Applied Materials becomes largest shareholder of advanced packaging firm BESI
Applied Materials has bought a 9% stake in BE Semiconductor industries (BESI), the U.S.-based computer chip equipment supplier said on Monday.
April 15, 2025Applied Materials has bought a 9% stake in BE Semiconductor industries (BESI), the U.S.-based computer chip equipment supplier said on Monday.
April 15, 2025Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that it was not easy to agree with the United States on the key parts of a possible peace deal to end the war in Ukraine and that Russia
April 15, 2025A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Rocky Swift It's tax day in the United States, the deadline for most Americans to file their returns to Uncle Sam, but there's far less
April 15, 2025Kyiv forces hit Russia's Kursk region that borders Ukraine with dozens of drones, killing an elderly woman, injuring nine people and sparking fries in several buildings in the region's
April 15, 2025Europe faced its most widespread flooding last year since 2013, with 30% of the continent's river network hit by significant floods, scientists said on Tuesday, as
April 15, 2025Australian fast-food chain operator Collins Foods said on Tuesday it planned on exiting the underperforming Taco Bell restaurant business in a
April 14, 2025Talks between Iran and the United States over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program had appeared ready to leave the Middle East, as an Italian source and others said the next round of negotiations would take place in Rome
April 14, 2025This ‘Poo Zoo’ is harvesting living cells from animal dung
April 15, 2025British shoppers spent more last month even as worries about the global economy grew in the run-up to U.S.
April 14, 2025Big Tech and auto shares rose after the U.S. removed smartphones and other electronics from its tariffs on China over the weekend, and after President Donald
April 14, 2025Russia claims that its deadly missile attack on Ukraine’s city of Sumy that killed and wounded scores on Sunday had targeted a gathering of Ukrainian troops
April 14, 2025Democrats in the U.S.
April 14, 2025U.S.
April 14, 2025U.S.-based buyout firm Atlas Holdings is in advanced talks to take over Banknote printer De La Rue for about 130 pence per share, Sky News reported on Monday.
April 14, 2025Meta Platforms said on Monday it would use interactions that users have with its AI, as well as public posts and comments shared by adults across its platforms, to train its artificial
April 14, 2025The European Union is seeking a fair deal on tariffs with the United States, European Trade Commissioner Maros Sefcovic said on Monday, adding that this would require a "
April 14, 2025Russian strikes on Ukrainian city of Sumy kill 35, in deadliest attack this year
April 13, 2025Atlanta Hawks rookie Zaccharie Risacher is the lone survivor of the influx of French players who have dominated the top of the last two NBA drafts
April 14, 2025The European Commission will announce a more detailed strategy to phase out Russian oil and gas imports next month, it said on Monday, after twice delaying the plan
April 14, 2025Turkey is set to begin restoration and reinforcement work on the dome of the Hagia Sophia, in one of the biggest repair projects carried out on the 1,486-year-old structure,
April 14, 2025NATO members are discussing setting a spending target for civil defence and support for Ukraine on top of core military budget goals, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said
April 14, 2025LVMH's first-quarter revenue undershot expectations, as shoppers in the United States pulled back on beauty products and drinks while sales in China
April 14, 2025An anti-Brexit activist who has spent years mounting a one-man protest outside Britain’s Parliament has won a court victory against a police attempt to pull the plug on his musical activities
April 14, 2025Ukraine's Air Force said a new Russian missile and guided bombs targeted the city of Sumy in northeastern Ukraine on Monday evening, a day after a missile strike killed 35 people in the
April 14, 2025Hungary's parliament approved constitutional changes on Monday targeting LGBTQ+ people and what the government calls "foreign-funded political pressure networks" that undermine the
April 14, 2025Organizers for the Milan-Cortina Olympics have unveiled a sleek and minimalistic metallic design for the torches that will be used in the traditional relay ahead of next year’s Winter Games
April 14, 2025The Greek coast guard said it had found the bodies of two women and 39 other migrants on the tiny island of Farmakonisi in the Aegean Sea on Monday, and that an investigation was
April 14, 2025Surrounded by hundreds of Barbies at her home in the northern Spanish port of Gijon, TikTok influencer and collector Noemi de Lama has shared the news with her followers that
April 14, 2025Man dies after falling at Roman aqueduct in Spain
April 14, 2025Social media company Meta says that it will start using publicly available content from European users to train its artificial intelligence models, resuming work put on hold last year after privacy activists raised concerns about data privacy
April 14, 2025British lawmakers say outdated laws unfit for the social media age hampered police from countering false claims that helped fuel anti-immigrant violence in Britain last summer
April 14, 2025French opposition parties on Monday threatened to topple Prime Minister Francois Bayrou's government with a no-confidence motion after his finance
April 14, 2025Pope Francis has approved the first step towards sainthood for Antoni Gaudi, the modernist architect behind Barcelona's "Sagrada Familia" basilica, the Vatican said on Monday.
April 14, 2025Britain sent Ukraine 752 million pounds ($990 million) to buy air defences and artillery on Monday, part of a broader $50 billion international loan programme
April 14, 2025With global trade deeply uncertain and a tariff war causing havoc on financial markets, Germany's next government is hoping to unleash domestic consumption to
April 14, 2025U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) producer NextDecade said on Monday it has signed a 20-year deal to supply France's TotalEnergies with 1.5 million tonnes per annum (
April 14, 2025The head of the Council of Europe, the continent's leading human rights watchdog, told Reuters it was worried about any violations of
April 14, 2025The Kremlin criticised Germany's chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz on Monday over comments suggesting Germany might send Taurus long-range missiles to Ukraine.
April 14, 2025China has warned the U.K. government to treat the Chinese owners of British Steel fairly or risk undermining investor confidence in the country after British authorities took control of the company
April 14, 2025A second round of nuclear talks between the United States and Iran will be held in Rome, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani was reported as saying on Monday by the country's main
April 14, 2025A former lawmaker in Britain's now opposition Conservative Party has been charged alongside 14 others with gambling offences over bets made on the timing of the national election
April 14, 2025Trump administration cuts across federal health agencies have sent shivers through a biotech industry already struggling through a prolonged downturn
April 14, 2025When a group of Harvard Business School students visited Italy's Monte dei Paschi di Siena in January, they gathered notes to build a case study on how to turn around
April 14, 2025Warner Bros Discovery has decided not to sell Polish broadcaster TVN, it said on Monday, drawing a line under speculation surrounding the future
April 14, 2025Sony says it will raise prices starting Monday for some PlayStation 5 video game consoles in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, citing global economic turmoil
April 14, 2025Carlos Alcaraz wins Monte-Carlo Masters for first time with victory against injured Lorenzo Musetti
April 14, 2025ATHENS - Greece has signed a deal to buy 16 anti-ship missiles from France, Greek Defence Minister Nikos Dendias said on Monday.
April 14, 2025Sony said it will hike the price of its PlayStation 5 (PS5) console in markets in Europe, Britain, Australia and New Zealand, citing high inflation and fluctuating exchange rates.
April 14, 2025Greek police said on Monday the anti-terrorism unit was investigating what appeared to be a previously unknown guerrilla group, after a group claimed responsibility for a bomb blast
April 14, 2025France said on Monday that Algeria had threatened to expel 12 of its diplomatic staff and that it would take immediate reprisals should that occur in the latest flare-up between them
April 14, 2025German exports and industrial production are both in line for considerable headwinds as a result of U.S.
April 14, 2025Goldman Sachs cut its 12-month forecast for Europe's STOXX 600 index for the second time this month and said it "anticipated more downgrades," cautioning that U.S. tariffs and a stronger
April 14, 2025European shares closed higher in broad-based gains on Monday, as risk sentiment swelled after U.S.
April 14, 2025Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said on Monday he hoped U.S.
April 14, 2025France, Britain and Germany will be vigilant regarding nuclear disussions between the United States and Iran to ensure they conform with European interests, French Foreign
April 14, 2025European Union foreign ministers on Monday adopted sanctions against seven Iranian individuals and two organisations over the detention of EU citizens, which the bloc calls a
April 14, 2025The European Union will increase its financial support for the Palestinian Authority with a three-year package worth around 1.6 billion euros ($1.8 billion), the
April 14, 2025Italian billionaire Gianluigi Aponte's family-run business is emerging as the lead investor of a group seeking to buy 43 ports from conglomerate CK Hutchison, Bloomberg News reported on
April 14, 2025More than three years after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Europe's energy security is fragile.
April 14, 2025The planned spin-off of Holcim's North American business should take place in June, subject to the approval of shareholders at its May 14 annual general meeting, the Swiss building
April 14, 2025A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Wayne Cole So the "reciprocal" tariffs are off smartphones and some electronics, but maybe only for a while as they could get
April 14, 2025Two Russian ballistic missiles slammed into the heart of the northern Ukrainian city of Sumy on Sunday, killing 34 people and wounding
April 13, 2025Russian missiles struck the heart of the Ukrainian city of Sumy as people gathered to celebrate Palm Sunday
April 13, 2025(This April 11 story has been corrected to say that Golub was founded in 1994, not 1991 in paragraph 3, to remove an unrelated stock symbol in paragraph 1 and to drop paragraph 4 to remove
April 11, 2025Britain's biggest companies adopted their most defensive stance since early 2020 in the run-up U.S.
April 13, 2025Asking prices for housing on sale in Britain this month are 1.3% higher than a year earlier, despite the end of a tax break, pushing the average price above a
April 13, 2025Mykolas Alekna surpassed his world record in the discus twice on Sunday
April 13, 2025The United States downed defending champion Canada 2-1 at the women’s hockey world championship in a matchup of the game’s global powers
April 13, 2025Hungarian opposition leader Peter Magyar vowed on Sunday to unlock billions of euros of suspended European Union funding to revive the
April 13, 2025Virgil van Dijk scored a late winner against West Ham to move Liverpool within six points of the Premier League title
April 13, 2025Turkey has begun a new phase in sweeping restorations of the nearly 1,500-year-old Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, focusing on preserving the monument’s historic domes from the threat of earthquakes
April 13, 2025A convalescing Pope Francis has greeted the crowd in St_ Peter’s Square on Palm Sunday, wishing more than 20,000 faithful a “Happy Palm Sunday, Happy Holy Week."
April 13, 2025German police in Cologne have detained five Frenchmen and a Belgian woman who had tried to climb the city’s famous cathedral
April 13, 2025Common roadblocks that men face in their male friendships and a road map for getting past them
April 13, 2025Chinese companies will have to clear a “high trust bar” when investing in key sectors in the U.K., the country’s business secretary said after he took effective control of Britain’s last remaining factory that makes steel from scratch from its Chinese owners
April 13, 2025‘This isn’t Russia, never was, and never will be’: Ukrainians living under occupation fear Trump’s peace talks
April 13, 2025Why some say an anti-Nazi pastor executed by Hitler has become a hero to today’s White Christian nationalists
April 13, 2025Pope Francis made a brief appearance in St.
April 13, 2025The Kremlin said on Sunday contacts with U.S.
April 13, 2025Homes were flooded and roads turned into muddy rivers after torrential rainfall over the Spanish Canary Island of Lanzarote, a popular year-round tourist destination.
