports from Mexico, at least for the next several weeks, a spokesperson for the
March 12, 2025President Vladimir Putin has visited the western Russian region of Kursk for the first time since Ukrainian forces seized some territory in the region.
March 12, 2025France's economy will slow more this year and next than previously expected as trade tensions hit demand for French exports, the central bank said on Wednesday in its quarterly
March 12, 2025A crash between a fuel tanker and a container ship off the English coast should be subject to a transparent and internationally coordinated investigation, a global seafarers' union
March 12, 2025Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was taken into custody by the International Criminal Court on Wednesday following his
March 12, 2025Global stocks rose on Wednesday with U.S. Treasury yields as relief over cooler U.S. inflation in February was countered by uncertainty around U.S.
March 12, 2025By agreeing to Washington's ceasefire proposal, Ukraine achieved some major short-term objectives, not least salvaging a tattered relationship
March 12, 2025European Union tariffs on U.S. grains, as part of the bloc's riposte to Washington's levies on steel and aluminium, would hurt a European livestock sector reliant on imports for
March 12, 2025Britain's poorest households are worse off than those in Slovenia and Malta after nearly two decades of stagnation in UK living standards, a think tank said, underscoring finance
March 12, 2025Frederic Arnault, one of the five children of LVMH chairman and CEO Bernard Arnault, will become chief executive of the group's high-end Italian
March 12, 2025A consortium consisting of Warburg Pincus and KKR is in talks to acquire German packaging and medical equipment maker Gerresheimer AG, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people
March 12, 2025Makers of goods from sportswear to luxury cars and chemicals painted a gloomy picture on Wednesday of consumer and industrial health, hitting
March 12, 2025Europe needs a much more unified approach regarding the procurement of military equipment, German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said on Wednesday, adding that
March 12, 2025At Paris Fashion Week, designers were all about ‘office glam’
March 12, 2025Scientists have unearthed in Spain fossilized facial bones roughly 1.1 million to 1.4 million years old that may represent a previously unknown species in the human
March 12, 2025Italy intends to use its right to intervene on UniCredit's bid for Banco BPM in a reasonable manner, Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti said on Wednesday,
March 12, 2025Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin on Wednesday said aid needed to be surged into Gaza while also calling for a ceasefire and the release of all remaining hostages as he
March 12, 2025U.S.
March 12, 2025Most of the jet fuel onboard the U.S.-flagged tanker Stena Immaculate that was hit by a container ship in a collision off Britain's coast remains contained and only
March 12, 2025Europe's spirits and cosmetics industries hit back at the European Commission's plan to slap tariffs on U.S.-made goods on Wednesday, saying
March 12, 2025Britain revoked the accreditation of a Russian diplomat on Wednesday in response to Russia's expulsion of two British diplomats this week and it accused Russia of trying to force its
March 12, 2025Ukraine has accepted a 30-day ceasefire proposed by the United States, following critical peace talks between US and Ukrainian officials in Saudi Arabia. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio now says the proposal will head to Russia where the US hopes the Kremlin will agree to it.
March 11, 2025US spirits industry warns of ‘debilitating’ retaliatory whiskey tariffs from Europe
March 12, 2025Restrictions on Poland's access to the U.S.-designed AI chips may be lifted by the Trump administration, Polish deputy digital minister Dariusz Standerski said on Wednesday.
March 12, 2025The bankruptcy of battery cell maker Northvolt, once the leader of Sweden's green industrial boom, is a huge blow to the country's north and particularly the small town of
March 12, 2025U.S.
March 12, 2025Italian luxury sneaker maker Golden Goose reported a 13% increase in net revenues last year to 655 million euros ($715 million), helped by 24 new store openings.
March 12, 2025Ukraine's foreign minister said on Wednesday that Russia's missile strike on the Black Sea port of Odesa, which damaged a grain vessel and killed four people, was an attack on global food
March 12, 2025Portuguese voters are becoming increasingly frustrated with the country's political elites as another snap election looms - without any signs
March 12, 2025Canada's Barrick Gold must pay British dealmaker Ian Hannam's firm $2 million plus expenses for his work on the acquisition of gold miner Randgold Resources, London's High Court
March 12, 2025French government plans to increase defence spending must be designed in a way that does not push strained public finances off course, Finance Minister Eric Lombard said on Wednesday
March 12, 2025A Russian military court fined veteran war correspondent Nadezhda Kevorkova 600,000 roubles ($6,900) on Wednesday after finding her guilty of "justifying terrorism".
March 12, 2025Zara owner Inditex on Wednesday reported a slower start to its first quarter starting February 1,
March 12, 2025Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said he urged Turkey to play a key role in any peace process for Ukraine during talks with President Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara on Wednesday.
March 12, 2025Fears of an environmental disaster eased on Wednesday, two days after a container ship ploughed into a stationary U.S. fuel tanker off northeast
March 12, 2025British shares rebounded on Wednesday after logging recent declines as investors focused on positive developments in the Ukraine-Russia conflict, while assessing corporate earnings.
March 12, 2025European shares bounced back on Wednesday following four sessions of declines on optimism around positive developments in the Ukraine-Russia conflict,
March 12, 2025Cave discovery reveals previously unknown prehistoric human population in Europe
March 12, 2025Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin faces a diplomatic balancing act during talks with Donald Trump on Wednesday, with Ireland among the countries most vulnerable
March 11, 2025Discovery of ritual bath sheds light on Jewish life in ancient Rome
March 12, 2025Two Norwegian ski jumpers are now suspended and under formal suspicion in an unfolding cheating scandal
March 12, 2025Germany's foreign intelligence service in 2020 put at 80%-90% the likelihood that the coronavirus behind the COVID-19 pandemic was accidentally released from China's Wuhan
March 12, 2025The leader of a Turkish nationalist party has said he was arrested and detained on political grounds as part of an opposition crackdown that contradicts the
March 12, 2025Philippine ex-President Duterte, who faces murder charges at the International Criminal Court over his war on drugs, will be taken
March 12, 2025Volkswagen's factory in Osnabrueck would be a good fit for a conversion to military production, the CEO of Rheinmetall said on Wednesday, as the German carmaker
March 12, 2025Britain's antitrust regulator said its inquiry group had found the mobile browser market, dominated by Apple and Google, was not working well for consumers and
March 12, 2025Scientists report that a fossil of a partial face from a early human ancestor in Spain is between 1.1 and 1.4 million years old
March 12, 2025Greenland's pro-business opposition Demokraatit party won Tuesday's parliamentary election, which was dominated by debates over self-rule and U.S.
March 10, 2025Battery cell maker Northvolt has filed for bankruptcy in Sweden, the company said on Wednesday, marking one of the country's largest corporate failures and
March 12, 2025Truckmaker Scania is willing to go ahead with purchasing the only profitable business of bankrupt battery maker Northvolt for $6 million, it
March 12, 2025Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday hailed a meeting between the U.S. and Ukraine this week aimed at ending Russia's invasion and said a proposed ceasefire could be
March 12, 2025President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he hopes Russia will agree to a ceasefire plan drawn up by American and Ukrainian officials and that there will be a U.S. meeting with
March 11, 2025U.S.
March 12, 2025Ukraine may import large volumes of U.S. gas this year via terminals in Germany, Greece, Lithuania and Poland, its state gas operator said, as Kyiv struggles with the
March 12, 2025Ukrainian troops sprang one of the biggest surprises of the war by invading Russia's Kursk region last August, and Russia has taken more than seven months to eject them.
March 12, 2025Zara owner Inditex expects to keep growing in the U.S., CEO Oscar Garcia Maceiras said on Wednesday, despite signs that U.S. tariffs and
March 12, 2025Portugal is likely to face its third early parliamentary election in just over three years after the centre-right minority government lost a
March 06, 2025Former Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta joined the race for May's presidential election re-run on Wednesday as the hard right worked to
March 12, 2025Plans for Germany to unleash a massive increase in state borrowing faced new questions on Wednesday, with a co-leader of the Greens party non-
March 12, 2025Bosnian state prosecutors on Wednesday ordered the arrest of Serb separatist leader Milorad Dodik and his aides for ignoring a court summons, a move which
March 12, 2025French publishers and authors are taking Meta to court, accusing the social media company of using their works without permission to train its artificial intelligence model
March 12, 2025Ukraine agrees to proposal for ceasefire with Russia as US restores aid and intel sharing
March 11, 2025The Kremlin said on Wednesday that it needed to be briefed by the United States on the outcome of U.S.-Ukrainian talks in Saudi Arabia before commenting on whether
March 12, 2025A Russian missile attack on Tuesday damaged a grain vessel in the Black Sea port of Odesa, killing four people, Ukrainian authorities said.
March 12, 2025U.S. aircraft leasing firm Jackson Square Aviation has placed its first direct order with Airbus for 50 A320neo Family aircraft, it said in a statement on Wednesday.
March 12, 2025France's leading publishing and authors' associations have filed a lawsuit against U.S. tech giant Meta for allegedly using copyright-protected content on a massive scale without
March 12, 2025Prince William will travel to Estonia next week to visit British troops involved in NATO operations there as part of the UK's drive to show solidarity with its allies and highlight
March 12, 2025The new Austrian government ordered an immediate halt to family reunifications for asylum claimants on Wednesday as it seeks to address widespread
March 12, 2025Rheinmetall, a major beneficiary of Europe's renewed push to invest in defence, said on Wednesday it expects significant sales growth in 2025
March 12, 2025Roche has acquired rights to an obesity therapy by Denmark's Zealand Pharma in a collaboration deal worth up to $5.3 billion, as the Swiss drugmaker
March 12, 2025Puma on Wednesday announced job cuts and warned of uncertain U.S. consumer demand as the German sportswear group's shares slumped 23% in the wake of
March 12, 2025Paris has spoken and fashion’s final authority has laid down the law: This fall it’s all about power shoulders, enveloping outerwear and a color palette that runs the gamut from somber to surreal
March 11, 2025Here follows the full text of the joint U.S.-Ukrainian statement that was published after bilateral talks in Saudi Arabia's Jeddah on Tuesday: Today in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia – under
March 11, 2025Skiing great Ivica Kostelić rescued after becoming lost at sea while kayaking
March 12, 2025A vast undersea tunnel is being built that will change the road and rail map of Europe
March 12, 2025Greenland’s center-right opposition wins closely watched election dominated by Trump’s annexation threat
March 12, 2025Norway’s ski team suspends three staff members amid world championships cheating scandal
March 10, 2025Hungary's governing party has proposed constitutional changes that could mean a ban on an annual march celebrating the LGBTQ+ community and the expulsion of citizens with dual
March 12, 2025Syria's foreign minister Asaad al-Shibani is set to attend a donor summit for his country in Brussels on March 17, a European official told Reuters on Wednesday, the first time
March 12, 2025Puma will cut 500 jobs worldwide as part of its cost-reduction programme, its CFO said after the German sportswear group late on Tuesday issued disappointing
March 12, 2025Former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili, who has been imprisoned since 2021, was sentenced on Wednesday to nine more years in jail after being found guilty of
March 12, 2025Bosnian state prosecutors have ordered the arrest of Russian-backed Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik for ignoring a court summons, raising the stakes in a standoff that threatens
February 26, 2025Barcelona teenager Lamine Yamal, 17, scores stunning Champions League goal to make history
March 12, 2025Ukraine said it would support Washington's proposal for a 30-day ceasefire with Russia after what Kyiv said were 'milestone' talks during which the United States agreed to resume military
March 12, 2025Cargo ship captain arrested in North Sea collision with US-flagged tanker is Russian national, owner says
March 12, 2025The Ukrainian military said on Wednesday that Russia launched three missiles and 133 drones in an overnight attack. It said the air force shot down 98 drones.
March 12, 2025Switzerland's parliament on Wednesday elected Martin Pfister to be the new member of the country's federal council, or cabinet, replacing Viola Amherd, who is stepping down at the
March 12, 2025The euro zone economy is facing exceptional shocks from trade, defence and climate issues, possibly amplifying inflation volatility and raising the risk that price growth becomes
March 12, 2025Supplies of arms from the United States to Ukraine through Poland have resumed, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said on Wednesday.
March 12, 2025British police arrested the captain of a cargo ship on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter on Tuesday, a day after the vessel crashed into a tanker
March 11, 2025Fearing for their lives, Syrian men, women and children waded through a river to safety in Lebanon on Tuesday, among hundreds of people who have fled to
March 11, 2025Greenland's pro-business opposition Demokraatit party held a clear lead after most votes were counted in Tuesday's closely watched parliamentary election, in a vote
March 12, 2025The European Central Bank is launching a fresh strategy assessment seen covering some big questions on the way it works - from whether massive bond buys remain a good policy tool
March 12, 2025Russia's foreign intelligence chief, Sergei Naryshkin, held a phone call on Tuesday with the director of the U.S.
March 12, 2025By Philip Blenkinsop and Bart H.
March 12, 2025The United States agreed on Tuesday to resume military aid and intelligence sharing with Ukraine after Kyiv said it was ready to support
March 11, 2025A Russian missile attack on the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih killed a 47-year-old woman and wounded at least nine other people, Dnipropetrovsk regional governor Serhiy Lysak
March 12, 2025A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Ankur Banerjee The euro hit a five-month peak and European bourses were poised to open higher on Wednesday as progress towards a ceasefire
March 12, 2025Greenland's pro-business opposition Demokraatit party, which favours a slow approach to independence from Denmark, won Tuesday's
March 11, 2025Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said on Wednesday that he informed a number of European counterparts about the "milestone" talks with the United States where Kyiv said it was
March 12, 2025Pope Francis has participated remotely in the Vatican’s spiritual retreat after getting good news from his doctors
March 11, 2025Rosie O’Donnell reveals why she moved to Ireland: ‘It’s been pretty wonderful’
March 12, 2025China in February again led purchases of electric vehicles, which increased worldwide versus a year ago, even as European Union tariffs on China-made EVs reduced sales
March 11, 2025Stellantis-owned Maserati has cancelled plans for an electric version of its MC20 sports car because of expected poor demand, the struggling luxury carmaker said on Tuesday.
March 11, 2025Portugal's centre-right minority government collapsed on Tuesday after losing a vote of confidence, with the country now likely to head into its
March 11, 2025Critical minerals are in demand around the world for military, technology and other uses. A geoscientist shares what’s known about Ukraine’s reserves, which could help the country recover from war.
March 11, 2025The European Commission on Tuesday proposed that member countries be allowed to set up centres in non-EU countries where migrants whose asylum claims were rejected would await
March 11, 2025European buyers are unlikely to return to Russia's energy sector if sanctions are lifted, as the bloc has diversified its power mix with renewable energy and
March 11, 2025Paris Saint-Germain has defeated Liverpool in a penalty shootout to join Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Inter Milan in the quarterfinals of the Champions League
March 11, 2025By all logic, Chanel should be floundering
March 11, 2025Saint Laurent closed Paris Fashion Week in dramatic fashion, with the Eiffel Tower glowing against the night sky and a vast black onyx stage polished to a mirror-like sheen
March 11, 2025The Trump administration says it will immediately lift its suspension of military aid to Ukraine and intelligence sharing with Kyiv
March 11, 2025British Prime Minister Keir Starmer welcomed on Tuesday a 30-day ceasefire proposal that Ukraine has agreed to and said it was now up to Russia to end the fighting.
March 11, 2025Cornelia Borta sees no alternative to far-right politician Calin Georgescu as Romania's next president, even though on Tuesday Georgescu was barred
March 11, 2025Romanian far-right politician Calin Georgescu on Tuesday stopped short of endorsing any other potential candidate after being definitively barred from standing in
March 11, 2025The European Union is doubling down on its pledge to continue supporting Ukraine against Russia’s illegal invasion and stepping up humanitarian aid when others pull back as the bloc of European countries reconciles with the reality of America's retreat on the global stage
March 11, 2025A top Romanian court has rejected an appeal by far-right politician Calin Georgescu to lift a ban on his candidacy in the presidential rerun
March 11, 2025Portugal’s minority government has lost a confidence vote in parliament, forcing its resignation and bringing the European Union country’s third general election in three years
March 11, 2025Companies that issue green bonds tend to be better at reducing their greenhouse gas emissions, especially in heavily polluting sectors, new analysis from the Bank for
March 11, 2025A collision involving a tanker carrying jet fuel for the U.S. military and a container ship off Britain's coast is an unusual incident that raises questions over
March 11, 2025German sportswear Puma said on Tuesday it expects quarterly currency-adjusted sales growth to be in a low single-digit percentage, below the previous year's level, due to a soft performance
March 11, 2025A fiery collision in the North Sea has raised fears of an environmental disaster. Here’s what we know
March 11, 2025Manchester United has unveiled plans to build the biggest stadium in the United Kingdom
March 11, 2025Arming Ukraine: A closer look at US military aid since 2021
March 08, 2025Police say they have opened a criminal investigation into a collision between a cargo ship and an oil tanker in the North Sea
March 11, 2025Renault Group will cut 300 jobs at a van factory in northern France, the carmaker said on Tuesday, responding to slowing European demand for commercial vehicles in the face of
March 11, 2025More than 30 army chiefs among Washington's closest allies met in Paris on Tuesday without their U.S. counterparts, seeking to take on more
March 11, 2025Germany's political newcomer, the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), filed a complaint on Monday with the constitutional court seeking to legally challenge the results of the
March 11, 2025The British benchmark index on Tuesday closed at its lowest level in nearly two months, dragged by declines in travel and leisure stocks, and as fresh U.S. tariff threats sparked volatility
March 11, 2025Entire families including women and children were killed in Syria's coastal region as part of a series of sectarian killings by rival groups, the U.N human rights office said on
March 11, 2025Northvolt, the Swedish maker of battery cells for electric vehicles, may be close to filing for bankruptcy in Sweden, Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter (DN) reported on Tuesday.
March 11, 2025The feminine wasn’t just celebrated at Miu Miu
March 11, 2025Lise Davidsen, one of opera’s biggest names, is preparing to leave the stage for a few months to give birth and spend time with twins
March 11, 2025Donald Trump Jr, the eldest son of the U.S. president, met Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic in Belgrade on Tuesday, Vucic said in a post on Instagram.
March 11, 2025A gauge of euro zone equity volatility surged to a fresh seven-month high and European stocks fell further on Tuesday after the latest tariff news underscored concerns over growing
March 11, 2025Germany's financial markets watchdog has started an initial probe to examine whether Bayer fairly disclosed plans to get shareholder approval for a potential
March 11, 2025Volkswagen plans to lay off 1,600 staff at its Cariad software unit by the end of the year, the Handelsblatt business daily reported on Tuesday, citing company sources.
March 11, 2025Central Europe's export-dependent economies face risks from slowing world trade growth, which could be mitigated with reforms and the removal of remaining trade
March 11, 2025Britain will not impose retaliatory trade tariffs in response to U.S. duties on all steel and aluminium imports which are due to come into force on Wednesday, a British government
March 11, 2025Britain's government on Tuesday paid the highest yield on an inflation-linked bond sold via a syndication since it began such sales almost 20 years ago.
March 11, 2025The European Commission is raising $20 billion to construct four "AI gigafactories" as part of Europe's strategy to catch up with the U.S. and China on
March 11, 2025Airbus Helicopters on Tuesday announced the launch of its first all-new helicopter in about a decade: a light, twin-engined model aimed initially at emergency services.
March 11, 2025Ex-Barclays boss Jes Staley on Tuesday insisted he was shocked by serial paedophile Jeffrey Epstein's 2019 arrest for sex trafficking, though Britain's Financial
March 11, 2025NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said on Tuesday the alliance is committed to its peacemaking mission in Kosovo and urged political leaders in Belgrade and Pristina to speed up
March 11, 2025U.S. and British commanders said on Tuesday joint military exercises were vital for providing Europe with a deterrent to Russia, a show of unity after
March 11, 2025European shares fell to their lowest levels in more than a month on Tuesday on fears that U.S. trade policies could dent growth after President Donald
March 11, 2025Germany's likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz is in a race against time to secure support for a massive increase in state borrowing but
March 11, 2025Difficult economic conditions and persistently weak demand for many products have forced companies across Europe to freeze hiring or cut jobs.
November 03, 2023The Russian rouble strengthened to a more than six-week high against the dollar on Tuesday, buoyed by subdued imports and hopes for a resolution to the war in Ukraine,
March 11, 2025A Democratic U.S. senator who just visited Ukraine said on Monday the Trump administration's suspension of intelligence-sharing had lessened Kyiv's defenses
March 10, 2025Swedish prosecutors on Tuesday charged the government's former national security adviser with careless handling of secret information after he allegedly forgot documents at a
March 11, 2025No evidence of foul play has been found so far in Monday's collision between two ships off the coast of northeast England, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's spokesman said on
March 11, 2025Britain has indicated that a prosecution or other legal action could be brought over the frozen 2.5 billion pounds ($3.2 billion) from
March 11, 2025Anti-government protesters barred access to the offices of state broadcasters in Serbia's capital Belgrade and the second-largest city on Tuesday, keeping
March 11, 2025Brazilian planemaker Embraer said on Tuesday it is considering establishing a final assembly line for its KC-390 military cargo aircraft in Poland, amid strong sales momentum for
March 11, 2025Ukraine on Tuesday launched its biggest ever drone attack on Moscow and the surrounding region, killing at least three employees of a meat
March 11, 2025The Bank of Spain said on Tuesday that it expects the country's economy to expand by a strong 2.7% this year, up from the 2.5% forecast in its previous quarterly
March 11, 2025Kimi Antonelli once hid in a stack of tires to get through security and into the Formula 1 paddock
March 11, 2025Australian snowboarder Belle Brockhoff suffers broken back after high-speed crash
March 11, 2025Doctors said Pope Francis is no longer in imminent danger of death as a result of pneumonia but have decided to keep him hospitalized for several more days to receive treatment
March 10, 2025Figuring out how to make spacecraft more accessible to astronauts with physical disabilities can also make them safer for long-duration missions.
March 11, 2025The holiday used to be a solemn feast day when you’d be far more likely to see the color blue.
March 11, 2025Morning Bid U.S.
March 11, 2025Juan Antonio Samaranch, who is running for president of the International Olympic Committee, would push for a decision on transgender athletes' participation in
March 11, 2025The Bank of England said it allotted 2.127 billion pounds ($2.75 billion) of six-month funds to banks at an indexed long-term repo operation on Tuesday, the most since April 2020
March 11, 2025Germany's military is ageing and shrinking, the parliamentary commissioner for the armed forces warned on Tuesday, against the backdrop of a bid to overhaul borrowing rules to
March 11, 2025Ireland is among countries vulnerable to changes in the global economy proposed by U.S.
March 11, 2025Hedge funds fleeing positions intensified towards the end of last week and may continue to dent European hedge fund managers' returns, a JPMorgan note to clients
March 11, 2025After a seismic shift in German bonds, a pocket of the market is trading at levels close to those normally associated with financial crises, suggesting the euro zone
March 11, 2025Italy has proposed to its EU partners a common guarantee scheme triggering defence and aerospace private investments in the bloc worth up to 200 billion euros ($
March 10, 2025Lego reported strong sales growth for 2024 as more shoppers snapped up its colourful plastic brick construction sets and the toymaker said it was taking market share
March 11, 2025Volkswagen, Europe's top carmaker, forecast another challenging year of ramping up EV sales, cutting costs, and navigating trade tensions as it
March 11, 2025Germany's Deutsche Boerse will offer cryptocurrency custody and settlement services for institutional clients from next month, the company said on Tuesday, becoming
March 11, 2025The Kremlin on Tuesday warned Russians not to get carried away by what the administration of U.S.
March 11, 2025The Swiss arms industry is calling for looser curbs on the resale of its goods as weapons exports fell in 2024 for a second year, fuelling concern the neutral country is
March 11, 2025(This March 6 story has been corrected to say that the Air France-KLM was never invited to be part of a Lufthansa and United Airlines joint venture in paragraph 6) By Alban Kacher and Anna Peverieri (
March 06, 2025Russia said on Tuesday that its troops had made major new gains in its western region of Kursk, accelerating their push to drive out Ukrainian
March 11, 2025Soaring government spending pushed Russia's budget deficit to 2.70 trillion roubles ($31.45 billion) in the first two months of 2025, the finance
March 11, 2025Russia says it was hit by ‘massive’ drone attack ahead of crucial talks between US and Ukraine
March 11, 2025Polls have opened in Greenland for early parliamentary elections Tuesday as U.S. President Donald Trump seeks control of the strategic Arctic island
March 11, 2025Four friends went on vacation. Then they recreated a favorite photo from 35 years ago
March 11, 2025Hungary’s government is limiting the profit margin for grocers on a number of basic food items in response to growing inflation hitting consumers in the Central European country
March 11, 2025Former world heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury and ex-Manchester United forward Wayne Rooney will coach an England squad made up of athletes and celebrities for Soccer Aid 2025 at Old Trafford
March 11, 2025As Greenland goes to the polls, Trump’s aggressive stance has heightened the stakes
March 11, 2025Franco-Dutch airlines group Air France-KLM has offered 300 million euros ($326.82 million) for a 51% stake in Spanish airline Air Europa, news website El Confidencial said on
March 11, 2025French carmaker Renault said on Tuesday it was taking note of Nissan's announcement that Ivan Espinosa, its chief planning officer, would take the helm from April 1, succeeding
March 11, 2025Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy discussed efforts to achieve "sustainable fair, and comprehensive" peace in Ukraine, according to a
March 11, 2025Poland's deputy prime minister vowed on Tuesday to stick with plans to introduce a new tax on big tech, hitting back at a threat of retaliation from the incoming United States
March 11, 2025Dutch marine provider Boskalis will salvage the U.S.-flagged tanker Stena Immaculate, which was struck by a container ship off northeast England on Monday, a spokesperson said on
March 11, 2025Recent inflation outcomes in Sweden have been slightly higher than expected but it remains to be seen how much is due to temporary factors, Riksbank Governor Erik Thedeen said on
March 11, 2025The Kremlin on Tuesday accused Ukraine of targeting residential apartment blocks after Kyiv launched its biggest ever drone attack on the Russian capital.
March 11, 2025Russian forces attacked Ukraine with a ballistic missile and 126 drones, setting a fuel storage facility on fire and injuring at least two people in different parts of the country,
March 11, 2025Britain's Domino's Pizza Group on Tuesday posted a slower start to 2025 and forecast muted annual profit growth amid broader economic woes, sending shares down 3.8%.
March 11, 2025Pope Francis has written and spoken at length about sickness, aging and death
March 11, 2025The security situation in Sweden is serious and there are clear risks that it can get worse, Sweden's security police (SAPO) said on Tuesday in an annual report into threats
March 11, 2025Spanish fashion retailer Mango is adapting to tariffs imposed by the Trump administration on imports from China and could rethink the types of products it sells in
March 11, 2025ArcelorMittal on Monday announced a more than 270 million euro ($
March 10, 2025Contacts between Russia and the United States are now quite intensive, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova was quoted as saying by the RIA news agency.
March 11, 2025After Jens Stoltenberg answered questions in a routine session in Norway's parliament, the buzz outside the chamber was anything but normal.
March 11, 2025The Swiss upper house of parliament late on Monday narrowly backed a motion to limit bankers' total annual compensation to between 3 and 5 million Swiss francs ($3.4-5.7 million), a
March 11, 2025Russia launched air strikes overnight on Kyiv, with air defence systems engaged in repelling the attack, Ukrainian authorities said late on Monday.
March 10, 2025A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Tom Westbrook U.S. stocks finally caught up overnight with what currency and bond markets have been saying for several weeks: A slowdown is
March 11, 2025Henkel forecast organic sales growth of up to 3.5% for 2025 on Tuesday, citing the implementation of its growth agenda, after the German consumer goods and adhesives maker's 2024 growth
March 11, 2025President Volodymyr Zelenskiy met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ahead of talks between Ukrainian and U.S. officials that Washington
March 10, 2025U.S.
March 10, 2025President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said that Ukraine's position in Tuesday's talks in Saudi Arabia with U.S. officials will be "fully constructive" and that he hopes for practical outcomes from
March 10, 2025British consumer spending lost momentum last month after a bounce at the start of the year, despite households' rising confidence in their personal finances and
March 10, 2025As President Donald Trump seeks to end wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, his approach to both seems to boil down to giving the stronger party what it wants and pushing the weaker to accept it
March 10, 2025Just days after an unexploded World War II bomb near Paris’ Gare du Nord briefly stole headlines, a different kind of spectacle unfolded across the street: Louis Vuitton’s fashion show extravaganza Monday evening
March 10, 2025Euro zone finance ministers are worried that the change of policy under the new U.S. administration to embrace cryptocurrencies could affect euro zone monetary sovereignty and
March 10, 2025Greece’s National Gallery says a Greek lawmaker attacked four paintings in an exhibition, including one he had previously criticized as offensive on religious grounds
March 10, 2025The U.S. Supreme Court has revived a case that could decide the ownership of a French impressionist painting that was once stolen by the Nazis from a Jewish woman
March 10, 2025A tanker carrying jet fuel for the U.S. military was hit by a container ship off northeast England on Monday, with the collision igniting a
March 10, 2025A group of Ukrainian war veteran amputees have been in Oregon learning a form of adaptive skiing for people with one leg
March 10, 2025Pope Francis is improving and is no longer in ‘imminent danger,’ Vatican source says
March 10, 2025A cargo ship carrying a toxic chemical hit a tanker carrying jet fuel for the U.S. military off England, setting both vessels on fire and sending fuel pouring into the North Sea
March 10, 2025A Spanish judge placed the former head of Valencia's emergency services under investigation on Monday as part of a probe into who is to blame for the late alert about catastrophic
March 10, 2025Germany's Greens vowed to block plans by likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz for a massive increase in state borrowing to revamp the military
March 10, 2025Moldova and the French Development Agency signed a 30 million-euro ($32.5 million) deal on Monday to improve the post-Soviet state's energy efficiency, President Maia Sandu said after
March 10, 2025The European Union is bracing for its first round of U.S. tariffs on Wednesday, 25% tariffs on aluminium and steel imports, affecting more EU imports in value
March 10, 2025Pope Francis is no longer in immediate danger of death and is responding well to treatment in hospital, the Vatican said on Monday, in a sign of progress as
March 10, 2025The container ship Solong and chemical tanker Stena Immaculate have both sustained significant damage as a result of the collision that took place off Britain's coast, the Solong's
March 10, 2025The head of Ukrainian steel giant Metinvest told Reuters that rebuilding its heavily war-damaged operations will hinge on the robustness of U.S. and
March 10, 2025A British lawmaker who was found guilty of punching one of his constituents has said he will stand down as a member of parliament, triggering the first by-election since Prime
March 10, 2025Kyiv's top general said on Monday that Ukrainian troops fighting in Russia's Kursk region were not at risk of encirclement, despite a recent counteroffensive by Russian forces that has
March 10, 2025Apple and Meta Platforms are set to face modest fines for allegedly breaching landmark rules aimed at reining in their power, people with direct knowledge of the
March 10, 2025The key to the for-profit company’s successful partnership with governments, international agencies and humanitarian, nongovernmental organizations is how it handled its patent.
February 25, 2025‘It feels safe here’: Why this couple moved their family from the US to Switzerland
March 10, 2025Princess of Wales joins King at annual Commonwealth celebrations after missing last year’s event
March 10, 2025A man who climbed part way up the 'Big Ben' clock tower at London's Palace of Westminster early on Saturday and stayed there all day as part of a pro-Palestinian protest, appeared
March 10, 2025King Charles hailed the work of the Commonwealth in bringing countries together as he and Britain's senior royals gathered at London's Westminster Abbey on Monday for annual
March 10, 2025British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told U.S.
