Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Second Lady Usha Vance, are planning to visit Greenland. Denmark’s prime minister is accusing the US of putting pressure on the island, as President Trump has repeatedly said he wants to make Greenland part of the US. Danish Conservative lawmaker Rasmus Jarlov joins CNN’s Jim Sciutto to discuss.
March 28, 2025
The World Health Organization (WHO) is proposing to reduce staff numbers and the scale of its work as it slashes its budget by just over one
March 29, 2025
The Trump administration has ordered some French companies with U.S. government contracts to comply with his executive order banning diversity, equity,
March 29, 2025
Hundreds of thousands of Turks protested in Istanbul on Saturday against the jailing of Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, President Tayyip Erdogan's main rival,
March 29, 2025
Stellantis will buy credits from a "pool" led by Tesla also in 2025, to meet European Union's CO2 reduction requirements, despite Brussels giving carmakers three years to
March 29, 2025
Justin Welby, the former spiritual leader of Anglicans worldwide, reiterated he had failed to ensure proper investigations into allegations of abuse within the
March 29, 2025
UniCredit, Italy's second-biggest bank, has received European Central Bank authorisation for its 14 billion euro all-share offer to buy smaller rival Banco BPM.
March 29, 2025
U.S. Vice President JD Vance says Denmark has “underinvested” in Greenland’s security and demands Denmark change its approach as President Donald Trump continues to talk of taking over the Danish territory
March 28, 2025
The Art House Tacheles used to be the epicentre of the alternative art and culture scene in Berlin, an impressive five-storey building in the heart of the capital
March 29, 2025
A 17th-century painting looted by the Nazis in 1940 from a Jewish art collector in Belgium will be returned to his descendants after spending three decades in a
March 28, 2025
A mass Russian drone attack killed four people, injured 19 and sparked a large fire in a hotel and restaurant complex and other buildings late on Friday in the southeastern Ukrainian city
March 28, 2025
UBS has no plans to leave Switzerland, the bank's compliance and governance chief Markus Ronner said on Friday amid a debate on how to regulate the country's biggest lender.
March 28, 2025
U.S.
March 28, 2025
Ratings agency Moody's on Friday said the UK government's moves to restore budget headroom reflect a difficult fiscal outlook, although the timely reaction to a deterioration in public
March 28, 2025
Germany's Finance Minister Joerg Kukies warned on Friday that U.S. tariffs would hit both the German and the U.S. economies and that Berlin was working to
March 28, 2025
UK shares edged lower on Friday as investors avoided big bets on concerns over the global economic fallout exacerbating trade tensions already heightened by tariffs.
March 28, 2025
Unipol Chairman Carlo Cimbri said on Friday a foreign bank was studying a potential bid for Popolare di Sondrio to rival the one unveiled by Italy's BPER Banca.
March 28, 2025
European aerospace companies Airbus, Thales and Leonardo have started preliminary talks with European Union antitrust regulators over a possible merger of their
March 28, 2025
Swedish journalist Kaj Joakim Medin, who was in Turkey to cover protests against Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu's arrest, was jailed pending trial on terrorism charges, Turkey's
March 28, 2025
JD Vance accuses Denmark of neglecting Greenland, makes highest-profile case for US control of the island
March 28, 2025
Carlo Acutis will become the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint at a solemn canonization Mass on April 27 in St. Peter’s Square
March 28, 2025
Ukraine is working to ensure that a minerals deal with the U.S. reflects all its interests and is in a spirit of strategic partnership, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko
March 28, 2025
Britain's King Charles has been seen in public for the first time on Friday, waving at well-wishers and passers-by after spending a short time under observation in hospital due to
March 28, 2025
Cyprus has a "nimble and dynamic economy" that should grow about 2.5% this year, the International Monetary Fund said on Friday, while it added that the island should resist any
March 28, 2025
U.S. and Lithuanian troops and authorities are struggling to drain a swampy area in Lithuania in ongoing efforts to recover four American Army soldiers who went missing three days ago and are warning that it will be a long operation
March 28, 2025
Two out of three companies around the world are planning to change their currency hedges by adding to them, or keeping them for longer in response to growing
March 28, 2025
Chinese electric automaker BYD said on Friday it signed a car parts distribution deal with Italian company Intergea, as part of its strategy to boost its presence in a key European market.