April 13, 2025Britain's foreign minister David Lammy said he was seeking answers from Hong Kong and Chinese authorities on Sunday after an opposition member of parliament, Wera Hobhouse, was
April 13, 2025Hungarian lawmakers are set to pass a constitutional amendment that critics say targets LGBTQ+ communities and threatens basic civil rights
April 13, 2025Across Europe and further afield, counterterrorism agencies are grappling with a new generation of young people who are being radicalized online and consuming ultraviolent content produced by extremist groups and their supporters
April 13, 2025Ukraine is seeking solutions to repair the damage caused by a Russian drone attack to the confinement vessel at the stricken Chornobyl nuclear power
April 12, 2025Britain said on Sunday it will expand financing support for exporters by 20 billion pounds ($26 billion), including those affected by U.S. tariffs, in an effort to give them
April 12, 2025Germany's conservative chancellor-in-waiting has cast doubt on some of the commitments he had made to secure a coalition with the Social Democrats, hinting that his government might
April 12, 2025Several thousand Hungarians mocked right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban's moves to ban the annual Pride march by LGBTQ+ groups, dressed in
April 12, 2025British finance minister Rachel Reeves wrote in a column for the Observer due to be published on Sunday that she wants to achieve "an ambitious new relationship" with the European
April 12, 2025Thousands from towns in Serbia, Kosovo and Bosnia arrived by buses on Saturday to attend a rally in Belgrade organised in support of President Aleksandar Vucic, whose grip on
April 12, 2025Condolences are pouring in for relatives of the Barcelona family that perished in a helicopter crash an ocean away
April 11, 2025Serbia’s populist President Aleksandar Vucic has demanded that authorities restore “order and peace” in the Balkan country following months of anti-corruption protests that have shaken his firm grip on power
April 12, 2025Pressures from Kyiv and Washington led to US ambassador’s resignation, sources say
April 12, 2025Kevin De Bruyne sparked Manchester City’s remarkable fightback in a 5-2 win over Crystal Palace in the Premier League that re-ignited his team’s Champions League qualification hopes
April 12, 2025U.K. lawmakers returned to Parliament from their Easter break to approve an emergency rescue of the country’s last remaining factory that makes steel directly from scratch
April 12, 2025Russia and Ukraine’s top diplomats have used a high-level conference in Turkey to once again trade accusations of violating a tentative U.S.-brokered deal to pause strikes on energy infrastructure
April 12, 2025Jawbone from ancient land bridge reveals a mysterious human ancestor
April 12, 2025Britain moved to take control of British Steel and keep its blast furnaces open on Saturday, as a minister told an emergency parliamentary session
April 12, 2025U.S.
April 12, 2025They came to the US as kids for a better life. Now they’re leaving for Europe as seniors
April 12, 2025Italy has no intention for now of using budget leeway allowed by the European Union to boost its defence spending, its economy minister said on Saturday, despite U.S. pressure to
April 12, 2025Students, parents say anti-DEI push is a hindrance to learning at DOD schools
April 12, 2025Italian media reports say United States midfielder Weston McKennie is among 13 soccer players being investigated for illegal online betting
April 12, 2025Romanian hard-right opposition leader George Simion, the favourite to win a presidential election re-run, said he is the only candidate who could stop a potential withdrawal of
April 12, 2025Credit ratings agency S&P Global upgraded Italy on Friday in a surprise move just days after Rome halved its economic growth forecast amid global market turmoil and said
April 11, 2025European Union finance ministers expressed interest on Saturday in the idea of a joint defence fund that would buy and own defence equipment,
April 12, 2025Russia launched a barrage of drones in an overnight attack on Ukraine, injuring four people and damaging residential and commercial buildings in Kyiv and other parts of the country,
April 12, 2025Bank of England interest rate-setter Megan Greene said on Saturday it was unclear what U.S.
April 12, 2025An explosion occurred outside the offices of Hellenic Train in Athens, Greek police said on Friday, adding there were no immediate reports of injuries.
April 11, 2025U.S. and Ukrainian officials met on Friday on a U.S. proposal to gain access to Ukraine's mineral wealth, a source with knowledge of the matter said, adding
April 11, 2025Less than 48 hours after dining with a negotiator sent by Russian President Vladimir Putin in Washington last week, Steve
April 11, 2025Sales are brisk at the Villiers-Sur-Marne Harley-Davidson dealership outside Paris, where French bikers reckon they had better hurry if they want the American
April 11, 2025Greenland appointed its first Arctic ambassador on Friday, pledging to promote sustainable economic development for indigenous people and advance
April 11, 2025Europe wants to ready its citizens for war. Will they listen?
April 12, 2025A bomb planted near the offices of Hellenic Train, Greece’s main railway company, has exploded in a busy district of central Athens, authorities say, causing limited damage but no injuries
April 11, 2025David Die Dejean is passionate about studying tuna.
April 11, 2025Talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff that focused on settling the Ukraine conflict concluded late on Friday after more than four hours.
April 11, 2025Sweden's Volvo Cars, which is controlled by Chinese auto maker Geely, will need up to two years to expand its U.S. car production in order to avoid hefty import tariffs, CEO
April 11, 2025Bickering and chaos were on display in a presidential debate in Poland as eight candidates met to discuss existential matters for this country on NATO’s eastern flank — including fears of Russia over its war in Ukraine and concerns about President Donald Trump’s commitment to Europe’s security
April 11, 2025Ukraine’s European allies say Russian aggression is pushing peace out of reach, as US envoy meets Putin
April 11, 2025Rugby star Sébastien Chabal won two Six Nations titles with France, reached a World Cup semifinal and played 62 times for his nation as a powerful forward
April 11, 2025European countries are vowing to sends billions of dollars in further funding to help Ukraine keep fighting Russia’s invasion
April 11, 2025Thousands of supporters of Serbia’s populist President Aleksandar Vucic have gathered in downtown Belgrade, a day ahead of what authorities expect to be a huge rally in his support
April 11, 2025Ireland’s data privacy watchdog says it’s investigating Elon Musk’s social media platform X over its use of personal data to train his artificial intelligence chatbot Grok
April 11, 2025The Conversation explores the origins of the long and interesting journey the Easter Bunny has taken from European prehistory to today.
April 11, 2025U.K. lawmakers are being recalled this weekend to back emergency legislation aimed at saving the last plant in the country that makes steel from raw materials
April 11, 2025Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday sought to position his country as a point of stability in an increasingly tumultuous world, saying Turkey was essential for European security and able to span geopolitical divisions over Ukraine, Syria and U
April 11, 2025Italy dispatched 40 failed asylum seekers to Albania on Friday to be held until repatriation to their home countries in vacant, Italian-run detention centres built for a
April 11, 2025U.S. President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff held talks with President Vladimir Putin on Friday in St.
April 11, 2025Denmark's parliament on Friday took an important step towards ratifying a defence cooperation deal with the United States that expands
April 11, 2025One of Spain's leading olive oil producers is pondering an expansion into the U.S. in response to the tariff war unleashed by Washington, just as its peers are rushing out
April 11, 2025Ireland's data regulator on Friday said it had opened an investigation into social media platform X over the use of personal data collected from European Union users to train its AI
April 11, 2025The euro has emerged as a surprise winner of the recent tariff-induced market turmoil, confounding the earlier consensus by surging to a
April 11, 2025A German experiment gave people a basic monthly income. The effect on their work ethic was surprising
April 11, 2025The European Commission plans to adopt emergency measures next week to stop the spread of bird flu in two regions of Poland, a spokesperson said on Friday.
April 11, 2025Italian energy group Eni said on Friday it completed the sale of an additional 5% stake in Enilive to U.S. fund KKR, bringing the total proceeds from the disposal of two minority
April 11, 2025The Estonian navy detained and boarded a Russia-bound oil tanker on an EU sanctions list on Friday, accusing it of sailing illegally without a valid country flag.
April 11, 2025A trade conflict based on blanket 25% tariffs could cut economic growth in Germany by more than 1 percentage point, according to calculations from an economic institute.
April 11, 2025Carmaker Stellantis remains committed to its ailing luxury brand Maserati even as U.S. tariffs complicate the situation for the automotive industry in general, the brand's head said
April 11, 2025The commander of a U.S. Space Force base in Greenland has been fired after she sent a base-wide email breaking with official messaging following Vice President JD Vance’s visit to the Danish territory that President Donald Trump is seeking to annex
April 11, 2025Researchers reexamining fossils identified telltale marks made by human ancestors cutting meat from bones. The discovery pushes back the date hominins started living in Europe by 200,000 years.
April 11, 2025Euro zone financial markets are functioning well despite global turbulence and the European Central Bank is ready to deploy its financial instruments to maintain financial stability
April 11, 2025French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou said it was naive and dangerous to think China could replace the United States as a trade partner, and urged European Union (EU) members to
April 11, 2025Germany and Britain sent a message to Russia on Friday that Ukraine will be able to keep up its fight thanks to Western support, even as the U.S.
April 11, 2025European Trade Commissioner Maros Sefcovic is to travel to Washington on Sunday and will hold talks with U.S. officials on Monday with the aim of reaching a deal on tariffs, an EU
April 11, 2025Mercedes-Benz said on Friday it is shifting focus towards midsize and large vans and ending engagement in the smaller category, after the Automobilwoche magazine reported the planned
April 11, 2025DELPHI - Greece is in talks to buy two used 'Bergamini' class frigates from Italy, Defense Minister Nikos Dendias said at a conference on Friday, as the NATO member seeks to modernise its armed forces
April 11, 2025Greece will pay off loans granted under the first of three debt-crisis bailouts by 2031, two government officials told Reuters, as the country seeks to lose
April 11, 2025HSBC is preparing a foray into the white-hot market for private credit, five sources with knowledge of the plans said, the
April 11, 2025In the Barbie movie, the iconic doll faces a pivotal decision: opt for her trademark but impractical sky-high stilettos or embrace the down-to-earth
April 11, 2025Mohamed Salah’s trophy-laden spell with Liverpool is set to extend to a decade after the prolific Egypt forward signed a new contract with the Premier League leader after months of uncertainty over his future
April 11, 2025Fatou, the oldest gorilla living in captivity worldwide, is getting ready for her 68th birthday in style
April 11, 2025Ukrainian lawmakers are almost certain to extend martial law again before it expires on May 9, the parliamentary speaker has said, determined to uphold democracy even
April 11, 2025A ‘pretty expensive poo’ saw F1 driver Carlos Sainz fined more than $11,000. His cursing response might cost him again
April 11, 2025Over a thousand Sudanese refugees have reached or attempted to reach Europe in early 2025, the United Nations' refugee agency said on Friday, citing growing desperation in part due
April 11, 2025Russian President Vladimir Putin's investment envoy Kirill Dmitriev met U.S. President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff on Friday in St.
April 11, 2025European Union foreign ministers will target nine Iranians linked to what the bloc calls a policy of state-sponsored hostage-taking in new
April 11, 2025The European Central Bank meets on
April 11, 2025China is looking to mend a strained trading relationship with the European Union, the last open major market for its products, to weather a trade war with the United
April 11, 2025US removes commander in Greenland following Vance’s controversial visit
April 11, 2025Switzerland's main banking lobby on Friday said the Swiss economy could face serious consequences if UBS were driven away, intensifying warnings about the risks of hitting the bank
April 11, 2025Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the main rival of Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan, appeared before a court on Friday for the first time since his high-profile arrest last month,
April 11, 2025Official figures show that the British economy, the world’s sixth-largest, enjoyed a growth spurt in February, the month before U.S. President Donald Trump started to roll out tariffs on imported goods
April 11, 2025Mohamed Salah to stay at Liverpool beyond this season after signing two-year contract
April 11, 2025Pirelli has put on hold plans to invest further in the United States as it tries to smooth out tensions linked to having Chinese state-owned group Sinochem as its largest investor,
April 11, 2025European stocks lost ground on Friday, with the STOXX 600 down for a third week, after a surge in volatility in response to abrupt
April 11, 2025Sweeping tariffs on imports imposed by U.S.
April 11, 2025Italy has made its first direct reference to prostitution in the business classification it uses for data collection and tax purposes, the national
April 11, 2025Brokerage customers of the Russian subsidiary of U.S. bank Citi have started receiving coupon payments on securities frozen in Europe by Western sanctions, according to Russian law
April 11, 2025President Xi Jinping told Spain's prime minister on Friday that China and the European Union must join together in defending globalisation and
April 11, 2025The global trade war might have been reduced to a battle between Beijing and Washington for now, but a bruising week for markets has left policymakers at the ECB and in emerging economies
April 11, 2025Plane’s double diversion has passengers spending almost a full day on board
April 11, 2025With higher U.S. tariffs postponed by 90 days, European Union finance ministers pledged unity on Friday in negotiating a trade deal with
April 11, 2025Italy's high-speed railway is finally pressing into the heart of the underdeveloped south, using European Union funds in the hope that the new
April 11, 2025Britain's economy returned to growth in February with its fastest expansion in 11 months, beating economists' expectations and placing it on a
April 11, 2025Spain's European Union-harmonised 12-month inflation rate fell to 2.2% in March from the period through February, final data released by the National Statistics Institute, or INE, showed
April 11, 2025Volkswagen's truckmaker Scania said on Friday it had agreed to buy bankrupt Northvolt's division that makes battery packs for heavy industry, reviving a transaction first
April 11, 2025Stellantis' global shipments fell 9% year-on-year in the first quarter to an estimated 1.2 million vehicles, it said on Friday, after a 12% drop in 2024.