March 10, 2025European Union finance ministers on Monday began discussing how to pay for defence through new joint borrowing, existing EU funds and a greater role for the
March 10, 2025Barclays chairman Nigel Higgins believed the bank's former CEO Jes Staley's ties with the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein
March 10, 2025The British benchmark index fell to a near five-week low on Monday, tracking a global equity selloff as worries about economic growth and uncertainties around U.S. tariffs continued to keep
March 10, 2025European shares were flat on Monday as investors took a breather after a week of high volatility due
March 10, 2025Scania said on Monday it had secured a new supply of battery cells in addition to its deal with Northvolt, as the Swedish truckmaker warned it will miss its 2025
March 10, 2025NATO will not let a security vacuum develop in Bosnia and Herzegovina at this time of crisis but political leaders should work together to resolve problems,
March 10, 2025Military officials from more than 30 nations are expected to take part in Paris talks on the creation of an international security force for Ukraine
March 10, 2025Michael Sheen spent his own money to write off $1.3 million of neighbors’ debts
March 10, 2025Defending champion Real Madrid, Liverpool and Barcelona all have one-goal leads to protect going into the second leg of the Champions League round of 16 this week
March 10, 2025Romanian authorities have barred far-right pro-Russian candidate Calin Georgescu from taking part in May's rerun of a cancel led presidential election, prompting
March 10, 2025U.S.
March 10, 2025IBM on Monday won a London lawsuit against U.S. tech entrepreneur and philanthropist John Moores' company LzLabs, which the IT giant accused of stealing trade secrets.
March 10, 2025The Trump administration does not seem to be engaging in talks to avert trade conflict with the European Union, the EU's trade chief said on Monday, two days
March 10, 2025Estonia's Reform Party Prime Minister Kristen Michal said on Monday he will expel the Social Democratic Party from the government due to a disagreement over taxes, leaving him
March 10, 2025A group of executives and financiers has in recent weeks met with companies and brokers to find backing for a plan to approach the London Stock Exchange with a
March 08, 2025Poland's prime minister on Monday called on "friends" to respect their allies and not be arrogant, in a post on X which mentioned no-one by name but came a day after
March 10, 2025The U.S. State Department has frozen funding indefinitely for thousands of scholars participating in long-established cross-cultural programs connecting the U.S. to other parts of the world
March 09, 2025Chitose Abe’s latest collection for Sacai is a masterful evolution of her signature hybridization, where garments aren’t just worn— they move, morph, and envelop
March 10, 2025NATO’s secretary general on Monday pledged the military alliance’s “unwavering” support for Bosnia’s territorial integrity after a series of Bosnian Serb separatist moves raised tensions nearly 30 years after the end of a bloody war
March 10, 2025In the world of Hodakova, fashion is found in spoons, belts and briefcases
March 10, 2025Prime Minister Keir Starmer will host a virtual meeting of world leaders to discuss Ukraine on Saturday, building on a summit in London this month when the British leader announced
March 10, 2025Assura said on Monday it would consider a 1.61 billion pound ($2.1 billion) offer from U.S. private equity group KKR and Stonepeak Partners, pushing shares of the British healthcare real
March 10, 2025Ford will inject up to 4.4 billion euros ($4.8 billion) into its struggling German operations as it tries to revive its European business, the U.S. carmaker said on Monday.
March 10, 2025Romanian far-right presidential contender Calin Georgescu said on Monday he would challenge a decision to bar him from taking part in an election rerun in May, but
March 10, 2025Italian yacht maker Ferretti aims to make an acquisition this year, its chief executive said on Monday, without specifying whether the potential target would be a brand, a yard or
March 10, 2025Dutch runner Maureen Koster hospitalized after hitting head on track and falling unconscious during race
March 10, 2025A one-day strike by workers at 13 German airports, including the Frankfurt and Munich hubs and all the country’s other main destinations, has caused the cancelation of most flights
March 10, 2025Russia sees restoring ties with the United States as a long, hard task but believes there is political will on both sides to move forward, the Kremlin said on Monday.
March 10, 2025Ukraine plans to purchase around 4.5 million first-person view (FPV) drones in 2025, Kyiv's defence ministry said on Monday, more than doubling last year's rate as its war with Russia
March 10, 2025There are still plenty of upside risks to euro zone inflation, so the European Central Bank must remain open-minded on whether to press ahead with interest rate cuts or pause
March 10, 2025A sea change in German fiscal policy is rapidly transforming global bond markets as it is expected to increase the pool of
March 10, 2025The Kremlin, asked on Monday if Russia had held consultations with Iran before or after Tehran responded to a letter from U.S.
March 10, 2025European lawmakers are voicing fresh doubt about the European Central Bank’s digital euro project after an outage in the ECB’s existing payment system caused delays for thousands
March 10, 2025Britain is concerned by China's "dangerous and destabilising" activity in the South China Sea, British foreign minister David Lammy said on Monday.
March 10, 2025The Kremlin said on Monday that long-standing Western accusations that Russia commits sabotage in the U.S. and Europe are "empty and ephemeral" and have not been proven.
March 10, 2025HSBC on Monday downgraded U.S. equities, citing uncertainty around tariffs, while turned bullish on European stocks following boost from Germany loosening its fiscal reforms.
March 10, 2025If Germany is to quickly revive its flagging industrial economy, businesses say the country's new leadership must make drastic reductions to bureaucracy
March 10, 2025More than half a million people are facing travel disruption at German airports on Monday where a 24-hour strike has led to thousands of flight cancellations in a dispute about
March 10, 2025The Netherlands, one of the world's largest egg exporters, has launched a pilot program on a laying-hen farm to vaccinate poultry against bird flu with the aim of achieving large-scale
March 10, 2025America is the world’s biggest arms exporter. Europe should know
March 10, 2025After Liverpool cruises and Arsenal slips up, is the Premier League title race all but over?
March 10, 2025Russia expels two British diplomats over alleged spying, drawing dismissive response from London
March 10, 2025Sydney to London with 7 stops along the way? Qantas’ historic Kangaroo Route is back (sort of)
March 10, 2025Chaos erupts in Romania after far-right frontrunner banned from presidential vote
March 10, 2025Plans in Germany for big increases in infrastructure and defence spending are going too far and pose a danger to public finances, the president of the nation's cooperative banks
March 10, 2025Russia accused two British diplomats on Monday of spying and gave them two weeks to leave the country, reinforcing the downward trajectory of
March 10, 2025Growing challenges to the euro's status as a reserve currency in a fast-changing global economy are, for now, staying the hand of European capitals as they weigh up the
March 10, 2025Spanish bank BBVA said on Monday it received approval from the country's securities regulator to offer bitcoin and ether trading services in Spain.
March 10, 2025Liverpool have signed a multi-year kit deal with Adidas beginning next season that will replace sportswear manufacturer Nike, in what British media reports say is a five
March 10, 2025The most fashionable spot in Paris? Valentino’s public bathroom
March 10, 2025Italian whippet called Miuccia is top pooch at world’s biggest dog show
March 10, 2025Britain's jobs market cooled in February as the pace of hiring slowed and starting salaries rose by the least in four years, according to a survey on Monday that
March 10, 2025Russian forces are attempting to create an active fighting zone in Ukraine's northeastern region of Sumy, across the border from Russia's Kursk region, Ukraine's border guard
March 10, 2025Romania's central election authority on Sunday barred far-right pro-Russian candidate Calin Georgescu from running in May's presidential election re-run, a decision likely to
March 09, 2025The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has lodged urgent legal motions with the constitutional court challenging plans to convene the country's outgoing parliament to consider
March 10, 2025J.P.Morgan joined Wall-Street peer Goldman Sachs to forecast a boost to the euro area's economic growth for 2025 on the back of Germany's fiscal loosening reforms.
March 10, 2025Fast-moving developments on Ukraine and Europe will no doubt continue to dominate financial markets this week, while U.S. data includes key inflation numbers and China looks determined to
March 07, 2025German industrial output rose in January but exports plunged, showing the challenges facing the incoming government in reviving the euro zone's largest economy in a
March 10, 2025A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Kevin Buckland It was a nervy start to the week for markets, led by an uncharacteristically steep decline for Wall Street futures early in
March 10, 2025What does King Charles listen to? Kylie Minogue and RAYE, according to his Apple Music playlist
March 07, 2025Flight cancellations at Hamburg Airport after a surprise strike by workers have affected more than 40,000 passengers
March 09, 2025Balenciaga is no stranger to spectacle, but this season, Demna played a different game—one of precision, control, and quiet defiance
March 10, 2025U.S. officials are planning to use Tuesday's meeting with a Ukrainian delegation in Saudi Arabia in part to determine
March 09, 2025Pope Francis has issued a message thanking volunteers for the “miracle of tenderness” they offer the sick as he continues his recovery from double pneumonia
March 09, 2025European arms imports rose 155% in 2020-24 and Ukraine has become the world's biggest arms importer following Russia's 2022 invasion, according to a report
March 09, 2025Chaos broke out in Romania’s capital as supporters of the far-right populist Calin Georgescu protested the electoral body’s decision to reject his candidacy in a presidential election redo
March 09, 2025Kylian Mbappé and Vinícius Júnior scored goals in a five-minute span in the first half and Real Madrid held on to beat Rayo Vallecano 2-1 and move level on points with Barcelona at the top of the Spanish league
March 09, 2025Manchester United’s players produced one of their most spirited performances of the season after fan protests in the street to draw 1-1 with Arsenal in the Premier League
March 09, 2025U.S.
March 09, 2025Dozens of demonstrators gathered at the Tesla showroom in Lisbon on Sunday to protest against CEO Elon Musk's support for far-right parties in
March 09, 2025Ukraine’s military and Russian war bloggers say Russian special forces walked inside a gas pipeline to strike Ukrainian units from the rear in the Kursk region
March 09, 2025For first time since his hospitalization, Pope Francis shows ‘good response’ to treatment, says Vatican source
March 08, 2025German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz on Sunday said he would like talks with France and Britain about sharing their nuclear weapons, but not as a substitute for U.S. nuclear
March 09, 2025Russian forces on Sunday recaptured three more settlements in Russia's western Kursk region, the Defence Ministry said, part of an operation to
March 09, 2025Russia is advancing in Kursk, threatening Ukraine’s sole territorial bargaining counter
March 09, 2025Man arrested after scaling London’s Big Ben with Palestinian flag
March 08, 2025Mikaela Shiffrin breaks yet another skiing record with 156th podium finish
March 09, 2025Mikaela Shiffrin let a slalom win slip away Sunday yet set an all-time World Cup record with her 156th finish on a race podium
March 09, 2025While Pope Francis battles ailing health in the hospital, CNN’s Christopher Lamb examines just how unprecedented the Vatican’s updates have been on his condition. Compare this to decades past where the mantra was, “The Pope is in good health, until he dies.”
March 08, 2025European countries should ‘absolutely’ introduce conscription, Latvian president says
March 09, 2025From high-powered lawyer to high-profile public figure, Usha Vance settles into a new role
March 09, 2025France will use interest from Russian assets to fund another 195 million euros ($211 million) in arms for Ukraine, Armed Forces Minister Sebastien Lecornu said a newspaper interview.
March 09, 2025A man has been arrested after climbing the Big Ben tower at the Palace of Westminster in central London while barefoot and holding a Palestinian flag
March 09, 2025British billionaire Richard Branson's Virgin Group aims to raise 700 million pounds ($900 million) to fund its plan to launch cross-channel rail services as it looks to
March 09, 2025French President Emmanuel Macron is back at the center of global diplomacy
March 09, 2025Could winning the Formula 1 title in 2025 actually hurt a team
March 09, 2025Russian strikes on Ukraine kill at least 23 as Polish prime minister warns against appeasing ‘barbarians’
March 08, 2025A man who scaled the lower sections of Big Ben's Elizabeth Tower at London's Palace of Westminster early on Saturday has come down after 16 hours and was subsequently arrested, the
March 08, 2025Nations' differences should be a source of strength rather than problems, Britain's King Charles says in a message to mark annual celebrations for the Commonwealth.
March 08, 2025Barcelona’s home game against Osasuna in the Spanish league was postponed after the death of first-team doctor Carles Miñarro Garcia
March 08, 2025Women have taken to the streets of cities across Europe, Africa, South America and elsewhere to mark International Women’s Day with demands for ending inequality and gender-based violence
March 08, 2025Take the season’s biggest races in the sliding sports of bobsled, skeleton and luge, meaning either the Olympics or the world championships, and there have been 59 instances of sliders from one place sweeping the podium
March 08, 2025U.S. President Donald Trump's Turnberry golf resort in Scotland has been daubed with pro-Palestinian graffiti, with a protest group claiming responsibility.
March 08, 2025FC Barcelona match postponed after death of team doctor
March 08, 2025A fractious meeting in Washington has left Ukrainians wondering what will become of relations with the US.
March 03, 2025Pope Francis is showing a "good response" to his treatment in hospital for double pneumonia and his overall condition is gradually improving, the Vatican said
March 08, 2025Officials say Russia has launched heavy aerial attacks on Ukraine for a second night
March 08, 2025At Vivienne Westwood’s fall show, Andreas Kronthaler sent a clear message: rebellion is alive and well
March 08, 2025The Vatican says Pope Francis is responding well to therapy for double pneumonia and has shown a “gradual, slight improvement” in recent days
March 08, 2025German election winner Friedrich Merz's conservatives and the Social Democrats (SPD) completed preliminary talks on Saturday on forming a coalition government that will take
March 08, 2025Hermes designer Nadege Vanhee presented a fall-winter 2025 collection of glossy coats, dresses and trousers in dark-coloured leather on Saturday, showing the sleek
March 08, 2025Pope Francis has entered his fourth week in the hospital with double pneumonia
March 08, 2025The number of Britons who think Prime Minister Keir Starmer is doing a good job has risen as he steps up his role in diplomacy over the war in Ukraine, an opinion poll showed.
March 08, 2025German election winner Friedrich Merz's conservatives and the Social Democrats (SPD) concluded preliminary talks on forming a
March 08, 2025High anxiety and whispers of a conclave: How the Vatican is dealing with Pope Francis’ hospitalization
March 08, 2025The hunt for Ukraine’s stolen artworks
March 08, 2025Authorities in two Russian regions have blocked the Telegram messenger because of concerns that the app could be used by enemies, a regional digital development minister was quoted as
March 08, 2025As Greenland's general election approaches, a candidate campaigns for access to better healthcare on the vast island, recounting his personal journey of beating cancer
March 08, 2025President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that Ukraine is "fully committed" to having a constructive dialogue with U.S. representatives in Saudi Arabia next week over ways to end
March 08, 2025Polish abortion rights activists have opened a center across from the parliament building in Warsaw where women can have abortions with pills, either alone or with other women
March 08, 2025Greece's centre-right government on Friday survived a no-confidence vote over a deadly 2023 train crash, as protests flared demanding political accountability over
March 07, 2025DBRS Morningstar upgraded Greece's credit rating to 'BBB' from 'BBB low' citing a healthier banking sector and the continued reduction in the country's general government debt ratio
March 07, 2025U.S.
March 07, 2025U.S.
March 08, 2025British foreign minister David Lammy said on Saturday that Britain and the Philippines were committed to a rules-based international order.
March 08, 2025At least 14 people were killed and 37 wounded, including five children, in Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukraine's eastern city of Dobropillia and a settlement in Kharkiv region
March 08, 2025Higher European defence budgets and a ramp-up of production by military equipment industries are necessary to secure Europe, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said in a German
March 08, 2025The foreign ministers of France, Germany, Italy and Britain said on Saturday they supported an Arab-backed plan for the reconstruction of Gaza that would cost $53 billion and avoid
March 08, 2025Hungary and the United States will agree on an economic cooperation package that will help the Hungarian economy and could offset the effect of possible U.S. tariffs, Prime
March 08, 2025Bayer told several brokerages about plans to seek shareholder permission to issue shares one day before formally announcing the news on Friday, which weighed
March 07, 2025U.S.
March 07, 2025Thousands of Ukrainian troops who stormed into Russia's Kursk region last summer in a shock incursion are nearly surrounded by Russian
March 07, 2025President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's approval rating has risen by 10 percentage points since his White House spat with U.S.
March 07, 2025The Chernihiv Regional Youth Theater in Ukraine has adapted to the war by having women perform traditionally male roles, after many men left the troupe to fight on the front line
March 08, 2025Right-wing populist party Reform UK, which has been leading in some British opinion polls, said on Friday it had referred one of its lawmakers to the police over allegations of
March 07, 2025Russia launches major aerial assault on Ukraine days after US shut off military aid
March 07, 2025CMA CGM is in talks with shipyards about the possibility of having medium-sized container vessels built in the United States, the French shipping group's CEO Rodolphe Saade told Les
March 07, 2025Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said he had a "constructive call" with his U.S. counterpart Marco Rubio on Friday to discuss an upcoming bilateral meeting in Saudi Arabia.
March 07, 2025Porsche SE, Volkswagen's largest shareholder, expects a 2024 loss after tax of around 20 billion euros ($21.7 billion), it said on Friday, citing previously disclosed impairments
March 07, 2025Ukrainian officials said Russia had targeted energy facilities with dozens of missiles and drones in a nighttime attack
March 07, 2025Poland and Baltic nations have welcomed a proposal by French President Emmanuel Macron to launch talks about using France’s nuclear deterrent to protect the continent from Russian threats
March 06, 2025Three weeks to the day after being admitted to Rome's Gemelli hospital, Pope Francis is still struggling to shake off the double
March 07, 2025At Paris Fashion Week, Kenzo’s latest evolution trades its signature jungle prints for something sharper: punk-infused tailoring, underground energy, and a touch of British irreverence
March 07, 2025Scientists have dated the skeleton of an ancient child that caused a stir when it was first discovered because it carries features from both humans and Neanderthals
March 07, 2025Religious leaders, scholars and diplomats have gathered at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana for a conference on Ukraine studies with a theme of hope
March 07, 2025Pope Francis has hit the three-week mark in his hospitalization for double pneumonia
March 07, 2025The disposal of what Paris police called an “excessively dangerous” unexploded World War II bomb caused hours of transportation chaos on rail and road networks in the French capital
March 07, 2025Hedge fund stock pickers and multi-strategy funds gave up around half their average yearly gains in Thursday's tech-driven equity selloff, a note by Goldman Sachs
March 07, 2025Thomas Bach says he feels a rare calm in his final weeks as IOC president even as a “new world order” gains speed ahead of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics
March 07, 2025Tens of thousands of people marched through Belgrade on Friday to mark the deaths of 15 victims in a railway station disaster and to support a student-led call for a general
March 07, 2025Microsoft is shifting its data centre strategy to be driven by power availability rather than user demand or creating supply, and sees the Nordic region as a
March 07, 2025European Central Bank policymaker Mario Centeno said on Friday he expects inflation to fall to its medium-term target of 2% in a sustainable manner since euro zone inflation is "
March 07, 2025Europe's new tech rule aims to keep digital markets open and is not targeted at U.S. tech giants, EU antitrust and tech chiefs told U.S. congressmen, reminding
March 07, 2025European shares closed Friday lower, as investors grappled with whipsaw changes in U.S. trade policy throughout the week and digested a slightly softer
March 07, 2025Bosnia's constitutional court on Friday temporarily suspended separatist laws passed by the country's Serb Republic parliament and signed by the region's
March 07, 2025Friday marks three weeks since Pope Francis was hospitalized for bronchitis, which then led to double pneumonia
March 07, 2025Three Bulgarian nationals have been convicted by a London jury of spying for Russia
March 07, 2025Poland's President Andrzej Duda proposed enshrining defence spending of at least 4% of GDP in the constitution on Friday, while the government backed giving military training to all
March 07, 2025The speaker of Russia's lower house of parliament, Vyacheslav Volodin, said on Friday that Britain would have to return Moscow money that London had decided to illegally gift to
March 07, 2025The outflow of gold stored in the London vaults to the United States slowed in February, the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) said on Friday, as the price swings which
March 07, 2025Blackstone has raised $8 billion in its most recent real estate debt fund, the world's largest alternative asset manager said on Friday, a sign that the property sector is seeing a
March 07, 2025Holding a rifle at a training range in a pine forest near Berlin, 23-year-old student Hannes was already anticipating the odd sense of
March 07, 2025Calin Georgescu, the far-right pro-Russian frontrunner in Romania's cancelled presidential election, submitted his candidacy for the May ballot re-run on Friday amid doubts that
March 07, 2025Hakan Kilic and his family celebrate his mother-in-law's birthday every year in Turkey's Yalova province next to a portrait of her made from her cremated ashes.
March 07, 2025An Eritrean who was among a group of sea migrants held on an Italian coast guard vessel for 10 days in 2018 is entitled to compensation, Italy's top appeals court
March 07, 2025Romanian far-right populist Calin Georgescu has filed his candidacy in a rerun of last year's presidential election that was annulled by a top court after his surprise first-round win
March 07, 2025Three Bulgarians were found guilty in a London court on Friday of being part of a Russian spy unit run by Wirecard fugitive Jan Marsalek to carry out
March 07, 2025European Union leaders are trumpeting their endorsement of a plan to free up hundreds of billions of euros to inject into their defense budgets
March 07, 2025Paris' Gare du Nord, Europe's busiest train station, ground to a halt on Friday while an unexploded World War Two bomb was defused,
March 07, 2025Research by the charity English Heritage suggests it may have found a portrait of England's shortest-reigning queen Lady Jane Grey
March 07, 2025Emily Sweeney is certain of having a home Olympics next winter
March 07, 2025‘Really huge’ unexploded WWII bomb found outside Paris triggers major rail disruption
March 07, 2025The Kremlin supports Serbia's authorities as they face growing anti-government protests, President Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday following a phone call with Russian leader
March 07, 2025There are upside and downside risks for inflation in Sweden and the central bank has to be watchful and ready to act if needed, Riksbank First Deputy Governor Anna Breman said on
March 07, 2025The United States has withdrawn from the board of the U.N.'s hard-negotiated climate damage fund, dedicated to helping poor and vulnerable
March 07, 2025The Kremlin said on Friday that Russia may need to act to respond to what it called European Union plans to militarise the bloc that cast Russia as its main adversary.
March 07, 2025A former aide to Georgia's most powerful man has fled the country in the middle of his trial on charges of embezzling cryptocurrency worth more than $700 million
March 07, 2025Kyiv said on Friday it was asking Italy for more information about a proposal by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to extend NATO's mutual defence umbrella to Ukraine without offering it
March 07, 2025Emma Raducanu described being unable to see the ball through her tears after spotting a stalker at a match last month, and the image of the British tennis player taking
March 07, 2025The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party will file a complaint to the Constitutional Court next week over plans to raise new debt
March 07, 2025Is this the only known portrait of England’s doomed ‘Nine Days Queen’?
March 07, 2025Even if US financial aid is restored, Ukraine will have to mitigate the risk of future disruption – and that could mean a more timid approach.
March 07, 2025European Union leaders on Friday downplayed skepticism from U.S. President Donald Trump about solidarity among NATO members
March 07, 2025A German court has convicted five people of plotting to overthrow the government in a far-right coup and kidnap the former health minister
March 06, 2025Global food commodity prices rose in February, driven by higher sugar, dairy, and vegetable oil prices, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations said on
March 07, 2025Russia and the U.S. both see draft accords discussed by Moscow and Kyiv in the early weeks of the war as a possible basis for a Ukraine peace
March 07, 2025British foreign minister David Lammy said on Friday that Japan could help Ukraine by ramping up economic pressure on Russia, adding that Tokyo and London had a shared interest in a
March 07, 2025A budget-constrained France could launch a national loan to fund plans to beef up its defence spending, Prime Minister Francois Bayrou and Finance Minister Eric Lombard said on
March 07, 2025Russia said on Friday that it was essential to engage in a dialogue with the United States on arms control after President Donald Trump made
March 07, 2025Ukraine has received a first tranche of funds worth about $1 billion from Britain, secured by the proceeds of frozen Russian assets, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said on Friday.
March 07, 2025Saudi Arabia welcomed on Friday the chance to host a meeting between the U.S. and Ukraine next week, its foreign ministry said, adding that the kingdom would continue to do its utmost to
March 07, 2025The number of asylum applications in Germany fell significantly in the first two months of this year, the BAMF federal office for refugees and migration said on Friday.
March 07, 2025Pope Francis thanks well-wishers in first audio message since hospitalization
March 07, 2025The Dominican Republic has rebuked Spain's main opposition party over an AI-generated video in which it indirectly linked the Caribbean nation to corruption while attacking its own
March 07, 2025More than half a million passengers will be affected and thousands of flights cancelled due to a 24-hour strike at major German airports on Monday, after trade
March 07, 2025The U.S. decision to stop sharing military intelligence with Ukraine hobbles its ability to strike and defend against the Russian army
March 06, 2025Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov discussed international efforts to resolve the situation around Iran's nuclear programme with Iranian ambassador Kazem Jalali, the
March 07, 2025The euro zone economy grew faster in the final quarter of 2024 than first estimated but nearly all of the revision is due to Ireland, where a large multinational sector often
March 07, 2025Russian forces damaged Ukrainian energy and gas infrastructure overnight in their first major missile attack since the U.S.
March 07, 2025Russian prosecutors have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. owner of canned food maker Glavprodukt, which was seized by Moscow in October, accusing him of illegally withdrawing around $15.5
March 06, 2025Europe scrambles to rearm as Trump threatens security guarantees and Russian threat looms. Here’s what to know
March 07, 2025Russia's leading tanker group Sovcomflot on Friday blamed Western sanctions for a profit slump in 2024 and warned that new restrictions imposed on its fleet this year would exert
March 07, 2025Bayer has told U.S. lawmakers it could stop selling Roundup weedkiller unless they can strengthen legal protection against product liability
March 07, 2025Russia will seek a peace deal in Ukraine that safeguards its own long-term security and will not retreat from the gains it has made in the
March 06, 2025Nomura now expects the European Central Bank to lower rates only once this year, diverging from most brokerages that still see at least two reductions, after the central bank signalled the
March 07, 2025Climate activists fear the worst when Germany's conservatives and Social Democrats begin to thrash out a joint climate policy for their future coalition government
March 07, 2025The EU cannot afford to finance Ukraine's military efforts as U.S. financial aid is no longer guaranteed, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday after the leaders of
March 07, 2025German industrial orders in January fell by 7% from the previous month, the federal statistics office said on Friday, as the previous month's upswing from bulky purchasing petered out.
March 07, 2025Spain's seasonally- and calendar-adjusted industrial output fell 1% in January from the same month a year earlier, official data from the country's national statistics institute (INE)
March 07, 2025Volkswagen and Porsche CEO Oliver Blume said his dual role at the helm of both companies was not meant to last forever but was necessary to complete the restructuring underway at
March 07, 2025Airbus deliveries for January and February fell 18% year on year to 65 aircraft, the planemaker said on Friday.
March 07, 2025Italy's co-ruling League party is pushing Rome to pick U.S. company Starlink over French-led operator Eutelsat in talks to obtain systems for secure satellite communications, saying
March 07, 2025House prices in Britain unexpectedly fell in February as demand faded from buyers who were rushing to purchase homes before the end of tax incentives on March 31, mortgage lender
March 07, 2025European leaders on Thursday backed plans to spend more on defence and continue to stand by Ukraine in a world upended by Donald Trump's
March 06, 2025A tectonic shift in German fiscal policy has compounded uncertainty for traders trying to bet on how fast the European Central Bank will cut rates
March 06, 2025European Union leaders committed to working together to bolster the continent’s defenses and to free up hundreds of billions of euros for security
March 06, 2025From its 18th century roots, Vienna’s celebrated ball season has evolved and now involves teenagers learning to waltz by watching YouTube videos and ladies shedding their elbow-length gloves to better swipe on smartphones
March 07, 2025Pope Francis recorded a pained and labored audio message to thank people for their prayers for his recovery
March 06, 2025New Zealand’s high commissioner to the United Kingdom has lost his job over remarks he made about President Donald Trump at an event held by the Chatham House think tank in London this week
March 06, 2025The U.S.
March 06, 2025French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday hit back at Russia, after the Kremlin warned him not to threaten it with nuclear rhetoric and drew comparisons with
March 06, 2025From works by Jamaican reggae legend Bob Marley and Australian popstar Kylie Minogue to singer Raye, King Charles has revealed in a new broadcast some of the music which has brought
March 07, 2025U.S.
March 07, 2025If any one piece defines Chloé under Chemena Kamali, it’s the blouse
March 06, 2025European leaders agree on defense spending surge at crucial EU summit on Ukraine
March 06, 2025The Albanian Cabinet has decided to shut down TikTok for 12 months, blaming the video-sharing platform for inciting violence and bullying, especially among children
March 06, 2025It’s a playlist literally fit for a king
March 07, 2025The safe-haven yen and Swiss franc climbed in volatile trading on Thursday, while the dollar slumped against most currencies, as jittery investors
March 06, 2025Stock indexes fell sharply and the dollar eased on Thursday, with the Nasdaq confirming it has been in a correction since peaking last December, as more
March 06, 2025Torrential rains on Thursday caused floods that swept away cars as local authorities evacuated schools and closed roads in eastern Spain, four months after deadly flash floods in
March 06, 2025European Union leaders have committed to a massive step in defense cooperation following decades of hesitation
March 06, 2025Manchester United settled for a 1-1 draw with Real Sociedad in the first leg of the Europa League round of 16
March 06, 2025U.S.
March 06, 2025Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday he would travel to Saudi Arabia on Monday for a meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman ahead of talks later in the
March 06, 2025Misogynistic influencer Andrew Tate has left Romania for the US. So who is he?
February 27, 2025Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, Ukraine's former armed forces chief and current ambassador to Britain, said on Thursday that the United States was "destroying" the current world
March 06, 2025President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on EU leaders on Thursday to support the idea of a truce between Russian and Ukrainian forces in the air and at sea, saying it would be a chance to
March 06, 2025Ukraine was given “fair warning” by the White House before President Donald Trump this week ordered a pause on U.S. military assistance and intelligence sharing with Kyiv
March 06, 2025Ukraine is continuing to make good progress in implementing structural reforms, but its economic outlook remains exceptionally uncertain given its ongoing war
March 06, 2025European leaders showed a cautiously receptive ear to President Emmanuel Macron's proposal to debate extending the
March 06, 2025Pope Francis on Thursday sent his first audio message since being hospitalized for double pneumonia nearly three weeks ago, expressing thanks "from the bottom
March 06, 2025India condemned on Thursday a security breach during its foreign minister's visit to London when a protester broke through a police cordon, stood in front of the minister's
March 06, 2025Dutch Justice Minister David van Weel said on Thursday that he spoke over the phone with his Sierra Leone counterpart Alpha Sesay about the Dutch extradition request for European
March 06, 2025Switzerland has cancelled a conference on the application of the Geneva Conventions to the occupied Palestinian territories for want of participants, its Foreign
March 06, 2025The John Lewis Partnership and Currys on Thursday became the latest major British retailers to give their staff inflation-beating pay rises which only partly reflect a hike in the
March 06, 2025The foreign minister of breakaway northern Cyprus said on Thursday an informal meeting of Greek and Turkish Cypriots called by the United
March 06, 2025As U.S. President Donald Trump presses on with a plan to end the war in Ukraine, Kateryna Bohutska wants to make sure her 24-year-old son isn't forgotten.
March 06, 2025Bank of England policymaker Catherine Mann said on Thursday a pick up in inflation was unlikely to lead to longer-term price problems in Britain's economy, and that
March 06, 2025Denmark's central bank cut its key interest rate by 25 basis points to 2.10% on Thursday, following the European Central Bank's decision earlier in the day to cut euro zone
March 06, 2025European Central Bank policymakers see a growing chance of a pause in their easing cycle at their next meeting before rates come down again, once they have greater clarity about
March 06, 2025German lawmakers will debate a 500-billion-euro infrastructure fund and sweeping changes to state borrowing rules to fund defence from March 13 in a race to get
March 06, 2025Norway will more than double its financial pledge to Ukraine this year while also hiking its own defence spending, the prime minister said on Thursday,
March 06, 2025French advertising giant Publicis said on Thursday it has reached an agreement to acquire data and ID technology group Lotame and plans to wrap it into
March 06, 2025The European Central Bank cut interest rates again on Thursday but warned of "phenomenal uncertainty" including the risk that trade wars and
March 05, 2025President Emmanuel Macron has said he will launch a strategic dialogue on extending the protection offered by France's nuclear arsenal to its European partners.