March 28, 2025
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun began talks in Paris on Friday with French President Emmanuel Macron to discuss economic reforms and efforts to stabilise the country, as
March 28, 2025
Holcim is targeting average annual growth in earnings before interest and taxes of 6% to 10% by 2030, driven in part by mergers and acquisitions, the Swiss cement maker said on
March 28, 2025
A German government spokesperson said on Friday that "nothing is off the table" with regards to punitive measures in response to the threat of U.S. tariffs, after an EU lawmaker
March 28, 2025
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukraine would not accept any mineral rights deal that threatened its integration with the EU but
March 28, 2025
The Chinese investigation which led to hefty preliminary import tariffs on French-made cognac and armagnac will conclude later than initially planned,
March 28, 2025
French President Emmanuel Macron said there had been no activity justifying Israel's strikes on Hezbollah in Lebanon on Friday and that he would call U.S.
March 28, 2025
Hong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd has started preparations to spin off its global telecommunication assets and list the
March 28, 2025
Bank of America analysts on Friday said Novo Nordisk may miss first-quarter expectations, as sales of its blockbuster Wegovy and
March 28, 2025
Russia reserves the right to withdraw from a U.S.-brokered moratorium on Moscow and Kyiv striking each other's energy infrastructure if Ukraine continues to attack
March 28, 2025
ECB policymaker Joachim Nagel said on Friday he was encouraged by recent data on inflation in a number of euro zone economies but warned against over-optimism as the European
March 28, 2025
The senior leadership of Friedrich Merz's conservative bloc and the Social Democrats were due to begin talks on hammering out a coalition agreement on Friday.
March 28, 2025
Finland-based satellite operator ICEYE is to start providing imaging data to the Situation Centre at NATO headquarters in Brussels, the company said on Friday.
March 28, 2025
AMSTERDAM - Chemical weapons inspectors have been taken by Syria's caretaker authorities to previously unseen production and storage locations dating from the rule of Bashar al-Assad, who was toppled
March 28, 2025
Romania's Supreme Defence Council on Friday approved a plan to add new small warships to its fleet, part of wider efforts to strengthen its role in the Black Sea and on NATO's
March 28, 2025
Greenland's Democrats and three more parties announced a government coalition agreement on Friday, just hours before a visit by U.S.
March 28, 2025
Italy will transform a detention centre it built in Albania for sea migrants into a repatriation hub for failed asylum seekers, in a bid to overcome judicial hurdles
March 28, 2025
Just as Ukrainian forces are losing their grip on the pocket of Russia's Kursk region they captured last year, they have staged a little-publicised incursion into the
March 28, 2025
U.S. activist hedge fund Elliott Management, currently campaigning for more change at BP in its capacity as a BP shareholder, has taken a big
March 28, 2025
The United States Treasury has granted a second 30-day extension to the Serbian oil company NIS's sanctions waiver, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Friday.
March 28, 2025
Italy's government tightened its citizenship laws on Friday, preventing people from delving deep back into their family history to try to claim a much sought-after
March 28, 2025
PayPal's shares fell 5% on Friday after comments from a European Union lawmaker raised concerns that payments firms could get swept up in escalating trade tensions and
March 28, 2025
Germany's would-be Chancellor Friedrich Merz identified on Friday migration, economic competitiveness and spending cuts as major areas needing agreement with
March 28, 2025
France's Constitutional Council ruled on Friday that local politicians can be barred from office immediately if convicted of a crime, leaving the door open for
March 28, 2025
Jens-Frederik Nielsen, a 33-year-old former minister of industry and minerals, was sworn in as the youngest prime minister of Greenland on Friday to
March 28, 2025
The sole British soldier charged with murder over the 1972 'Bloody Sunday' killings of 13 unarmed Catholic civil rights marchers in Northern Ireland will face
March 28, 2025
European carmakers are trying to work out how much their prices might have to rise in response to looming U.S. import tariffs, industry
March 28, 2025
Britain's competition regulator said on Friday five airlines, including British Airways and American Airlines, have offered commitments to resolve concerns over their agreement to cooperate
March 28, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed putting Ukraine under external governance under the auspices of the U.N. as part of efforts to reach a peaceful settlement
March 28, 2025
McConnell warns of ‘embarrassing naivete’ in Trump admin’s dealings with Putin while sharply criticizing Ukraine policy
March 28, 2025
Former Barcelona player Dani Alves has rape conviction overturned by Spanish court on appeal
March 28, 2025
Olympic skier Berkin Usta, 24, and his father die in hotel fire in Turkey
March 28, 2025
Manchester City is the only thing standing in the way of a soccer fairy tale in the FA Cup
March 28, 2025
Dani Alves has won his appeal against a sexual assault conviction as a Spanish court overturned the ruling
March 28, 2025
France’s foreign affairs minister says France and China are making progress toward resolving a trade dispute over cognac imports
March 28, 2025
Jeff Bezos is planning a lavish Venice wedding. But it might not have the best view in town
March 28, 2025
King Charles III has waved to well-wishers in central London as he headed for his country estate in western England
March 28, 2025
European shares slid on Friday as fresh U.S. data amplified worries about higher inflation, ending a week where new tariff announcements from U.S.