April 11, 2025Germany’s reputation for efficiency is taking a hit from crumbling concrete
April 11, 2025China and the West should join in supporting multilateralism and open cooperation, Chinese President Xi Jinping has told Spain’s visiting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, underscoring China’s opposition to U.S. demands amid global economic uncertainty caused by a chaotic U.S. tariff policy
April 11, 2025A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Ankur Banerjee Fears of a sharp downturn in the global economy have sent markets convulsing once more, with action focused on currencies and
April 11, 2025French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday that U.S.
April 11, 2025Britain's jobs market weakened again in March with the number of people looking for work rising by the most in more than four years as companies laid off staff and were cautious
April 10, 2025The Supreme Court on Thursday said President Donald Trump’s administration must facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, rejecting the administration’s emergency appeal
April 10, 2025Britain's Prince Harry met victims of war in Ukraine as part of his work with wounded veterans, a spokesperson said on Thursday.
April 10, 2025Washington's decision not to coordinate with European nations about its negotiations with Iran on Saturday will reduce its leverage and make U.S. and Israeli military
April 10, 2025Ukraine will receive fresh military support worth 450 million pounds ($580 million), Britain said on Friday, as European allies attempt to strengthen the country's position ahead of
April 10, 2025British finance minister Rachel Reeves will call on her European Union counterparts on Friday to work more closely with Britain on defence financing in order to boost economic and
April 10, 2025Britain’s defense minister is pressing his counterparts from around 30 countries to forge ahead with plans to deploy troops to Ukraine to police any future peace agreement with Russia
April 10, 2025Britain is considering deploying troops to Ukraine for five years under plans being discussed by allies, The Telegraph reported on Friday, citing unnamed sources.
April 10, 2025Andrew Tate threatened and pointed gun at woman’s face, UK lawsuit alleges
April 10, 2025The EU is prepared to deploy its most powerful trade measures and may impose levies on U.S. digital companies if negotiations with U.S.
April 10, 2025Fact check: Trump makes false claims about China, Japan and the EU at Cabinet meeting
April 10, 2025The United States and Iran are due to hold talks on Saturday on Tehran's nuclear program as Britain, France and Germany consider whether to trigger a
April 10, 2025U.S.
April 10, 2025Prince Harry has met with war casualties in Ukraine as part of his ongoing work with wounded veterans
April 10, 2025U.S.
April 10, 2025The European Union and China have agreed to look into setting minimum prices of Chinese-made electric vehicles instead of tariffs imposed by the EU last year, a European Commission
April 10, 2025Russia has freed a Russian American convicted of treason in exchange for a Russian German man jailed on smuggling charges in the U.S. Thursday’s prisoner swap comes as the two countries work to repair ties
April 10, 2025The U.S. ambassador to Ukraine is stepping down from her post after nearly three years in Kyiv
April 10, 2025Pope Francis, who is taking two months' rest as he recovers from double pneumonia, made an unannounced visit to St.
April 10, 2025Chipmaker STMicroelectronics' supervisory board on Thursday denied allegations of insider trading concerning two members of its managing board and
April 10, 2025Defence ministers from some 30 countries met in Brussels on Thursday to discuss a "reassurance force" for Ukraine in the event of a
April 10, 2025The European Union and the United Arab Emirates have agreed to launch free trade talks, the EU and UAE said on Thursday, amid the upheaval and uncertainties created by U.S.
April 10, 2025China reaffirmed its support on Thursday for peace efforts in Ukraine and said relevant parties should avoid "irresponsible remarks", in an apparent jab at President Volodymyr
April 10, 2025The Catholic Church starts its busiest week of the year on Sunday with the countdown to Easter, but Pope Francis remains out of public view after surviving
April 10, 2025LGBTQ+ professionals in Britain still feel pressured to downplay their identity at work, with some changing their appearance, voice or behaviour to avoid
April 10, 2025The European Commission said it will take the necessary time to assess US President Donald Trump's announcement on Wednesday about a pause in US tariffs.
April 10, 2025Pope Francis had a previously unannounced meeting at the Vatican on Wednesday afternoon with Britain's King Charles and Queen Camilla, during their state visit to Italy,
April 09, 2025Ukraine has told the U.S. that accepting curbs on the size of its armed forces or on its military's overall readiness would be a red line, a senior Ukrainian
April 10, 2025Deep-pocketed U.S. citizens paid the highest prices for Spanish property of all foreign buyers last year, while making the most purchases in some central and northern
April 10, 2025UBS shareholders on Thursday reelected Chairman Colm Kelleher with 90% of votes, compared to 96% of votes in 2024.
April 10, 2025In an advisory vote, UBS shareholders on Thursday backed the bank's 2024 compensation report with 86.7% of votes, compared to 83.5% for the same report a year earlier.
April 10, 2025French automotive suppliers Novares and Valeo are asking customers to cover the full cost of new U.S. duties upfront, company executives said, underlining the hit to global carmakers
April 10, 2025Prada struck a deal to buy smaller rival Versace from Capri Holdings on Thursday in a move to unite two of the biggest names in Italian fashion.
April 10, 2025One of four women suing influencer and self-styled misogynist Andrew Tate for sexual assault said he whipped her with a belt and once stuck a gun in her face, according to court documents that have been filed in London
April 10, 2025Kylian Mbappé’s legal team is going on the attack to try and resolve the legal dispute between the World Cup winner and his former club Paris Saint-Germain
April 10, 2025New films from Wes Anderson, Ari Aster, and Richard Linklater will compete for the Palme d’Or at the 78th Cannes Film Festival
April 10, 2025The Prada Group has agreed to buy rival Versace from the U.S. luxury group Capri Holdings in a deal valuing the Milan fashion house at 1.25 billion euros ($1.4 billion
April 10, 2025Leading think tanks say that Germany’s economy is likely to be more or less stagnant in 2025 after shrinking for two years and the impact of U.S. tariffs could weigh down an already unimpressive showing
April 10, 2025The European Union’s executive commission says it will put on hold for 90 days its retaliation measures against new U.S. tariffs to match President Donald Trump’s pause on his sweeping new tariffs and leave room for a negotiated solution
April 10, 2025Volkswagen's first-quarter earnings fell far short of market expectations, plunging about 40%, as Europe's biggest carmaker factored in costs for penalties of
April 09, 2025Pope Francis met privately with King Charles III and Queen Camilla at the Vatican during the royal couple’s four-day state visit to Italy and on the occasion of their 20th wedding anniversary
April 09, 2025Russian drones attacked the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv and the southern city of Mykolaiv overnight, injuring at least 12 people, authorities said on Thursday.
April 09, 2025Universal says it has chosen the homeland of Harry Potter to build its first theme park and resort in Europe
April 09, 2025Ukraine has expanded on its claim that significant numbers of Chinese nationals are fighting for Russia’s invading army, saying it had gathered detailed intelligence on more than 150 mercenaries Moscow allegedly recruited through social media
April 09, 2025Britain's housing market lost steam last month as demand faded from buyers who had been rushing to purchase homes before tax incentives ended, while concerns mounted about the
April 09, 2025A wonder goal from Khvicha Kvaratskhelia upstaged a brilliant curling shot from teammate Désiré Doué as Paris Saint-Germain beat Aston Villa 3-1 in the first leg of the Champions League quarterfinals
April 09, 2025Republican and Democratic members of the House Armed Services Committee have voiced sharp bipartisan criticism about reports the Trump administration is eyeing a reduction of U.S. forces in Europe, saying America must stick with its NATO allies
April 08, 2025The United States appears open to comprehensive negotiations with the European Union to address a broad range of issues, Irish Trade Minister Simon Harris said after a meeting with
April 09, 2025Wall Street bosses are girding for Europe to sideline American investment banks in response to the tariff war unleashed by U.S.
April 09, 2025Raphinha and Robert Lewandowski have struck again to lead Barcelona to a commanding 4-0 win over Borussia Dortmund in the first leg of the Champions League quarterfinals
April 09, 2025Ukrainian intelligence has identified 155 Chinese citizens fighting for Russia, Zelensky says
April 09, 2025French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday France could recognise a Palestinian state in June, adding that in turn some countries in the Middle East could recognise the state
April 09, 2025Novak Djokovic’s latest bid to win a 100th career title has ended in another stunning defeat
April 09, 2025Before the Nazis, German universities were among the best in the world. Step by step, the universities gave up their independence until they were instruments of the state.
April 09, 2025Friedrich Merz, Germany's likely next chancellor, said U.S.
April 09, 2025Only President Donald Trump will make decisions about the future of U.S. troops in Europe, U.S.
April 09, 2025-Italy on Wednesday committed to keeping its budget deficit in check even as it slashed its economic growth forecasts amid market turmoil over U.S.
April 09, 2025The detained pro-Russian leader of Moldova's Gagauz ethnic minority was transferred to house arrest for 30 days on Wednesday, Moldovan media outlet Newsmaker reported.
April 09, 2025President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that Ukrainian intelligence had information about 155 Chinese citizens fighting for the Russian military against
April 09, 2025The Group of Seven countries, with the exception of the United States, discussed how to respond to U.S.
April 09, 2025French Finance Minister Eric Lombard trimmed the government's 2025 growth forecast on Wednesday as a global trade war escalates, but said that the government aimed to stick to its
April 09, 2025Manchester City has announced the club is freezing ticket prices for the 2025-26 season amid growing disgruntlement among its fans
April 09, 2025Rasmus Hojgaard and identical twin brother Nicolai grew up playing golf in Denmark, occasionally pretending they were on the other side of the world at Augusta National
April 09, 2025Airbus delivered 71 jets in March, the planemaker confirmed on Wednesday, bringing first-quarter deliveries to 136, down from 142 a year earlier.
April 09, 2025The tariff shock and recession fears that have sent world stocks into a tailspin over the last week are rolling into corporate
April 09, 2025Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said on Wednesday it was vital for the country's economy to extend a permit-free freight regime with the European Union until at least the end
April 09, 2025Germany faces a "new unpredictability" in relations with the U.S. and will need to provide more military leadership given the unprecedented challenges of Russia's war in Ukraine,
April 09, 2025British sportswear retailer JD Sports, one of Nike's largest customers, said on Wednesday it felt "really good" about the direction of the brand and their
April 09, 2025King Charles underlined the importance of strong ties between Italy and Britain at a time of war in Europe as he delivered a historic speech to the Italian
April 09, 2025The European Union will launch countermeasures from next Tuesday against U.S.
April 09, 2025German conservatives under Friedrich Merz agreed a coalition deal with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) on Wednesday, aiming to revive growth in Europe's largest economy.
April 09, 2025German conservatives under Friedrich Merz clinched a coalition deal with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) on Wednesday, aiming to revive
April 09, 2025Spain will pursue closer trade ties with China in the interests of its citizens and of the EU, its agriculture minister Luis Planas said on Wednesday, rejecting a U.S. warning that
April 09, 2025Ukrainian state railways Ukrzaliznytsia, the country's largest cargo carrier, said on Wednesday that it had managed to restore only about half of its IT services hit by a large-scale
April 09, 2025Prince Harry's lawyer warned his "life is at stake" over changes to his security after he stepped down from royal duties, as the prince returned to London's Royal Courts
April 09, 2025Italians offered pizza and ice cream to Britain's Queen Camilla to help celebrate the 20th anniversary of her wedding to King Charles during a state visit to Italy on Wednesday.