March 06, 2025Bosnia's prosecutors said on Thursday that Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik was being investigated for attacking the country's constitutional order, the day after he signed laws
March 06, 2025Chinese artificial intelligence firm iFlyTek is planning to expand its European business as trade tensions rise between the United States and China, Vice President Vincent Zhan
March 06, 2025Romania detained six people on charges of trying to overthrow the state with Russia's help, prosecutors said on Thursday, and a 101-year-old former army major general said his
March 06, 2025Russia warned French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday not to threaten it with nuclear rhetoric and, mocking his height by calling him '
March 05, 2025The new leader of the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia told Russian state media on Thursday he does not plan to implement the current form of a controversial investment deal with
March 06, 2025The European Central Bank is cutting interest rates by a quarter percentage point, lowering credit costs for consumers and businesses to support an economy that is struggling to show solid growth
March 06, 2025British officials held talks on Wednesday with around 20 countries, mostly European and Commonwealth parties, interested in contributing to a so-called 'coalition of the willing' to
March 06, 2025The European Central Bank cut interest rates for the sixth time in nine months on Thursday, sticking to its easing plan in the face of economic upheaval from an unfolding trade
March 06, 2025Thyssenkrupp plans to slash around 1,800 jobs due to the prolonged weakness in the car sector it supplies, the German conglomerate said on Thursday, becoming the latest player in
March 06, 2025Roughly a quarter of investors surveyed by IG Prime are looking to change which hedge funds invest their money, citing reasons including riskiness, poor performance
March 06, 2025Egypt and the European Commission have signed a 90 million euro ($93.9 million) soft funding agreement to enhance food security, the Egyptian ministry of international cooperation said on
March 03, 2025The European Central Bank cut interest rates as expected on Thursday and kept the door ajar to more, even as a looming trade war with the U.S. and plans to boost military spending
March 06, 2025GKN Aerospace owner Melrose forecast 2025 revenue below most analysts' expectations, sending its shares sharply lower on Thursday, as global trade uncertainties and
March 06, 2025Novo Banco, Portugal's fourth-largest lender, reported a record net profit of 744.6 million euros ($804 million) on Thursday, ahead of a planned initial public
March 06, 2025US is ‘destroying’ world order, Ukrainian ambassador warns
March 06, 2025France to consider protecting European allies with its nuclear arsenal, Macron says
March 06, 2025The Glastonbury Festival in southwest England is clearly aiming to go out with a bang this summer before it takes a year off to allow the farmland to recover
March 06, 2025Most Greenlanders are proudly Inuit
March 06, 2025Most Greenlanders are proudly Inuit
March 06, 2025New Zealand envoy to the UK fired for questioning Trump’s knowledge of history
March 06, 2025A defence spending surge could boost Europe's sluggish economy as long as it provides a springboard for a broader industrial revival and if governments convince the
March 06, 2025Turkey, with the second largest army in NATO after the United States, could contribute to a potential peacekeeping mission in Ukraine, a Turkish defence ministry source said on
March 06, 2025Italy's parliament on Thursday rejected opposition amendments trying to prevent the government from acquiring satellite services from companies outside the EU, which a representative
March 06, 2025Lufthansa and Air France-KLM's results on Thursday showed signs the airlines were on the road to recovery, with strong demand and a brighter outlook for 2025
March 06, 2025U.S.
March 06, 2025(The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a columnist for Reuters.) By Mike Dolan Morning Bid U.S.
March 06, 2025Portugal's cabinet has decided to go ahead with a motion of confidence in the centre-right government that is opposed by the main opposition parties, it said on Thursday, with a
March 06, 2025Ukrainian opposition leaders have dismissed the idea of holding a wartime election, after a media report of contacts between them and U.S. officials and in the wake of President
March 06, 2025The raft of takeover attempts rocking Italy's financial sector will be put to a market test in the coming months, when investors in the target
March 06, 2025A Romanian court upheld preventative measures against Calin Georgescu, the far-right frontrunner of Romania's cancelled presidential election, on Thursday pending a criminal investigation
March 06, 2025Russia said on Thursday that a French and British peace initiative on Ukraine was a bid to buy time for Kyiv and prevent its military collapse.
March 06, 2025Being an organist might seem like a solitary job, but German maestro Leo Krämer never feels too far from his listeners
March 06, 2025A Spanish prosecutor has asked for a retrial after the High Court sentence convicting the former head of the country's soccer federation, Luis Rubiales, for kissing national team
March 06, 2025Romanian police say six people have been detained for allegedly organizing a criminal group that colluded with Russia to plot a coup against the government
March 06, 2025AxeleraAI, one of Europe's few companies making computer chips for artificial intelligence, has been awarded a grant of up to 61.6 million euros ($66 million) to
March 06, 2025British companies expect to raise prices faster in the coming 12 months, and their expectations for staffing numbers eased due to a rise in employment costs in April, a Bank of
March 06, 2025The Kremlin said on Thursday that U.S.
March 06, 2025Euro zone retail sales unexpectedly dipped in January, adding to signs that a long-predicted consumption-led recovery is not yet on the horizon, fresh data from Eurostat showed
March 06, 2025The Kremlin on Thursday condemned what it called a highly confrontational speech by French President Emmanuel Macron in which he called Russia a threat to Europe and said Paris
March 06, 2025NATO's newest member Sweden plans to contribute up to eight Jas Gripen fighter jets to the defence alliance's air policing in Poland, Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard said
March 06, 2025Clutching a bouquet of yellow roses, 79-year-old Carmela Vittoria Mancuso makes her way to Rome's Gemelli hospital each morning and later
March 06, 2025The number of potential modern slavery victims in Britain rose to a record last year, official statistics showed on Thursday, highlighting a growing crime that
March 06, 2025Mexican state company Pemex is in talks with potential buyers in Asia, including China, and Europe, as it seeks alternative markets
March 06, 2025The European Central Bank's payments crash last week meant salaries and welfare funds were delayed for thousands of people.
March 06, 2025Air France-KLM reported better than expected annual results that sent its shares to a five-year high on Thursday after the
March 06, 2025France's defence minister said intelligence it provided to Ukraine was unaffected by the U.S. suspension of intelligence sharing with Kyiv, but warned that Washington's halt in
March 06, 2025Britain's Reckitt Benckiser, the maker of Strepsils throat lozenges and Dettol cleaning products, missed expectations for fourth-quarter like-for-like net sales as a
March 06, 2025America has ditched Europe. That presents an economic opportunity
March 06, 2025Ireland’s oldest university names its first building after a woman. It only took 433 years
March 06, 2025French defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu says France will keep providing military intelligence to Ukraine after Washington announced it was freezing the sharing of information with Kyiv
March 06, 2025Olympique Lyon manager Paulo Fonseca handed nine-month ban for angrily confronting referee
March 06, 2025Harry Kane sets numerous marks in Champions League win while ‘best in the world’ helps Liverpool survive PSG onslaught
March 06, 2025Harvey Elliott scored less than a minute after coming on as a late substitute to fire Liverpool to a stunning 1-0 win against Paris Saint-Germain in the first leg of the Champions League round of 16
March 05, 2025Deutsche Bank shares jumped again on Thursday, bringing their gains to 17% in the two days since German political parties agreed a tectonic spending shift to revamp the military and
March 06, 2025The EU Court of Justice on Thursday fined five countries for failing to adopt rules to boost protection for whistleblowers who expose fraud, tax evasion, data breaches and other
March 06, 2025French President Emmanuel Macron said in a televised address to the nation on Wednesday he plans next week to hold a meeting of army chiefs from European countries willing to send
March 05, 2025Britain's construction sector contracted sharply in February, with residential house-building declining at one the fastest rates since 2009 due to weak demand and high borrowing
March 06, 2025A Russian missile struck a hotel in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih late on Wednesday, killing four people and injuring 32, and rescuers
March 05, 2025These undersea tunnels connect remote islands halfway between Iceland and Scotland
December 26, 2024Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy plans to participate in the European Council meeting in Brussels on Thursday, his spokesman said.
March 06, 2025Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed Alexander Darchiev, a veteran diplomat known in the past for public denunciations of the West, as ambassador to the United States on
March 06, 2025European discounter Pepco Group has received interest from potential buyers of its struggling 825-store Poundland business in Britain, its boss said on Thursday.
March 06, 2025The U.S. has paused its intelligence sharing with Ukraine, cutting off the flow of vital information that has helped Kyiv defend against Russian invaders
March 05, 2025Merck KGaA on Thursday forecast currency-adjusted operating earnings growth of up to 8%, helped by demand for semiconductor chemicals and for lab equipment in biotech drug
March 06, 2025Spanish telecommunications company Telefonica has hired Rothschild to help it sell its unit in Peru that filed for bankruptcy protection last month, the El Confidencial news outlet
March 06, 2025A historic global trade war, a proposed $1.2 trillion European fiscal bazooka and the emergence of China as tech race leader are upending global
March 05, 2025A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Ankur Banerjee As trade tensions simmer and investors contend with Germany ripping up its fiscal rulebook, the European Central Bank is
March 06, 2025Volkswagen will focus the sales strategy for its 20,000-euro ($21,580.00) electric car coming out in 2027 on Europe, its brand chief said on Wednesday, adding the carmaker
March 06, 2025Swiss skincare firm Galderma on Thursday posted sales of $4.41 billion for 2024, up 9.3% from the same period a year earlier in constant currency terms.
March 06, 2025Pope Francis, who has been struggling to overcome double pneumonia for almost three weeks, remained in stable condition throughout the day on Wednesday and
March 05, 2025Goldman Sachs raised its economic growth forecast for Germany this year, citing the prospect of increased military and infrastructure spending, and also upgraded the growth estimate for
March 06, 2025Lufthansa's operating profit dropped by over a third in 2024, the airline said on Thursday, capping a difficult 2024 during which spiralling costs, limited airspace and delivery
March 06, 2025As Pope Francis remains hospitalized in Rome, thousands of faithful from around the world have been gathering by St. Peter’s and by the hospital to pray the rosary for him
March 06, 2025France and Britain are aiming to finalise with Ukraine, possibly "in days", a peace plan to present to the United States, while building bridges between the U.S. and
March 05, 2025Greenland's Prime Minister Mute Egede said on Wednesday that the Greenlandic people will determine their own future and do not want to be Danes nor Americans.
March 05, 2025Four senior members of President Donald Trump's entourage have held discussions with some of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's top political opponents, Politico reported on
March 06, 2025A controversial Chilean artist who planned to allow three piglets to starve as part of an exhibition in Denmark to raise awareness of the mass meat production processes has had to close the show after the the animals were stolen
March 05, 2025New Zealand's foreign minister Winston Peters said on Thursday he had sacked the country's ambassador to the United Kingdom, after he made comments seen as critical
March 06, 2025Britain's government should focus its search for welfare savings on the level of health and disability benefits rather than on tightening eligibility, and seek to
March 06, 2025Protesters have launched gasoline bombs and fireworks in clashes with police outside Greece's parliament
March 05, 2025The U.S. has paused intelligence-sharing with Ukraine, CIA Director John Ratcliffe said on Wednesday, piling pressure on Ukrainian
March 05, 2025French fashion house Courrèges’ runway show is a study in contrasts—minimal yet bold, structured yet fluid, restrained yet expressive
March 05, 2025Germany opened the door on Wednesday to changing EU fiscal rules -- the Stability and Growth Pact -- to help governments spend more on defence in the long term without worrying
March 05, 2025The Dutch government will reserve 3.5 billion euros ($3.8 billion) to continue its support for Ukraine in 2026, Prime Minister Dick Schoof said on Wednesday.
March 05, 2025Portugal's prime minister proposed on Wednesday a confidence vote in his year-old minority government, risking his own dismissal as the main
March 05, 2025Suggestions that Ukraine could lose access to Elon Musk's Starlink satellite internet system, which has been vital in
March 05, 2025Greece's centre-right government faces a no-confidence vote this week over a deadly 2023 train disaster, days after protesters brought the
March 05, 2025Vatican clarifies its position on gender affirming surgery, calling for ‘greater care’ and a case-by-case approach
March 05, 2025Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia would continue supplying electricity to the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia at a meeting in the Kremlin on Wednesday with its leader
March 05, 2025French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday said he was willing to discuss offering European allies the protection of France's nuclear capabilities, adding that Russia represented
March 05, 2025France is open to discussing extending the protection offered by its nuclear arsenal to its European partners, President Emmanuel Macron said in a
March 05, 2025The euro ascended to four-month highs on Wednesday against the U.S. dollar, as Europe's growth prospects improved after Germany's proposed 500 billion
March 05, 2025The Vatican says that Pope Francis has increased his physical activity, called the Catholic parish priest in Gaza and marked the start of Lent by receiving ashes on his forehead
March 05, 2025European Union leaders plan to hold emergency talks to agree ways to quickly increase their military budgets after the Trump administration signaled Europe must take care of its own security and also suspended assistance to Ukraine
March 05, 2025Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday there had been "positive movement" in cooperation with the United States that could lead to another meeting between the two
March 05, 2025Elon Musk's space-based internet operator Starlink is trying to acquire more spectrum in Italy, two sources told Reuters, as Rome says it is
March 05, 2025Clashes broke out in Athens on Wednesday between Greek police and demonstrators protesting over a 2023 train crash that killed 57 people, most of them students, in the country's
March 05, 2025U.S.
March 05, 2025Syria's foreign minister vowed on Wednesday to swiftly rid the country of chemical weapons remaining after the downfall of the Bashar al-Assad's government, and appealed to the
March 05, 2025The Czech government has decided to gradually raise its defence spending to 3% of gross domestic product by 2030, from around 2% now, Prime Minister Petr Fiala said on Wednesday.
March 05, 2025The government of Azerbaijan has told the local office of the International Committee of the Red Cross that it will close its operations there, a spokesperson for the Geneva-based
March 05, 2025The parties hoping to form Germany's next government have agreed to create a 500 billion euro infrastructure fund and overhaul borrowing rules, a
March 05, 2025The United States is bringing a mix of familiar faces and youth to the women’s world hockey championship tournament in the Czech Republic next month
March 05, 2025The trial of seven people charged in connection with alleged cyberbullying targeting the artistic director of last summer’s Paris Olympics’ opening and closing ceremonies has started in a Paris court
March 05, 2025Israel must meet international obligations regarding the provision of humanitarian aid for the people of Gaza, the foreign ministers of Britain, France and Germany said in a joint
March 05, 2025Iran refutes what it called 'accusations' made by Britain that it was trying to threaten the security of the UK, Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said on Wednesday.
March 05, 2025A German court on Wednesday ruled that Pfizer and its partner BioNTech violated a COVID-19 vaccine patent held by Moderna.
March 05, 2025With President Donald Trump's suspension of U.S. military aid to Ukraine, European nations are again looking at how to utilise some $300 billion of Russian state
March 05, 2025Trump officials say US paused intelligence sharing with Ukraine but signal it may not last long after fiery meeting
March 05, 2025British shares stabilised on Wednesday after a sell-off in the previous session, as investors looked for any possible reprieve from U.S. tariffs.
March 05, 2025Germany's plan for a massive ramp-up in defence and infrastructure spending will be a "positive" for its prized triple-A sovereign credit rating, S&P Global said on
March 05, 2025Prosecutors on Wednesday arrested a former senior manager of Milan's urban planning sector, alleging that a network of corruption was at the root of the dozens of
March 05, 2025European shares bounced back on Wednesday from steep declines logged in the previous session with German stocks leading gains after the country's leaders
March 05, 2025Greenland’s prime minister has a message for President Donald Trump: “Greenland is ours.”
March 05, 2025Russia is asking how Ukraine could attend potential talks on ending their three-year war when a Ukrainian decree from 2022 rules out negotiations with President Vladimir Putin
March 05, 2025For the past two months, tech billionaire Elon Musk has promoted Germany’s far-right party in at least two dozen posts on his X platform, interviewed its leader, and told his 219
March 04, 2025Trump’s cut to Ukrainian military aid could leave millions of civilians exposed to Russian ballistic missiles
March 05, 2025Swiss inflation fell to its lowest level in nearly four years in February, government data showed on Wednesday, increasing the likelihood the Swiss central bank will cut rates later
March 05, 2025The biggest three-day rally in the euro in over two years has sent analysts scrambling to rewrite their forecasts for the currency, as a surge in European
March 05, 2025Germany's Greens will negotiate hard before potentially giving their much-needed backing to debt reforms proposed by the conservatives and Social Democrats, parliamentary co-leader
March 05, 2025Germany's outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday discussed U.S.
March 05, 2025Luxury fashion group Prada's leading shareholder Patrizio Bertelli said on Wednesday he was "very cautious" about the possibility of making acquisitions, although the group is ready
March 05, 2025Volvo Cars may move production of some of its models to the U.S. depending on tariffs, but aims to stick to a plan to export its European-made EX30 SUV model to
March 05, 2025The two political parties expected to form the next German government have agreed to significantly loosen the country’s constitutional restriction on deficits, enabling 1 trillion euros ($1.08 trillion) or more in new borrowing and spending on defense and infrastructure
March 05, 2025(Corrects typographical error in word 'battling' in first paragraph.
March 04, 2025Why has Trump halted military aid to Ukraine and what will it mean for the war? Here’s what to know
March 04, 2025Julian Klausner has presented his first womenswear collection as creative director of Dries Van Noten at the Opéra Garnier in Paris, a setting that reflected the historical influences woven throughout his designs
March 05, 2025Adidas sold its last pair of Yeezy sneakers at the end of 2024, the sportswear brand said on Wednesday, ending the process of
March 05, 2025Donald Trump's White House confrontation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is exposing differences within
March 05, 2025Britain dropped its probe into Microsoft's partnership with ChatGPT maker OpenAI on Wednesday, saying the software giant did not have the level of control
March 05, 2025"Cool heads" is the mantra of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer as he tries to heal a rapidly growing rift between the United States, Europe and Ukraine.
March 05, 2025Franco-British satellite operator Eutelsat, a rival to Starlink, is among companies that are in talks with the Italian government to provide
March 05, 2025A Russian drone attack late on Tuesday killed one person and triggered power, water and heating cuts in Ukraine's Black Sea port of Odesa for the second day running, the regional governor
March 04, 2025What this Polaroid of Cindy Crawford reveals about a 1991 swimwear shoot
March 05, 2025When he was 17 years old, German artist Anselm Kiefer retraced the footsteps of Vincent van Gogh from the Netherlands through Belgium and into France
March 05, 2025Britain’s competition watchdog says it has dropped its review of Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI
March 05, 2025NATO armed forces are not ready for a modern drone war, the military commander in charge of Ukraine's unmanned systems warned, three years into a conflict with Russia in
March 05, 2025(The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a columnist for Reuters) By Mike Dolan Morning Bid U.S.
March 05, 2025Greece's main opposition will submit a censure motion against the centre-right government following mass protests over a 2023 deadly train crash last week, its leader said on
March 05, 2025Cyprus's president on Wednesday said he was committed to resuming reunification talks with Turkish Cypriots, and said any deal should be based on U.N. resolutions.
March 05, 2025Tesla saw its sales volume in Germany decline by more than three quarters in February, according to the German road traffic agency KBA, even though sales of electric vehicles
March 05, 2025A $13 billion "hyperscale" data centre in North East England proposed by U.S. private equity group Blackstone has been given the green light to go ahead by council
March 05, 2025Bayer on Wednesday raised the prospect of a return to earnings growth from 2026 after a decline this year, lifting its shares to a four-month high as its CEO
March 05, 2025German defence companies seeking more capacity as Europe prepares to raise military spending are eyeing the ailing car industry, the first sign of a shift that
March 05, 2025Germany's bold step to rip up its fiscal rulebook could be a game-changer for Europe's stuttering economy, reestablishing its biggest
March 05, 2025Arsenal breaks Champions League record with seven-goal performance against PSV, Real Madrid edges past rival Atlético
March 05, 2025Monetary policy easing in Poland may begin in the second half of 2025, International Monetary Found (IMF) representative in Poland Geoff Gottlieb said on Wednesday during the
March 05, 2025President Emmanuel Macron wants to build up French defence spending as Washington threatens to pull its European security guarantee, but funding those plans as his
March 05, 2025Italian spirits group Campari plans to put the brakes on M&A and focus on developing its most promising brands as it faces a hit from U.S. tariffs, its new chief
March 05, 2025Louis Vuitton, the world's biggest fashion label, will begin selling beauty products this fall and has tapped British makeup artist Pat McGrath to lead creative
March 05, 2025Further U.S. tariffs on imports would cause prices to rise and consumers to buy fewer products, Adidas chief executive officer Bjorn Gulden said on Wednesday as the
March 05, 2025The Bank of England's Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) is consulting on raising the retail deposits leverage ratio threshold, a move designed to allow smaller lenders to avoid
March 05, 2025Greece's top court has ordered the release of Israeli mining magnate Beny Steinmetz, setting aside a lower court ruling for his extradition to Romania on an
March 05, 2025Britain's Royal Navy said on Wednesday it monitored a Russian warship and merchant vessel this week on a voyage through the English Channel and North Sea.
March 05, 2025French planemaker Dassault Aviation reported a rise in its full-year sales on Wednesday as tensions between major nations fuel defence spending.
March 05, 2025The euro zone economy trod water again last month as a weak expansion in the bloc's dominant services industry was overshadowed by a long-running downturn in manufacturing, a survey
March 05, 2025British finance minister Rachel Reeves is working out how she can get back on track to meet her budget targets, with spending cuts widely expected when she
March 05, 2025The Kremlin said on Wednesday that future talks between Russia and the United States would include discussions on Iran's nuclear programme, a subject it said had been "touched upon"
March 05, 2025British services firms in February cut staff at the fastest pace since 2020 ahead of tax and minimum-wage hikes that come into effect next month, an industry survey
March 05, 2025Russia welcomes Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's statement that Kyiv is willing to negotiate over the war, but it is not yet clear to Moscow who it might be negotiating
March 05, 2025Germany could keep its top credit score despite a financial package worth hundreds of billions of euros planned by the parties hoping to form the country's next government, a Scope
March 05, 2025Britain's competition regulator on Wednesday cleared chip-design-software maker Synopsys'
The parties hoping to form Germany's next government on Tuesday agreed to create a 500 billion euro infrastructure fund and overhaul
March 04, 2025Record number of Americans applied for UK citizenship after Trump re-election
March 05, 2025The U.S. has been Ukraine’s biggest military backer since Russia’s full-scale invasion began three years ago
March 04, 2025Spain's service sector experienced a robust acceleration in growth in February, driven by strong increases in business activity and new orders, S&P Global reported on Wednesday.
March 05, 2025Russia's main task remains to inflict "maximum defeat" on Ukraine, former president Dmitry Medvedev said on Wednesday. "Russia is advancing.
March 05, 2025France's services sector experienced its steepest contraction in business activity since October 2023 in February, as demand weakened sharply and employment fell at the fastest rate
March 05, 2025Business activity in Germany's services sector grew for the third consecutive month in February, but the pace of expansion slowed due to subdued demand, S&P Global reported on
March 05, 2025U.S.
March 04, 2025Europe must engage the United States in security debates and help find a way to bring it closer to Ukraine after the halt of U.S. military aid to Kyiv, Czech Foreign Minister Jan
March 05, 2025Germany said on Tuesday it had halted new development aid to Rwanda and was reviewing its existing commitments in response to the African nation's role in the conflict in
March 04, 2025Italy's campaign to put more of its huge public debt in the hands of small domestic savers will grow increasingly difficult, analysts say, but foreign investors lured
March 05, 2025A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Kevin Buckland With so much going on in markets right now, it's hard to know where to look.
March 05, 2025Russia's services sector saw its slowest growth in six months in February, a business survey showed on Wednesday, as new order growth slowed.
March 05, 2025Europe's major airlines are targeting smaller deals and tie-ups after facing regulatory push-back against full mergers, focusing on minority
March 05, 2025Adidas expects sales growth of up to 10% this year, slowing slightly after a strong 2024, as it sees continued double-digit growth for the adidas brand.
March 05, 2025Europe's rush to boost funding for military spending has sent defence stocks on a tear, though investors are now wondering how much more
March 04, 2025President Donald Trump says Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy has written to him to say he appreciates U.S. support for his country in its war with Russia and is ready to sign a deal that could ensure future American support
March 04, 2025St. Francis is the medieval Catholic saint whose spirituality focused on loving the poor, creation, and peace
March 05, 2025Belarusian leader and Russian ally Alexander Lukashenko said in remarks published on Wednesday that Moscow and Minsk benefit from how the United States treats Ukrainian
March 05, 2025Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says last week's Oval Office blowup with U_S_ counterpart Donald Trump was “regrettable,” and he adds, “It is time to make things right.”
March 04, 2025Growth in Ireland's services sector eased slightly in February, with both total activity and new business expanding at the weakest rate for more than a year, a survey showed on
March 05, 2025British defence minister John Healey will meet U.S. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth in Washington on Thursday to discuss a peace plan for Ukraine, Britain's ministry of defence said.
March 05, 2025The euro and European stock futures rallied, while German Bund futures fell after the parties hoping to form Germany's next government agreed to
March 04, 2025‘Break the rules’: Designers take risks at Milan Fashion Week
March 04, 2025The Vatican says Pope Francis is in stable condition and breathing with just the help of supplemental oxygen after respiratory crises a day earlier
March 04, 2025The Prada Group has posted double-digit growth for the fourth consecutive year, bucking the luxury sector slide amid talk of a possible Versace acquisition
March 04, 2025A German tattoo artist came to the US for a 3-week trip. She’s now been in ICE detention for over a month
March 05, 2025Flutter, the world's largest online betting company, said on Tuesday it expects to increase its core profit by around 34% this year following growth of 26% in 2024,
March 04, 2025Abu Dhabi National Oil Company and Austria's OMV will merge their polyolefin businesses to create a chemicals powerhouse
March 03, 2025Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday he had instructed his defence minister and other officials to secure precise information on military supplies after the United
March 04, 2025Donald Trump's nominee to be U.S. ambassador to NATO, Matthew Whitaker, pledged on Tuesday to strengthen NATO and said the Republican
March 04, 2025The parties in talks to form Germany's new government on Tuesday agreed to try to loosen fiscal rules for defence and federal states' spending, and to create a 500 billion euros ($
March 04, 2025President Donald Trump’s pick as NATO ambassador is reassuring senators at his confirmation hearing that the Trump administration’s commitment to the military alliance is “ironclad.”
March 04, 2025Conductor Antonio Pappano is leading the orchestra on a 13-concert U.S. tour to California, Florida and New York that ends this week with its first Carnegie Hall concerts since 2005
March 04, 2025The conservatives and the Social Democrats (SPD) agreed to seek a loosening of Germany's debt brake to allow higher defence spending, and to propose the creation of a 500 billion
March 04, 2025The conservatives and the Social Democrats agreed to seek a loosening of Germany's debt brake to allow higher defence spending, as well as proposing to create a 500 billion
March 04, 2025Greenlanders have been pushed into the global spotlight in the weeks since U.S. President Donald Trump said America could take over their Arctic homeland
March 04, 2025The final race of the headfirst-sliding sport known as skeleton awaits Ukrainian athletes Vladyslav Heraskevych and Yaroslav Lavreniuk
March 04, 2025France’s prime minister has decried the U_S_ pause on military aid for Ukraine as “unbearable.”
March 04, 2025Serbian opposition lawmakers threw smoke grenades and used pepper spray inside parliament on Tuesday to protest against the government and to support
March 04, 2025Apple has appealed a British government order to create a "back door" in its most secure cloud storage systems, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the
March 04, 2025Pope Francis in stable condition after episodes of respiratory failure, Vatican says
March 03, 2025Investigators will question the driver who allegedly rammed a car into a crowd in Germany's southwestern city of Mannheim, killing two people and wounding 11
March 04, 2025At least three lawmakers were injured after chaos erupted in Serbia’s parliament, where smoke bombs and flares were thrown
March 04, 2025President Donald Trump’s nominee for the top policy job at the Pentagon is acknowledging that Russia invaded Ukraine and poses a significant military threat to the U.S. and Europe
March 04, 2025A French Reaper drone on a surveillance mission in international airspace over the eastern Mediterranean was the target of intimidation by a Russian SU-35 fighter jet, France's
March 04, 2025Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday his clash with Donald Trump last week was "regrettable", that he was ready to work under the U.S. president's leadership to
March 04, 2025Britain's finance minister said on Tuesday she was hopeful of securing a trade deal with the U.S. to avoid possible trade tariffs, but warned Britain was still likely
March 04, 2025Europe's arms firms are ready and willing to step up to fill a defence gap left by U.S.
March 04, 2025European shares retreated from record highs on Tuesday, joining a global sell-off after U.S. tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China took effect, as
March 04, 2025Italian spirits group Campari warned on Tuesday of the potential hit from U.S. tariffs in what it said would be a "transitional year" under its new chief executive.
March 04, 2025A charity vessel has rescued more than 30 migrants including two children who had been stranded for four days on a gas platform in the Mediterranean off the coast of Tunisia, the Sea-
March 03, 2025The European Commission proposed on Tuesday to borrow up to 150 billion euros ($157.76 billion) to lend to EU governments under a rearmament
March 04, 2025European Union leaders will discuss on Thursday how to finance a sharp increase in defence readiness to deter any possible future attack from
February 18, 2025Racers dressed as a skyscraper, beekeeper and a chest of drawers were among dozens of runners zipping around a central London square with a frying pan in hand to celebrate Shrove Tuesday, or “Pancake Day.”
March 04, 2025Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that Kyiv was committed to intensive diplomacy to bring a rapid end to the three-year-old war with Russia and stressed that he hoped
March 03, 2025The past and present collided in a dreamlike spectacle at Dior’s fall 2025 show in Paris, where Maria Grazia Chiuri riffed on ruffs—both literally and literarily
March 04, 2025Zelensky describes Oval Office meeting as ‘regrettable,’ says he is ready to negotiate peace
March 04, 2025English soccer club Fulham has condemned the “racist and homophobic abuse” aimed at defender Calvin Bassey on social media following the FA Cup win at Manchester United on Sunday
March 04, 2025The International Olympic Committee must take a leadership role on the participation of transgender athletes to protect women's sport, IOC presidential candidate Juan Antonio
March 04, 2025Germany's central bank proposed on Tuesday a far-reaching reform of the country's constitutionally enshrined cap on borrowing, which could give the government up to 220 billion
March 04, 2025German trade union Verdi and logistics company DHL, which runs the national postal service, said on Tuesday they have reached a wage deal that will see workers'
March 04, 2025Norway will extradite a man to Rwanda on the East African country's request, to stand trial on charges of committing murder during the 1994 Rwanda genocide, Norwegian police
March 04, 2025European defence company shares retreated on Tuesday, surrendering earlier gains, after record run up on Monday, when stocks were buoyed by the prospect of higher defence spending in the
March 04, 2025European companies, from Swiss chocolatiers to German car parts makers, are preparing their "plan Bs" to adapt to
March 04, 2025Prada's CEO indicated on Tuesday the Italian fashion group was at least looking at potential mergers and acquisitions following reports linking it with possible deals
March 04, 2025Joey Molland, a guitarist with the Welsh pop-rock band Badfinger that was known for such 1970s hits as “No Matter What” and “Day After Day,” has died at age 77
March 04, 2025The first time Donald Trump spoke to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, he tried to pressure Ukraine’s new leader to dig up dirt on Joe Biden ahead of the 2020 election
March 01, 2025Ukraine is "firmly determined" to continue cooperation with the United States, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said on Tuesday following the news that Washington paused
March 04, 2025U.S. tariffs on European Union food products would cause "billion of dollars of damage" for Italy's prized agricultural exports including Parma ham and Prosecco wine, an Italian
March 04, 2025Italy's Piaggio, the maker of the iconic Vespa scooter, reported what it said was its highest ever annual core profit margin of 16.9% on Tuesday, citing tight productivity management.