March 28, 2025
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and European Commission Vice President Teresa Ribera on Friday urged the United States to reconsider new tariffs on goods from Europe and open a
March 28, 2025
Turkish authorities released a lawyer for jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, President Tayyip Erdogan's main political rival, after
March 28, 2025
By the time a film arrives on movie screens, its makers often strive to find ways to articulate how relevant it is, how it speaks to now
March 28, 2025
How to see a partial solar eclipse turn the sun into a crescent
March 28, 2025
A cargo ship which collided with a U.S. tanker in the North Sea earlier this month has been towed to the Scottish port of Aberdeen
March 28, 2025
Pamela Anderson, ‘explosive’ bikinis and the changing tides of swimwear style
March 28, 2025
British shoppers unexpectedly loosened their purse-strings last month, official data showed on Friday, defying most forecasts from analysts who
March 28, 2025
Ubisoft shares reversed gains in afternoon trade on Friday after rising as much as 12% earlier on plans to set up a subsidiary to house three of its
March 28, 2025
The number of people out of work in Germany rose in March at the fastest rate since October of 2024, data showed on Friday, as an economic malaise puts pressure on
March 28, 2025
The economic outlook for the euro zone is complicated by fears about a trade war with the United States but at least inflation is heading down towards the European Central Bank's
March 28, 2025
Spain's annual inflation rate has fallen this month to its slowest pace since October as heavy rains boosted hydropower output, bringing down electricity prices, preliminary data from the
March 28, 2025
A group of embassies in Budapest, including European powers but not the United States, have expressed their concern in a joint statement over a law passed by Hungary's ruling party
March 28, 2025
Deutsche Bank has extended CEO Christian Sewing's contract, while its deputy and another top executive will depart as part of a management revamp, cementing the leadership team
March 28, 2025
Italian police said on Friday they had dismantled one of the largest clandestine methamphetamine laboratories in the country, arresting a university student they described as a fan of
March 28, 2025
A Russian drone attack has damaged warehouses owned by Ukraine's state gas producer in the central region of Poltava during a truce on energy strikes, officials said on Friday, while
March 28, 2025
Inflation in March came in far below forecasts in two of the euro zone's largest economies, data showed on Friday, while consumer expectations for price growth remained muted,
March 28, 2025
Morale among Italian businesses and consumers slumped in March, data showed on Friday, casting a shadow over already weak growth prospects for the euro zone's third largest economy.
March 28, 2025
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in a call on Friday that steps toward achieving navigational safety in the Black Sea would contribute to
March 28, 2025
Russia accused Ukraine on Friday of attacking its energy facilities despite a moratorium on such strikes, saying a gas infrastructure unit in the town of Sudzha had been destroyed
March 28, 2025
Moldova broadened an investigation into the financing of a banned pro-Russian political grouping in the country, two days after the detention of the leader of a
March 27, 2025
German consumer sentiment is broadly unchanged heading into April, with a focus on saving highlighting uncertainty among households after last month's election in Europe's biggest
March 28, 2025
French consumer prices rose less than anticipated in March, as accelerating prices for services were offset by declining energy prices, preliminary data from statistics agency INSEE showed
March 28, 2025
Irish consumer sentiment dropped to its lowest level in nine months in March as the prospect of U.S. tariffs on the European Union made consumers more nervous about the outlook for
March 28, 2025
French banking giant Societe Generale said on Friday it had appointed President Emmanuel Macron's chief of staff Alexis Kohler as executive vice president, effective June 2025.