April 09, 2025Friedrich Merz is on course to become Germany's 10th post-World War II chancellor, the culmination of a long political career that was once sidelined by his party’s iconic leader, Angela Merkel
April 09, 2025Russia will raise the issue of the resumption of direct flights with the U.S. and the return of diplomatic property at Russian-U.S. talks on Thursday in Istanbul, Russia's
April 09, 2025European Union counter-tariffs on U.S. goods starting next week are set to halt a large flow of U.S. corn to Europe and raise costs
April 09, 2025Germany's new coalition government unveiled economic and tax reforms aimed at bringing Europe's largest economy back to growth just as a global trade war threatens
April 09, 2025Swiss President Karin Keller-Sutter said on Wednesday she had spoken to U.S.
April 09, 2025German election winner Friedrich Merz has sealed a deal to form a new government that aims to spur economic growth, ramp up defense spending, take a tougher approach to migration and catch up on long-neglected modernization
April 09, 2025‘A moral stain’: Former UK prime minister, Global Commission deliver new report calling to eradicate modern slavery by 2030
April 09, 2025Ukraine's military chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said in an interview published on Wednesday that Russia had launched a new offensive on the northeast of the country, adding that a large
April 09, 2025German unicorn 1Komma5 Grad has joined Sweden's Klarna in reassessing plans for a U.S. float as President Trump's renewable
April 09, 2025Germany's future government of conservatives and centre-left Social Democrats on Wednesday agreed on measures aimed at curbing illegal migration, including rejecting asylum seekers
April 09, 2025It seems like Arsenal's set-piece coach cannot take credit for Declan Rice’s two amazing free kicks against Real Madrid in the Champions League
April 09, 2025Germany’s incoming Chancellor Merz unveils coalition as Trump tariffs spark recession fears
April 09, 2025New research shows that Americans’ personal wealth is not enough to compensate for factors that affect how long people live, such as health behaviors, education or social support.
April 09, 2025French presidential hopeful Laurent Wauquiez has caused an outcry in France, including within his own conservative camp, for suggesting sending migrants awaiting deportation to the
April 09, 2025U.S. media giant Comcast Corp has chosen an area north of London for its first Universal theme park and resort in Europe, pledging to build rides and attractions based
April 08, 2025Thousands of Greeks gathered in Athens on Wednesday to demand higher wages to cope with rising living costs and a one-day strike left
April 09, 2025British sportswear retailer JD Sports forecast little or no profit growth this year, even before any potential impact from U.S. tariffs, with the trading environment
April 09, 2025European shares tumbled further on Wednesday as China more than doubled its tariffs on U.S. imports, with healthcare stocks leading declines
April 09, 2025Volkswagen Group's sales of battery-electric cars more than doubled in Europe in the first quarter but fell by over a third in China, data showed on Wednesday, in a sign of the
April 08, 2025Indian tycoon Vijay Mallya on Wednesday lost an appeal against a bankruptcy order made by London's High Court over a more than 1 billion-pound ($1.28 billion) debt to lenders
April 09, 2025The European Central Bank is ready to preserve financial stability in case of further market turmoil but the sector, including hedge funds, appears well prepared for the recent
April 09, 2025The supervisor of Greece's national investigation into a 2023 train crash resigned on Wednesday, a move expected to further complicate efforts to shed light on the country's worst
April 09, 2025‘It’s like our friend started a fist fight with us’: These Europeans are skipping US travel
April 09, 2025Russia's defence ministry said in a statement on Wednesday that Ukraine had carried out six attacks on Russian energy infrastructure over the past day, in violation of a U.S.-
April 09, 2025Reports of suspicious financial activity in the Vatican fell by a third in 2024, an internal watchdog report said on Wednesday, though 79 reports were still
April 09, 2025Cristiano Ronaldo pays tribute as legendary Portuguese coach who scouted him dies aged 77
April 09, 2025Polish explosives maker Nitro-Chem signed a deal on Wednesday to supply explosives worth 1.2 billion zlotys ($310 million) to a U.S. firm, intended for the U.S. military, the deputy
April 09, 2025The British government is refusing to rule out nationalizing the last plant in the U.K. that makes steel from raw materials as the global trade war increases pressure to preserve the nation’s ability to supply domestic industry with the steel it needs
April 09, 2025The Swiss government announced on Wednesday that it wants to step up contacts with the United States to identify solutions to issues relating particularly to trade, economics and finance.
April 09, 2025The European Union will launch its first countermeasures against U.S.
April 09, 2025Risks of a hit to the global economy and further sharp falls in financial markets have grown due to U.S.
April 09, 2025A 76-year-old Frenchman was found guilty on Wednesday of threatening a judge who barred French far-right leader Marine Le Pen from running for president in 2027
April 09, 2025Russian investigators said on Wednesday that they were probing the alleged killing of eight Russian civilians by Ukrainian soldiers in Russia's Kursk region, parts of which were controlled
April 09, 2025Magyar Telekom and rival telecoms company One have abandoned plans to adjust their fees to inflation this year, they said on Wednesday,
April 09, 2025Pets could boost wellbeing as much as a wife or husband, study suggests
April 09, 2025Danish twins Nicolai and Rasmus Højgaard to make Masters history
April 09, 2025BERLIN - Germany's far-right AfD party topped a major poll for the first time on Wednesday in a sign of growing dissatisfaction with mainstream parties as chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz seeks to
April 09, 2025The leader of the main French business federation, Patrick Martin, said on Wednesday he had got it wrong on U.S.
April 09, 2025Toymaker Lego has opened a new factory in southern Vietnam, it said on Wednesday, as the company aims for long-term growth in the Asia Pacific region and
April 09, 2025British medical property owner REIT Assura has agreed to a 1.61 billion pound ($2.06 billion) takeover bid from KKR and Stonepeak Partners, after rejecting a lower cash-and-stock proposal
April 09, 2025German carmaker Volkswagen saw a slight rise in vehicle deliveries during the first three months of the year, helped by growing demand in almost all markets.
April 09, 2025The European Central Bank stands ready to ensure the sound financing of the euro zone economy and financial stability, French ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on
April 09, 2025Euro zone economic growth could fall much more from the impact of U.S. trade tariffs than initially estimated by the European Central Bank
April 09, 2025Blackstone has said it has closed a 9.8 billion euro ($10.8 billion) European property fund, as it bets on signs of recovery for the sector despite deepening market turmoil.
April 09, 2025Google agreed on Wednesday to modify its automotive services and maps platform to end a German antitrust investigation that could have resulted in a
April 09, 2025Russia summoned the French ambassador in Moscow to the foreign ministry to complain after a Russian diplomat was detained by border guards at a French airport, foreign ministry
April 09, 2025Downside risks have materialised since March that support the case for cutting interest rates at the European Central Bank's April meeting, ECB policymaker Olli Rehn said on
April 09, 2025In December, Moussa Sacko spent his birthday in Mali scrolling through messages from friends with whom he
April 09, 2025The implementation of U.S. tariffs will hit the Spanish and other euro zone economies though the impact on inflation will be less clear, European Central Bank policy
April 09, 2025British 30-year government bond yields surged to their highest since 1998 on Wednesday, catching up with a sharp overnight rise in 30-year U.S.
April 09, 2025Ukraine says it captured two Chinese nationals fighting in Russian army
April 08, 2025Serbian oil firm NIS is struggling to buy oil from traders abroad, while at home its former clients are seeking alternative fuel
April 09, 2025The head of France's Medef business lobby group warned on Wednesday that sweeping U.S. tariffs could hit economic growth and lead to a
April 09, 2025Swiss firms are concerned U.S. tariffs will hit demand in the United States, spark an economic downturn and put them at a disadvantage against rivals, a survey showed on Wednesday.
April 09, 2025French industry minister Marc Ferracci on Wednesday urged French companies to suspend their investments in the United States, given clashes between France and Europe with U.S.
April 09, 2025European trade commissioner Maros Sefcovic has postponed a planned trip to Vietnam this week due to "the latest international developments," the EU delegation in Hanoi said.
April 09, 2025Britain's hopes of an equity capital market revival are weighing heavily on a secondary share trading platform that is sowing discord in the finance sector months
April 09, 2025A British lawmaker has introduced a private member's bill that would set new rules around debt restructurings in a push to speed up negotiations for poor countries
April 09, 2025The leaders of Vietnam and Spain on Wednesday pledged to boost economic ties and defence cooperation and voiced their support for upholding free trade, at a time when both are hit
April 09, 2025King Charles III and Queen Camilla met more than 50 years ago but their romance had to survive meddling families, marriages to other people and no small amount of public ridicule before they finally married
April 09, 2025Ukraine's president says the military has captured two Chinese men fighting alongside the Russian army in the eastern Donetsk region
April 08, 2025American Airlines flight from New York to Milan turns back due to unruly passenger
April 09, 2025The European Commission has invited the sectors most impacted by U.S. tariffs to an in-person meeting on Thursday, an invitation letter seen by Reuters showed, as
April 08, 2025Declan Rice makes Champions League history with two special free kicks as Arsenal beats Real Madrid in quarterfinal first leg
April 08, 2025Declan Rice curled home two superb free kicks to help give Arsenal a 3-0 win over defending champion Real Madrid in the first leg of the Champions League quarterfinals
April 08, 2025Inter Milan’s treble chances are still very much on after it won 2-1 at Bayern Munich in the first leg of the Champions League quarterfinals
April 08, 2025President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said that Ukrainian forces had captured two Chinese men fighting for Russia in eastern Ukraine, potentially threatening
April 08, 2025The rise of right-wing populism in Europe and elsewhere should not prevent Africa from bringing reparations for transatlantic slavery and colonialism to the table
April 08, 2025European equity index futures popped higher in U.S. afternoon trade on Tuesday after Germany's NTV reported conservatives under chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz on Tuesday reached a
April 08, 2025The United States "will have no patience for bad faith negotiation or violation of commitments" as it seeks to end the war in Ukraine, acting U.S.
April 08, 2025France's economy fared marginally better than expected in the first quarter but business in the industrial sector is set to ease in the face of new U.S. tariffs, the central bank
April 08, 2025Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will meet U.S.
April 08, 2025The European Union's securities watchdog warned on Tuesday that problems in the cryptocurrency industry could pose risks to broader financial stability in future, as the sector grows
April 08, 2025HSBC's head of securities financing for the Americas, Gregory Bunn, is leaving after two years in the post as the lender merges the unit into two others, a
April 08, 2025The European Union could consider aggregating its member countries' demand to buy U.S. liquefied natural gas, as part of negotiations with President Donald Trump to
April 08, 2025A strong hailstorm hit Russia's third-largest wheat-producing region of Stavropol, damaging grain crops, a local governor said on Tuesday, as extreme weather swept across Russia in
April 08, 2025The top U.S. general in Europe said on Tuesday that the United States should keep its military presence on the continent as it is now, as the Pentagon reviews its
April 08, 2025U.S. activist investor Boaz Weinstein's Saba Capital has sold its nearly 30% stake in British investment trust Keystone Positive Change (KPC), a regulatory filing showed on Tuesday.
April 08, 2025European pharma companies warned the European Commission president at a meeting on Tuesday that U.S. tariffs would expedite the industry's
April 08, 2025Two U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday sent a letter to President Donald Trump's administration urging an end to a data agreement with the U.K. and to renegotiate a
April 08, 2025Prince Harry arrives at court to fight downgraded UK police protection ruling
April 08, 2025It seems like it’s never been harder for promoted teams to stay in the Premier League
April 08, 2025Croatia plans to boost defence spending to 2.5% of GDP by 2027 and to 3% by 2030, it said on Tuesday, the latest European member of NATO to pledge higher military spending amid
April 08, 2025The European Union will not tolerate threats to Bosnia's territorial integrity, sovereignty and constitutional order, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said
April 08, 2025Physically backed gold exchange-traded funds (ETFs) registered the largest quarterly inflow in three years in January-March, 2025, data from the World Gold Council (WGC) showed on
April 08, 2025Donald Trump's sweeping new tariffs on U.S. imports have targeted countries across the world in the most serious blow to the global trading system in decades.