March 04, 2025Bayer's CEO is facing increasing investor pressure to deliver on turnaround efforts and reverse a forecast earnings decline this year, as the group prepares to
March 04, 2025European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen hosted steel sector executives on Tuesday for a debate on how to ensure the industry's future health as it faces high energy costs,
March 04, 2025Swiss chocolate maker Lindt & Spruengli will supply chocolate to Canada made in Europe to avoid Canadian tariffs imposed to counter the higher U.S. customs duties
March 04, 2025Washington's suspension of military assistance will not lead to a sudden collapse of Ukraine's defensive lines, but it could have a real impact on the
March 04, 2025Serbian MPs toss smoke grenades in parliament as lawmaker suffers stroke
March 04, 2025German automotive parts supplier Continental expects a weak year for the market in 2025, and has yet to assess the potential impact of new U.S
March 04, 2025Shares in European carmakers and automotive suppliers fell sharply on Tuesday, after U.S. tariffs of 25% took effect on imports from Canada as well as Mexico, a major automotive supply and
March 04, 2025French President Emmanuel Macron says he’s ready to start discussions on nuclear deterrence with European allies
March 04, 2025As Pope Francis has battled double pneumonia in hospital for nearly three weeks, talk of the 88-year-old pontiff's death or resignation has become almost
March 04, 2025Finland's foreign minister said on Tuesday that Washington's pivot towards Russia is unlikely to bring an end to the war in Ukraine, and that President Donald Trump would likely
March 04, 2025Prosecutors have requested that a French police officer stands trial for murder after the deadly shooting of a teenager in 2023 that sparked violent protests across the country, the
March 04, 2025Poland will review its Recovery and Resilience Plan with a view to redirecting funds towards defence and economic resilience, Polish Funds Minister Katarzyna Pelczynska-Nalecz said
March 04, 2025U.S.
March 04, 2025U.S. President Donald Trump has paused military aid to Ukraine following his clash with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy last week, a White House official said.
March 04, 2025Officials say peace concessions and an apology could convince Trump to lift a devastating pause on Ukraine aid.
March 04, 2025Automaker Stellantis said on Tuesday it welcomed the European Commission's announcement that it would propose a softening of the bloc's carbon emission targets for cars.
March 04, 2025Italy's unemployment rate fell slightly to 6.3% in January from an upwardly revised 6.4% the month before, national statistics bureau ISTAT reported on Tuesday, with a net 145,000
March 04, 2025Swiss chocolate maker Lindt & Spruengli will increase its prices in the double digit percentage range during 2025 to offset high cocoa prices, Chief Financial Officer Martin Hug
March 04, 2025Russia said on Tuesday that any normalisation of relations with the United States would require the lifting of sanctions against Moscow.
March 04, 2025Finland's security and intelligence service Supo is closely watching how U.S. intelligence positions itself towards Russia under the Trump administration, Supo's chief said on
March 04, 2025HSBC has kicked off a process to find a new CEO for its UK business after appointing Ian Stuart to a newly created role in charge of customer engagement and culture, the bank said on
March 04, 2025The Kremlin said on Tuesday that pausing U.S. military aid to Ukraine would be the best contribution to the cause of peace, but cautioned that Russia needed to
March 04, 2025Italian businessman Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone has recently raised his stake in insurer Generali to 8%, MF newspaper reported on Tuesday, citing financial sources.
March 04, 2025Ukraine’s president has few options after last week’s astonishing Oval Office row with U.S. President Donald Trump, who berated the wartime leader
March 03, 2025The chief of the European Union’s executive is proposing an 800 billion-euro ($841 billion) plan to beef up EU defenses
March 04, 2025Mercedes-Benz has won agreement from its works council to offer buy-outs to staff and reduced planned salary increases by half, it said on Tuesday, part of a wider cost-cutting
March 04, 2025The Belgian government aims to accelerate defence spending by 4 billion euros ($4.2 billion) in the coming months, the Belgian defence ministry said on Tuesday, confirming a report
March 04, 2025British grocery inflation held steady last month, helped by supermarket promotions which shoppers are increasingly relying on to keep their bills low amid worries over the cost of
March 04, 2025The frequency of cable incidents in the Baltic Sea has been "exceptional" in recent years, but state actors have more effective ways of performing underwater
March 04, 2025It’s timber over Tinder in a forest in northern Germany where the Bridegroom’s Oak has connected lovers for more than a century
March 04, 2025President Donald Trump has directed a “pause” to U.S. assistance to Ukraine after a disastrous Oval Office meeting as he seeks to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to engage in negotiations to end the war with Russia
March 03, 2025U.S.
March 04, 2025The number of people registering as jobless in Spain fell 0.23% in February from a month earlier, or by 5,994 people, leaving a total of 2.59 million people out of work, data from the
March 04, 2025Volvo Cars sold 50,662 cars in February, up 1% from a year earlier, the Sweden-based company said on Tuesday, as sales of its electric vehicles declined for the month.
March 04, 2025Several senior Russian missile specialists have visited Iran over the past year as the Islamic Republic has
March 04, 2025Switzerland's Lindt & Spruengli reported a slightly better than expected full-year operating profit on Tuesday, demonstrating its pricing power in the face of historically
March 04, 2025Authorities in Germany say a driver rammed a car into a crowd Monday in the city of Mannheim, killing two people and injuring 11 others
March 03, 2025The ancient tradition of the Bell People in the Greek village of Distomo marks the end of carnival
March 03, 2025The Kremlin said in remarks published on Tuesday that the next round of Russia-U.S. talks on ending the war in Ukraine is unlikely to happen before the embassies of both countries resume
March 04, 2025An acquisition of Versace by Italian luxury group Prada would create a company with a broader base that is more resistant to business cycles, but reviving the
March 04, 2025A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Kevin Buckland Europe wakes up to new U.S. tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China, bringing into starker relief Donald Trump's threat of levies
March 04, 2025Greenlanders have been pushed into the global spotlight in the weeks since U.S. President Donald Trump said America could take over their Arctic homeland
March 04, 2025Nearly a decade after Pope Francis plucked them from a refugee camp in Greece, a Syrian couple and their child have carved out a quiet life in suburban Rome
March 04, 2025European leaders are planning visits to Vietnam in coming months to strengthen ties with the Southeast Asian nation, officials said, amid tensions with
March 04, 2025The Vatican says that Pope Francis has suffered two new episodes of acute respiratory crises and has been put back on noninvasive mechanical ventilation
March 03, 2025Britain's privacy watchdog, the Information Commissioner's Office, on Monday launched an investigation into how TikTok, Reddit and online image sharing
March 03, 2025A Russian drone attack injured four people and damaged energy infrastructure in Ukraine's Black Sea port of Odesa on Monday, triggering power cuts in the city and knocking out heating
March 03, 2025Trump pauses military aid to Ukraine after Oval Office argument with Zelensky, White House official says
March 04, 2025British retailers will likely push up their prices in the coming months in response to higher employment costs in April, according to a survey on Tuesday which
March 04, 2025Pope Francis suffered two episodes of "acute respiratory insufficiency" on Monday, the Vatican said, a setback for the 88-year-old pontiff as he battles
March 03, 2025Lech Walesa, the former Polish president and Solidarity trade union leader who played a leading role in the fall of Communism, signed a letter to U.S.
March 03, 2025Ukraine's parliament said on Monday that the country's security was ensured by support from the United States and described President Donald Trump's peacekeeping efforts as "decisive" in
March 03, 2025A car drove into a crowd in the western German city of Mannheim on Monday, killing at least two people and injuring 11 others,
March 03, 2025Elon Musk appears be to turning off potential Tesla buyers with his embrace of far-right politicians around the world, analysts say, and the hit couldn't come at a worse time
March 03, 2025Two killed, 11 injured after car rams crowd in German city of Mannheim
March 03, 2025Trump continues to seethe at Zelensky as national security team gathers to discuss what’s next on Ukraine
March 03, 2025The euro rebounded on Monday as hopes for a Ukraine peace deal improved, and interest rate differentials moved against the dollar ahead
March 03, 2025France’s prime minister has torn into U.S. President Donald Trump’s Oval Office thrashing of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy by calling it a staggering show of “brutality” that aimed to humiliate Ukraine's leader
March 03, 2025Pope Francis had breakfast, drank coffee and read the newspapers, Vatican sources said, the morning after he suffered a sudden episode of respiratory difficulty the previous day that required high flow oxygen through a mask to help him breathe. CNN's Christopher Lamb reports.
February 28, 2025US suspends offensive cyber operations against Russia, senior US official says
March 03, 2025U.S. President Donald Trump criticized Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Monday over comments he made that a deal to end the war with Russia was not near.
March 03, 2025Pope Francis, battling double pneumonia in hospital, suffered two episodes of "acute respiratory insufficiency" on Monday and required use of non-invasive, mechanical
March 03, 2025U.S.
March 03, 2025Jack Vettriano, the self-taught Scottish painter best known for the work "The Singing Butler", has died aged 73, his publicist said on Monday.
March 03, 2025OPEC+ has decided to proceed with a planned April oil output increase, the group said on Monday, a move that follows U.S.
March 03, 2025The leaders of Britain and France are spearheading a desperate diplomatic drive to shore up Europe’s security, bolster Ukraine’s defenses and ensure the Trump administration doesn’t seek a ceasefire on terms that reward Moscow for invading its neighbor
March 03, 2025Russia has permanently banned nine Japanese citizens from entering the country, according to a list published by the Russian Foreign Ministry on Monday.
March 03, 2025The European Union will provide Moldova with 60 million euros ($62.95 million) to spend on defence this year, the European Council's president said on Monday, to boost the
March 03, 2025The head of Goldman Sachs in Spain and Portugal, Olaf Diaz-Pintado, will retire this summer and be replaced by two internal executives to allow for an orderly transition, according
March 03, 2025Defence stocks powered European shares to a record high on Monday, after expectations mounted of higher military spending in the region, and the prospect
March 03, 2025The chairman of the U.S.
March 03, 2025Britain said on Monday that several proposals had been made for a truce in fighting between Ukraine and Russia, after France floated a plan
March 02, 2025Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says a deal to end the war between Ukraine and Russia “is still very, very far away."
March 03, 2025Former Barclays boss Jes Staley did not mislead the UK's financial watchdog over his relationship with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, Staley's lawyers said on
March 03, 2025The prospect of a military spending boom by Germany unprecedented since the Cold War sent Europe's defence stocks soaring after Reuters
March 03, 2025Police evacuated Vienna's main train station on Monday over an unspecified threat, halting rail traffic before giving the all clear around 90 minutes later, but national rail company
March 03, 2025Former soccer leaders Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini are back in a Swiss court as their new trial on fraud, forgery and misappropriation charges opened
March 03, 2025President Donald Trump’s senior aides and allies are criticizing Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy
March 02, 2025Kazakhstan raised crude oil and gas condensate production in February by 13% from January to a record high 2.12 million barrels per day, a source told Reuters on Monday, again
March 03, 2025The International Court of Justice, also known as the World Court, said on Monday that Judge Yuji Iwasawa had been elected as its new president to complete former president Nawaf
March 03, 2025“Flow,″ a wordless cat parable, has won the Oscar for animated feature at Sunday’s 97th Academy Awards
March 03, 2025Austria's first three-party government since the aftermath of World War Two took office on Monday, ending the country's longest-ever wait for a ruling coalition
March 03, 2025A meeting between President Donald Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky devolved into a shouting match at the Oval Office today, with the US president berating Ukraine’s leader and Vice President JD Vance questioning whether Zelensky had demonstrated enough gratitude for US support.
March 02, 2025One person has died and several are injured after a car drove into a crowd of people in the German city of Mannheim on Monday, a police spokesperson said, adding that one suspect
March 03, 2025Russian farming conglomerate Rusagro has begun exporting sunflower oil from the St Petersburg terminal (PNT) on the Baltic Sea as it seeks to
March 03, 2025Tesla sales plunged in Scandinavia and France in February from a year ago, eroding its market share, as the electric vehicle maker
March 03, 2025(Opinions expressed are those of the author.) By Mike Dolan A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan.
March 03, 2025Pope Francis is in stable condition but ‘risk of crisis’ remains, Vatican sources say
February 28, 2025The United Nations rights chief expressed deep concern on Monday about a "fundamental shift in direction" by the United States under President
March 03, 2025Italian luxury group Prada is moving closer to a deal to buy Versace from upmarket fashion group Capri Holdings after agreeing to a price of nearly 1.5 billion euros ($1.6 billion),
March 02, 2025Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter said he was innocent when he appeared in a Swiss court on Monday alongside France soccer great Michel Platini, 2-1/2
March 03, 2025Ukraine's international bonds tumbled to their lowest level in more than a month on Monday after the clash between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and U.S
March 03, 2025US rugby star Ilona Maher tearfully ends her short but significant time in England with Bristol Bears Women
March 03, 2025European defense stocks hit record high after Trump and Zelensky’s disastrous meeting
March 03, 2025The publicist for Scottish painter Jack Vettriano says he has been found dead in his apartment in France
March 03, 2025The U.K.’s data protection watchdog says that it's investigating how TikTok uses the personal information of teenagers to deliver content recommendations to them when they use the social media platform
March 03, 2025Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) said foreign policy and defence must take priority in talks led by their conservative rivals to form a new coalition government but declined to give
March 03, 2025Even as they have rallied to Volodymyr Zelenskiy's side after his Oval Office clash with Donald Trump, European leaders' approach to the war in
March 03, 2025British homebuyers borrowed the most in new mortgages since September 2022 in January, while approvals for new lending dropped less than expected ahead of the end of
March 03, 2025Austria’s new government has taken office after an unprecedented five-month wait for a new administration
March 03, 20255 key takeaways from a frenetic weekend of Ukraine diplomacy
March 03, 2025Just months before becoming chancellor of Austria on Monday, Christian Stocker was a party functionary with no ministerial experience, fast approaching retirement
March 03, 2025Trump insists Putin wants peace. But the war is raging – and Ukrainian civilians are dying
March 03, 2025The Kremlin said on Monday that pledges made by European leaders at a London summit on Ukraine over the weekend to increase funding to Kyiv will not help bring about a peaceful
March 03, 2025Euro zone inflation dipped a bit less than expected last month but its most closely watched component also dropped, sealing the case for another ECB interest
March 03, 2025British factories cut staff at the fastest pace in nearly five years last month as the government's payroll tax increase began to push up their costs and demand
March 03, 2025Tech giant Amazon on Monday said it will use artificial intelligence to reduce flood risks in Spain's northeastern region of Aragon where it is building data centres.
March 03, 2025The European Central Bank is set to cut rates again on Thursday, but investors haven't been this unsure in a while on what comes next.
March 03, 2025Italy's economy grew by a listless 0.7% last year, below the government's official 1% forecast, but the budget deficit fell by more than expected as tax revenues jumped
March 03, 2025The Kremlin said on Monday that someone would have to force Volodymyr Zelenskiy to make peace and that the Ukrainian leader's public clash
March 03, 2025Inflation in Europe eased to 2.4% in February, supporting the case for another interest rate cut from the European Central Bank but leaving open how far the central bank will go in lowering borrowing costs
March 03, 2025“Flow,” a wordless cat parable that became the first Latvian film to win an Academy Award, prompted a sleepless night for Latvians celebrating the historic accolade
March 03, 2025U.S.
March 03, 2025France's prolonged manufacturing downturn showed signs of easing in February as declines in output and new orders slowed, a survey compiled by S&P Global showed on Monday.
March 03, 2025Italian manufacturing activity contracted for an 11th month running in February, though by slightly less than expected, a survey showed on Monday, amid persisting declines in output
March 03, 2025The long-running downturn in the euro zone's manufacturing industry showed further signs of easing last month as demand fell at the slowest pace in almost three years, a survey
March 03, 2025Carmaker Stellantis has nominated Daniel Ramot and Alice Schroeder as new board members, as well as proposing the re-election of five others, it said on Monday, as the mandates of
March 03, 2025Turkish annual consumer price inflation slowed to 39.05% in February, official data showed on Monday, lower than a Reuters poll forecast and sustaining a downtrend since it peaked
March 03, 2025Turkey's manufacturing sector showed signs of continued struggle in February, reflecting ongoing challenges with new orders, output and employment all hurt by muted market demand,
March 03, 2025Budget carrier Norwegian has agreed to buy 10 Boeing 737-800 aircraft that are currently part of its leased fleet, the airline said on Monday.
March 03, 2025A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Wayne Cole.
March 03, 2025Russian manufacturing activity grew only slightly in February as overall demand stagnated, a business survey showed on Monday.
March 03, 2025British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has rallied his European counterparts to shore up their borders and throw their full weight behind Ukraine as he announced outlines of a plan to end Russia’s war
March 02, 2025The Vatican says Pope Francis has remained in stable condition and didn’t need any mechanical ventilation
March 02, 2025The acting leader of Abkhazia has won a presidential election in the breakaway Georgian region, state media said on Sunday, months after his predecessor was driven
March 02, 2025British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Sunday European leaders had agreed to draw up a Ukraine peace plan to present to the
March 01, 2025Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appeared on Fox News shortly after his Oval Office meeting with President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance broke down into an angry exchange.
March 01, 2025Manchester United has crashed out of the FA Cup in a penalty shootout defeat to Fulham
March 02, 2025Clothed troublemakers are banned from nudist beaches in Germany
March 01, 2025A Russian drone struck a multi-storey apartment building late on Sunday in Ukraine's second largest city, Kharkiv, triggering a fire and injuring eight people, the city's mayor said.
March 02, 2025Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday he believed he could salvage his relationship with U.S.
March 02, 2025‘A crossroads in history’: Europe seeks to take control of Ukraine negotiations at pivotal London summit
March 02, 2025Top Republicans aligned with U.S.
March 02, 2025Shell is considering a potential sale of its chemicals assets in Europe and the United States, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing sources familiar with the matter.
March 02, 2025Influential Russian parliamentarians dismissed a summit of European leaders in London on Sunday, saying it had produced no plan to settle the war in Ukraine.
March 02, 2025British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says Europe must take responsibility for defending itself as world leaders met in London to discuss working together to stop Russia’s war in Ukraine
March 02, 2025Polish cybersecurity services have detected unauthorized access to the Polish Space Agency's (POLSA) IT infrastructure, Minister for Digitalisation Krzysztof Gawkowski said on
March 02, 2025It’s not the least bit surprising that Jaden Agassi — son of tennis legends Andre Agassi and Steffi Graf — had a racket in his hand from the time he could walk
March 02, 2025British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Sunday announced a new 1.6 billion pound ($2 billion) deal that would allow Ukraine to purchase 5,000 air-defence missiles using export finance
March 02, 2025Europe urgently needs to rearm and member states must be given the fiscal space to carry out a surge in defence spending, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on
March 02, 2025NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said that some European leaders had privately set out new plans on defence spending during a meeting in London, but he declined to give details,
March 02, 2025British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Sunday said he did not accept that the United States under President Donald Trump was an unreliable ally.
March 02, 2025German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Sunday that a halt in fighting could be a starting point for potential peace talks for Ukraine.
March 02, 2025Pope Francis remained stable through the day on Sunday and no longer required the use of mechanical ventilation to breathe, the Vatican said, in a sign of
March 02, 2025Vance previously slammed Zelensky for lack of gratitude. This time, it placed him at center of tense Oval Office exchange
March 02, 2025Charli xcx’s “Brat” reign continues, as she cleared the decks at this year’s BRIT Awards – the U.K.’s leading music awards show
March 02, 2025Naomi Girma, women’s soccer’s first million-dollar player, has been injured on her Chelsea debut
March 02, 2025White House amplifies rave reviews for Trump’s handling of Zelensky showdown as Europe rallies around Ukraine
March 02, 2025Britain and France will work on a peace deal with Ukraine and present it to Donald Trump, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Sunday, describing it as a step in the right
March 02, 2025The last day of Milan Fashion Week dawned Sunday with fanciful and joyous confections shown beneath an arch of iridescent flowers by emerging designer Susan Fang, whose latest collection was supported by Dolce & Gabbana
March 02, 2025Giorgio Armani created an intimate salon for the fashion crowd to get an up-close view Sunday of the latest collection from his signature brand, an extravaganza of textures, craftsmanship and the designer’s trademark elegance
March 02, 2025The parties in talks to form Germany's new government are considering quickly setting up two special funds potentially worth hundreds of billions of euros, one for
March 02, 2025Ukraine said on Sunday it condemned a "breach of territorial sovereignty" by employees of the U.N. nuclear watchdog who visited the Russia-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in
March 02, 2025Turkish and British officials will discuss Syria's future during a meeting in Ankara on Monday, with security, sanctions and economic development on the agenda, a Turkish foreign
March 02, 2025Members of Austria's liberal Neos party on Sunday voted overwhelmingly in favour of a coalition deal with the conservative People's Party (OVP) and Social
March 02, 2025British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Sunday dismissed calls to cancel the offer of a state visit to U.S.
March 02, 2025Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Sunday praised U.S.
March 02, 2025Would Pope Francis resign? Experts say it’s unlikely – but the pontiff often springs surprises
March 01, 2025British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Sunday he was convinced Donald Trump wanted to see a lasting peace in Ukraine despite an ugly row between the U.S. leader and Ukrainian
March 02, 2025NATO member Norway will continue to supply fuel for U.S.
March 02, 2025As Pope Francis remains hospitalized, a group of migrant transgender women are praying for his recovery
March 02, 2025Oscar contender “Emilia Pérez” has been named the best French film of the year at the Césars awards — France’s equivalent of the Oscars
March 01, 2025Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) called President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance cowards and puppets after their meeting with Ukrainian President Zelensky devolved into a tense shouting match.
February 28, 2025Singer Charli XCX, whose album "Brat" inspired a cultural phenomenon last summer, was the big winner at the BRIT Awards, Britain's pop music honours, in
March 01, 2025Thousands stood in silence for 15 minutes in the southern city of Nis on Saturday to commemorate those killed in a railway station disaster, in a student-led
March 01, 2025The FA Cup could yet be a way for Manchester City to finish a disappointing season with a trophy
March 01, 2025Zelensky says Trump’s backing is ‘crucial’ after US president berated him at White House
March 01, 2025British Prime Minister Keir Starmer greeted President Volodymyr Zelenskiy with a warm embrace on Saturday after the Ukrainian leader flew to London for talks
March 01, 2025A new monitoring mission from the U.N. nuclear watchdog arrived on Saturday at the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine for the first time through Russian territory, a
March 01, 2025Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has thanked the American people and leadership and voiced hope for “strong relations,” a day after an astonishing Oval Office blowout with U.S. President Donald Trump that left many uncertain where the once staunch allies stood
March 01, 2025French President Emmanuel Macron spoke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and U.S.
March 01, 2025An angry White House clash between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Donald Trump divided the U.S. president's fellow Republicans and dimmed
March 01, 2025British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy he has the nation’s unwavering support a day after the blowout at the White House with President Donald Trump
March 01, 2025Pope Francis remained in stable condition a day after a respiratory crisis
March 01, 2025The Dolce & Gabbana runway finished on the streets Saturday, letting the crowd of fashion fans gathered outside share the excitement of the normally closed and exclusive world of Milan Fashion Week
March 01, 2025There has long been a Vatican taboo against openly talking about a conclave when a pope is sick: It’s considered gauche to speculate about the election of a new pope while the current one is fighting for his life
March 01, 2025French President Emmanuel Macron has said he is ready to start discussions on nuclear deterrence for Europe, hinting France could help to protect other EU countries, given the
March 01, 2025Pope Francis, who has been in hospital for just over two weeks fighting double pneumonia, is in a stable condition and has not had further breathing crises,
March 01, 2025Senior Russian politicians have reacted with glee to what they see as Volodymyr Zelenskiy's White House humiliation at the hands of Donald Trump, saying
February 28, 2025Ukrainians faced a daunting new reality on Saturday following the White House clash between President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and U.S.
March 01, 2025The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group declared an immediate ceasefire on Saturday, a news agency close to it said, heeding jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan's disarmament
March 01, 2025Hungary's prime minister has urged the European Union to start direct discussions with Russia on a ceasefire in Ukraine and drop plans for a joint declaration at an
March 01, 2025NATO chief Mark Rutte said on Saturday he told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that he needs to find a way to restore his relationship with U.S.
March 01, 2025Kurdish militants who have waged a 40-year insurgency in Turkey have declared a ceasefire, just two days after their imprisoned leader called for the group to disarm
March 01, 2025Ukrainians have rallied around President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as a defender of their country’s interests in the hours after he left the White House after an astonishing Oval Office blowout with President Donald Trump
February 28, 2025Western allies rally around Zelensky after Trump spat deepens rift with Europe
March 01, 2025Mysterious tunnels sketched by Leonardo da Vinci in the late 1400s may have been found
March 01, 2025Mondo Duplantis breaks pole vault world record for 11th time, while his debut single plays around the stadium
March 01, 2025Russia's Foreign Ministry said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's trip to Washington on Friday was a political and diplomatic failure and that he was obsessed with continuing
March 01, 2025Russian drones struck a medical facility and other targets late on Friday in Ukraine's second largest city, Kharkiv, wounding at least seven people, local officials said.
February 28, 2025President Donald Trump’s Oval Office thrashing of Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy has laid bare the limits of a full-court press by America’s allies aimed at reshaping Trump’s determination to end Russia’s invasion even if the terms are not to Ukraine’s liking
March 01, 2025Czech cold-water swimmers have set a new world record for the largest polar bear dip
March 01, 2025Turkey's foreign minister will reiterate at Sunday's meeting of European leaders in London an offer from Ankara to host peace talks between Ukraine and Russia, a Turkish diplomatic
March 01, 2025Marco Asensio has scored a second-half brace to take Aston Villa into the FA Cup quarterfinals
February 28, 2025The Vatican says Pope Francis suffered a coughing fit that resulted in him breathing in vomit, requiring non-invasive mechanical ventilation
February 28, 2025The meeting between U.S.
March 01, 2025Kirill Tremasov, advisor to the governor of Russia's central bank, said on Saturday that the bank will have a full understanding of lending trends by the April meeting on the key
March 01, 2025At least four people died after cyclone Garance struck the French overseas territory of La Reunion on Friday, bringing wind speeds of up to 155 kph (96 mph), local authorities said
March 01, 2025The Norwegian government will soon ask that parliament increases its financial backing for Ukraine, Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere told public broadcaster NRK on Saturday.
March 01, 2025Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday it was "very important" that Ukraine's plight was heard and not forgotten, a day after a heated White House meeting with U.S.
March 01, 2025Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and U.S.
February 28, 2025The Swiss National Bank will not refrain from using interest rates and currency interventions to steer monetary policy despite the risk of being branded a "currency manipulator" by
March 01, 2025Ukrainians on the streets of Kyiv rallied around President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday after his angry exchange with U.S.
February 28, 2025European leaders have pledged to stand by Ukraine in the wake of the contentious Oval Office meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
February 28, 2025Exclusive: Rubio says Zelensky should apologize following Oval Office meeting
March 01, 2025Synopsys is looking to sell about $10 billion of bonds as soon as next week to help finance its acquisition of software maker Ansys, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people with
February 28, 2025Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's meeting with Donald Trump ended in disaster on Friday, after the two
February 28, 2025President Donald Trump says he wants an “immediate” ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine and has warned Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to make peace or lose American support
February 28, 2025President Donald Trump berated Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for being “disrespectful” in an extraordinary Oval Office meeting, then abruptly called off the signing of a minerals deal that Trump said would have moved that country closer to ending its war with Russia
February 28, 2025Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Friday said Italy would propose to its partners an immediate summit involving the United States and European nations and allies to discuss how
February 28, 2025Vice President JD Vance was dismissing Ukraine long before he upended an Oval Office meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
February 28, 2025U.S.
February 28, 2025Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and U.S.
February 28, 2025European leaders lined up to show solidarity with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday, after he came under attack from U.S.
February 28, 2025Donatella Versace strutted a confident collection brimming with house codes during Milan Fashion Week amid speculation that the fashion house is on the market
February 28, 2025At age 90, Giorgio Armani has more than a few cards still up his sleeve
February 28, 2025Switzerland has invited 196 states who are parties to the Geneva Conventions to participate in a conference next week on the situation of civilians living in the Israeli occupied
February 28, 2025Microsoft is closing down Skype, the video-calling service it bought for $8.5 billion in 2011 and which had helped spark a transformation in how people communicate online
February 28, 2025Officials from the International Monetary Fund and the Ukrainian government reached a staff-level agreement on the seventh review of Ukraine's $15.5 billion Extended Fund
February 28, 2025U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy did not sign a minerals deal on Friday, a White House official told Reuters.
February 28, 2025On snow-covered fields in central Ukraine, where some of the country's biggest proven lithium deposits are located, a small team of
February 28, 2025Andrew and Tristan Tate, who are charged with human trafficking in Romania, have returned to the U.S. after authorities lifted travel restrictions on the siblings, who have millions of online followers
February 28, 2025Britain's financial watchdog said on Friday a four-year prison sentence has been issued in the UK's first case involving unregistered cryptoasset activity.
February 28, 2025Portugal's Prime Minister Luis Montenegro denied on Friday opposition allegations of a conflict of interest between his role and a consulting firm he founded, announcing the cabinet
February 28, 2025Pope Francis had an "isolated breathing crisis" in hospital on Friday, the Vatican said, in a setback as the 88-year-old pontiff battles double pneumonia.
February 28, 2025For the mother of U.S. veteran Ethan Hertweck, travelling to Kyiv to collect the body of her son who was killed in Russia's war in Ukraine in 2023 has rammed
February 28, 2025Czech firefighters are battling a major blaze in eastern Czech Republic after a freight train derailed and carcinogenic benzene from damaged tank wagons caught fire
February 28, 2025British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Thursday he had discussed with U.S.
February 27, 2025The British government called an urgent meeting with the BBC on Friday over the making of a documentary about children's lives in Gaza that was narrated by the 13-
February 28, 2025Israel is lobbying the United States to keep Syria weak and decentralised, including by letting Russia keep its military bases there to
February 28, 2025Austrian parties that plan to form a coalition government excluding the far right announced their future ministers on Friday, among them the first left-wing
February 28, 2025U.S. proposals to hit Chinese vessels with high port fees would have a major impact on all firms in a container shipping industry in which most vessels are built in China, French-
February 28, 2025Election winner Friedrich Merz said on Friday he was open to reforming Germany's legally prescribed spending limits as his conservatives
February 28, 2025Banks struggled to process payments on Friday after an unprecedented day-long breakdown in the European Central Bank's machine
February 28, 2025The European Commission will present measures next week meant to boost demand for electric vehicles (EVs)in the European Union, and envisages local content
February 28, 2025Dozens arrested in global operation over AI-generated child sexual abuse material
February 28, 2025Banco BPM on Friday secured shareholder approval for its decision to pay more to buy fund manager Anima Holding, a key plank of the Italian bank's
February 28, 2025An artist in Denmark is seeking to raise awareness of the suffering caused by modern pig production with an art installation that includes three piglets starving to death
February 28, 2025Fenerbahce manager Jose Mourinho has been given a four-match ban and fined by the Turkish Football Federation following his comments about Turkish referees after a match at Galatasaray on Monday
February 28, 2025French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday he was concerned about the detention and the health of Franco-Algerian author Boualem Sansal in Algeria, and added that it was time to
February 28, 2025Bosnia's autonomous Serb region passed legislation barring the national police and judiciary from its territory after a state court banned its separatist leader
February 28, 2025Protesters hurled petrol bombs and set fire to trash cans in Athens on Friday as hundreds of thousands of Greeks went on strike and took to
February 28, 2025A depressed German loaf of bread named Bernd das Brot is celebrating his 25th anniversary as the reluctant star of a children’s television program
February 28, 2025The French defense minister says France is also seeking access to Ukraine’s deposits of critical minerals, indicating that the United States isn’t the only player
February 27, 2025Facebook enables gender discrimination in job ads, European human rights body rules
February 28, 2025Romania's pro-European coalition government survived a no-confidence vote in parliament on Friday, avoiding further political turbulence in the NATO and European Union member
February 28, 2025Italy's government on Friday adopted a law paving the way for a return to nuclear energy almost 40 years after it was banned by referendum, in what Prime Minister
February 28, 2025Romania's defence spending could reach 3% of GDP in stages in one to two years, interim President Ilie Bolojan said on Friday, signalling a further rise in its target as U.S.