April 08, 2025Growing fears that Donald Trump's tariff blitz will plunge the world into recession are dashing hopes in the $400-billion-a-year luxury industry that wealthy
April 08, 2025King Charles and his wife Queen Camilla greeted crowds on Tuesday as they visited the Colosseum and Roman Forum on the second day of a state visit which is aimed at
April 08, 2025Germany's conservatives under chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz on Tuesday looked set to reach a deal with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) to form a
April 08, 2025Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez will be the first of a series of European leaders to head east following the announcement by U.S.
April 08, 2025Russia is close to regaining full control of its western Kursk region after pushing Ukrainian forces from one of their last footholds there, the regional governor
April 08, 2025German economic institutes have cut their forecast for this year to 0.1% growth from the 0.8% growth expected in September, two sources told
April 08, 2025He wants the story to be that he’s the champion, but golfer Robert MacIntyre doesn’t want to be ‘the story’
April 08, 2025The Prague Zoo has joined an international effort to ensure the survival of a rare insect that had been considered extinct for more than 80 years
April 08, 2025Three years after flying into the Cannes Film Festival with “Top Gun: Maverick,” Tom Cruise is returning to the Croisette with “Mission: Impossible — Final Reckoning.”
April 08, 2025Spain will spend an additional 2.08 billion euros ($2.28 billion) on defence this year by reallocating funds to Defence Ministry procurement contracts, the government said on
April 08, 2025Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever said on Tuesday his government had decided to grant Ukraine a new bilateral aid package of one billion euros ($1.10 billion) in 2025, adding that
April 08, 2025Werner Herzog, the veteran German director of "Fitzcarraldo" and "Grizzly Man", will be awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at this year's Venice Film Festival, organisers
April 08, 2025British stocks ended higher on Tuesday, rebounding from a hefty selloff in the previous session, amid hopes that the U.S. might soften its stance on some of its aggressive import tariffs.
April 08, 2025U.S. tariffs will be a massive drag on global growth and the European Central Bank will do its part to support Europe but the solution lies in more unity on the continent, ECB
April 08, 2025Stellantis has stopped making its Chinese partner Leapmotor's T03 small electric car in Poland and is assessing alternative production options, the Franco-Italian automaker said on
April 08, 2025A Russian spacecraft safely delivered an American astronaut Jonathan Kim and two Russian cosmonauts to the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday, a flight hailed
April 08, 2025The Russian economy has slowed sharply in recent months, according to the latest economic data, and may be at further risk if a fall in oil prices and global
April 08, 2025Officials say the death toll from last month’s deadly nightclub fire in North Macedonia has risen to 61 after a second critically injured victim died while receiving treatment in Lithuania
April 08, 2025Europe and the United States should have zero tariffs between them and Europe should aim for that in ongoing negotiations with the U.S., Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen
April 08, 2025An EU decision on whether Apple and Meta have breached landmark tech rules aimed at curbing their market power will be issued in the coming weeks, antitrust chief
April 08, 2025Prince Harry made a rare public appearance in Britain on Tuesday at London's Royal Courts of Justice to fight the government over changes made to his security after
April 08, 2025The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, urged China on Tuesday to ensure a negotiated solution to problems caused by the sweeping import tariffs imposed by
April 08, 2025Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday the country's main opposition party was attempting to obstruct a major corruption investigation targeting Istanbul's jailed mayor,
April 08, 2025Stellantis' Italian auto production dropped further in the first quarter after output in the country fell to an almost 70-year low in 2024, the FIM Cisl union said on Tuesday, as new
April 08, 2025A lawyer for Prince Harry says he was treated unfairly when he was stripped of his British security detail
April 08, 2025The EU border agency said on Tuesday it was reviewing 12 cases of potential human rights violations by Greece, including some allegations
April 08, 2025ATHENS -European Central Bank policymaker Yannis Stournaras said on Tuesday that likely higher inflation and a global trade war following U.S.
April 08, 2025Russia sees no reason to discuss the possibility of signing a long-awaited peace treaty with Japan to formally end World War Two because of Tokyo's unfriendly stance towards Moscow,
April 08, 2025Russia's lower house of parliament, the State Duma, on Tuesday ratified a 20-year strategic partnership between Russia and Iran.
April 08, 2025Germany has suspended admission of refugees via a U.N. resettlement programme, the interior ministry said on Tuesday, as a new coalition government likely to restrict immigration
April 08, 2025Italy's antitrust authority has fined a ticketing company and six tour operators nearly 20 million euros ($21.7 million) for ticket hoarding practices limiting access to the Roman
April 08, 2025Germany's Continental plans to turn its ContiTech rubber and plastics division into an independent entity, it said on Tuesday, setting the company up to be a pure-play tire
April 08, 2025Senior Kremlin officials on Tuesday said there was little chance of striking a new nuclear arms reduction treaty with the United States soon
April 08, 2025European aerospace companies Airbus, Thales and Leonardo, which are in talks over a possible merger of their satellite businesses, will meet EU antitrust chief
April 08, 2025European shares rose from 14-month lows on Tuesday, after four straight sessions of heavy selling, although investors continued to
April 08, 2025Airbus said on Tuesday it had signed a provisional deal with Amazon to provide connectivity to airlines via the tech giant’s planned Kuiper constellation of satellites.The plan to
April 08, 2025Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala's social media account was attacked from abroad and fake posts apppeared on Tuesday, including about a Russian attack on Czech soldiers, a government
April 08, 2025German sports car maker Porsche delivered 8% fewer vehicles globally in the first quarter, it said on Tuesday, hit by declining demand in China and Europe.
April 08, 2025The United States is starting to resemble an emerging market more than a developed country, the head of pan-European stock exchange operator
April 08, 2025Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday that more countries would get nuclear weapons in the coming years, blaming the West for pushing the world towards the brink
April 08, 2025The Swedish financial market is functioning well despite the recent global economic turbulence and the country is well placed to tackle turmoil, but the Riksbank is ready to act
April 08, 2025For more than 50 years, Father Spyridon has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in a monastery carved into a cliffside high above the Aegean Sea
April 08, 2025U.S. investment bank Goldman Sachs said bond pricing inferred that markets believed there was 70% probability of a Ukraine peace deal, up sharply from before the November election
April 08, 2025Pirelli is having difficulties investing in the United States because its largest shareholder is China's state-owned Sinochem, the Italian tyremaker's executive vice chairman Marco
April 08, 2025Springtime has arrived in Germany, and that's the time when the country indulges its passion — some say obsession — for white asparagus
April 08, 2025A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Kevin Buckland European investors still staggering from a nearly 12% plunge over three days in their regional stock benchmark are waking up
April 08, 2025Why French soccer star Antoine Griezmann is always celebrating a hat-trick on April 8
April 08, 2025Stinky garbage is piling up on the streets of the U.K.'s second-largest city and causing chaos a month into a strike by trash collectors
April 07, 2025The Dutch government is allowing 80 “coffeeshops” in 10 towns and cities to only sell legally grown cannabis from licensed producers
April 07, 2025A Moscow court fined the Telegram platform 7 million roubles ($80,000) for refusing to remove content calling for terrorist attacks and participation in protests aiming to overthrow the
April 07, 2025Anger and outrage have gripped the hometown of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as it held funerals for some of the 20 people, including nine children, killed by a Russian missile that tore through apartment buildings and blasted a playground
April 07, 2025Planemakers, airlines and suppliers are combing through billions of dollars worth of contracts to check their exposure to tariffs after a
April 07, 2025German chipmaker Infineon Technologies said on Monday it would buy Marvell Technology's automotive ethernet business for about $2.5 billion in cash, to expand its microcontroller segment.
April 07, 2025As a rout in global equity markets deepened on Monday amid tariff turmoil, the signs of stress across financial markets have started to flash brightly.
April 07, 2025The European Commission said on Monday it had offered a "zero-for-zero" tariff deal to avert a trade war with U.S.
April 07, 2025Traton said on Monday that it expected the North American truck market to shrink by close to 10%, the lower end of its full-year forecast, even before accounting for the impact from
April 07, 2025The European Commission proposed counter-tariffs of 25% on a range of U.S. goods on Monday in response to President Donald Trump's tariffs on steel and aluminium, a
April 07, 2025Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy confirmed for the first time on Monday that Ukrainian troops have been active in Russia's Belgorod region as they seek to protect Ukrainian towns
April 07, 2025Greek equities could regain the coveted developed market status by index provider FTSE Russell this week - a key step on the country's return to
April 07, 2025French President Emmanuel Macron, U.S.
April 07, 2025King Charles and his wife Queen Camilla arrived in Italy on Monday for a four-day state visit during which the British monarch will address the Italian parliament in Rome.
April 07, 2025A medical charity working in Greece says it has diagnosed six young children living in a migrant facility on the eastern Aegean island of Samos as suffering from malnutrition
April 07, 2025Medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Monday it had identified the first cases of malnourished children in a migrant camp on the Greek island of
April 07, 2025Greenland's new parliament convened for the first time on Monday after a general election in March, amid repeated expressions of interest by U.S.
April 07, 2025Apple is fighting a British government order for the iPhone maker to provide backdoor access to a cloud data privacy feature
April 07, 2025King Charles III has arrived in Rome for a state visit to Italy, his first overseas trip since being briefly hospitalized for side effects of cancer treatment
April 07, 2025Fact check: Trump falsely says Europe doesn’t buy anything from US, wildly exaggerates trade deficit with China
April 07, 2025HSBC Asset Management's UK CEO Stuart White is leaving the company after more than 14 years at the banking giant, which had started a search for his replacement, a spokesperson told
April 07, 2025European shares slumped in a volatile session on Monday, with the STOXX 600 closing at its lowest since January 2024, as U.S.
April 07, 2025The European Union's countermeasures targeting a list of U.S. imports in response to the Trump's administration steel and aluminum tariffs will be less than 26 billion euros' ($
April 07, 2025Russian President Vladimir Putin has congratulated Alex Ovechkin for setting an “outstanding record” as the NHL’s all time top goal-scorer
April 07, 2025Romanian presidential candidate Victor Ponta said on Monday he would stop Ukrainian grain exports via the country's Black Sea ports if elected to protect local
April 07, 2025The European Union will need to lower its non-tariff barriers, including those created by value-added taxes, if it wants to reach a deal to lower U.S. tariffs imposed by
April 07, 2025A central Ukrainian city held vigils on Monday that began three days of mourning for 11 adults and nine children killed by a
April 07, 2025Market turmoil unleashed by U.S. trade tariffs has boosted the Swiss franc, piling pressure on the country's export-oriented economy and potentially pushing the Swiss
April 07, 2025Chinese electric vehicle giant BYD launched on Monday its premium Denza brand in Europe, aiming to support its expansion in the region and compete with top-end
April 07, 2025A global market rout induced by U.S.
April 07, 2025The tariffs announced by the United States will deal a major blow to the German economy, delaying a recovery and possibly putting Europe's biggest economy on track
April 07, 2025This famous architect’s iconic furniture line is getting its first update in decades
April 07, 2025The role of dogs in Italian alpine rescues is becoming more important as the number of people caught by avalanches increases — up by 50% over the last 25 years
April 07, 2025A historian of the Mauthausen concentration camp says US troops and the Spanish antifascists they freed were united in a common fight against authoritarianism.
April 07, 2025European Union finance ministers will discuss on Friday how to tackle the expected blow to Europe's economic growth from tariffs imposed by the United States on EU goods, the
April 07, 2025British stocks plunged on Monday, extending their selloff from last week after U.S.
April 07, 2025Apple is appealing against a British government order to create a "back door" to its encrypted cloud storage systems, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) confirmed on Monday.
April 07, 2025German carmaker Mercedes-Benz said on Monday its first-quarter unit sales of cars and vans fell 7%, hit by declining demand in China and Europe.
April 07, 2025European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen held a call with metals industry representatives on Monday and was due to speak later to
April 07, 2025France and Egypt signed strategic partnership agreements on Monday, in areas covering health, transport and energy, which French President Emmanuel Macron said would help shore up
April 07, 2025Volkswagen's Audi is holding its cars which arrived after April 2, when Donald Trump announced a 25% tariff on autos imports, in U.S. ports, it said on Monday, as companies scramble
April 07, 2025Vanguard's UK online investment platform experienced IT problems for several hours on Monday with clients facing delays in accessing account information, as global markets slid
April 07, 2025Ukraine will send a team to Washington this week to move forward with negotiations on a more expansive draft for a minerals deal offered by the United States, the deputy prime minister
April 07, 2025European defence company shares plunged on Monday, surrendering some of their year-to-date gains, as a steep selloff in equities sparked by U.S.
April 07, 2025Germany's would-be chancellor, Friedrich Merz, sought to regain the political initiative on Monday, promising renewed focus on competitiveness
April 07, 2025President Vladimir Putin still supports the idea of a ceasefire in Ukraine, but Russia has not yet been given answers to key questions it has about a truce proposed by the
April 07, 2025What matters in U.S. and global markets today By Mike Dolan, Editor-At-Large, Financial Industry and Financial Markets Forget about those puts.
April 07, 2025The Financial Stability Board, a group comprising financial regulators around the world, said on Monday it had nominated Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey as its next chair for
April 07, 2025Greece's economy can withstand the new challenges that U.S. tariffs pose, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Monday, as the country awaits a unified European Union stance on
April 07, 2025The European Union wants India to eliminate tariffs on car imports under a long-pending trade deal and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's
April 07, 2025European equities' impressive start to 2025 has been obliterated in three sessions of heavy selling, while executives tot up the potential impact of U.S. tariffs on
April 07, 2025Barclays on Monday cut its year-end target for Europe’s STOXX 600 index for the second time in under a month as escalating trade tensions and U.S. tariffs fueled recession fears.
April 07, 2025Shares in British sportswear retailer JD Sports Fashion underperformed a stock market rout on Monday, reflecting both its heavy exposure to key partner Nike and U.S. tariffs.
April 07, 2025Rugby game delayed after parachutist dangles from the stadium roof prior to kickoff
April 07, 2025Spanish Economy Minister Carlos Cuerpo said on Monday he would push the European Union to approve aid for industries hit by US tariffs at a meeting of EU trade ministers to be held
April 07, 2025Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has nominated a politically inexperienced medical professor, Djuro Macut, to become prime minister after the previous occupant resigned during
April 07, 2025Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz called on Monday for swift action to secure Germany's competitiveness in response to sliding stock and bond markets, following
April 07, 2025Ireland's trade minister on Monday said he believes there is a strong consensus among European Union countries for a "calm, measured" response to U.S.
April 07, 2025An index of European banking <.SX7P shares fell 4.8% on Monday, falling more than 20% from recent closing high and leaving it on course to confirm it is in a bear market.
April 07, 2025German exports rose more than expected in February as U.S. demand increased in anticipation of tariffs by the Trump administration, but industrial production fell, showing
April 07, 2025Airbus delivered 71 jets in March, bringing first-quarter deliveries to 136 units, industry sources said.
April 07, 2025U.S.
April 07, 2025Cuts to aid budgets are threatening to undermine years of progress in reducing the number of women dying during pregnancy and childbirth, and could
April 06, 2025In its 3-year-old war, Russia has detained what human rights activists say are thousands of Ukrainian civilians and has charged them with various crimes
April 06, 2025Winners of the 2024 Olivier Awards, handed out Sunday for achievement in London theater, opera and dance include “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.”
April 06, 2025American actor John Lithgow has won the best actor trophy at the London stage Olivier Awards for exploring the dark side of children’s writer Roald Dahl in “Giant.”
April 06, 2025Liverpool had a shock defeat on its march to the Premier League title after a 3-2 loss at Fulham
April 06, 2025Far-right French politician Marine Le Pen, who was convicted last week of embezzling public funds and banned from running for office, stood unshaken before a sea of French flags in Paris on Sunday
April 06, 2025France and Algeria agreed to renew cooperation in all sectors, France's foreign minister said on Sunday after a day of talks aimed at resuming dialogue following months of bickering.
April 06, 2025Turkey's main opposition leader on Sunday pledged further protests against the jailing of Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, President Tayyip Erdogan's chief rival, aiming to sustain Turkey's
April 06, 2025Le Pen vows to fight conviction in front of supporters but large-scale protests fail to materialize
April 06, 2025Ukraine's economy minister has told The Associated Press it will send a delegation to Washington next week for talks on a new draft of a proposed mineral deal with the U.S. The negotiations mark a renewed push to finalize an agreement that could establish a joint investment fund
April 06, 2025The outlook for Prosecco, Brunello di Montalcino and other Italian wines in the United States is increasingly gloomy, producers and importers said, following
April 06, 2025French far-right leader Marine Le Pen said on Sunday she would peacefully fight her five-year ban from running for office and draw inspiration
April 06, 2025Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni pledged on Sunday to shield businesses that suffered damage from the tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump.
April 06, 2025Pope Francis has made a surprise entrance to St. Peter’s Square during a special Jubilee Mass for the sick and medical workers in his first public appearance at the Vatican since leaving the hospital
April 06, 2025A Russian missile attack on Kyiv killed one man and injured three other people overnight, causing damage and fires in several districts in the
April 06, 2025Pope Francis makes surprise public appearance after leaving hospital two weeks ago
April 06, 2025Ukraine continues to carry out attacks on Russian energy infrastructure despite a U.S.-brokered moratorium on strikes against energy facilities, the Russian Defence Ministry said on
April 06, 2025Italian luxury group Prada is set to make a decision this week about a potential takeover of smaller rival Versace, a source close to the matter said on Sunday, as the negotiations
April 06, 2025Pope Francis made his first public appearance since being discharged from hospital two weeks ago after treatment for double pneumonia, entering St.
April 06, 2025One person was killed as Russian air strikes hit the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, Sunday, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said
April 06, 2025European Union countries will seek to present a united front in the coming days against U.S.
April 06, 2025Blizzards blanketed Moscow in snow on Sunday, covering Red Square in up to 10 cm (4 inches) of snow after an unusually mild winter in the Russian capital.
April 06, 2025France's foreign minister said on Sunday that ties with Algeria were back to normal after he held 2 1/2 hours of talks with Algeria's president following months of
April 06, 2025Wanted world leaders cast a wary eye at The Hague as Duterte languishes in ICC custody
April 05, 2025British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Saturday he was ready to step in to help "shelter" the country's businesses from the fallout from U.S.
April 05, 2025At a NATO foreign ministers summit in Brussels, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio responded to a reporter’s question about the impact of President Trump's recent tariff announcements on European markets.
April 04, 2025‘It is time for you to leave the United States’: Ukrainians receive erroneous email from Department of Homeland Security
April 05, 2025Luis Enrique was mobbed by staff members and thrown into the air in celebration when Paris Saint-Germain won a record-extending 13th Ligue title with six games to spare
April 05, 2025Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Saturday expressed disappointment in the U.S. embassy's response to a Russian missile strike that killed 18 people, including nine children, in
April 05, 2025Elon Musk hopes for ‘zero-tariff situation’ between US and EU
April 05, 2025Carla Bernat Escuder has won the Augusta National Women's Amateur by coming from two shots behind with a 68 at the home of the Masters
April 05, 2025France could see a 0.5 percentage point reduction in gross domestic product growth as a result of U.S.
April 05, 2025U.S. tech-billionaire Elon Musk said on Saturday he hoped in future to see complete freedom of trade between the United States and Europe, speaking days after U.S.
April 05, 2025The British maker of Jaguar and Land Rover cars is pausing shipments to the U.S. as it works to mitigate the impact of a 25% tax on vehicle imports imposed by the Trump administration
April 05, 2025Hundreds of people protested in European cities on Saturday against U.S.
April 05, 2025Hundreds of thousands marched across 40 Spanish cities on Saturday to protest against soaring rents and a lack of affordable homes in a
April 05, 2025Russian attack on Zelensky’s home city kills 19 people, including 9 children, one of the deadliest strikes this year
April 04, 2025The death toll from a Russian missile strike in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih has risen to 18, including nine children
April 05, 2025Auctioning off millennial saint-to-be’s relics is Satan’s work, archbishop says
April 05, 2025Closed doors and price hikes: Travel is getting expensive
April 05, 2025Russia's defence ministry said on Saturday Ukraine had increased its attacks on Russian energy infrastructure, hitting targets 14 times in the last 24 hours, despite a U.S.-brokered
April 05, 2025Jaguar Land Rover will pause shipments of its Britain-made cars to the United States for a month, it said on Saturday, as it considers how to mitigate the cost of President Donald
April 05, 2025The euro zone economy's long standing structural headwinds have been exacerbated by a surge in uncertainty which may get even worse in the wake of U.S. trade tariffs,
April 05, 2025Alexander Pichushkin, a Russian serial killer jailed for life in 2007 for killing 48 people, has said he is ready to confess to 11 more murders, Russia's penal service said on
April 05, 2025Italian Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti warned on Saturday against the imposition of retaliatory tariffs on the United States
April 05, 2025Rats ‘bigger than cats’ are roaming Britain’s second-biggest city as garbage collectors strike
April 05, 2025Fake cosmetics, massage pillows and sex toys.
April 05, 2025By Tassilo Hummel COGNAC, France - Christophe Fillioux's family estate in the cognac region of southwest France has survived for five generations, through wars and financial crises.
April 05, 2025With the upcoming canonization of its first millennial saint, the Catholic Church has turned to police in Italy to investigate the online sale of some purported relics of Carlo Acutis
April 05, 2025Multiple Ukrainians legally in the United States under a humanitarian program received an email this week telling them their status had been revoked and they had seven
April 04, 2025UK courts release new documents on Prince Andrew’s relationship to alleged Chinese spy
April 04, 2025Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday that European military planners could be ready within a month with details of a foreign troop
April 04, 2025After 25 years of building industrial equipment in the United States, German engineering firm
April 04, 2025European Union trade commissioner Maros Sefcovic said on Friday that he told U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and U.S.
April 04, 2025Rubio tells Russia the clock is ticking while allies doubt Putin wants peace in Ukraine
April 04, 2025Global markets have been sucked into a downdraft after U.S.
April 04, 2025Greenland's incoming prime minister said that talk of annexing the semi-autonomous Danish island was unacceptable on Friday, after the U.S.
April 04, 2025Ukrainian officials say that a Russian missile strike Friday on the central city of Kryvyi Rih has killed at least 14 people, including six children, and injured more than 50
April 04, 2025British police said they charged actor-comedian Russell Brand on Friday with rape and multiple
April 04, 2025Eight people have been charged with corruption, money laundering and participation in a criminal organisation following a probe into suspected bribery at the European Parliament,
April 04, 2025Prince Andrew’s damaged reputation and desperate need for cash are again causing headaches for King Charles III after a court released more documents showing how Andrew’s problems led him to become entangled with a suspected Chinese spy
April 04, 2025Russell Brand denies allegations of rape and sexual assault after being charged by UK police
April 04, 2025ProSiebenSat.1 has lined up defence advisers, including Morgan Stanley, after receiving a takeover bid from its largest investor
April 04, 2025France's industry minister called on Friday for a proportionate but firm response to U.S. tariffs and said Europe wanted to avoid a damaging trade escalation,
April 04, 2025Swedish fintech Klarna has paused its plans for a U.S. initial public offering as President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs rattle global markets, according to sources familiar with the
April 04, 2025Pro-Ukraine Republicans finding ways to push back on GOP isolationists
April 04, 2025Mass grave of Roman soldiers tells gruesome tale of military disaster
April 04, 2025Canadian-based tech company Telus sent home as many as 2,000 people from its content moderation centre in Barcelona after Facebook owner Meta Platforms
April 04, 2025In times of market panic investors tend to rush to the safety of the dollar, but when stocks swooned in response to U.S.