February 28, 2025Tayyip Erdogan's long-held goal of ending Turkey's conflict with Kurdish militants is a step closer after their jailed chief's peace call, giving
February 28, 2025Russia said on Friday it was sending a new ambassador to Washington, the latest sign of a thaw between the two countries as they try to mend their damaged relations and seek an end to the
February 28, 2025French President Emmanuel Macron acknowledged on Friday that he left Washington after talks this week with President Donald Trump with scant hope that the European Union
February 28, 2025British international development minister Anneliese Dodds resigned on Friday in a surprise move triggered by Prime Minister Keir Starmer's
February 28, 2025“Conclave” author Robert Harris isn’t staying up to watch the Oscars
February 28, 2025What did King Charles say in his letter to Donald Trump?
February 28, 2025Russia’s Foreign Ministry says it has suggested restoring direct air links between Russia and the United States during the latest round of consultations with Washington
February 28, 2025A majority of Russians are in favor of peace talks, but a very vocal minority eye US overtures with suspicion and contempt.
February 28, 2025Russian steelmaker Severstal on Friday slammed a decision by a regional governor to ban migrant workers in the construction industry and
February 28, 2025An Italian court on Friday announced the early end of a special administration regime placed on an Italian subsidiary of French luxury giant LVMH over allegations of labour
February 28, 2025Lenovo on Friday won an appeal in Britain in its attempt to get an interim licence to use Ericsson's patents, the latest ruling in the companies' global licensing dispute.
February 28, 2025German inflation remained flat in February for the second month in a row at 2.8%, preliminary data from the federal statistics office showed on Friday, despite
February 28, 2025Kenan Gashi saws the limbs off old mannequins in his shop in Kosovo and throws them into machines donated by the U.S. government that shred and clean the plastic
February 28, 2025Andrew Tate and brother arrive in Florida after leaving Romania, spokesperson says
February 27, 2025She traveled to Italy to save her marriage. Here’s how she ended up falling for her Italian tour guide
February 28, 2025Moscow asks for direct flights to resume between Russia and the US
February 28, 2025Two dozen people were arrested this week for their role in a criminal group that distributed images generated by artificial intelligence of children being sexually abused, the
February 28, 2025Inside a struggling Ukraine mine, Trump’s mineral deal dreams meet war-torn reality
February 28, 2025Fausto Puglisi offered a grand tour of Pompeii in his latest collection for Roberto Cavalli presented Thursday during Milan Fashion Week
February 27, 2025Romanian prosecutors on Friday called for the temporary arrest of a mercenary who stashed illegal weapons and cash at home and 20 other people with links to the far-right
February 28, 2025Tropical cyclone smashes into French Indian Ocean island, bringing 100-mile-an-hour winds
February 28, 2025Newly discovered Pompeii frieze shows wild Bacchanalian rituals
February 28, 2025Serbia's deputy prime minister followed up on a meeting with Russia's spy chief in Moscow by accusing Western intelligence agencies on Friday of trying to destabilise the country
February 28, 2025Classic Italian novel “The Leopard” has been transformed into a sumptuous period piece by Netflix
February 28, 2025Germany's outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz will travel to London on Sunday to participate in a meeting of European Union leaders to discuss their response to Donald Trump's push for
February 28, 2025A centre-right candidate in Poland's presidential election on Friday became the second contender in the race to call for lower interest rates, after the central
February 28, 2025When police told Louis-Marie, 35, that they believed he had been sexually abused two decades earlier by a surgeon who treated him for appendicitis, he
February 28, 2025Britain is trying to discredit China's policy in the northwestern Xinjiang region, a spokesperson at China's embassy in London said.
February 28, 2025Russia said on Friday it had suggested restoring direct air links with the United States at what it described as "substantive and businesslike" talks in Turkey.
February 28, 2025Russia sees talks with US as an opening to rebuild its spy networks, officials say
February 28, 2025British Airways owner IAG reported a 27% jump in annual operating profit on Friday, beating market expectations as it curbed costs and growth in
February 28, 2025Euro zone inflation prospects improved while growth remained anaemic, fresh data showed on Friday, solidifying the case for further ECB rate cuts to stimulate an economy that has
February 28, 2025Russia's FSB security service said on Friday it had arrested two church figures suspected of plotting to kill a priest close to President Vladimir Putin on the orders
February 28, 2025Peppa Pig is getting another little brother or sister
February 28, 2025Internet figure and self-described misogynist Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan arrived in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, from Romania on Thursday, shortly after prosecutors lifted a travel
February 27, 2025Sweden's sluggish economy picked up speed in the fourth quarter thanks to strong exports, business investment and household spending, with the figures likely to support the
February 28, 2025French inflation dropped below 1% for the first time in four years in February, preliminary data from statistics agency INSEE showed on Friday.
February 28, 2025Euro zone consumers lowered their near-term inflation expectations last month but continued to see economic contraction ahead, indicating that households remain relatively
February 28, 2025India and the European Union have agreed to finalize a long-pending free trade agreement this year and boost cooperation in trade, technology, connectivity and defense
February 28, 2025British house prices rose by a stronger-than-expected 0.4% in February compared with January, according to data published by mortgage lender Nationwide on Friday, adding to signs of
February 28, 2025Turkey's unemployment rate slipped by 0.1 percentage points month-on-month to 8.4% in January, official data showed on Friday.
February 28, 2025French car parts supplier Forvia is drafting an action plan on how to deal with the impact of U.S. tariffs on its Mexican operations, and plans to
February 28, 2025A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Kevin Buckland It's been building for a long time, but worries about the destabilising and economically destructive potential of Donald
February 28, 2025Government cost cuts to curb Romania's chronic budget deficit and avert a ratings downgrade are causing a social backlash that
February 28, 2025One morning in October 2024, three men entered the Moscow headquarters of Glavprodukt, the largest maker of canned food in Russia.
February 28, 2025Holcim gave more details of its plan to spin off its North American business on Friday as the building materials company reported better-than-expected earnings for its
February 28, 2025Hours after Friedrich Merz's conservatives won Germany's national election, he sent the outgoing Social Democrat government a memorandum dictating
February 27, 2025Russian and U.S. teams held six hours of talks in Turkey on Thursday to try to restore normal functioning of their embassies, and Vladimir
February 27, 2025Russian and U.S. diplomats have held talks in Istanbul to discuss ways to normalize the operation of their respective embassies after rounds of diplomatic expulsions in recent years
February 27, 2025Trump’s promise of ‘very big deal’ with Zelensky undercut by officials’ widespread doubts over Ukraine’s resources
February 28, 2025The militant Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, announced its resolve to dissolve itself in a historic declaration that could end one of the Middle East's longest-running insurgencies and bring stability to the region
January 13, 2025British businesses turned more optimistic for the first time in seven months in February as they took a brighter view on the economy and ramped up their hiring plans, according to a
February 28, 2025U.S.
February 27, 2025The United States and Britain are negotiating a bilateral trade agreement, U.S.
February 27, 2025President Donald Trump said on Thursday that a minerals deal with Ukraine is the security guarantee Kyiv needs against Russia,
February 27, 2025British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is using a visit to Washington to press President Donald Trump not to abandon Ukraine as he looks to find a quick endgame to Russia’s bloody invasion of its neighbor
February 27, 2025Boris Spassky, a Soviet-era world chess champion who lost his title to American Bobby Fischer in a legendary 1972 match that became a proxy for Cold War rivalries, has died in Moscow
February 27, 2025Hungarian government clamps down on Pride march, citing ‘child protection’ reasons
February 27, 2025A framework agreement outlining U.S. access to revenues from Ukraine's natural resources in exchange for security guarantees has legal
February 27, 2025British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Thursday that he would work with U.S.
February 27, 2025Boeing and other top aerospace firms are scouring their supply chains to determine their exposure to a major fire last week at a Philadelphia-area parts
February 27, 2025A travel ban was lifted on influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate
February 27, 2025The European Central Bank said late on Thursday it had fixed an unprecedented outage in its payment system which had
February 27, 2025West Ham handed relegation-threatened Leicester its fourth straight Premier League loss by beating Ruud van Nistelrooy’s team 2-0
February 27, 2025The European Union is insisting that the 27-nation bloc is not out to undermine the United States as U.S. President Donald Trump put it
February 27, 2025Influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate have arrived in the U.S. from Romania after authorities lifted travel restrictions on the siblings, who have millions of online followers
February 27, 2025Turkey's jailed militant leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to disarm and disband on Thursday, a move that could end its 40-year conflict with Ankara and
February 27, 2025French President Emmanuel Macron urged residents on the French overseas territory of Reunion to hunker down on Thursday as a cyclone barrelled toward the Indian Ocean island.
February 27, 2025Online rights activists have filed complaints with data protection authorities in several European countries about U.S. software firm Meta's targeted advertising practices, the
February 27, 2025President Donald Trump said on Thursday he was inclined to back a deal between Britain and Mauritius over the future of a U.S.-UK military base in the Chagos
February 27, 2025The dollar jumped on Thursday and was poised for its biggest daily percentage gain in more than two months as U.S.
February 27, 2025Kurdish separatist leader calls on followers to disarm, potentially ending a five-decade insurgency with Turkey
February 27, 2025Imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan has called on his militant group to lay down its arms and dissolve as part of a bid to end a four-decade long conflict that has claimed tens of thousands of lives
February 27, 2025Puig, the Spanish beauty company behind perfume brands Rabanne, Carolina Herrera and Jean Paul Gaultier, expects revenue growth to slow to 6%-8% this year following
February 27, 2025Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy met Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin during a brief stop off in Ireland on Thursday on his way to a key meeting with U.S.
February 27, 2025Donald Trump accepted an invitation from King Charles on Thursday to visit Britain, making the U.S. president the first elected political leader in modern times to be hosted for
February 27, 2025Top model Irina Shayk injected buzz into Georgian designer David Koma’s debut as Blumarine creative director, opening the Fall-Winter 2025-26 preview show during Milan Fashion Week on Thursday in a mood-setting, sharply executed, shearling-trimmed coat
February 27, 2025Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico was set to reclaim a slim parliamentary majority for the government on Thursday after submitting to the president a proposed cabinet change and
February 27, 2025Numerous fashion companies are potentially interested in buying Versace, Miuccia Prada, owner of the Italian luxury group Prada, said on Thursday.
February 27, 2025European shares retreated from record highs on Thursday, with automakers leading declines as investors evaluated the impact of U.S.
February 27, 2025Hungary will amend the constitution soon to emphasise child protection, the government said on Thursday, a move paving the way for a ban on the annual Pride march by LGBTQ+
February 27, 2025Pope Francis' health is continuing to improve, the Vatican said on Thursday, offering a cautiously upbeat assessment as the 88-year-old
February 27, 2025The Vatican says that Pope Francis continues to improve from double pneumonia Thursday, though doctors say he needs more days of “clinical stability” before they revise their guarded prognosis
February 27, 2025Norwegian soccer will vote this weekend on whether to scrap the use of video reviews in its top league after a turbulent couple of years since the technology was introduced in the Nordic country
February 27, 2025The European Central Bank will trim its deposit rate again next week to 2.50%, according to all 82 economists polled by Reuters who expected two further cuts by
February 27, 2025Two researchers who threw explosive bottles over the perimeter wall and into the garden of the Russian consulate in Marseille were sentenced on Thursday by a French court to
February 27, 2025By Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE - The International Criminal Court will urgently continue its investigation into crimes committed in Palestinian territories, or by Palestinians, the prosecutor's
February 27, 2025Online influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan left Romania on a private flight to the U.S. on Thursday and arrived in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, their media
February 27, 2025Georgia has moved to renew contracts with Israeli technology firm Cellebrite DI Ltd for software used to extract data from mobile devices, procurement documents show,
February 27, 2025Turkey's jailed militant leader Abdullah Ocalan called on his Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to disarm and disband on Thursday, a move that could end its 40-year
February 27, 2025A US teenager has been arrested in Paris after her newborn baby was allegedly thrown out of a hotel window and died, prosecutors and French media say. CNN's Saskya Vandoorne reports.
February 25, 2025What we do and don’t know about Trump’s ‘very big deal’ on Ukraine’s mineral resources
February 26, 2025Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard says she has serious concerns about the British government’s reported demand that Apple provide backdoor access to any data stored in the cloud
February 27, 2025A move by the European Commission to pare back its flagship sustainability reporting rules risks making it harder for investors to
February 27, 2025Stock market strategists are sticking to their positive view on the performance of global equity markets, expecting solid gains in even the most beaten-down indexes in India and
February 27, 2025Pension negotiations between French unions and employers must chart a path for steering the retirement system's finances back to balance by the end of the decade, Prime Minister
February 27, 2025A likely delay in tougher new capital rules for UBS has fed uncertainty about the outlook for the Swiss bank but also paused potentially onerous
February 27, 2025Euro zone inflation was heading back to target but there were still some worries about it, warranting caution in signalling further policy easing, the European Central Bank
February 27, 2025Bosnia's Serb Republic is expected to bar the state police and judiciary from operating on its territory on Thursday, a day after a state court ordered the
February 27, 2025Apple is facing a likely antitrust fine as the French regulator prepares to rule next month on the company's privacy control tool, two people with direct knowledge
February 27, 2025The jailed leader of the outlawed Kurdish militant group PKK called on Thursday for the group to lay down its arms and dissolve itself, in a letter read by Turkey's pro-Kurdish
February 27, 2025The jailed founder of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan, appealed on Thursday to his militant group to disarm and to dissolve itself.
February 27, 2025The 75-year-old militant leader Abdullah Ocalan has spent a quarter of a century in jail after leading his Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to take up arms against
February 27, 2025A Romanian court ruled in favour of an appeal from internet personality Andrew Tate and his brother and lifted a precautionary seizure on multiple assets, his representative said on
February 27, 2025Ad group WPP expects its revenue and profit to be flat at best this year because of a weak Chinese market and uncertainty in the United States, it said on Thursday,
February 27, 2025Greece's worst rail disaster in 2023 was caused by chronic safety gaps that still need to be addressed to prevent a repeat, investigators said on Thursday.
February 27, 2025The three biggest centrist parties in Austria's parliament have agreed to form a new coalition government, sidelining the far-right Freedom Party (FPO) even though it came first in
February 27, 2025Italy's Agnelli family cut its controlling stake in Ferrari by around 4%, raising about 3 billion euros ($3.14 billion) to fund potential new M&A deals, its
February 26, 2025Europe's ailing steel sector needs to be better protected from cheap imports as current measures are insufficient, French industry minister Marc Ferracci said on Thursday.
February 27, 2025Austria's three main centrist parties in parliament reached a deal to form a coalition government without the far-right Freedom Party that won the last
February 27, 2025Before he was hospitalized for double pneumonia, Pope Francis was battling firm resistance from some of his own cardinals about how to plug a widening gap in
February 27, 2025President Vladimir Putin on Thursday warned "Western elites" against trying to sabotage a potential rapprochement between Russia and the
February 27, 2025Henry Kissinger once mused ‘Who do I call if I want to speak to Europe?’ The question now might be, would Washington bother to dial if there were?
February 27, 2025Romanian prosecutors said on Wednesday they had launched a criminal investigation against Calin Georgescu, the far-right frontrunner in last year's cancelled presidential election
February 26, 2025ROME -Morale among Italian businesses and consumers moved in opposite directions in February, data showed on Thursday, offering little clarity over the prospects for the euro zone's third largest
February 27, 2025Russia's largest lender Sberbank reported on Thursday a record annual profit of 1.58 trillion roubles ($18.1 billion) after corporate and
February 27, 2025The Kremlin said on Thursday it believed a one-year jail term and political ban handed down to Bosnian Serb separatist leader Milorad Dodik was politically-motivated and could have
February 27, 2025The EU Court of Justice should rule in favour of Austria in its appeal against the European Commission's decision to approve Hungary's state aid for the expansion of its Paks atomic plant,
February 27, 2025A Spanish court on Thursday reduced the sentences of two of five men convicted in the so-called "Wolf Pack" rape case in 2016 after a change in the country's sexual crimes law
February 27, 2025The Kremlin said on Thursday that it believed dialogue with the United States should move forward as long as there is political will on both sides and a readiness to listen to each
February 27, 2025Weak external demand and the impact of conflicts slowed economic growth again in countries covered by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD),
February 27, 2025An independent investigative committee in Greece has released a long-awaited investigation into the country's deadliest train crash
February 27, 2025Italy will unveil a set of measures on Friday worth roughly 3 billion euros ($3.14 billion) to help families and firms cope with high energy costs, Deputy Prime
February 27, 2025Nivea maker Beiersdorf on Thursday reported higher 2024 sales and said it expected sales to still grow in the current year, albeit
February 27, 2025A trade war is in no-one's interest but the European Union will respond after U.S.
February 27, 2025The Swiss economy grew by a better than expected 0.5% in the fourth quarter, the government said on Thursday, as the country's pharmaceuticals sector compensated for
February 27, 2025Shares in Ocado, the British online supermarket and technology group, plunged on Thursday on market concerns the global roll-out of its robotic sites is too slow.
February 27, 2025Cypriot authorities were guilty of bias and victim-blaming in failing to investigate a British teenager's gang-rape allegation against Israeli tourists in 2019, the European Court of Human
February 27, 2025U.S.
February 27, 2025Britain's Rolls-Royce lifted its mid-term targets to reflect its confidence in future profit growth after a plan to improve engines and cut costs helped its results
February 27, 2025London Stock Exchange Group set new goals for improved profitability in 2025 on Thursday, citing a strong pipeline of enhancements to its
February 27, 2025The U.K. government has provided provisional approval to the creation of a second runway at Gatwick Airport outside London
February 27, 2025Prince and Princess of Wales put their baking skills to the test during visit to flood-hit community
February 27, 2025A referee says Real Sociedad fans chanted “Die” at Real Madrid defender Raúl Asencio during the first leg of the Copa del Rey semifinals
February 27, 2025A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Kevin Buckland It could be taken as testament to the market's laser focus on the health of the U.S. economy - and the threat from Donald
February 27, 2025The Max Mara woman is following her dreams and taking comfort in well-tailored cashmere in soothing monochromes when the day – or world -- goes awry
February 27, 2025The European Union is getting good at adapting to unprecedented circumstances
February 27, 2025North Korea has deployed additional troops to Russia, but the scale of the contingent was not immediately known, South Korean media reported on Thursday, citing the country's
February 27, 2025Reinsurance company Swiss Re said on Thursday that claims from wildfires in Los Angeles would be less than $700 million and would impact its first
February 27, 2025Traders who bet on the future course of inflation foresee the sharpest divergence for three years between the U.S. and euro zone, driven by different growth paths
February 27, 2025A small town on Italy's Lake Garda that was home to Italy's last fascist government voted late on Wednesday to cancel an honorary citizenship for Benito Mussolini.
February 27, 2025EU Council President Antonio Costa on Thursday said he had invited Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to the special summit of EU leaders on March 6, to discuss future
February 27, 2025France's Vallourec signalled improvement in deliveries in the second half of 2025 on Thursday, after it reported an expected 24% drop in fourth
February 27, 2025Germany's Munich and Hamburg airports were hit by strikes by public sector union Verdi on Thursday and Friday, with airlines cancelling about 80% of flights in Munich.
February 27, 2025French President Emmanuel Macron and Germany's conservative chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz agreed during a meeting in Paris to open a new chapter in Franco-German relations, a
February 27, 2025BELGRADE - The United States has suspended sanctions for 30 days on Serbian oil company NIS, which is majority-owned by Russian companies and runs the country's only oil refinery, President Aleksandar
February 27, 2025South Korea’s spy agency says North Korea appears to have sent additional troops to Russia, after its soldiers deployed on the Russian-Ukraine fronts suffered heavy casualties
February 27, 2025Profits made by services firms, which dominate Britain's economy, have plunged and confidence has dried up especially among consumer-facing companies exposed to the cost-of-living
February 27, 2025Britain's vehicle output was off to a poor start in 2025, with January production down nearly 18% year-on-year, due to weakness in key markets such as the European Union, China and the UK,
February 27, 2025American teen detained in Paris after newborn fatally thrown from hotel window
February 25, 2025The Vatican says Pope Francis has shown further slight improvement as he battles double pneumonia, but doctors still say his prognosis is still guarded
February 26, 2025The European Commission said on Wednesday it will react "firmly and immediately against unjustified barriers to free and fair trade" after U.S.
February 26, 2025British Prime Minister Keir Starmer urged the United States on Wednesday to provide a security "backstop" to any future European peacekeepers in Ukraine,
February 26, 2025CRH forecast core profit growth of 6% to 12% in 2025 after the largest building materials producer in the United States and Europe on Wednesday posted 12% growth
February 26, 2025The founder of a cryptocurrency financial services firm has been extradited from Portugal to face U.S. charges that he participated in a wide-ranging scheme to
February 26, 2025Tesla's stock tumbled 8% on Tuesday, pushing its market value below $1 trillion for the first time since November after data showed the electric car maker's sales slumped
February 25, 2025U.S.
February 26, 2025British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will on Sunday host leaders of Italy, Germany, Poland and other allies - possibly including Ukrainian
February 26, 2025Kylian Mbappé’s replacement Endrick scored a first-half goal and Real Madrid won 1-0 at Real Sociedad in the first leg of the Copa del Rey semifinals
February 26, 2025The latest Jil Sander collection with shimmering surfaces cut dramatically against the darkened runway on the second day of Milan Fashion Week runway previews for next fall and winter
February 26, 2025Marni creative director Francesco Risso set up an impromptu jazz club and invited friends like Tracee Ellis Ross to model his latest collection during Milan Fashion Week previews on Wednesday for Fall-Winter 2025-26
February 26, 2025It feels like a matter of when, not if, Liverpool seals a record-equalling 20th English league title
February 26, 2025Pope Francis, who has been hospitalized for more than a week, remains in “critical” condition and developed an “asthmatic respiratory crisis,” the Vatican said in a statement. CNN medical analyst Dr. Jonathan Reiner joins CNN’s Jessica Dean to break down the latest details on the pope's health.
February 23, 2025Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday dismissed the commander of the Joint Forces of Ukraine's Armed Forces, Andriy Hnatov, following his appointment to another position.
February 26, 2025Germany's incoming government must address the economy's structural faults quickly and should reform fiscal rules to allow for greater investment in Europe's largest economy,
February 26, 2025U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that his administration will soon announce a 25% tariff on imports from the European Union.
February 26, 2025U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is flying to Washington on a trip aimed at persuading U.S. President Donald Trump to maintain military support for Ukraine
February 26, 2025President Donald Trump says Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy will visit the White House on Friday to sign a minerals deal that will closely tie the two countries together for years to come
February 26, 2025Following are some key details of a draft framework minerals agreement between Ukraine and the United States, a copy of which - dated Feb. 25 - has been reviewed by Reuters.
February 26, 2025French President Emmanuel Macron will dine with Germany's chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz at the Elysee Palace in Paris on Wednesday evening, the Elysee said.
February 26, 2025Tyremaker Pirelli will seek to limit the impact of possible tariffs, including by expanding U.S. output, it said on Wednesday, while forecasting an adjusted earnings before interest
February 26, 2025U.S. officials are examining whether the UK broke a bilateral agreement by reportedly demanding that Apple build a "backdoor" allowing the British government to access
February 26, 2025California couple Joanna McIsaac-Kierklo and Ed Kierklo wanted to spend their later years in southern France, so they moved. They quickly realized how hard it was and wanted to return, until the US election.
February 26, 2025A planned meeting between European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas and Secretary of State Marco Rubio has abruptly canceled due to “scheduling issues.”
February 26, 2025A preliminary economic agreement between Ukraine and the United States would ensure long-term U.S. involvement in rebuilding the country, but the deal leaves the question of security guarantees sought by Kyiv to future negotiations
February 26, 2025A court in Bosnia has sentenced the pro-Russia Bosnian Serb president, Milorad Dodik, to one year in prison and banned him from politics for six years over his separatist actions as tensions mount in the fragile Balkan state
February 26, 2025Romanian prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation against a far-right populist who won the first round in a canceled presidential election last year
February 26, 2025Ukraine will not be on the agenda when U.S. and Russian officials meet in Istanbul on Thursday for talks over the operation of their respective diplomatic missions, a State
February 26, 2025Fast-fashion retailer Shein found two cases of child labour at its suppliers last year, the same number as in 2023, following more audits of its mostly China-based third-party
February 26, 2025France said on Wednesday it would review a decades-old agreement that makes it easier for Algerian citizens to move to France unless Algeria agrees to take back those who are
February 26, 2025An unknown artist has created a public mural in London of Luigi Mangione, the man accused of shooting and killing a U.S. health insurance executive in New York last year.
February 26, 2025A Bosnia court on Wednesday sentenced Bosnian Serb separatist leader Milorad Dodik to one year in jail and ordered him to step down as president of the
February 26, 2025Pope Francis has shown a "further, slight improvement" in his medical condition, the Vatican said on Wednesday, in a sign of progress as the 88-year-old
February 26, 2025Russian and U.S. diplomats will meet in Istanbul on Thursday for talks aimed at restoring their respective diplomatic missions, seen as a step towards
February 26, 2025The Bank of England's response to higher U.S. tariffs and other trade restrictions will depend on the extent to which they disrupt supply chains rather than just
February 26, 2025Pope Francis is sitting up in hospital and receiving treatment, Vatican says
February 23, 2025Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that Moscow could not consider "any options" for European peacekeepers being sent to
February 26, 2025He shook Romania’s political landscape in November when he secured the first round in the presidential election, going from an obscure candidate to beating the incumbent prime minister
February 26, 2025Baby white rhino Nova has given her first open-air media show, jumping and frolicking with her mother Ellie in her enclosure at the Pairi Daiza zoo
February 26, 2025Zelensky calls US-Ukraine minerals deal a ‘framework’ as it emerges agreement has no security guarantees
February 26, 2025Iran's stock of uranium close to weapons grade has jumped since it announced a dramatic acceleration in enrichment in December and there has been no progress on
February 26, 2025German group Stroeer's sale of its multi-billion-euro outdoor advertising business has suffered a setback as two bidders balked at
February 26, 2025The United States on Wednesday abstained from a statement by members of the World Trade Organization condemning Russia's aggression in Ukraine, a diplomatic
February 26, 2025UniCredit's Russian subsidiary last year sued the Italian bank's own German arm as part of a court case relating to guarantee payments in Russia which UniCredit could not honour
February 25, 2025British finance minister Rachel Reeves said on Wednesday she was confident that U.S.-UK trade and investment would not be derailed as President Donald Trump
February 26, 2025The EU Commission on Wednesday said it had unconditionally approved the $2.3 billion acquisition of U.S. optical semiconductors and networking equipment maker Infinera by Nokia.
February 26, 2025Britain's FTSE 100 touched one-week highs on Wednesday, led by gains in banks and mining stocks, while luxury retailer Burberry boosted the midcap index following a rating upgrade.
February 26, 2025European shares closed at a record high on Wednesday as corporate earnings took centre stage and investors assessed the impact of a critical minerals
February 26, 2025The European Central Bank is poised to give Italy's UniCredit the green light to build up its stake in German rival Commerzbank, a person familiar with the
February 26, 2025CNN's Fareed Zakaria reacts to the US and Ukraine agreeing to terms on a deal over natural resources and reconstruction.
February 26, 2025Lando Norris was fastest and seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton 13th as Formula 1 teams had to deal with a power outage that disrupted preseason testing
February 26, 2025Pope Francis’ ‘complex’ health crisis triggers wave of prayer and uncertainty across Rome
February 26, 2025Russia and the U.S. will seek to mend diplomatic ties during talks also focused on ending the conflict in Ukraine as part of a surprise rapprochement under President Donald Trump.
February 26, 2025Archaeologists in Pompeii have uncovered rare, nearly life-sized frescoes that offer fresh insight into religious practices in the ancient city before it was
February 26, 2025Ukrainian lawmakers on Wednesday approved a measure that would allow for the setting up of new courts to settle high-level political disputes, as part of a reform effort being closely
February 26, 2025Hungary's annual Budapest Pride should be held in a "closed venue" this year rather than processing along an avenue in central Budapest as previously, Prime Minister Viktor
February 26, 2025A new study reassures people that the nightmare disaster movie scenario of Atlantic Ocean currents collapsing, with weather running amok putting Europe in a deep freeze, looks unlikely this century thanks to a rescue from around Antarctica
February 26, 2025UniCredit Chief Executive Andrea Orcel's pay package rose by almost a third last year to 13.2 million euros ($13.8 million) including a one-off share award, the Italian bank said in
February 26, 2025Dozens of dignitaries walked out of Russia's speech to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva on Wednesday in support of Ukraine.
February 26, 2025Russia's Gazprom Neft transferred stakes of around 5.15% in Serbia's NIS oil company to Gazprom, in an attempt to ward off U.S. sanctions that could result
February 26, 2025President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday the success of Ukraine's minerals deal with Washington hinged on his looming talks with
February 26, 2025The head of the world's largest aircraft leasing company, AerCap, said on Wednesday that Russia may look to buy used aircraft or engines
February 26, 2025Latvia’s foreign minister is warning that Russian President Vladimir Putin will try to achieve in peace talks what he hasn’t been able to accomplish in his war against Ukraine — weaken the United States and restore control over his smaller neighbor
February 26, 2025Tipsy tourist fined $520 after diving into Rome’s Trevi Fountain
February 26, 2025British energy company BP has confirmed it is to slash spending on green ventures and up its oil and gas production
February 26, 2025Investigators have called for terrorism charges to be brought against a man suspected of attempting to assassinate Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, the country's general prosecutor said
February 26, 2025Police are on high alert ahead of Germany's traditional carnival celebrations this week after social media connected to the Islamic State militant group called for attacks targeting
February 26, 2025Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) said on Wednesday they had agreed to start talks on a possible coalition with Friedrich Merz's
February 26, 2025The Romanian parliament adopted a bill on Wednesday allowing the army to shoot down drones illegally breaching Romanian airspace, based on threat levels and risks to human life
February 26, 2025The Belgian federal prosecutor said on Wednesday it had started a probe into alleged Chinese hacking of Belgium's intelligence service VSSE in November 2023, confirming an earlier
February 26, 2025Fenerbahçe manager José Mourinho accused of making ‘racist statements’ by rival team
February 25, 2025Pro-Russia Romanian presidential candidate questioned by prosecutors, his team says
February 26, 2025Hungary's economic growth this year is likely to come in between 2% and 3%, below the official government forecast of 3.4%, Prime Minister Viktor Orban's chief of staff said in a
February 26, 2025Shares in Wolters Kluwer fell around 9% on Wednesday after the Dutch information services firm said its long-time CEO Nancy McKinstry would retire early next year.