April 04, 2025Armenia's president on Friday signed into law a bill that sets a legal foundation for the South Caucasus country to move towards joining the European Union as it moves to
April 04, 2025French engine and aircraft equipment maker Safran on Friday secured the green light from EU antitrust regulators for its $1.8 billion bid for Collins Aerospace's
April 04, 2025U.S. trading partners have few good options in their trade war with President Donald Trump, other than to sue for
April 04, 2025North Macedonia's health minister says a critically injured burn victim from a nightclub fire last month in an eastern town has died while receiving treatment in Lithuania
April 04, 2025British woman found guilty of breaching abortion buffer zone in case that drew US freedom of speech concerns
April 04, 2025British police have charged Russell Brand with rape and sexual assault against four women
April 04, 2025An anti-abortion activist, whose case has attracted the attention of the United States over free speech concerns, was found guilty on Friday of breaching an
April 04, 2025Turkey's foreign minister, Hakan Fidan, discussed Israeli strikes in Syria, the U.S. policy U-turn and sanctions, and a possible Ukraine-Russia peace deal in an interview with
April 04, 2025Romanian presidential candidates began campaigning on Friday for the rerun of an election canceled over accusations of Russian meddling, with Romania's role in NATO and the EU
April 04, 2025NATO members Poland, Finland and all three Baltic states have queued up over the past few weeks to withdraw from the Ottawa Convention banning anti-personnel landmines, in the face
April 04, 2025Turkey wants no confrontation with Israel in Syria, but repeated Israeli strikes on military facilities there are eroding the new government's ability to deter
April 04, 2025Two months after President Donald Trump announced a halt to U.S. engagement with the United Nations Human Rights Council, Washington is
April 04, 2025European NATO allies and Canada say they will ramp up defense spending but are cool on U.S. demands for the size of their military budgets
April 04, 2025Striking a trade deal with Latin America's Mercosur bloc would be a "massive opportunity" for the European Union given uncertainties triggered by U.S.
April 04, 2025WARSAW - Poland is seeking approval to use 26 billion zlotys (6.1 billion euros) in European Union post-COVID recovery funds for investments to boost security and defence, the Development Funds and
April 04, 2025Aggressive hawk that terrorized English village for weeks finally captured by resident
April 04, 2025Kevin De Bruyne says he will leave Manchester City - confirming these are his “final months” with the Premier League champion
April 04, 2025The Vatican's Foreign Minister Archbishop Paul Gallagher held a phone call on Friday with Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov to discuss the war in Ukraine and
April 04, 2025European shares slumped on Friday, with the benchmark STOXX 600 and Germany's DAX confirming correction territory, as China's
April 04, 2025British stocks plunged on Friday as investors avoided risky assets after China's retaliatory tariffs against the United States heightened worries of a global recession.
April 04, 2025London-based INEOS Automotive is increasing prices on its premium vehicles as a result of the new 25% tariff on auto imports, the company said Friday.
April 04, 2025Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has announced his intention to withdraw his country from the International Criminal Court
April 04, 2025A Ukrainian government team will head to the United States in the near future for discussions on a new framework for a minerals deal, Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said on Friday.
April 04, 2025The Kremlin said on Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S.
April 04, 2025The sweeping new U.S. tariffs announced by President Donald Trump do not violate NATO treaties, the military alliance's Secretary-General Mark Rutte said on Friday after meeting
April 04, 2025The ball regarding a Ukraine ceasefire is in the Russian court, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said on Friday after meeting with NATO foreign ministers in Brussels.
April 04, 2025U.S. investment fund Davidson Kempner and Britain's Pioneer Point Partners plan to invest 8.5 billion euros ($9.35 billion) by 2030 in a data centre hub
April 04, 2025Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told Reuters on Friday that any potential peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia would be "difficult to digest" but would
April 04, 2025Berlin has been paying for Ukraine's access to a satellite-internet network operated by France's Eutelsat, as Europe seeks
April 04, 2025Denmark’s prime minister has told the U.S. during a visit to Greenland that “you cannot annex another country,” even with the argument that international security is at stake
April 04, 2025The pan-European STOXX 600 share index fell 3.1% on Friday, leaving it more than 10% below its record closing high from March 3 and on course to confirm the benchmark is in a
April 04, 2025Oil majors are suffering after eight OPEC+ countries unexpectedly agreed to increase oil output in May, while tariffs imposed by U.S. administration had a muted effect on
April 04, 2025Russia is expelling three Moldovan diplomats in response to Chisinau throwing out three of its own diplomats, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Friday.
April 04, 2025Spain's crude oil imports from Venezuela in January and February rose roughly 59% from a year earlier as a key sanctions deadline set by U.S.
April 04, 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
April 04, 2025Russia said on Friday that the question of Iran's nuclear programme should be resolved politically and diplomatically, urging restraint on all sides.
April 04, 2025Spain's Santander Executive Chair Ana Botin warned about the uncertainty caused by U.S. trade tariffs on Friday as markets fret about a rapid economic downturn, but
April 04, 2025Italy is considering including police and coastguard services in its defence budget so it can point to a quick increase in security spending as its
April 04, 2025Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Friday said negotiations on tariffs between the U.S. and the European Union should aim at lifting all of them.
April 04, 2025United States President Donald Trump remains committed to NATO's Article 5 on mutual defence and will be present at a NATO summit in The Hague in June, Polish Foreign Minister
April 04, 2025France’s wine producers are deeply concerned that the 20% tariff slapped by President Donald Trump will deal a severe blow to the sector that relies on the U.S. as its top market
April 04, 2025The U.S. reciprocal tariffs will stymie economic growth and lift inflation, forcing the Federal Reserve to start lowering interest rates from the end of this year, while the European
April 04, 2025Global food commodity prices edged up in March, with a sharp rise in vegetable oils offsetting declines in cereals and sugar, the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization
April 04, 2025U.S.
April 04, 2025Hungary was never fully committed to the International Criminal Court, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said a day after announcing plans to withdraw from the international body
April 04, 2025Amid a ’70s design revival, colorful hard-stone watch dials make a comeback
April 04, 2025French reinsurance company Scor said on Friday it has been placed under examination by a Paris court for the alleged actions of its former chairman, Denis Kessler, in
April 04, 2025Hungary's government is planning a law that would prevent protesters blocking bridges in order to defend the rights of those not protesting, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on
April 04, 2025The European Union should not respond to U.S.
April 04, 2025Finance Minister Eric Lombard opened the door on Friday to letting France's budget deficit reduction target slip this year, ruling out extra spending cuts and tax increases to offset
April 04, 2025The United States will know in a matter of weeks if Russia is serious about peace with Ukraine, U.S.
April 04, 2025Shares in European lenders extended losses on Friday amid a deep selloff in equities sparked by U.S. President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs.
April 04, 2025With the ink still fresh on U.S.
April 04, 2025German industrial orders stagnated in February and January's drop was revised to be less steep, showing that Germany's industrial sector slump could have bottomed out, but
April 04, 2025Swedish headline consumer prices fell 0.5% in March from the previous month and rose 2.3% from the same month a year earlier, flash figures from the statistics
April 04, 2025Britain's competition regulator said on Friday remedies offered by Safran, including sale of parts of its business, could resolve competition concerns relating to its acquisition of a part
April 04, 2025BP Chair Helge Lund intends to step down "likely during 2026", the energy group said on Friday amid a campaign by activist hedge fund Elliott for more change at the
April 04, 2025Sitting under stained glass windows around a wrestling ring, churchgoers roared as burly wresters body-slammed and threw one another to the floor
April 04, 2025Russia launched a barrage of drones in an overnight attack on Ukraine on Friday, killing at least four people and injuring 35 in the northeastern city of
April 03, 2025A pool of banks led by Goldman Sachs is ready to give Prada a 2.5-billion-euro ($2.77 billion) financing line to help the Italian fashion group in its acquisition of Capri Holdings-
April 04, 2025Pub owner Philip Thorley sees only one direction for his prices once a tax hike for British employers kicks in next week: up.
April 04, 2025Trump publicly backs France’s far-right figurehead Le Pen after her conviction
April 04, 2025Yvon Castel says he has voted for the far-right National Rally for years, but is less than impressed by the tactics its leader Marine Le Pen has chosen to try
April 04, 2025A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Wayne Cole It's been another day of pain in Asia with the Nikkei down 3% and a stomach-churning 9.6% for the week, the biggest drop since
April 04, 2025Italy's pledges to increase defence spending to help Ukraine could scupper government efforts to rein in the mammoth public debt, analysts say,
April 04, 2025Top Russian negotiator says US businesses would be welcome in Russia if sanctions were lifted
April 03, 2025KKR has abandoned a private equity consortium discussing a takeover of Gerresheimer AG, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.
April 03, 2025The World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab, will "start the process" of stepping down as chair of its board of trustees, a spokesperson for the Geneva-based institution told Reuters on
April 03, 2025Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Thursday that trade tariffs announced by the United States were a mistake but their impact should not be overestimated and the reaction
April 03, 2025Britain said it believed a trade deal with the United States was close as it sought to soften the impact of U.S.
April 03, 2025Freshly crowned overall World Cup skiing champion Federica Brignone has broken multiple bones in her left leg during a giant slalom crash at the Italian championships
April 03, 2025European Union countries negotiating changes to the EU's gas storage targets could approve them in time to ease them before the upcoming winter, EU diplomats told
April 03, 2025Germany and Austria said on Thursday they would bar Bosnian Serb separatist leader Milorad Dodik and his two closest aides from their territories, accusing him
April 03, 2025Switzerland's government on Thursday described trade tariffs imposed on the country by U.S.
April 03, 2025Ukraine has not yet discussed new military aid packages with the U.S., the deputy head of the Ukrainian presidential office said, amid uncertainty about additional support from
April 03, 2025The Pentagon's deliberations about restructuring parts of the U.S. military, including potentially giving up the United States' role as the head
April 03, 2025(This April 3 story has been corrected to change the source to the ICC's Presidency of the Assembly of State Parties, not the ICC Presidency, in paragraph 10) By Anita Komuves and Maayan Lubell
April 03, 2025Thousands of people have marched through Slovakia’s capital before a planned rally in front of parliament to condemn draft legislation that critics consider detrimental for many nongovernmental organizations
April 03, 2025Hegseth expected to skip key meeting with allies on Ukraine support
April 03, 2025President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Thursday visited Ukraine's northern Sumy region across the border from Russia's Kursk region, where Kyiv's troops still hold small swathes of land.
April 03, 2025The German military will be armed with loitering munitions, or exploding drones, for the first time, two defense ministry sources said on Thursday, as Berlin tries to
April 03, 2025Donald Trump must pay over 626,000 pounds (about $821,500) in legal fees to a private investigations firm the U.S. president sued over a dossier which alleged ties between his 2016
April 03, 2025Aerospace firms sought to contain a minefield of pressures on Thursday after an Airbus-led body urged the European Union to hit back against U.S.
April 03, 2025French President Emmanuel Macron called on Thursday for European companies to suspend planned investment in the United States after U.S.