February 26, 2025ATHENS - Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis warned Greeks on Wednesday against any violence during scheduled protests to mark two years since a deadly train accident this week, saying provocative
February 26, 2025Economic growth in the Netherlands will be stronger than previously expected this year, as wage growth offsets persistently high inflation, economic policy adviser CPB said on
February 26, 2025Italian police have seized 46.8 million euros ($49.1 million) from a local unit of logistics giant Deutsche Post DHL as part of the latest investigation into alleged tax fraud linked
February 26, 2025UniCredit has asked German antitrust authorities to approve its move to take a substantial stake in Commerzbank, another key hurdle for the Italian bank to
February 26, 2025The investment vehicle of the Sandoz family will get 2.6 billion Swiss francs ($2.90 billion) from selling a chunk of Swiss pharma giant Novartis, the bookrunner on the deal said on
February 26, 2025European leaders must resist "capitulation" to Russia over Ukraine, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Wednesday, ahead of a virtual meeting of EU leaders to discuss the war
February 26, 2025Big investors are sensing that a fresh joint European borrowing effort is becoming more likely as the region scrambles to ramp up defence spending.
February 26, 2025Boxer Chris Eubank Jr. smashes an egg in the face of opponent Conor Benn during wild face-off
February 26, 2025Shares in Worldline fell 15% after the French digital payments company reported on Wednesday yearly revenues
February 26, 2025Russia attacked Ukraine with nearly two hundred drones overnight, targeting mostly the Kyiv region and energy facilities in the east in strikes that killed two people, authorities
February 25, 2025Britain's Aston Martin will cut 5% of its workforce to save 25 million pounds ($31.61 million), its chief executive said on Wednesday, after a sharp rise in the luxury
February 26, 2025What it’s like inside the secret World War II tunnels set to become a huge new tourist attraction
February 26, 2025Britain ramps up defense spending and cuts foreign aid, ahead of PM Starmer’s crucial meeting with Trump
February 25, 2025US and Ukraine agree to terms on natural resources and reconstruction deal, Ukrainian official says
February 25, 2025Luxury carmaker Porsche replaced its CFO and head of sales on Wednesday with two company veterans as it reshuffles its board in the hopes of reviving flagging performance and a
February 26, 2025German healthcare group Fresenius reported fourth-quarter earnings above market expectations on Wednesday, driven by a strong performance at its
February 26, 2025French food group Danone said on Wednesday it would use some of its record cash for acquisitions as it further expands into health and medical nutrition, having
February 26, 2025Even months later, the pain of losing a pet can still hit without warning
February 26, 2025For centuries, one of the biggest taboos at the Vatican was openly discussing the pope's health.
February 25, 2025A growing number of investors and strategists expect a correction in their local European stock market over the coming three months, before the
February 26, 2025German consumer sentiment is set to darken heading into March, bucking expectations for a slight improvement, as households keep a wary eye on the economic and
February 26, 2025By Tom Sims and Alexander Hübner FRANKFURT - Germany's Munich Re expects about 1.2 billion euros ($1.26 billion) in claims resulting from the Los Angeles wildfires, it said on Wednesday, representing
February 26, 2025Three senior Ukrainian officials say that Ukraine and the U.S. have reached an agreement on a framework for a broad economic deal that would include access to Ukraine's rare earth minerals
February 25, 2025Automaker Stellantis said on Wednesday it would return to revenue growth and positive cash generation in 2025 as it scrambles to recover from a crisis which engulfed its U.S.
February 26, 2025Colombian police apprehended a 40-year-old man attempting to smuggle several bags of cocaine concealed beneath a meticulously attached toupee
February 25, 2025Moscow is working on bringing 16 children to Russia from Ukraine and plans to reunite 10 children with relatives in Ukraine, Russia's presidential commissioner for children's rights told
February 26, 2025Up to 160,000 part-time retail jobs in Britain are at risk of being lost over the next three years as a result of higher employer taxes and regulatory changes, the British Retail
February 26, 2025Chelsea wasn’t so reliant on Cole Palmer this time
February 25, 2025Canada remains a contender for a carbon brakes factory from France's Safran, the Canadian industry minister said on Tuesday, despite the looming threat of 25%
February 25, 2025British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday they welcomed U.S.
February 25, 2025Barcelona and Atletico Madrid both rallied from two goals down in a frantic 4-4 draw in the first leg of the Copa del Rey semifinals
February 25, 2025The commemoration of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine three years ago was mostly a Democratic affair at the U.S. Capitol
February 25, 2025Ukraine and the United States are in the final stages of negotiating a minerals deal considered central to ending Russia's three-year-old war in Ukraine, a senior Ukrainian official said
February 24, 2025The son of a retired French surgeon accused of raping and sexually assaulting hundreds of young patients told a court on Tuesday that Joel Le Scouarnec
February 25, 2025Pope Francis, battling double pneumonia, remains in critical condition for the fourth day running but is stable and has not had any
February 25, 2025The Vatican says that Pope Francis remains in critical but stable condition
February 25, 2025French President Emmanuel Macron traveled to Washington seeking to convince U.S. President Donald Trump to stand by Europe’s side in his talks with Russia about ending the war in Ukraine
February 25, 2025It’s a case of physician, heal thyself in new hospital dramas at the moment as TV showcases a selection of hardworking but flawed medical staff
February 25, 2025U.K. authorities are punishing Rwanda over its support of the rebels who now control two major cities in eastern Congo
February 25, 2025European shares closed slightly higher on Tuesday, after gains in banks and healthcare companies offset declines in technology stocks.
February 25, 2025Should French carmaker Renault wish to buy back its majority stake in Russia's top carmaker Avtovaz, it would have to pay at least 112.5 billion
February 25, 2025Dozens of countries rallied behind Ukraine at a meeting at the United Nations in Geneva on Tuesday, a day after the U.N.
February 25, 2025Europe should move from freezing Russian assets to seizing them, British foreign minister David Lammy said on Tuesday, hardening Britain's position on how the West
February 25, 2025In a press conference at the White House, French President Emmanuel Macron politely shut down President Trump's claim that Europe is loaning money to Ukraine, further explaining how the EU gave the money. CNN's Jeff Zeleny breaks down the exchange.
February 24, 2025The notorious French fugitive who staged a deadly escape that killed two guards last year has been extradited to France from Romania
February 25, 2025UK users are losing a key Apple security feature, raising questions about the future of privacy
February 25, 2025A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Stella Qiu It is a sea of red in Asia as investors grapple with risk posed by the U.S. intensifying its technology war with China in areas
February 25, 2025Russia will not be readmitted into the Group of Seven nations as U.S. president Donald Trump has requested, German Finance
February 25, 2025The German economy shrank by 0.2% in the final quarter of 2024 compared with the previous quarter, the statistics office reported on Tuesday, confirming a preliminary reading.
February 25, 2025Dormakaba expects to keep growing its organic sales in the U.S. even as the Swiss access and security group studies the impact of President Donald Trump's tariffs on its
February 25, 2025The estimated cost to rebuild Ukraine's economy after Russia's invasion has risen to $524 billion, nearly three times its expected 2024 economic output, the
February 25, 2025Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Lorie Logan on Tuesday floated the idea of allocating a "modest" part of the Fed's balance sheet to loans and repos, perhaps holding a daily
February 25, 2025On a cold December morning in 1975, Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov met a Norwegian diplomat on a Moscow street to hand over his acceptance
February 25, 2025The world's largest dialysis specialist Fresenius Medical Care topped market expectation for its fourth quarter results on Tuesday, helped by positive
February 25, 2025Russia's embassy in London said Britain's new package of sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine was "illegitimate" and many of those targeted had no connection to the
February 25, 2025The European Central Bank has room to cut its interest rates further if inflation eases to its 2% goal this year as it expects, ECB policymaker Joachim Nagel said on Tuesday,
February 25, 2025The EU Commission on Tuesday said it will present plans to make Europe's ailing steel sector more competitive and to shield it from looming U.S. trade tariffs in the spring.
February 25, 2025Romania's three opposition far-right parties filed a motion of no confidence in the pro-European coalition government on Tuesday, a move likely to fail but also to boost the
February 25, 2025Britain will aim to spend 3% of its GDP on defence in the next parliament, due to begin in 2029, and will help to fund that increased spending by cutting its aid budget, Prime
February 25, 2025Britain will not sign trade deals with potential suppliers such as the U.S. that open the way for food imports that are produced in a way that would be illegal for the country's
February 25, 2025Four Hamas members suspected of plotting attacks on Jewish institutions in Europe went on trial in Berlin on Tuesday, in what prosecutors described as the first court case
February 25, 2025Unilever may struggle to attract buyers for its plant-based meat business, complicating the company's plan to cut its exposure to products which
February 25, 2025U.S. carmaker Tesla will acquire parts of the insolvent German high-tech parts maker Manz AG, including more than 300 employees at its site in Reutlingen city in the southwest, the
February 25, 2025TUI wants to attract holidaymakers from China and the United States to its new hotels in Asia and is offering cheaper destinations in eastern Europe as budget-
February 25, 2025The Kremlin, asked about an assertion by U.S.
February 25, 2025Unilever's board, which includes billionaire activist investor Nelson Peltz, was unified in its decision to oust CEO Hein Schumacher, a source
February 25, 2025The European Central Bank interest rate that neither slows nor spurs growth has climbed in the past two years, and it's no longer clear the current 2.75% rate is still holding
February 25, 2025Hungary wants to remove eight individuals from the European Union's Russia sanctions list and receive fresh guarantees on Ukraine gas transit talks before agreeing
February 25, 2025Serbian police raided the offices of two Belgrade-based democracy watchdogs, seeking information about possible abuse of funds donated by the U.S. international aid agency (USAID)
February 25, 2025Germany's election winner Friedrich Merz wants to form a government quickly in order to revive a moribund economy, hike defence spending and tackle diplomatic
February 25, 2025Germany's Left Party will vote against a special fund for increased military spending in the next legislature, party leader Ines Schwerdtner said on Tuesday.
February 25, 2025The head of Switzerland's armed forces and the chief of the neutral country's intelligence services have both resigned their jobs, a Swiss lawmaker said on Monday, confirming media
February 25, 2025Some of Europe's most popular AI-linked stocks fell for a second day on Tuesday, after an analyst note late last week that flagged a possible
February 25, 2025Consumer group Unilever surprised investors on Tuesday by replacing chief executive Hein Schumacher with finance chief Fernando Fernandez, who will take on the tough task of reviving the
February 25, 2025Sportswear group Amer Sports expects lower sales growth this year, the company said on Tuesday as it reported fourth-quarter results boosted by sales of Salomon shoes
February 25, 2025The Kremlin on Tuesday welcomed what it described as a much more balanced U.S. stance on Ukraine after the United Nations Security Council on Monday adopted a U.S.-drafted
February 25, 2025The Church of England will seek to bring disciplinary proceedings against 10 clerics including former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey, it said on Tuesday, acting on
February 25, 2025Italy is claiming 12.5 million euros ($13 million) from Elon Musk's social network X following a tax probe running parallel to one into Meta, four sources with
February 25, 2025Omar Alkadamani, a Syrian-born, naturalised German citizen, used to support Germany's centre-left Social Democrats.
February 25, 2025Global demand for liquefied natural gas is estimated to rise by around 60% by 2040, driven largely by economic growth in Asia, AI impact and
February 25, 2025Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Tuesday he would increase annual defence spending to 2.5% of GDP by 2027 and target a 3% level last seen
February 25, 2025Election winner Friedrich Merz on Tuesday ruled out a quick reform to Germany's state borrowing limits known as the "debt brake" and said it
February 25, 2025Alphabet unit Google's refusal to let an Enel e-mobility app access its Android Auto platform can be considered an abuse of its market power, Europe's top court
February 25, 2025The mother of jailed Egyptian-British dissident Alaa Abd el-Fattah was taken to hospital on Monday night as she neared the 150th day of a hunger strike in
February 25, 2025Unilever surprised investors on Tuesday by ousting chief executive Hein Schumacher and replacing him with finance chief Fernando Fernandez, who will
February 25, 2025Britain on Tuesday said it would pause some bilateral aid to Rwanda and impose other diplomatic sanctions on Kigali over its role in the conflict in neighbouring
February 25, 2025Thieves bought a winning lottery ticket with a stolen credit card. Its owner has offered to split the jackpot
February 25, 2025Supporters of separatist Bosnian Serb President Milorad Dodik have rallied as tensions soared on the eve of a scheduled court verdict that could order the pro-Russia Serb leader banned from politics or even sentenced to prison
February 25, 2025A British woman has admitted she wore wigs and other disguises to take a U.K. citizenship test for more than a dozen foreigners
February 25, 2025Sales of fully electric car sales In Europe were up 37.3% in January, industry data showed on Tuesday, although the sharp rise was not enough to compensate for a drop
February 25, 2025London-based hedge fund Palliser Capital on Monday urged Rio Tinto to allow the company's Australian shareholders to vote on a resolution
February 24, 2025Mohammad Azmouz, a Syrian barber living in Berlin, said casting his first ever vote on Sunday at the age of 57 was an indescribable feeling.
February 24, 2025Britain's Keir Starmer will set out a timeline to increase defence spending to 2.5% of GDP, The Sun newspaper reported on Tuesday, a day before the prime minister travels to meet
February 25, 2025Ryanair could have as many as 5 million passengers per year in Ukraine within a year or two of reopening its skies, CEO Michael O'Leary said on Tuesday,
February 25, 2025Thousands of people have gathered in St. Peter’s Square to pray for an ailing Pope Francis, expressing sorrow for his suffering, hope for his recovery and gratitude for his efforts to steer the Catholic Church in new directions
February 25, 2025A new album called “Is This What We Want?”
February 25, 2025As Trump touts his dealmaking ability on Ukraine, Macron warns against a ‘weak’ agreement
February 24, 2025A trial has begun in Germany for four alleged Hamas members suspected of organizing weapons caches across Europe
February 25, 2025Friedrich Merz has expressed a desire to ‘strengthen Europe as quickly as possible’ in the face of a growing rift between EU countries and the Trump administration.
February 25, 2025Galatasaray plans to start criminal proceedings against Jose Mourinho and file complaints with soccer’s governing body after accusing the Fenerbahce coach of making racist comments after a Turkish league game
February 25, 2025Burberry closes London Fashion Week with a ‘stealth wealth’-inspired show
February 25, 2025Prime Minister Keir Starmer says the U.K. will raise defense spending to 2.5% of gross domestic product by 2027
February 25, 2025Manchester United announces up to 200 more redundancies alongside cuts to free lunches and charitable donations
February 25, 2025CEO of Ben & Jerry’s parent company unexpectedly steps down
February 25, 2025The trial of three men accused in the theft or sale of an 18-carat gold toilet that was a pricey piece of satirical art is underway in Britain
February 24, 2025The German government's net borrowing rose in 2024 to 118.8 billion euros ($124.4 billion), higher than initially reported, preliminary data from
February 24, 2025Retired surgeon admits ‘despicable acts’ in France’ largest child abuse trial
February 24, 2025Europe's participation in Ukraine peace talks will be needed eventually but Moscow first wants to build trust with Washington, President Vladimir Putin said on Monday, while
February 24, 2025A former surgeon is standing trial in France for the alleged rape or sexual abuse of 299 victims
February 24, 2025Ukraine hosted European leaders on Monday to mark three years of all-out war with Russia since Moscow's invasion, while top U.S. officials
February 23, 2025An American Airlines flight from New York to New Delhi was diverted to Rome on Sunday due to a security concern later determined to be "non
February 23, 2025The United Nations Security Council on Monday adopted a U.S.-drafted resolution on the third anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine that takes a
February 24, 2025The Group of Seven nations are still discussing a possible joint statement to mark the third anniversary of the war between Ukraine and Russia, Canada's foreign minister said on
February 24, 2025The Vatican says Pope Francis remains in critical condition but has shown slight improvement in laboratory tests
February 24, 2025US joins Russia to vote against UN resolution condemning Russia’s war against Ukraine
February 24, 2025Mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won Germany's election, ensuring strong support for Ukraine and creating hopes for economic renewal
February 24, 2025In a dramatic shift in transatlantic relations under President Donald Trump, the United States has split with its European allies by refusing to blame Russia for its invasion of Ukraine in votes on three U.N. resolutions seeking an end to the three-year war
February 24, 2025China’s Xi stresses strength of Russia ties in Putin call as Washington warms to Moscow
February 24, 2025A swarm of small submersibles will be used to monitor and provide data on offshore artificial reefs that are intended to attract marine life in otherwise barren sections of sea
February 24, 2025Scientists from the University of Athens monitoring an earthquake swarm near the island of Santorini say the phenomenon is in “gradual decline” nearly a month after the multiple tremors started
February 24, 2025President Donald Trump says he's hopeful Russia's war in Ukraine is nearing an endgame as he meets with French President Emmanuel Macron on the third anniversary of the Russian invasion
February 24, 2025The United States will lose if Russia wins its war in Ukraine, Finland's president said on Monday, as fears mount in Europe about President Donald Trump's intentions
February 24, 2025Ukraine marked the bleakest anniversary yet of its war against the Russia invasion
February 24, 2025U.S.
February 24, 2025Wall Street struggled for traction on Monday, ending mixed after slumping last week, while German election results
February 24, 2025Pope Francis is still critically ill as he battles double pneumonia, but his condition has shown a "slight improvement", the Vatican said on Monday.
February 24, 2025The euro eased off highs from a brief rally on Monday as the focus shifted from the election victory of Germany's conservatives to how quickly a coalition
February 24, 2025A dozen leaders from Europe and Canada are in Ukraine to mark the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion and discuss support with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
February 24, 2025A group of Democratic and Republican U.S. senators will offer a resolution backing Ukraine on Monday, amid fears that President Donald Trump could make a
February 24, 2025Bank of England policymakers do not have a consensus about how fast the central bank should cut interest rates, even though they all agreed to use the word "gradual
February 24, 2025Europe should use money from frozen Russian assets for further military support of Ukraine and relax its fiscal rules to boost defence spending, Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala said
February 24, 2025Investigators have carried out searches in France and Belgium as part of an investigation into alleged tax fraud by French actor Gerard Depardieu, a French judicial source said on
February 24, 2025Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit said last week hackers had stolen digital tokens worth around $1.5 billion, in what researchers called the biggest crypto heist of all time.
February 24, 2025Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said on Monday he does not want his country's relationship with Europe to be "held hostage" by views on the conflict with
February 24, 2025European Union countries suspended a range of sanctions against Syria with immediate effect on Monday, including restrictions related to energy, banking, transport and
February 24, 2025When asked if he would give up his presidency, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he would resign if it meant peace for Ukraine and that he could “exchange it for NATO” membership. Later, Zelensky was asked by CNN's Nick Paton Walsh about his relationship with President Donald Trump.
February 23, 2025Ukraine could join the European Union before 2030 if the country continues its reforms at their current speed and quality, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told
February 24, 2025U.S. chipmaker Nvidia has sued EU antitrust regulators for accepting an Italian request last year to scrutinise its acquisition of AI startup Run:ai, saying they
February 24, 2025Britain on Monday announced what it said was its largest package of sanctions against Russia since the early days of the war in Ukraine, including companies worldwide that supply
February 24, 2025German stocks ended Monday higher in Europe after conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won the national election with promises of pro-growth policies to
February 24, 2025A retired surgeon accused of raping and sexually assaulting hundreds of young patients, some while they were under anesthetic, told the opening of his
February 24, 2025Germany’s mainstream conservatives have won the country’s national election, while a far-right party surged to become the country's second-largest party
February 24, 2025Zelensky hails Ukraine’s ‘absolute heroism’ on third anniversary of Russia’s invasion
February 24, 2025The European Union's latest sanctions against Moscow include a ban on third-country airlines flying to the 27-nation bloc if they carry out domestic flights in Russia,
February 24, 2025Friedrich Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just as the country faces its biggest economic and diplomatic
February 22, 2025Germany's election winner Friedrich Merz warned the United States on Monday against turning its back on allies but also urged Europeans to
February 24, 2025Who was he? How did he get there? Wetsuit may hold key to mystery of body found in reservoir
February 24, 2025"Worried" European foreign ministers said on Monday the region had entered a new era with U.S.
February 24, 2025Ukraine has offered to strike a deal with U.S. President Donald Trump for continued American military aid in exchange for developing Ukraine’s mineral industry
February 11, 2025After opening in Aspen, Colorado, next week, Shaun White’s new halfpipe league will travel to the mountain in China where he closed out his career at the 2022 Beijing Olympics
February 24, 2025Hedge funds exited U.S. tech and media stocks in the two weeks to February 21 at the fastest pace in six months, according to Goldman Sachs, just as Nvidia, one of
February 24, 2025Hungary's government will draft legislation to protect national sovereignty and, following the example of the new U.S. government, will uncover foreign funding channelled to
February 24, 2025Turkey said on Monday it was ready to host possible talks between Ukraine and Russia and would support any initiative leading to peace, following a visit to Ankara by Russian
February 24, 2025Romanian nuclear power projects backed by U.S. companies should not be affected by recent criticism from members of President Donald Trump's administration over a cancelled
February 24, 2025Security arrangements that have supported global peace for decades are unravelling, the head of the United Nations warned on Monday as he urged countries to
February 24, 2025The United Arab Emirates plans to invest $40 billion in Italy, the two countries said at a bilateral summit in Rome, without providing any time
February 24, 2025EU foreign ministers adopted a 16th package of sanctions against Russia on, which targets a cryptocurrency exchange for the first time, a Council statement said.
February 24, 2025Germany's likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Monday he had invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to visit and would find a way for him to do so without
February 24, 2025Soccer fans in England and Wales might be allowed to spend more time in pubs if their teams go far at the Women’s European Championship being held in Switzerland in July
February 24, 2025Germany faces its second change of leader in less than four years after the head of the center-right opposition won Sunday’s election
February 24, 2025Germany has long been considered to have relatively ambitious climate goals and it’s likely that combatting climate change will remain a priority
February 24, 2025Germany’s businesses have been frustrated by government inaction on the stagnating economy
February 24, 2025A reform of Germany's constitutionally enshrined debt brake, which limits public borrowing, would be discussed by the leaders of the conservatives and the centre-left Social
February 24, 2025Europe and the United States will be able to work out their differences like they have done in the past, even though recent remarks from the U.S. administration have caused
February 24, 2025India and Britain will aim to more than double bilateral trade in a decade, Indian Trade Minister Piyush Goyal said on Monday, as the two
February 24, 2025Dutch technology investor Prosus has agreed to buy Just Eat Takewaway.com for 4.1 billion euros ($4.3 billion) to create a "European tech
February 24, 2025Friedrich Merz is on course to become post-World War II Germany’s 10th chancellor, the culmination of a yearslong political career that was once sidelined by his party’s iconic leader
February 24, 2025She missed her flight to extend her Italy vacation romance. Here’s what happened next
March 01, 2024Merz warns Europe should seek ‘independence’ from US after conservatives win German election - and far-right support surges
February 23, 2025A quiet London Fashion Week? Not if you know where to look
February 24, 2025U.S. private equity firm Bain Capital has tabled a 1.1-billion-pound ($1.39 billion) proposal to buy Chemring Group, Sky News reported on Monday, sending shares of the London-listed
February 24, 2025Germany's political newcomer, the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW), said on Monday it might legally challenge the results of the national election after narrowly
February 24, 2025A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan Global investors got a reminder last week that the U.S. economic expansion is not etched in stone, even Wall Street is priced as if
February 24, 2025Spain will provide Ukraine with a new military aid package worth 1 billion euros ($1.05 billion) this year, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Monday in Kyiv during an
February 24, 2025British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday the Group of Seven (G7) wealthy countries should be willing to take on more risk with regard to sanctions against Russia over its
February 24, 2025China's President Xi Jinping affirmed his "no limits" partnership in a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday, China's
February 24, 2025The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the Left Party jointly secured one third of seats in the new parliament, enough to block a
February 24, 2025Friedrich Merz has led his center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) to a clear election victory, polls suggest, and is now set to become Germany’s next chancellor. CNN's Frederik Pleitgen has more.
February 23, 2025A mysterious woman may have left her mark on the world’s oldest rune stone
February 23, 2025Zelensky says ready to quit if it brings peace, pushes back on US demand for Ukrainian minerals
February 23, 2025The leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), the second largest party in parliament after Sunday's election, said Germany's likely next chancellor would be held
February 24, 2025The Kremlin said on Monday it would have to wait and see how ties between Russia and any new German government evolved after Sunday's election victory for Friedrich Merz's
February 24, 2025Germany's Robert Habeck, who had run in Sunday's election as the chancellor candidate for the environmentalist Greens, said he would no longer take a leading role in his party after
February 24, 2025The Kremlin praised the administration of U.S.
February 24, 2025An election win for Germany's conservatives has eased concerns of political gridlock in Europe's biggest economy, but failed to lift uncertainty
February 23, 2025Three projectiles were thrown over the perimeter wall of Russia's consulate in the southern French port city of Marseille on Monday, two of which exploded, Marseille
February 24, 2025Alternative for Germany has surged to the best showing by a far-right party since World War II in the national election and became the strongest political force in parts of the country
February 13, 2025Fiorentina star Moise Kean discharged from hospital after collapsing on pitch following head injury
February 24, 2025Pope Francis, battling double pneumonia, remains in a critical condition and his prognosis is still guarded because of the "complexity" of his clinical condition, the Vatican
February 23, 2025The U.N. human rights chief on Monday warned that a system of global protections built in the decades after World War Two has never before been under so much strain, calling for an
February 24, 2025Organic farmers in Cyprus have recruited hundreds of retired hens to fertilize olive groves in a pilot project they say boosts yields, counters disease, and
February 24, 2025Germany's election delivered a win to the conservative opposition as well as a historic surge in support for the far-right AfD party.
February 23, 2025Business morale in Germany unexpectedly stagnated in February, a survey showed on Monday, dealing a tough hand to a future government after Sunday's
February 24, 2025The leaders of France and Britain are making tag-team visits to Washington this week
February 23, 2025Germany's opposition conservatives won a national election on Sunday, putting leader Friedrich Merz on track to be the next chancellor while the far-right Alternative for Germany (
February 23, 2025United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Monday that countries must work to bring an end to the Russia-Ukraine war, calling for
February 24, 2025Who is Friedrich Merz, Germany’s likely next chancellor?
February 16, 2025Sweden’s best food dishes: From waffles to Wallenbergers
February 21, 2025Germany's likely next Chancellor Friedrich Merz questioned on Sunday whether NATO would remain in its "current form" by June in light of comments by U.S.
February 23, 2025Ukraine marks three years since Russia's invasion began while U.S.
February 21, 2025European Central Bank policymaker Pierre Wunsch said the euro zone faces the risk of "sleepwalking" into excessive interest rate cuts and must be prepared to stop soon, the Financial Times
February 24, 2025President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told his country's people on Monday that he was proud of their 'absolute heroism' in fighting and living in the war that Russia started with its full-scale
February 24, 2025Russia wants a long-term peace deal over Ukraine that tackles what it regards as the root causes of the conflict and not a quick U.S.-backed ceasefire followed by a swift restart of
February 24, 2025The United States is urging the United Nations General Assembly to back its resolution to mark the third anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on
February 24, 2025As Stellantis chairman John Elkann interviews CEO candidates, deciding how many of the automaker's 14 brands have a viable future is a significant priority.
February 24, 2025Russia's overheating economy is on the cusp of serious cooling, as huge fiscal stimulus, soaring interest rates, stubbornly high inflation
February 24, 2025A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Wayne Cole.
February 24, 2025The U.S. has pressured Ukraine to withdraw its European-backed U.N. resolution demanding an immediate withdrawal of Russian forces from Ukraine in favor of an American proposal that doesn't mention Moscow’s invasion
February 24, 2025Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says a contentious U.S. proposal that would have seen $500 billion worth of profits from Ukrainian rare minerals given to the United States as compensation for its wartime assistance to Kyiv has been taken off the table
February 23, 2025The Vatican has detailed laws and rituals to ensure the transfer of power when a pope dies or resigns, but not when he is sick
February 23, 2025The Vatican says Pope Francis remains in critical condition and blood tests show early kidney failure but he remains alert and “well-oriented.”
February 23, 2025Projections show German opposition leader Friedrich Merz’s conservatives have won a lackluster victory in Sunday's national election
February 23, 2025British employers advertised the fewest jobs for the month of January in four years last month but salaries continued to rise strongly, according to figures published on Monday that
February 24, 2025Britain will ban entry to individuals who provide significant support to the Russian state or owe their wealth to the Russian state, under new sanctions set to be announced on
February 24, 2025Ukrainian soldiers who lost limbs in the three-year war against Russia are returning to the battlefield out of a sense of duty amid the grim outlook for their country
February 23, 2025An American Airlines flight from New York to New Delhi was diverted to Rome due to a security concern the airline later said was not credible
February 23, 2025BBVA has increased its target for lending to businesses the Spanish bank considers sustainable to 700 billion euros ($732.7 billion) over the next five years, it said on Monday.
February 23, 2025At the home of Manchester City, Liverpool produced a performance worthy of champions to move 11 points clear at the top of the Premier League
February 23, 2025A former surgeon is going on trial in France for the rape and sexual abuse of 299 victims over a period spanning more than three decades
February 22, 2025Moldova's government, a fierce critic of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, appealed to the country's clergy on Sunday to "tell the truth" about the war, saying that
February 23, 2025Friedrich Merz, set to become Germany's next chancellor after his opposition conservatives won the national election on Sunday, vowed to help
February 22, 2025Mikaela Shiffrin has created more history in her storied ski career by winning a World Cup slalom on Sunday
February 23, 2025Germany's opposition conservatives won the national election on Sunday, putting leader Friedrich Merz on track to be the next chancellor while the far-right Alternative for Germany
February 23, 2025For the first time since the Second World War, a far-right party has come second in a German national election, a result that will keep it outside government but
February 23, 2025Initial projections of the result of Germany's election on Sunday set the stage for protracted coalition talks, meaning Europe's largest economy could face months
February 23, 2025Opposition leader Friedrich Merz’s conservatives have won Germany's national election
February 23, 2025U.S.
February 23, 2025Germany's opposition conservatives CDU/CSU won the national election on Sunday, putting leader Friedrich Merz on track to be the next chancellor while the far-right
February 23, 2025European Union leaders will meet for an extraordinary summit on March 6th to discuss Ukraine and European defence, the chairman of EU summits Antonio Costa said on Sunday.
February 23, 2025Germany may face months of uncertainty after the CDU/CSU conservative bloc won the national election but with no clear option for forming a
February 12, 2025British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Sunday that there can be no talks about the future of Ukraine without the participation of Ukraine, setting his stall out before a
February 23, 2025Pope Francis, battling double pneumonia, remains in a critical condition for a second day running and has shown an "initial, slight insufficiency" in his
February 23, 2025U.S.
February 23, 2025The leaders of the 27 European Union countries will hold an emergency summit on March 6 about next steps for Ukraine and Europe’s security
February 23, 2025Ukraine can keep fighting Russia for the rest of the year with European support, Poland's Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said on Sunday.
February 23, 2025Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday he was willing to give up his position if it meant peace in Ukraine, adding
February 23, 2025Germany's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian CSU sister party won the election on Sunday and are likely to lead the next coalition
February 18, 2025Russian and U.S. teams plan to meet this week to discuss improving relations after the war in Ukraine had pushed ties to the worst level since the depths of the Cold War, a senior
February 23, 2025Ski star Mikaela Shiffrin has added yet another chapter to her book of World Cup records by becoming the first to reach the milestone of 100 career wins
February 23, 2025Tearful Mikaela Shiffrin claims historic 100th World Cup win
February 23, 2025In Switzerland, sledding is not for the faint of heart
February 23, 2025Her son died in the deadliest terror attack on a plane before 9/11. She created a massive group sculpture of grieving mothers
February 23, 2025Mirra Andreeva, 17, makes history as the youngest ever winner of WTA 1000 tournament
February 23, 2025Estonia has launched a new push to get fellow EU members to agree to seize frozen Russian assets and use them to help Ukraine, dismissing a Russian idea on how the
February 23, 2025Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday that Russia launched more than 200 drones in an overnight attack, the largest of the war, as he condemned Russia's "aerial
February 23, 2025Pope given high flows of oxygen but has peaceful night in hospital, Vatican says
February 21, 2025Mikaela Shiffrin fails to qualify for second run in giant slalom event for first time since 2012
February 22, 2025Swiss police have arrested a 28-year-old Australian man suspected of stabbing and seriously injuring a 41-year-old man in a shop in central Zurich, authorities said.