April 03, 2025Two French citizens held in Iran for almost three years have not had consular services for more than a year prompting Paris to prepare a complaint at the International Court of
April 03, 2025Swiss watch seller Sacha Davidoff was scrambling on Thursday to understand what new U.S. tariffs on Switzerland announced by President
April 03, 2025Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called on Thursday for increased Arctic defence collaboration with the United States during a visit to Greenland, and firmly
April 03, 2025U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the Trump administration’s new envoy to NATO are seeking to reassure wary NATO members of the U.S. commitment to the alliance
April 03, 2025Volvo Cars' new top executive said on Thursday the company would produce more cars in the U.S. while ramping up its regionalisation efforts, just as a 25% U.S. tariff on
April 03, 2025Non-EU banks have carved out "dominant" roles in some of Europe's key financial markets, including derivatives where U.S. banks prevail, the
April 03, 2025Ukraine appears to have resolved some of its shortages of troops fighting against Russia, including by widening the pool of eligible recruits, the top U.S. general in Europe
April 03, 2025Sportswear brand Puma said on Thursday former Adidas sales chief Arthur Hoeld would take over as CEO, replacing Arne Freundt due to what the company called "differing views on
April 03, 2025Ireland collected 9% more tax year-on-year in the first quarter excluding one-off proceeds from a ruling on Apple back taxes, growth that was once again propelled by booming
April 03, 2025Abbey Road's Studio One is where the scores of “Star Wars,” “Harry Potter,” and “Wicked” were recorded
April 03, 2025Volkswagen is launching a new version of its Amarok mid-size pick-up truck targeted at the South American market from 2027, the carmaker said on Thursday, in the latest example of
April 03, 2025The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee criticized Pentagon “mid-level” leadership for what he says is a misguided plan to reduce the number of U.S. troops based in Europe
April 03, 2025Hungary said it will withdraw from the International Criminal Court, which Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said was a “political” organization
April 03, 2025Britain on Wednesday published a 400-page list of U.S. goods it could include in any possible retaliatory tariff response to President Donald Trump's levies on British imports, even
April 03, 2025Prince Harry said on Thursday he hoped Britain's charity regulator would "unveil the truth" after it opened a compliance case into his charity Sentebale following
April 03, 2025France or Britain should take the lead in engaging with Russia about Ukraine as part of European efforts to support Kyiv, Finland's president Alexander Stubb said on Thursday.
April 03, 2025U.N. investigators examining allegations of sexual misconduct by International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan are also
April 03, 2025Italian coffee maker Lavazza plans to press ahead with expansion in the U.S. market, it said on Thursday, adding it would assess the potential impact of tariffs on its Brazilian
April 03, 2025The Luxembourg-based steel group Aperam said on Thursday it would explore potential exemptions from announced U.S. tariffs, along with its U.S. customers.
April 03, 2025A Russian court on Thursday rejected an appeal by dissident Alexei Gorinov against a three-year prison sentence for "justifying terrorism", a human rights group said.
April 03, 2025Prices of Nike Jordan and Adidas Samba sneakers are likely to rise in the United States after President Donald Trump imposed a raft of new tariffs on
April 03, 2025Spain on Thursday was one of the few major economies to offer up a concrete solution to help weather the impact of new U.S. tariffs, offering its
April 03, 2025FIFA President Gianni Infantino said on Thursday he hoped Russia could rejoin the global football world soon, as it would signify that the war in Ukraine was over.
April 03, 2025The European Union and the United States need to de-escalate their trade dispute and wine and spirits should be left untouched by both sides, said Florent Morillon, the president of
April 03, 2025Bruce Springsteen knows what his fans want
April 03, 2025It’s among the largest collections of Michelangelo sculptures ever shown. But there’s a catch
April 03, 2025Britain on Thursday published a list of goods that could be included in any retaliatory tariff response to U.S.
April 03, 2025Joint ventures and asset sales are expected to accelerate in the mining industry, which is ripe for consolidation due to the slowdown in manufacturing and demand
April 03, 2025ECB policymakers were already counting the potential cost of U.S. tariffs long before their introduction, arguing they would weigh on growth but have a more uncertain impact on
April 03, 2025Swiss engineering group ABB said on Thursday it is evaluating the implications of new import tariffs and expects to pass on higher costs that result from them.
April 03, 2025Dutch police said they believed the driver of a car that caught fire on Thursday following an explosion in central Amsterdam may have been attempting to commit suicide.
April 03, 2025Austria will close two smaller crossings at its border with Slovakia and 21 at its border with Hungary from Saturday, in a bid to prevent foot-and-mouth disease from entering the
April 03, 2025Russian opposition politician Boris Nadezhdin, who tried unsuccessfully to run against Vladimir Putin in a presidential election last year, was declared bankrupt by a Moscow court on
April 03, 2025Poland wants to spend 5% of gross domestic product (GDP) on defence in 2026, Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said on Thursday after a European Union defence ministers
April 03, 2025Turkish police have detained 11 people for supporting a shopping boycott as part of protests against the imprisonment of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s main rival
April 03, 2025Greek and Turkish officials have reported the sinking of two boats carrying migrants in the early hours of Thursday in the narrow stretch of sea between Turkey and a nearby Greek island, leaving a total of at least 16 people dead, including three children, one missing and more than 40 survivors
April 03, 2025Hungary says it will pull out of ICC as Orban hosts Israel’s Netanyahu – who is wanted by the court
April 03, 2025Portuguese police on Thursday raided the offices of several public institutions in a corruption probe involving the acquisition of information technology services, including at the
April 03, 2025Moscow's troops were waging fierce battles on Thursday in Russia's western Kursk region against Ukrainian forces, including hundreds holed up in a monastery, in an
April 03, 2025Leaders in the Czech Republic and Poland signalled a readiness on Thursday to retaliate to new U.S. tariffs, while Hungary blamed Brussels
April 03, 2025Tesla sales in Germany dropped in March compared with the same time last year and were marginally lower in the UK, despite a spike in overall EV sales in both markets, data showed on
April 03, 2025London shares plunged on Thursday, as investors avoided risky assets after U.S. President Donald Trump's reciprocal tariffs amplified global trade war and recession worries.
April 03, 2025The European Union's countermeasures in response to U.S.
April 03, 2025U.S. drinkers will pay more for cocktails, champagne and foreign beers, brands will disappear from bar menus and jobs
April 03, 2025The Bulgarian government, led by Rosen Zhelyazkov, survived a vote of no confidence on Thursday, launched over its foreign policy, BTA news agency reported.
April 03, 2025Ukrainian corn, a key element in the country's grain sector, could benefit from the tariffs imposed by the U.S., as it is able to partially substitute for U.S. corn
April 03, 2025British police on Thursday hit out at "ill-informed" criticism of the investigation and prosecution of nurse Lucy Letby whose conviction for murdering seven babies in her care has
April 03, 2025Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin said on Thursday it was still too early to consider supporting businesses hit by President Donald Trump's import tariffs of 20% but that he
April 03, 2025Countries issue advisories about trans people traveling to the United States
April 03, 2025Thousands of people have turned out to bid farewell to four American soldiers who died during a training exercise in the Baltic nation
April 03, 2025Italy's competition authority (AGCM) has closed its investigation into Otis, it said on Thursday, after the U.S. elevator maker said it would refund Italian customers to the tune of
April 03, 2025Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Thursday his government will implement a 14.1 billion euro ($15.66 billion) plan, including 7.4 billion euros in new financing, to
April 03, 2025Spanish steel maker Acerinox said on Thursday that the U.S. tariffs would have "in principle" positive effects on the company as the country is its main market and where its main
April 03, 2025U.S.
April 02, 2025Interpol has denied a Bosnian court's request for a wanted alert for Bosnian Serb separatist leader Milorad Dodik, who is accused of attacking the constitutional order and went
April 03, 2025European Union member states are set to vote on Wednesday April 9 on countermeasures to the United States' steel and aluminum tariffs, a senior EU official, said on Thursday.
April 03, 2025U.S.
April 03, 2025Shares of surprise tariff avoiders like pharmaceuticals and drinks firms and rate-sensitive stocks such as real estate were among the few to post gains
April 03, 2025Russia said on Thursday that threats of military strikes against its ally Iran were unacceptable and warned that attacking the Islamic Republic could lead to potentially
April 03, 2025Amazon criticised a book delivery fee imposed by France two years ago, telling Europe's top court on Thursday the measure was discriminatory, protectionist and a
April 03, 2025Deutsche Bank warned on Thursday of the risk of a crisis of confidence in the U.S. dollar, saying major shifts in capital flow allocations could take over from currency fundamentals
April 03, 2025Russia's general prosecutor on Thursday banned the activities of the Elton John AIDS Foundation, accusing it of taking a negative stance towards countries like
April 03, 2025Finland's President Alexander Stubb said on Thursday that all of Europe should engage with the United States on the issue of trade tariffs.
April 03, 2025A meeting of eight top ministers of OPEC+ will likely keep oil output policy that calls for gradual oil output hikes from
April 03, 2025Targeting U.S. digital services in potential reciprocal trade measures is not the European Union's position and would be very damaging for Ireland, trade minister Simon Harris said
April 03, 2025The United States and the United Kingdom look set to be picked by FIFA next year as hosts of Women’s World Cups
April 03, 2025Russia has opened a criminal case against the 69-year-old father of Leonid Volkov, a former aide to late opposition leader Alexei Navalny, state news agency TASS reported on
April 03, 2025European shares tumbled on Thursday, notching their biggest daily loss in eight months, on fears an escalating trade war would slam
April 03, 2025The dollar, one of the world's safest places to park money in times of turmoil, has been shunned by investors as an option for now as
April 03, 2025The tariffs announced by U.S. President Donald Trump will put a strain on the United States' exports as well, said German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Thursday.
April 03, 2025Israel is not ruling out a diplomatic path to prevent Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said on Thursday, adding that there were signs that there
April 03, 2025U.S. President Donald Trump will buckle under pressure from Germany and Europe in an escalating trade war, German Economy Minister Robert Habeck said on Thursday.
April 03, 2025Investment bank JPMorgan downgraded its recommendation for emerging currencies to "underweight" on Thursday after U.S. tariffs exceeded its worst-case scenario. U.S.
April 03, 2025Far-reaching tariffs announced by the U.S. will deal a major blow to German industry, a major exporter to the world's top economy,
April 03, 2025Novo Nordisk's head of commercial strategy and corporate affairs, Camilla Sylvest, has decided to leave the company, the Danish
April 03, 2025Gucci owner Kering said on Thursday its high-end eyewear division had signed an agreement to acquire the entire share capital of Italian manufacturer Visard and a minority stake in
April 03, 2025Shares in European luxury companies dropped on Thursday after U.S. President Donald Trump announced new tariffs, including on goods from the European Union and Switzerland.
April 03, 2025Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky's takeover of Royal Mail-owner International Distribution Services has cleared all regulatory conditions, his company EP Group said on Thursday.
April 03, 2025A small cooperative of 1,200 stock breeders producing feta, Greece's trademark white soft cheese, in the southern Peloponnese peninsula had one big
April 03, 2025Germany's service sector maintained modest growth in March, extending its expansion streak to four months, though the pace slowed as new business continued to decline, S&P Global
April 03, 2025At least seven migrants died, including one boy, one girl and two women, when their boat sank on Thursday off the Greek island of Lesbos, Greece's coastguard said.
April 03, 2025The euro zone economy eked out modest growth for a third month in March as the bloc's manufacturing industry showed signs of recovery and its dominant services industry expanded at
April 03, 2025Poland's largest fashion retailer LPP is betting on rapid expansion of its budget brand Sinsay to double its annual revenue to 40 billion zlotys ($
April 03, 2025German logistics group DHL expects earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) in its Post & Parcel division only to return to growth after the completion of its
April 03, 2025European countries are already providing more than half of Ukraine's ammunition needs, recently put at two million rounds by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, European Union
April 03, 2025The conviction of French far-right leader Marine Le Pen for embezzling funds from the EU Parliament has sent shockwaves around the continent and beyond
April 03, 2025Norway will seek to negotiate with the United States regarding the tariffs imposed by U.S.
April 03, 2025Switzerland's main business lobby on Thursday rejected U.S. tariffs on Swiss imports as harmful and unjustified, as the country's government stressed the importance of respecting
April 03, 2025Almost 2,000 container ships carrying illegally harvested timber from the Brazilian Amazonian state that will host this year's U.N. climate summit has reached Europe
April 03, 2025European stock futures plunged on Thursday after U.S.
April 03, 2025Europe prepares countermeasures to Trump’s tariffs, calling them a ‘major blow to the world economy’
April 03, 2025A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Wayne Cole The jury is in, and it turns out investors really don't like a tariff-induced global trade war and likely recession - who knew?
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