February 23, 2025Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will visit Turkey on Monday to discuss his country's recent talks with U.S. officials on ending the war in Ukraine, and how Ankara can
February 23, 2025Switzerland could contribute troops to a future peacekeeping mission in Ukraine if it were requested and the government agreed, Swiss armed forces chief Thomas Suessli said in an
February 23, 2025Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of Romania’s capital in a show of support for Calin Georgescu
February 22, 2025Germany is holding a national election. Here’s what’s at stake
February 22, 2025Russia launched several waves of missile and drone attacks overnight targeting Kyiv and other parts of Ukraine, killing one civilian in Kryvyi Rih and damaging buildings and cars in Kyiv
February 23, 2025Knife attack leaves one dead in France in ‘terrorist act,’ officials say
February 22, 2025Draft US-Ukraine rare earth minerals deal not one President Zelensky would accept, source says
February 22, 2025French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will travel to Washington next week amid alarm in Europe
February 23, 2025The U.S. presence in Poland and Central Europe should be boosted, Polish President Andrzej Duda told U.S. President Donald Trump during a short meeting in Washington on Saturday.
February 22, 2025Arsenal’s Premier League title challenge has been dented by an unexpected 1-0 home loss to West Ham that featured a fifth red card of the season for Mikel Arteta’s team
February 22, 2025The Vatican says Pope Francis is in critical condition after he suffered a long asthmatic respiratory crisis that required high flows of oxygen
February 22, 2025A Norwegian film about love, desire and self-discovery won top honors at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival on Saturday
February 22, 2025Pope Francis has pneumonia in both of his lungs following a CT scan in the hospital where he’s been receiving care for several days now, the Vatican said. CNN was outside the hospital in Rome when several supporters visited with candles and prayers for the Pope's health.
February 19, 2025A senior Russian official says preparations have begun for a face-to-face meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin
February 22, 2025Around 250 people protested on Saturday against the leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the Swiss town where she has
February 22, 2025The Vatican said on Saturday that Pope Francis' health had deteriorated over the past 24 hours and for the first time described his condition as "critical",
February 22, 2025Thieves used a stolen card to buy a winning French lottery ticket worth 500,000 euros or $523,000
February 22, 2025Pope Francis "is more unwell than yesterday", the Vatican said in a statement on Saturday, adding that he had suffered a "prolonged asthma-like respiratory crisis" earlier in
February 22, 2025The European Commission plans to cut back the number of companies facing EU sustainability reporting requirements, as part of its drive
February 22, 2025The United States wants the U.N.
February 22, 2025Poland said on Saturday it has been paying for Ukraine's Starlink subscription and will continue to do so despite sources saying the United States could consider cutting Ukraine's
February 22, 2025BMW said on Saturday it is rethinking its timetable for manufacturing all-electric Mini cars in Britain, citing uncertainties facing the industry.
February 22, 2025A Syrian refugee arrested over the stabbing of a tourist at Berlin's Holocaust memorial had been planning "to kill Jews", prosecutors said on Saturday, the day before
February 22, 2025US proposes its own UN resolution marking anniversary of war in Ukraine after refusing to back European statement
February 22, 2025Mikaela Shiffrin is not yet competitive in her tentative return to racing in giant slaloms
February 22, 2025Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced an income tax exemption for mothers of two or three children and said he would cap interest rates on housing loans at 5% from April
February 22, 2025Pope Francis, who is being treated in hospital for double pneumonia, is not yet out of danger but is expected to live, one of his doctors said on Friday.
February 21, 2025World’s oldest rune stone has more pieces that contain mysterious messages, researchers say
February 22, 2025The contenders in Germany’s election are making their final appeals to voters
February 22, 2025Thousands of Hungarian judges, court staff and supporters marched to the ministry of justice in Budapest on Saturday, demanding judicial
February 22, 2025Several thousand supporters of Bulgaria's ultra-nationalist Revival party scuffled with police on Saturday while trying to storm the building of a European Union
February 22, 2025The three biggest centrist parties in Austria's parliament on signalled on Saturday they were close to agreeing on a coalition government, almost five months after
February 22, 2025Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán says his country will decide whether Ukraine joins the European Union
February 22, 2025German police arrest Syrian refugee after stabbing at Berlin Holocaust memorial
February 21, 2025Police in Bulgaria’s capital have clashed with nationalist protesters who demanded that the government scrap plans to bring the country into the eurozone
February 22, 2025Her great grandpa dressed The Beatles. Now, she’s making her own name in fashion
February 22, 2025President Donald Trump’s envoy to Ukraine and Russia says he's held “extensive and positive discussions” with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy about the three-year war
February 21, 2025In a ruined Soviet-era apartment block in Pisky, near the east Ukrainian city of Donetsk, huge chunks of roof and walls lie scattered about the floor
February 22, 2025NATO is planning to build a pipeline system from Germany to Poland and the Czech Republic to ensure a rapid supply of jet fuel for fighter aircraft in the event of a war with Russia
February 22, 2025The United States has proposed a draft resolution for the U.N. General Assembly that stops far short of a competing European-backed statement demanding an immediate withdrawal of all of Moscow’s forces from Ukraine
February 22, 2025Investigators say the suspect in a stabbing attack at Berlin’s Holocaust Memorial that left a Spanish tourist seriously injured is a Syrian refugee who apparently wanted to kill Jews
February 22, 2025Young voters are powering the rise of Germany’s far-right AfD party
February 20, 2025Germans go to the polls on Sunday in a snap election called after the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's three-way coalition.
February 22, 2025Peace talks this week between Russia and the U.S. aimed at ending three years of war in Ukraine have not impressed
February 21, 2025A second meeting between representatives of Russia and the United States is planned for the next two weeks, the RIA state news agency reported on Saturday, citing Russian Deputy Foreign
February 22, 2025Alice Weidel, the chancellor candidate of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), is an unlikely public face for a male-dominated, anti-immigration party that
February 22, 2025The European Central Bank could cut its deposit rate down to 2% by this summer, said Bank of France head and ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau in an interview published on
February 22, 2025Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Saturday Moscow had not yet received agreement from Washington for its new ambassador to the United States, the RIA state news agency
February 22, 2025As Ukraine approached the three-year mark of Russia’s full-scale invasion, the country’s hoped-for path to a favorable and lasting peace has been upended in a matter of days by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump
February 22, 2025U.S.
February 22, 2025Poland's president will meet Donald Trump in Washington on Saturday, state news agency PAP reported, after he urged Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskiy to maintain calm and constructive
February 21, 2025President Donald Trump reversed course on Friday and said Russia did in fact invade Ukraine, and that Kyiv would soon sign a minerals agreement
February 21, 2025Police in Berlin say they have arrested a man suspected in a stabbing attack at the city's Holocaust Memorial that left one man seriously injured
February 21, 2025BMW does not see the need to negotiate a special deal with the United States to avoid import tariffs, its chief purchasing officer said, pointing to
February 20, 2025Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's ruling Fidesz party will nominate former rate-setter Andrea Mager to succeed outgoing policy maker Gyula Pleschinger
February 21, 2025Pope Francis, who is being treated in hospital for double pneumonia, is not yet out of danger but is expected to live, one of his doctors said on Friday.
February 21, 2025Pope Francis’ medical team says the pontiff's condition isn’t life-threatening
February 21, 2025Brentford has thrashed Leicester 4-0 in the Premier League
February 21, 2025The U.S. on Friday proposed a draft United Nations resolution to mark the third anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and the proposal pits
February 21, 2025President Donald Trump’s attempt to purchase the vast Danish territory of Greenland is unpopular with locals, to say the least. Instead, a petition named “Denmarkification” urges the Danish government to purchase California. The petition’s website lists a number of reasons why Danes should support the initiative. It would provide the Northern European country with abundant sunlight and avocados, for instance, as well as access to Disneyland – which would be renamed “Hans Christian Andersenland”. Denmarkification was created by Xåvier Dutoit, an activist identified by the campaign as its “Chief Pastry Officer.” He says that he aimed to show Americans how
February 13, 2025The French sports newspaper L’Equipe published a photo of Victor Wembanyama across the entirety of its front page on Friday, the San Antonio star looking down with his hands on his hips
February 21, 2025Steve Bannon has been accused of making a Nazi salute at a conservative gathering where President Donald Trump is slated to speak this weekend, but says the gesture was merely “a wave.”
February 21, 2025A Madrid derby
February 21, 2025Alphabet's mapping app Waze needs to do more to tackle illegal online content on its platform after hitting a key user number under EU tech rules, while three
February 21, 2025French far-right leader Jordan Bardella on Friday cancelled his speech at the conservative CPAC conference in Washington after what he described as a Nazi salute by a speaker, an
February 21, 2025German police arrested a suspect in the stabbing on Friday evening at Berlin's Holocaust memorial that seriously injured a man two days before a watershed national
February 21, 2025Austria's conservative People's Party (OVP) and Social Democrats (SPO) said on Friday they had widened their talks aimed at forming a coalition government to
February 21, 2025Apple is scrapping its most advanced security encryption feature for cloud data in Britain, the company said on Friday, an unprecedented response to
February 21, 2025Patrick Pouyanne, the chairman and CEO of TotalEnergies, said on Friday the European Union may wish to consider its own government downsizing programme, like the one implemented by
February 21, 2025Days before the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukrainians are as somber and tense as they were right before Moscow launched the war
February 21, 2025Anne Frank’s hidden home, now in Manhattan through October
January 27, 2025A unanimous Supreme Court has dealt a severe blow to Holocaust survivors and their families in a long-running lawsuit seeking compensation from Hungary for property confiscated during World War II
February 21, 2025The European Union, Britain and climate-vulnerable developing countries have raised concerns about delays to the next global
February 21, 2025Thousands rallied in Bratislava and other Slovak cities on Friday calling for Prime Minister Robert Fico to resign and keeping up protests against a foreign policy that critics
February 21, 2025Swedish authorities say they are investigating a damaged cable that was discovered in the Baltic Sea, the latest in a string of recent incidents of ruptured undersea cables that have heightened fears of Russian sabotage and spying in the region
February 21, 2025Sinn Féin’s leaders say they will not attend a traditional St. Patrick’s Day event next month at the White House as a protest against President Donald Trump’s stance on Gaza
February 21, 2025Germany's interior ministry on Friday warned of a Russian disinformation operation attempting to influence the country's federal election campaign with fake videos spreading on
February 21, 2025Germany's mainstream political parties lost support while the far-right AfD gained ground in one of the last polls published before the election on
February 21, 2025Alphabet unit Google is set to be charged with breaching EU rules aimed at checking the power of Big Tech after proposed changes to its search results failed to
February 21, 2025European shares settled near a record high on Friday and marked their longest streak of weekly gains in nearly a year, while Germany's DAX dipped as
February 21, 2025Mastercard's agreement to settle a landmark lawsuit brought on behalf of British consumers was approved by a London tribunal on Friday, despite opposition from the firm that funded
February 21, 2025Apple says it will stop offering an advanced data security option for British users after the government reportedly demanded that the company provide backdoor access for any data those users have stored in the cloud
February 21, 2025Tourists climbing Sicily's Mount Etna volcano at night in sneakers and light clothing to get a close-up view of an ongoing eruption may be risking their lives, rescuers warned on
February 21, 2025A flurry of often contradictory UK economic data and surveys this week has left the Bank of England none the wiser about whether Britain's economy is more at
February 21, 2025Russia could agree to using $300 billion of sovereign assets frozen in Europe for reconstruction in Ukraine but will insist that part of the money is spent on the one-fifth of the
February 21, 2025Stellantis' 771 million euro ($807.62 million) lawsuit against two safety equipment makers was dismissed by a London tribunal on Friday.
February 21, 2025The European Central Bank plans to take a more stringent approach in accepting some collateral in its lending operations as the number of accepted credit rating agencies
February 21, 2025Elon Musk-owned X has secured a German court motion to remove a judge overseeing a legal battle between the social media giant and two activist
February 21, 2025White House national security adviser Mike Waltz said on Friday he expects Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to sign a minerals agreement with the United States as part of
February 21, 2025U.S. Vice President JD Vance has criticized Germany’s free speech laws during an appearance at a conservative gathering outside Washington
February 21, 2025US Supreme Court blocks Holocaust victims from suing Hungary in American courts
February 21, 2025Estonia’s Eurovision song entry sparks outrage in Italy, with claims it’s ‘offensive’
February 21, 2025Europe can’t count on the US to be its bodyguard. That’s great for its defense companies
February 21, 2025‘My target is to become a world champion’: Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc on why he has his eyes on F1’s top prize
February 21, 2025Debris from Blue Origin and SpaceX rockets found in Bahamas and Europe
February 21, 2025Adapting civilian platforms for military use can speed up defence production while increasing standardization, the CEO of Norway's Kongsberg Gruppen said, as
February 21, 2025Europe needs to spend around 250 billion euros ($261.6 billion) annually in defence investments to secure itself without U.S. support, a sum the bloc could bear given its economic
February 21, 2025Holcim has given the name Amrize to its North American building materials company, which it plans to list this year, the Swiss firm said on Friday.
February 21, 2025By Tommy Reggiori Wilkes and Shashwat Awasthi LONDON -Britain's competition regulator has fined Citi, HSBC, Morgan Stanley and Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) a combined 104.5 million pounds ($132.4
February 21, 2025The European Commission will redirect almost a billion euros within its budget to boost surveillance of undersea cables and establish a fleet of emergency repair vessels, the
February 21, 2025Swedish and Finnish police are investigating a suspected case of sabotage of an undersea telecoms cable in the Baltic Sea, and Sweden's coast guard has deployed a vessel to the
February 21, 2025Ukrainian bond prices have dropped sharply this week as increasingly hostile rhetoric from U.S.
February 20, 2025Italian skier Federica Brignone won the first World Cup giant slalom after taking gold at the world championships
February 21, 2025Three years since the arrival of Russian forces drove her from her home in eastern Ukraine to Poland, Oksana Sapronova and
February 21, 2025Northern Ireland First Minister Michelle O'Neill said on Friday she would not attend St Patrick's Day events at the White House in protest over President Donald
February 21, 2025Carved onto slabs of black marble, the names of 11 young men from the Russian town of Semibratovo who died fighting in Ukraine are a stark reminder of a war that is now
February 21, 2025Volkswagen's Audi will expand output in North America and Mercedes will boost its U.S. production as Europe's carmakers try to protect themselves against U.S.
February 21, 2025French street artist Shuck One is honoring Black figures who shaped France’s recent history on the mainland and overseas in an art installation
February 21, 2025French President Emmanuel Macron says he intends to tell U
February 21, 2025Political and military leaders in Europe are fleshing out details of a plan for European forces to help ensure Moscow does not attack Ukraine again once the guns fall silent
February 21, 2025Germany's struggling housing market will regain some lost ground this year, helped by more European Central Bank interest rate cuts, although there is a
February 21, 2025U.S. President Donald Trump says value-added taxes carry a lot of blame for America's near trillion dollar trade deficit with the rest of the world.
February 21, 2025Ukrainian foreign minister Andrii Sybiha said on Thursday he had discussed ways to achieve a just and lasting peace in the conflict with Russia in talks with U.S. special envoy Keith
February 20, 2025A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan Wall Street nursed a bruising on Walmart's downbeat results, casting a cloud over the U.S. consumer just as more buoyant European
February 21, 2025Standard Chartered on Friday pledged to cut the emissions linked to the bonds it sells for oil and gas companies and will press ahead with its net-zero strategy,
February 21, 2025Global equity funds continued to see robust inflows, with the majority directed to European equity funds, which hit record highs fueled by hopes for peace in Ukraine and a surge in the
February 21, 2025The Kremlin said on Friday that there was a mutual understanding about the need for a meeting between U.S.
February 21, 2025Italy's competition authority said on Friday it was investigating BYD, Stellantis, Tesla and Volkswagen for allegedly
February 21, 2025British retail sales rose in January for the first time since August and by much more than expected, according to official data that suggested consumers were
February 21, 2025British finance minister Rachel Reeves received more bad news on the public finances on Friday after January tax receipts came in lower than expected, barely a
February 21, 2025Defence is a top spending priority for Poland, and the country may use European Union recovery funds to boost its arms industry, Polish cabinet members said on Friday.
February 21, 2025As Trump loses patience with Ukraine, Russia’s biggest backer sees a ‘window for peace’
February 21, 2025Business activity in Germany's private sector picked up slightly in February, driven by a steady performance in services and reduced drag from manufacturing,
February 21, 2025German mechanical engineering exports declined in line with production in 2024, the VDMA industry association said in a statement on Friday, adding that economic and structural
February 21, 2025Italian EU-harmonised consumer prices (HICP) fell 0.8% month-on-month in January and were up 1.7% from the year earlier, official statistics agency ISTAT said on Friday, partially revising
February 21, 2025British businesses are cutting staff at the fastest pace in more than four years ahead of a tax increase ordered by finance minister Rachel Reeves which has already prompted
February 21, 2025Euro zone business activity saw very tepid growth in February as demand fell at a faster pace and an expansion in services barely offset a long-running decline in
February 21, 2025U.S. and Russian participants have met in Switzerland for unofficial talks about the Ukraine war in recent months, including as recently as last
February 20, 2025For the last three years, China has repeatedly signalled a willingness to act as a peacemaker in the war in Ukraine.
February 21, 2025A top White House official says President Donald Trump's increasingly tough criticism of Volodymyr Zelenskyy reflects the administration’s growing frustration with what they see as the Ukrainian leader creating roadblocks to finding an endgame to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
February 20, 2025French business activity slumped much more than expected in February, according to a survey published on Friday, as new business and backlogs in the dominant services sector sharply
February 21, 2025Sara Huertas still lives with her parents at age 30 because her supply teacher salary doesn't pay enough for her to rent a home in Madrid with her
February 21, 2025The European Union should reject European automakers' push to weaken 2025 CO2 car emission targets and related fines, two European electric
February 21, 2025Swiss plans to create a form of safety net for big banks could be delayed as lawmakers consider linking it to requirements to make lenders like UBS hold more capital
February 21, 2025Estonia, a Baltic country of 1.4 million people that has long punched far above its weight in the tech sector, is now leading central and eastern Europe's rush to
February 21, 2025Britain has lined up a Mandarin-speaking diplomat whose father was a governor of Hong Kong as the next ambassador to China,
February 20, 2025Having made property investments in Milan, Italian architect Giuseppe Pezzano is now looking for a place in Rome to set up a
February 21, 2025Investors betting on a German economic recovery, helped by any post-election fiscal boost and the potential of an end to the war in Ukraine, are going all in on the
February 21, 2025A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Rae Wee Friday brings a slew of purchasing managers' index (PMI) readings as investors in Germany count down to a general election on Sunday
February 21, 2025European stocks have hit record highs this month, as companies have beat fourth-quarter revenue expectations, but the topic that dominates the
February 21, 2025The European Union will seek more gas from countries including the U.S. to replace Russian supplies, and expand renewable energy faster to cut its overall reliance
February 21, 2025Birkenstock sandals are ubiquitous in summer
February 20, 2025U.S.
February 20, 2025Officials in the Czech Republic say an assailant has attacked and killed two women with a knife at a shopping center, and that a Czech teenager has been arrested for the crime
February 20, 2025The pope looms so large in everyday Italian life that there are lots of expressions that make light of even a dark event like his death
February 20, 2025A news conference that was planned to follow talks between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. President Donald Trump’s Ukraine envoy has been canceled
February 20, 2025The Green Climate Fund (GCF), the world's largest fund helping developing countries deal with the impacts of climate change, said on Friday it had approved $686.8
February 21, 2025Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy stressed in a call on Thursday that any talks to end the war with Russia must include Kyiv at the
February 20, 2025Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called on Thursday for a softer approach to diplomacy with the United States after a spat between Kyiv and Washington and offered to visit
February 20, 2025President Volodymyr Zelenskiy pledged on Thursday that Ukraine was ready to work quickly to produce a strong agreement on investments and security with the United States, saying a meeting
February 20, 2025European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Thursday that interactions between the United States and Russia showed Moscow had
February 20, 2025US resisting including reference to ‘Russian aggression’ in G7 Ukraine anniversary statement
February 20, 2025Anglo American posted a $3.1 billion loss on Thursday after a writedown of its De Beers diamond business, as it presses on with shedding unwanted
February 20, 2025Germany's conservative leader Friedrich Merz said on Thursday the U.S. was at risk of sliding into longer-term authoritarian instability, casting doubt on Washington's presence for
February 20, 2025Airbus expects to firm up a deal to take over some of Spirit AeroSystems European operations in the next few weeks, the planemaker's CFO said on Thursday, as part of a transatlantic
February 20, 2025UniCredit said on Thursday its board has moved up to March 27 a shareholder vote previously scheduled for April 10 to approve
February 20, 2025Spain's High Court has found former soccer federation head Luis Rubiales guilty of sexual assault for kissing player Jenni Hermoso without her consent and fined him
February 20, 2025Navy relieves commander of aircraft carrier that collided with ship near Suez Canal
February 20, 2025Italy's Leonardo has identified a new industrial partner for its aerostructures unit which has been hit by the problems of U.S. planemaker Boeing, the state-controlled group's CEO
February 20, 2025Pope Francis, in hospital for double pneumonia, is improving slightly, has no fever, and his blood analyses are stable, the Vatican said on Thursday.
February 20, 2025French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was a "legitimate" leader and that, unlike Russian President Vladimir Putin, he had
February 20, 2025French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday he will travel to Washington to try to convince President Donald Trump that his interests were
February 20, 2025George Clooney is farming and driving a tractor. Seriously
February 20, 2025The Vatican says that Pope Francis’ clinical condition is “improving slightly,” adding that he went about his work activities from the hospital where he is recovering from pneumonia
February 20, 2025Airbus could prioritise deliveries to non-U.S. customers if tariffs imposed by U.S.
February 20, 2025Spanish energy company Repsol cut its 2030 target for green hydrogen production by up to 63%, Chief Executive Josu Jon Imaz said on Thursday, highlighting the challenges of a high-
February 20, 2025Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk called on Thursday for enhanced air policing, stronger Baltic defences and reinforced European Union borders with Russia, citing growing security
February 20, 2025Azerbajian's Foreign Ministry on Thursday ordered the suspension of BBC News' Azerbaijani operations but said it would allow one journalist to keep working in the country.
February 20, 2025A network of more than 700 fake social media accounts has sprung up in the last week of Germany's election campaign, researchers say, promoting pro-Russian
February 20, 2025U.S.
February 20, 2025British Foreign Minister David Lammy said on Thursday he saw no appetite from Russia for peace with Ukraine after listening to his Russian counterpart Sergei
February 20, 2025The U.S. is refusing to co-sponsor a draft U.N. resolution marking three years since Moscow's invasion of Ukraine that
February 20, 2025Italian luxury group Prada has been given access, ahead of any other potential suitors, to the financial data of smaller rival Versace which owner Capri Holdings has put up for sale,
February 20, 2025A large sinkhole has appeared in a southern English village, swallowing up at least one garden and forcing authorities to evacuate residents from around 30 homes.
February 19, 2025A top European Union official, who is trying to head off a potential trade conflict, stressed the importance of active engagement and fairness in trade during a four-hour meeting with Trump administration officials on Wednesday
February 20, 2025Greenland's ruling Inuit Ataqatigiit party said it will not rush an independence vote through after a March 11 general election, cautioning about
February 20, 2025European stocks closed Thursday's session at a one-week low, as investors took inventory of a mixed bag of corporate updates, while they were also on
February 20, 2025U.S. Vice President JD Vance and billionaire Elon Musk on Thursday launched forceful attacks on Romania's decision to cancel its presidential election in December.
February 20, 2025NATO members are continuing their largest combat exercises of 2025 amid concern within the 32-nation alliance over its most powerful member, the United States
February 19, 2025Police raided a forger’s workshop in Rome. They found dozens of pieces, including fake Picassos and Rembrandts
February 20, 2025Pope Francis has shown a "slight improvement", is alert and got out of bed to eat breakfast on Thursday, the Vatican said, as the pontiff spent his seventh
February 20, 2025Encouraging foreign brands to return to Russia would be "ill-advised," according to the industry and trade ministry, which wants to champion domestic companies that have stepped in to fill
February 20, 2025Zurich Insurance reported slightly higher-than-expected annual operating profit on Thursday, as insurers ride out the impact of climate disasters and wars.
February 20, 2025European Union trade chief Maros Sefcovic said on Thursday that his top priority in trade talks with President Donald Trump's administration is to avoid a period
February 20, 2025The Kremlin offered Donald Trump support in his standoff with Volodymyr Zelenskiy, accusing the Ukrainian president of making "inadmissible"
February 20, 2025Former Spanish soccer boss Luis Rubiales has been found guilty of sexually assaulting player Jenni Hermoso for kissing her after the 2023 Women’s World Cup final
February 20, 2025US President Donald Trump falsely called Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky “a dictator,” escalating a public war of words between the two leaders that started when Trump falsely accused Ukraine of starting the war with Russia. CNN's Fareed Zakaria joins Kaitlan Collins to discuss.
February 20, 2025France’s Bayeux Tapestry to close to public for two years
February 20, 2025The chief executive of Spanish oil company Repsol said on Thursday he expected U.S.
February 20, 2025Stellantis announced on Thursday the launch of its first in-house-developed automated driving system, STLA AutoDrive, designed to allow urban commuters to momentarily engage in non-driving
February 20, 2025A teenaged attacker killed two women with a knife in a shopping centre in the Czech city of Hradec Kralove on Thursday before being detained shortly afterwards, police said.
February 20, 2025France's pensions system will steadily sink deeper in the red in the coming decades despite a 2023 overhaul to keep it afloat, adding nearly half a trillion euros to
February 20, 2025Birkenstock, famous for its cork-based sandals, reported strong sales over the Christmas holiday shopping season but stopped short of raising its earnings
February 20, 2025Chaos and confusion as riders go wrong way during Volta ao Algarve cycling race
February 20, 2025The US has largely managed its empire in a more ‘gentlemanly manner’ than many historical empires, says a US foreign policy expert. Trump is turning back the clock.
February 20, 2025The White House continued to press Kyiv on Thursday with its efforts to bring an end to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, urging it to rein in criticism and quickly sign a minerals
February 20, 2025While Pope Francis battles pneumonia in hospital, work at the Vatican, headquarters of the 1.4 billion-member Catholic Church, continues apace.
February 20, 2025Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held a meeting with his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, to discuss a wide range of topics, including relations with the U.S. and the Ukrainian
February 20, 2025Gold exports from Switzerland rose year on year in January as supplies to the United States soared to the highest in at least 13 years and offset lower deliveries to top consumers
February 20, 2025American tourists helped the Swiss hotel industry reach a record number of overnight stays in 2024, the government said on Thursday, as the stronger dollar and
February 20, 2025Swedish police said on Thursday that their intervention in a mass shooting earlier this month had prevented even more deaths in the country's worst-ever killing spree.
February 20, 2025Italian spirits group Davide Campari, led by its new Chief Executive Simon Hunt, said on Thursday it needed to take some "tough decisions, such as organizational restructuring" to
February 20, 2025Keith Kellogg, U.S.
February 19, 2025When Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni took office in 2022 she inherited a double whammy - the country not only had a worryingly low birthrate,
February 20, 2025Investors are looking beyond the traditional defence stocks that have emerged as star performers in the European market for cheaper
February 20, 2025Austria's two biggest centrist parties are moving quickly towards a coalition deal without the far-right Freedom Party (FPO) after it failed to form a government, party officials
February 20, 2025The CEO of Airbus said on Thursday he would be happy if space merger talks with Thales and Leonardo led to a venture like the MBDA European missile project and hopes
February 20, 2025Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez plans to travel to Ukraine on Monday to support President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and the Ukrainian democracy, he said on Thursday, a day after U.S.
February 20, 2025U.S. companies with overseas operations are taking advantage of lower rates in euros to slash their debt funding costs and soften the blow of
February 20, 2025A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan World markets were subdued on Thursday by simmering trade tensions and Washington's attempt to undermine its Ukrainian ally, while
February 20, 2025Ukrainian officials began talks on Thursday with an International Monetary Fund team working on the country's latest loan programme review, which could unlock about $917 million in
February 20, 2025British factories expect a modest upturn in output over the next three months despite a weak backdrop due to higher taxes and energy costs and a difficult export
February 20, 2025President Tayyip Erdogan has escalated Turkey's battle with its top business group, expanding a broad political crackdown on dissent and
February 20, 2025Eurosceptic politician Nigel Farage has given up formal control of his right-wing Reform UK party, which is currently leading in opinion polls, as he seeks to
February 20, 2025In a press conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Wednesday, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said President Donald Trump was repeating Russian disinformation. CNN’s chief international security correspondent Nick Paton Walsh attended the event and explains Zelensky’s comments.
February 19, 2025Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine three years ago has turned into Europe’s largest conflict since World War II
February 20, 2025As Moscow and Washington discuss how to end the war in Ukraine, one of the many questions on investors' minds is whether the corporate exodus from Russia in
February 19, 2025Inside the 48 hours that Trump turned on Zelensky
February 20, 2025China has been "doing its best" to push for negotiations with the European Union over its tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles, a commerce ministry spokesperson said on
February 20, 2025AMSTERDAM - STMicroelectronics on Thursday said it is launching a new computer chip targeting the booming market for AI data centre equipment, which it has developed in cooperation with Amazon's web
February 20, 2025Russia launched 161 drones and a dozen missiles overnight, targeting gas infrastructure in Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region and hitting power supply in the southern Odesa region
February 20, 2025German Chancellor Olaf Scholz stressed the importance of keeping the path open for Ukraine to join the European Union and rejected suggestions that the country was to blame for its
February 20, 2025The Kremlin said on Thursday that the idea of a possible new prisoner exchange between Russia and the United States was on the agenda after Moscow and Washington agreed to start
February 20, 2025Mercedes-Benz on Thursday announced further cost-cutting and more petrol and diesel cars than EVs in its new product range, in a bid to revive margins as the
February 20, 2025The Kremlin said on Thursday that any plan to send European troops to Ukraine as part of a potential peacekeeping mission would be unacceptable for Russia and that it was monitoring
February 20, 2025France does not understand why U.S.
February 19, 2025In the Argolida region of southern Greece, water escapes through cracks in an irrigation canal feeding a plain of orange trees.
February 20, 2025Former colonial powers must apologise and pay compensation for their historic role in the enslavement of Africans, Grenadian Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell told European
February 20, 2025German engineering company Siemens has raised roughly 1.45 billion euros ($1.5 billion) after selling a stake in healthcare subsidiary Siemens Healthineers, with proceeds expected to help
February 19, 2025As the air raid siren sounded for a ballistic missile threat in Kyiv, dozens of eight-year-old children descended into their
February 20, 2025Airbus flagged short-term production pressures and confirmed a delay to its A350 freighter as it predicted a 7% increase in deliveries to around 820
February 20, 2025Russian forces have taken back more than 800 square km (309 square miles) of territory from Ukraine in the Kursk region of western Russia, or about 64% of the total taken by Ukraine
February 20, 2025Dozens of Russians are being subjected to compulsory psychiatric treatment because of their political views, according to lawyers and human
February 20, 2025Europe should wake up and build its own defence policy following a dramatic shift by the United States over Ukraine and geopolitical developments in recent months, Greek Prime
February 20, 2025French automaker Renault reported a record operating profit for 2024 on Thursday, beating expectations, as lower costs and a string of new launches boosted margins.
February 20, 2025German voters go to the polls Sunday to elect a parliament that will determine who runs the country for the next four years
February 20, 2025A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Ankur Banerjee A bevy of tariff headlines this week along with geopolitical worries has left investors wary and weary, taking stocks lower
February 20, 2025U.S.
February 19, 2025President Donald Trump has warned Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that he “better move fast” to negotiate an end to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine or risk not having a nation to lead
February 19, 2025After top US and Russian officials began peace talks without Ukrainians at the negotiating table, President Donald Trump criticized Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and continued to repeat Russia’s talking points about the war.
February 19, 2025Trump falsely calls Zelensky ‘a dictator’ after Ukraine’s leader accuses him of living in ‘disinformation space’
February 19, 2025U.S.
February 19, 2025Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni has visited Pope Francis in the hospital and says he’s “alert and responsive” and full of good humor despite his pneumonia
February 19, 2025Relations between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. President Donald Trump are deteriorating rapidly
February 19, 2025Russia unleashed a mass drone attack on Ukraine's southern city of Odesa for the second night running on Wednesday, knocking out power
February 19, 2025Fact check: Trump’s barrage of lies about Zelensky and Ukraine
February 19, 2025Kylian Mbappé scored a hat trick, Erling Haaland stayed on the bench injured and Real Madrid has dumped Manchester City out of the Champions League
February 19, 2025After lying hidden beneath meters of volcanic rock and ash for 2,000 years, a lavish spa complex has been unearthed in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii in Italy. CNN’s Ben Wedeman reports.
February 19, 2025Two prominent GOP senators, Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi and Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana, criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin amid negotiations in the peace deal to end the war in Ukraine.
February 19, 2025British Prime Minister Keir Starmer spoke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday and expressed his support for Ukraine's leader.
February 19, 2025Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that he was counting on unity and courage from his compatriots, and pragmatism and a "constructive" approach in relations with the
February 19, 2025The European Union's top trade officials said on Wednesday the bloc was interested in making mutually beneficial trade deals with U.S.
February 19, 2025When Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine nearly three years ago, then-U.S.
February 19, 2025Ukraine’s leader and opposition leaders have said ‘no’ to elections during wartime – and they have the backing of the majority of Ukrainians.
February 19, 2025Tourists flock to erupting volcano in Italy, blocking rescue workers
February 18, 2025WhatsApp has hit a user criterion set out in landmark EU tech rules, the unit owned by Meta Platforms said, meaning it is required to do more to tackle online
February 19, 2025Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday he and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte discussed the importance of security guarantees for Kyiv in any discussion of a
February 19, 2025Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Ukraine would not be excluded from negotiations to end the war, but success would depend on raising the level of trust between
February 19, 2025Apple launched on Wednesday a budget-minded phone with artificial intelligence, the iPhone 16e, designed to win back mid-market customers at home and in
February 19, 2025As Trump’s attacks on Zelensky turn personal, there’s only one winner: Russia
February 19, 2025Vast reserves of game-changing clean fuel may be hidden under mountain ranges, scientists find
February 19, 2025Ethan Hawke thinks casting actors based on their social media following is ‘crazy’
February 19, 2025Italy is aiming to develop its own low-orbit satellites for government communications, its industry minister said on Wednesday, presenting it as an alternative to
February 19, 2025Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan called on Wednesday for the country to change its constitution, a move demanded by Azerbaijan that could facilitate a peace treaty between the
February 19, 2025Denmark will increase its military budget by a combined 50 billion crowns ($6.99 billion) this year and next to address acute
February 19, 2025The Red Cross on Wednesday called for privacy and dignity ahead of the expected release of hostages' bodies from Gaza under the terms of a ceasefire.
February 19, 2025Three oil tankers have been damaged by blasts in the last month in separate incidents around the Mediterranean, with the causes unknown, shipping and security sources said on
February 19, 2025A ceasefire or peace deal to end the war between Ukraine and Russia would be "net positive" for the currencies of nearby emerging economies, investment bank JPMorgan
February 19, 2025French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will visit Washington next week, amid other meetings aimed at bringing an end to Russia's war in Ukraine, U.S.
February 19, 2025Pope Francis, battling double pneumonia in hospital, is in a stable condition and has shown "slight improvement" in results from recent blood tests, the
February 19, 2025How Trump friend Steve Witkoff ended up at the center of high-stakes Ukraine, Israel negotiations
February 19, 2025Trump’s slam of Zelensky is a remarkable moment in US foreign policy
February 19, 2025These are the world’s best beaches for 2025, according to Tripadvisor
February 18, 2025Poland's space agency POLSA is looking into whether an unidentified object found near the western Polish city of Poznan on Wednesday is debris from Elon Musk's SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket
February 19, 2025Polish call centre worker Katarzyna Paprota, 48, says the dramatic shift in United States policy towards Russia and Ukraine
February 19, 2025The European Union's diplomatic service has proposed boosting the bloc's military aid for Ukraine, aiming to show continued support for Kyiv as the United States and Russia have
February 19, 2025Unusually high volatility in the shares of European companies around their earnings days has prompted a growing number of typically cautious longer-term investors to
February 19, 2025Florence's local government has ordered owners of holiday rental properties to remove self check-in keyboxes by February 25 in a move against over-tourism in the Italian
February 19, 2025Threats made by the far-right, pro-Russian surprise frontrunner in Romania's now-voided presidential election against the country's top court were anti-democratic and dangerous,
February 19, 2025Russia, like U.S. President Donald Trump, covets Ukraine's natural resources - and on the ground its forces are closing in on a giant lithium deposit.
February 19, 2025Syzran oil refinery, operated by Russia's oil giant Rosneft, suspended oil processing on Wednesday due to a fire at the primary unit (CDU-6) following an attack by a Ukrainian drone
February 19, 2025Europe's main STOXX index logged its biggest daily drop since the start of this year on Wednesday as expectations escalated of a damaging trade war
February 19, 2025Threats by U.S.
February 19, 2025Ruben Vardanyan, a former top official in the ethnic Armenian administration of Nagorno-Karabakh which Azerbaijan retook in 2023, announced a second hunger strike on Wednesday in protest
February 19, 2025Ukrainians rejected an extraordinary broadside by U.S.
February 19, 2025Austria arrested a 14-year-old on February 10 on suspicion of planning a militant attack on a Vienna train station, the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday,
February 19, 2025Police in Munich are investigating a mystery: More than 1,000 stickers were put on gravestones and wooden crosses at three cemeteries in the German city, without any indication of where they came from or why
February 19, 2025Austrian authorities are investigating the flow of money behind a large donation made to the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) to support its German election campaign,
February 19, 2025President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday rejected U.S. demands for $500 billion in mineral wealth from Ukraine to repay Washington for wartime aid, saying the United States had
February 19, 2025Ireland's foreign direct investment agency is hopeful that the impact of threatened U.S. tariffs on the country's large pharmaceutical sector will be limited by a U.S. desire to
February 19, 2025Mastercard's agreement to settle a landmark lawsuit brought on behalf of British consumers drew criticism on Wednesday, in a dispute that could deter funders from
February 19, 2025Swiss navigation device maker Garmin forecast full-year results above Wall Street estimates on Wednesday, banking on continued momentum in its outdoor and auto OEM segments.
February 19, 2025Austrian authorities say investigators have arrested a 14-year-old who apparently was planning an attack at a railway station in Vienna and found material that suggested he supported the Islamic State group
February 19, 2025The World Anti-Doping Agency says Serbia’s authorities have broken up a criminal ring that was importing and distributing doping substances in the country
February 19, 2025Vatican officials said that Pope Francis had developed pneumonia in both lungs, further complicating the pontiff’s recovery
February 19, 2025The European Central Bank's top policymakers outlined the contours of a looming policy debate on Wednesday, taking opposing views on inflation risks and on how much the bank is
February 19, 2025The European Commission is investigating whether to tighten its current system of quotas on steel imports to protect EU producers from new tariffs U.S.
February 19, 2025HSBC is ditching its target of reaching net-zero carbon emissions across its business by 2030 because of slow change in the economy, the
February 19, 2025EU envoys on Wednesday agreed on a 16th package of sanctions against Russia, EU diplomats said, including a ban on primary aluminium imports, sales of gaming
February 19, 2025Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov lauded U.S.
February 19, 2025Twenty-seven people have been arrested in a pan-European raid against two drug trafficking groups, one of which used migrants as couriers, Italy's Carabinieri police said on Wednesday
February 19, 2025Apple has told Britain's competition regulator that some of the remedy options proposed by the watchdog to address concerns in the mobile browser market would impact the iPhone
February 19, 2025Pope Francis, the 88-year-old head of the 1.4-billion-member Roman Catholic Church, is in hospital being treated for double pneumonia following a respiratory infection.
February 19, 2025Standing beside a bombed-out milling plant in his village, Mykola Havrylov said he felt powerless watching U.S. and Russian
February 19, 2025Egypt's president called on the international community on Wednesday to adopt a plan to rebuild war-torn Gaza without displacing Palestinians, after a proposal by U.S.
February 19, 2025A group of U.S. companies present in Spain asked the administration of President Donald Trump to take into account the country's trade deficit with the United States when setting
February 19, 2025A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan Even though Wall Street stocks lag world markets this year, the S&P500 still managed to wring out another record high on Tuesday -
February 19, 2025Sweden's Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that Greta Thunberg and hundreds of other activists cannot proceed with a class action lawsuit that had sought to force the state to
February 19, 2025Italian prosecutors say they are seeking to drop a tax evasion investigation against Google after the tech giant agreed to pay a 326 million euro ($340 million) settlement
February 19, 2025A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan Europe's defence stocks, up almost 20% for the year so far, surged another 1% on Tuesday as U.S. officials met Russian counterparts
February 18, 2025British house prices rose at their fastest pace in almost two years in the 12 months to December, according to official data published on Wednesday that added to signs of a recovery
February 19, 2025Romania's foreign minister said he had not come under pressure from U.S.
February 19, 2025Milan prosecutors plan to drop a case brought against the European division of Google after the company agreed to pay 326 million euros ($340 million) to settle a tax claim, they said
February 19, 2025Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S.
February 19, 2025The Netherlands has agreed to return more than 100 Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, the latest European country to return cultural artefacts to Africa, the Dutch embassy in
February 19, 2025Philips forecast a mid-single-digit decline in first-quarter comparable sales on Wednesday partly due to weak China spending, after the Dutch healthcare technology
February 19, 2025Spanish police have arrested seven crew members of a crammed migrant boat that arrived in the Canary Islands in December from Senegal over the alleged killing of eight passengers,
February 19, 2025The United States was Germany’s biggest single trading partner last year for the first time since 2015, displacing China from the top spot as exports to the Asian power declined
February 19, 2025Novak Djokovic says recent doping cases in tennis suggest ‘favoritism’ and are ‘not a good image for our sport’
February 18, 2025European Union envoys have approved new sanctions against Russia, with the measures set to enter into force next week on the third anniversary of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine
February 19, 2025Migrants who have settled in the German city of Magdeburg say they have experienced a sharp increase in racism and anti-immigration sentiments following a deadly Christmas market attack last year
February 19, 2025President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was quoted on Wednesday as saying a U.S. proposal for a critical minerals deal was unfair as it did not include security guarantees, and he did not want
February 19, 2025Europe must avoid excessive regulation and could also consider simplifying existing rules, European Central Bank Governing Council member Fabio Panetta said on Wednesday.
February 19, 2025Ukrainian forces have struck and destroyed a North Korean self-propelled howitzer on the eastern front of the nearly three-year-old war with Russia, Ukraine's military said on Tuesday.
February 18, 2025German engine manufacturer MTU Aero Engines on Wednesday raised its guidance for 2025 based on a lower assumed exchange rate of the euro versus the U.S. dollar, as it topped market
February 19, 2025Activist investors are expected to step up their campaigns across Europe this year, with American firms increasingly involved buying into companies to put pressure on
February 19, 2025A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Ankur Banerjee Another day, another bout of threats from "tariff man".
February 19, 2025"Alice fuer Deutschland" (Alice for Germany) chanted supporters as far-right leader Alice Weidel addressed an election rally outside
February 19, 2025British inflation sped up by more than expected to hit a 10-month high of 3.0% in January and it is likely to rise further soon, testing the Bank of England's confidence that price
February 19, 2025Ukraine attacked an oil refinery in the city of Syzran in Russia's Samara region overnight, the regional governor said on Wednesday.
February 19, 2025The Vatican says Pope Francis has developed pneumonia in both his lungs, after new tests showed a further complication in the condition of the 88-year-old pope
February 18, 2025The new French ambassador to Singapore said on Monday that France and Europe
February 18, 2025Pay increases granted by British employers held steady in the three months to January at the lowest level since 2021, signalling a shift towards more restrained rises as businesses
February 19, 2025Top U.S. and Russian officials have had their most extensive high-level engagement since Moscow sent troops into Ukraine almost three years ago
February 18, 2025U.S.
February 18, 2025A federal judge has refused to immediately block billionaire Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency from accessing government data systems or participating in worker layoffs
February 18, 2025Holocaust survivor Marian Turski, who became a journalist in Poland and headed an international committee of Auschwitz survivors, has died at the age of 98, said the Polish weekly
February 18, 2025Russia and the U.S. have agreed to start working toward ending the war in Ukraine and improving their diplomatic and economic ties
February 18, 2025An Argentine appeal court has confirmed the dismissal of aggravated rape charges against French international rugby players Hugo Auradou and Oscar Jegou, according to the case file seen by
February 18, 2025US and Russia to appoint teams to negotiate end of Ukraine war in talks that excluded Kyiv
February 18, 2025Formula 1 has kick-starting its 75th anniversary season with music, glitz and glamor Tuesday as the race series aims to reach beyond a sports audience with a two-hour televised arena show
February 18, 2025Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said on Tuesday he wanted to see less volatility in medium and longer-dated bond yields that have been driven up by speculation about the trade
February 18, 2025Pope Francis has the onset of double pneumonia, the Vatican said on Tuesday, complicating treatment for the 88-year pontiff and indicating a further
February 18, 2025Two British nationals detained in Iran have been charged with espionage after they allegedly gathered information in different parts of the country, the Iranian judiciary's Mizan news
February 18, 2025Russia said oil flows through the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC), a major route for supplying Kazakhstan and exporting to the global market, were reduced by 30-40% on Tuesday
February 18, 2025Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy postponed his visit to Saudi Arabia in order to not give "legitimacy" to Tuesday's meeting between U.S. and Russian
February 18, 2025European defence stocks surged on Monday as governments faced
February 17, 2025China supports all efforts conducive to peace talks in Ukraine, China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi told the United Nations Security Council on Tuesday, and
February 18, 2025It’s been a year since one of Britain’s richest men bought into its most famous soccer team and vowed to bring the good times back
February 18, 2025Iranian state media say authorities have accused a British couple detained in the country since January of spying
February 18, 2025Ukraine's dollar bonds were on track for their biggest one-day decline in months, shaving away gains from the recent rally that has been driven by hopes for a ceasefire.
February 18, 2025The European Central Bank extended its work-from-home policy by two years on Tuesday, only requiring staff to be in the office for about 50% of their time, the bank said, just as
February 18, 2025Continental's automotive branch plans to cut 3,000 jobs in its research and development segment by the end of 2026, the company said on Tuesday.
February 18, 2025European shares closed at a record high on Tuesday, with banking and defence stocks among top gainers as
February 18, 2025US-Russia summit ends in a partial victory for Moscow – and a reversal on Europe
February 18, 2025An Italian court has ended early special administration imposed on a unit of the Armani fashion group over labour practices of its Chinese-owned subcontractors, it said on Tuesday,
February 18, 2025Global packaged food group Kraft Heinz is working with investment bank Houlihan Lokey to sell its Italy-based infant food product brand Plasmon, two sources close to the matter said
February 18, 2025Faced with U.S. demands to provide the military muscle to enforce a future Ukraine peace deal, Europe finds itself in a bind.
February 18, 2025Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday he had postponed his visit to Saudi Arabia planned for Wednesday and that talks on how to end the war with Russia could not be
February 18, 2025Russia on Tuesday demanded NATO scrap its 2008 promise to one day give Ukraine membership of the U.S.-led NATO military alliance and
February 18, 2025Poland's president said on Tuesday that U.S. officials had assured him that Washington did not intend to lower troop numbers in eastern Europe, as he gave a statement to reporters
February 18, 2025France plans to a host a second meeting to discuss Ukraine and European security on Wednesday, but has this time invited European countries not present earlier this week and NATO ally
February 18, 2025A painting by street artist Banksy valued at up to 5 million pounds ($6.3 million) is going up for auction next month
February 18, 2025European Central Bank interest rate cuts should compensate for the tightening impact of the bank's balance sheet runoff, board member Piero Cipollone said on Tuesday, hinting
February 18, 2025Britain said on Tuesday it had summoned the Rwandan High Commissioner following advances by the Rwandan Defence Force and the Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic
February 18, 2025European luxury goods makers say they could draw on pricing power to offset the cost of any tariffs imposed by U.S.
February 18, 2025The U.S. paper and pulp industry is lobbying President Donald Trump's administration to ask the EU to declare the United States deforestation
February 18, 2025President Emmanuel Macron braved strikes and street protests to force through a deeply unpopular reform in 2023 raising France's retirement age by two years to 64,
February 18, 2025Trump’s rush for a deal with Putin leaves Ukraine and Europe scrambling
February 18, 2025A transport strike during an official test event for the Milan-Cortina Olympics highlighted why organizers are negotiating with trade unions to avoid a similar scenario during next year’s Winter Games
February 18, 2025A judge has approved an emergency plan to keep Britain’s largest water company afloat and averted a possible temporary government takeover
February 18, 2025Surgery was rare and risky in the medieval period. Though medical options were limited, trans people were able to take transitioning into their own hands.
February 18, 2025Amnesty International is urging French lawmakers to reject a bill this week that would ban headscarves in all sporting competitions
February 18, 2025Polish border guards discovered over 100 kg of cocaine on the bottom of the Baltic Sea while conducting operations to protect critical infrastructure, the border guard said on
February 18, 2025Turkish police have detained 282 suspects accused of ties to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK, militant group, the government said on Tuesday, among them journalists,
February 18, 2025The wind may be partly to blame for bird flu spread between farms, a new study suggests
February 18, 2025An higher proportion of foreigners in Germany does not lead to a higher crime rate, a research institute said on Tuesday, five days ahead of an election in which violent attacks
February 18, 2025A slim majority of Germans are in favour of deploying Bundeswehr forces as part of a possible peacekeeping force in Ukraine to monitor any ceasefire that is agreed, a poll showed on
February 18, 2025The Kremlin said on Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin was serious about negotiating a settlement to end the war in Ukraine as high-level talks began in Saudi Arabia, and
February 18, 2025Productivity in Britain's economy, one of its major weak points, recovered partially in the fourth quarter of 2024 but was down compared with a year previously, official data showed on
February 18, 2025German investor morale improved at the fastest rate in two years in February on expectations the economy will pick up under a new government after Sunday's election
February 18, 2025Norway's central bank said on Tuesday it had received 82 applications for the position of CEO of the country's vast sovereign wealth fund.
February 18, 2025Britain has a genuine intent to strengthen trade with Saudi Arabia, Investment Minister Poppy Gustafsson said on Tuesday at the Capital Markets Forum taking place in Riyadh.
February 18, 2025The number of residential building permits granted in Germany last year fell to its lowest level since 2010, demonstrating the deep crisis of a real estate market
February 18, 2025The European Commission is ready to move quickly with proposals to ease budget rules to facilitate increased defence spending by member states, EU Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis
February 18, 2025The Kremlin said on Tuesday that it was Ukraine's sovereign right to decide whether it wanted to join the European Union and that Moscow did not intend to dictate to Kyiv how it
February 18, 2025Mark Ruffalo wants you to remember that ‘every petty dictator…they always lose’ in the end
February 17, 2025Bullish investors cut cash levels to 3.5%, the lowest since 2010, as they went long stocks and "short everything else", a survey of investors from BofA Global Research showed on
February 18, 2025The sound of hammer blows and welding drifted from the Skaramangas Shipyard near Athens last month as workers repaired the bow of a large tanker, while other
February 18, 2025U.S. fund KKR has signed an agreement with Italy's Eni to buy an additional 5% stake in Eni's biofuel business Enilive for 587.5 million euros ($614.17 million), bringing its total stake to
February 18, 2025The EU's competition chief says U.S.
February 18, 2025French IT consulting firm Capgemini reported a 2% drop in its annual constant currency sales on Tuesday, but narrowly beat market expectations, helped by
February 18, 2025Consumer prices in France were up 1.8% year-on-year in January, statistics office INSEE said on Tuesday, in line with analysts' expectations and the preliminary reading.
February 18, 2025British pay growth accelerated in late 2024, according to data that suggested the jobs market was holding up and underscored why the Bank of
February 18, 2025Catherine, Princess of Wales and children share hand-drawn family portraits
February 17, 2025Four candidates are bidding to be Germany’s next leader in Sunday’s election
February 18, 2025An large-scale overnight Russian drone attack hit a residential building in the city of Dolynska in central Ukraine, injuring a mother and her two children and forcing evacuations
February 18, 2025European leaders have insisted their governments must have a say in talks between the U.S. and Russia to end the war in Ukraine, as both Moscow and Washington said there was no role for Europe in the negotiations that could shape the future of the continent
February 17, 2025A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Tom Westbrook Europe's rally in banking and defence stocks extended into Tokyo, where shares in Mitsubishi Heavy Industries popped 3% to
February 18, 2025Greece’s chief seismologist says that while earthquake frequency around Santorini has slightly decreased, the situation remains unpredictable for the coming weeks
February 17, 2025Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke to CNN’s Christiane Amanpour about recent talks with US President Donald Trump regarding Russian President Vladimir Putin.
February 15, 2025The Kremlin says senior American and Russian officials will hold talks on improving their ties and negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine
February 17, 2025A group of European leaders agreed at a meeting in Paris on Monday they were ready to give Ukraine security guarantees, but it would be dangerous to conclude a ceasefire without a
February 17, 2025European leaders meeting in Paris for emergency talks on Monday called for higher spending to ramp up the continent's defence
February 17, 2025Barred from US-Russia talks on Ukraine, Europe scrambles for response with Paris summit
February 17, 2025Today in History: February 27, the German Reichstag fire
February 17, 2025Doctors have changed treatment for Pope Francis' respiratory tract infection to tackle a "complex clinical situation," and he will remain in hospital for as
February 17, 2025Trump leans on close ties to Saudi prince as he looks for a deal on Ukraine
February 17, 2025Airbus is poised to delay the entry into service of a freighter version of its A350 jet by up to a year following production and supply chain delays, two industry sources said.
February 17, 2025British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Monday that a U.S. security commitment was the only way to ensure lasting peace in Ukraine and it was too early to say how many British
February 17, 2025European leaders meeting in Paris on Monday for emergency talks called for higher defense spending to ramp up the continent's defense capabilities but remained divided on the
February 17, 2025Keith Kellogg, U.S.
February 17, 2025Airbus is delaying the arrival of a freighter version of its A350 jet by up to a year and faces hurdles in
February 17, 2025U.S.
February 17, 2025A presidential election held on Sunday in the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia produced no clear winner, setting up a second round between the top two candidates, state news
February 17, 2025The Vatican says Pope Francis’ respiratory tract infection is presenting a “complex clinical picture” that will require further hospitalization
February 17, 2025A U.S. official says Secretary of State Marco Rubio is leading a delegation to Saudi Arabia for direct talks with Russian officials in the coming days to seek an end to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine
February 16, 2025Vatican authorities said Monday that Pope Francis has a complex infection in his respiratory system and will require more targeted drug treatment
February 17, 2025After nearly three years of living under constant threat of Russian airstrikes while their troops fight a grinding campaign against Russia’s invasion, many Ukrainians long for an end to the war
February 17, 2025The 23-year-old Syrian refugee believed to have killed a teenager and injured five other people in a weekend stabbing rampage in the Austrian town of Villach
February 17, 2025Yuri Ushakov, Russian President Vladimir Putin's foreign policy adviser, said on Monday that Moscow and Washington had yet to agree on how to embark on Ukraine peace talks as the
February 17, 2025European and German fiscal rules would need to be reformed if higher defence spending was agreed among European partners, German Finance Minister Joerg Kukies said
February 17, 2025French Culture Minister Rachida Dati began a visit on Monday to disputed Western Sahara where she will meet officials and open a French cultural center in a show
February 17, 2025European shares marked a record closing high on Monday, boosted by defence stocks as investors priced in the likelihood of increased military spending
February 17, 2025Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy traveled to the United Arab Emirates as momentum grows for potential peace talks ending Russia's war
February 17, 2025The president of Cyprus says a pair of agreements outlining how sizeable natural gas deposits inside Cypriot waters will get to market via processing facilities in Egypt are a milestone for energy cooperation
February 17, 2025Khadija ‘Bunny’ Shaw has bowed her head and raised a gloved fist after scoring a goal on her first start for Manchester City Women since pulling out of the team because of racist abuse directed at her on social media
February 17, 2025An Indian court jailed a 31-year-old man for life on Monday following the rape and murder of a young Irish woman in the tourist resort state of Goa, nearly eight
February 17, 2025A Swedish court on Monday found four men guilty of belonging to Islamic State, carrying out activities such as recruitment and weapons training for the organisation, and sentenced
February 17, 2025By Joachim Klement The euro zone is showing early signs of an economic recovery that is unlikely to be derailed by the tariffs the Trump administration has threatened thus far.
February 17, 2025Germany's populist political parties look set to win enough seats to potentially gum up the workings of parliament - even if they don't form part of the next
February 17, 2025Russia's economy is showing the first signs of cooling, with sales and orders falling in various sectors due to high interest rates and inflation, Economy Minister Maxim Reshetnikov was
February 17, 2025Italy's prime minister on Monday vowed to push ahead with a plan to deport irregular migrants to camps built in Albania, which has been stalled by national judges,
February 17, 2025Spain poured cold water on Monday on a British proposal to send peacekeepers to Ukraine and said negotiations to end the three-year war should not end up rewarding Russian
February 17, 2025Europe's leaders have long known the region is living beyond the means of its ageing, stagnant economy.
February 17, 2025A drone strike has hit a pumping station on a oil pipeline in Russia, reducing flows from Kazakhstan to world markets pumped by Western firms including Chevron and Exxon Mobil, its
February 17, 2025Soccer star Nabil Bentaleb scores in first game since suffering cardiac arrest last year
February 17, 2025Disconnected helplines, undiagnosed HIV cases and unfinished classrooms: Ukraine counts the costs of USAID suspension
February 17, 2025A ceasefire deal between Russia and Ukraine would take the sting out of heightened U.S. trade tensions and ease pressure on energy
February 17, 2025German Chancellor Olaf Scholz wants to see a strong and sovereign Europe, he said on Monday, ahead of hastily arranged talks in Paris following signals that the United
February 17, 2025Poland will not send troops to Ukraine, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Monday, as he set off for an emergency summit in Paris to discuss Europe's role in any ceasefire.
February 17, 2025LaLiga match between Espanyol and Athletic Bilbao halted due to alleged racist abuse
February 17, 2025Germany hasn’t seen significant economic growth in five years
February 17, 2025Greece will soon set up an evacuation port on the island of Santorini to facilitate the safe escape of people in case a bigger quake hits the popular tourist destination, a Greek
February 17, 2025German cities face severe financial difficulties, with most unable to present balanced budgets this year amid poor growth and high social spending, a survey showed on Monday, days
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February 17, 2025Germany is particularly vulnerable to U.S. trade tariffs, which could curb growth for years to come and hold back an economy already suffering through two straight years of
February 17, 2025The EU plans to tell Israel next week that Palestinians uprooted from their Gaza homes should be ensured a dignified return and that Europe will contribute to
February 17, 2025President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday he had discussed bringing back Ukrainians from Russian captivity with UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan at
February 17, 2025Stellantis said on Monday it would make dual-clutch transmissions for hybrid vehicles at its Termoli plant in Southern Italy, which its joint venture ACC has earmarked for the
February 17, 2025BAFTA Awards 2025: Best red carpet looks
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February 16, 2025Pro-Palestinian NGO seeks ICC arrest warrant for Israel’s foreign minister
February 16, 2025French President Emmanuel Macron will host European leaders, including Britain's prime minister on Monday for an emergency summit on the Ukraine war after U.S.
February 16, 2025A Russian court has fined Alphabet's Google 3.8 million roubles ($41,530) for hosting content on YouTube that included videos instructing Russian soldiers how to surrender, Russia's
February 17, 2025Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said in an interview published on Monday that inflation was slowing and an expected pick-up in price growth later this year was unlikely to
February 17, 2025Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov asked on Monday why Europe would be invited to join possible talks on a peace settlement in Ukraine if European politicians want the war to
February 17, 2025Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is clashing with the country's judiciary in the same way her old political ally and mentor Silvio Berlusconi
February 17, 2025Saudi Arabia to host US-Russia talks on Ukraine, as UK says it’s ‘ready and willing’ to put troops on ground
February 17, 2025Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday ruled out territorial concessions to Ukraine, setting out a tough opening stance on the eve
February 17, 2025New photos show damage to US aircraft carrier after collision
February 17, 2025Ukraine and the United States need to discuss the fate of mineral deposits in areas captured by Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, as Washington negotiates with Kyiv to
February 16, 2025‘My job is so, so hard,’ says Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim as the club sinks to latest low
February 17, 2025When police in western France searched surgeon Joel Le Scouarnec's home after he raped his 6-year-old neighbour in 2017, they found a cache of sex dolls
February 17, 2025Swiss economic growth accelerated in the fourth quarter compared with the previous three months, driven by both industry and the services sector, a preliminary official estimate
February 17, 2025Microsoft plans to invest an additional 700 million dollars in Poland to improve Polish cybersecurity in cooperation with the country's armed forces, the company's president said on
February 17, 2025China's foreign ministry said on Monday that "healthy and stable" China-EU relations are needed now more than ever, after a push by the United States to initiate Ukraine
February 17, 2025British healthcare property developer Assura has rejected a 1.56 billion pound ($2 billion) acquisition bid from KKR and pension fund Universities
February 17, 2025Top Trump administration officials are set to meet with senior Russian officials to begin talks aimed at ending the war in Ukraine, according to multiple sources. CNN contributor and former CNN Moscow bureau chief Jill Dougherty weighs in on what she says is the most important issue for the US to raise during these talks.
February 17, 2025Online fast-fashion retailer Shein is under pressure to cut its valuation to about $30 billion ahead of its London listing, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing people familiar with
February 17, 2025Europe is at a turning point in terms of its relations with the United States which forces Europe more than ever before to defend Ukraine and boost its defence spending, said French
February 17, 2025Investors in HSBC are backing management attempts to shutter parts of its investment bank, even as U.S.
February 16, 2025Italy posted a trade surplus with the rest of the world of 5.980 billion euros ($6.26 billion) in December, compared with a surplus of 5.333 billion euros in the same month of 2023, data
February 17, 2025Sweden would consider contributing to post-war peacekeeping forces in Ukraine, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said on Monday, adding that negotiations would need to progress
February 17, 2025Germany needs a new business model to get its stalled economy going again
February 17, 2025Russian drone attacks on Ukraine damaged storage facilities and private residences after Russia launched 147 drones to attack the country overnight, Ukrainian military and officials
February 17, 2025For traders, it's a case of which way to look next with their screens flooded by headlines from tariffs and shaky Middle East ceasefire deals, to Russia and Ukraine.
February 14, 2025Lars Baumguertel wants Germany's politicians to get out their cheque books.
February 17, 2025A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Wayne Cole. It's been a mostly upbeat start to the week for Asian shares, even though a holiday in U.S. markets has thinned liquidity.
February 17, 2025A court in India’s western Goa state has sentenced a 31-year-old man to life in prison for raping and murdering an Irish woman at a popular tourist resort nearly eight years ago
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