March 28, 2025
A company that specializes in early wildfire detection has developed a new, AI-based drone that it says will help speed up the detection, location and monitoring of fires
March 28, 2025
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Ankur Banerjee The 25% U.S. tariff announced for auto imports is raising a ruckus across the globe, from Tokyo and Seoul to Wolfsburg to
March 28, 2025
The trial of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy over the alleged illegal financing of his 2007 presidential campaign is shedding light on France’s back-channel talks with the government of then-Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi
March 28, 2025
Investors are calling time on a rally in European stocks and the euro after a blistering first quarter that many fear has exaggerated how fast a
March 28, 2025
The U.S.
March 28, 2025
China and France will hold three high-level dialogues on strategic, economic, financial and cultural issues this year, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said after
March 27, 2025
Trump admin temporarily restores funding to initiative tracking Russian war crimes
March 28, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested Ukraine could be placed under a form of temporary administration to allow for new elections and the signature of key accords with the aim of
March 27, 2025
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin says that President Donald Trump’s push for control over Greenland wasn’t surprising given longtime U.S. interest in the mineral-rich territory
March 27, 2025
Britain's King Charles spent a short time under observation in hospital on Thursday after experiencing side effects from treatment for cancer, Buckingham Palace said, with royal
March 27, 2025
Britain's King Charles spent a brief time under observation in hospital on Thursday after experiencing side effects from treatment for cancer, Buckingham Palace said, with
March 27, 2025
Fans of Studio Ghibli, the famed Japanese animation studio behind “Spirited Away” and other beloved movies, were delighted this week when a new version of ChatGPT let them transform popular internet memes or personal photos into the distinct style of Ghibli founder Hayao Miyazaki
March 27, 2025
King Charles cancels engagements after experiencing temporary side effects of cancer treatment
March 27, 2025
NBA and FIBA in talks with European soccer teams over new basketball league
March 27, 2025
Buckingham Palace says King Charles III was hospitalized for observation on Thursday after experiencing “temporary side effects,’’ related to a scheduled cancer treatment
March 27, 2025
U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty said on Thursday that its parent agency had rescinded an order terminating its grant funding, after the
March 27, 2025
President Vladimir Putin on Thursday launched a nuclear-powered submarine equipped with hypersonic Zircon missiles capable of travelling at several times the speed of sound.
March 27, 2025
Greenlandic lawmakers have agreed to form a new government, banding together to resist U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to annex the Arctic island
March 27, 2025
French prosecutors requested on Thursday an 18-month suspended sentence and a 20,000-euro ($21,588.00) fine for actor Gerard Depardieu in his sexual assault trial, Le Parisien and
March 27, 2025
Greenland's Democrats will announce a four-party coalition government on Friday, local media said on Thursday, following an election overshadowed by U.S.
March 27, 2025
Whatever domestic economic gain comes from U.S. President Donald Trump’s new 25% tax on imported cars – and experts are skeptical – automakers around the world are bracing for a lot of pain
March 27, 2025
The euro zone's economic recovery may have been held back by households' "misperception" of inflation and income, which has made them reluctant to spend, European
March 27, 2025
The NBA and FIBA are now exploring partnering on a new league in Europe and further expanding their roles there, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said Thursday
March 27, 2025
The European Union is ramping up efforts to secure critical minerals and reduce reliance on China
March 27, 2025
Police have used pepper spray, plastic pellets and water cannon against protesters in Turkey’s capital
March 27, 2025
Police in the Netherlands say a knife-wielding assailant has seriously wounded five people in a stabbing attack on a busy shopping street in Amsterdam before he was taken into custody
March 27, 2025
Some drugmakers are taking the unusual step of sending more medicines by air to the U.S., two executives and two
March 27, 2025
E-commerce platform TikTok Shop said it will launch to users in France, Germany, and Italy on Monday, expanding its reach further into Europe even as TikTok faces being shut down in
March 27, 2025
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Thursday Donald Trump's decision to impose tariffs on cars is wrong and the U.S. president had chosen a path that would produce only losers.
March 27, 2025
Novo Nordisk shares have fallen 25% so far in March and are on track for their biggest monthly drop since July 2002, as investor worries intensify
March 27, 2025
French prosecutors on Thursday requested a seven-year jail sentence and a 300,000-euro fine for French ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy for allegedly taking millions
March 27, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned against "the fires of antisemitism" in Western Europe at a conference on Thursday overshadowed by a boycott by several Jewish
March 27, 2025
The European Union's member states announced on Thursday sanctions on a further 25 individuals and seven entities over what the EU said was the undermining of democracy and rule
March 27, 2025
If the Federal Reserve, a bedrock of global financial stability, were to withhold dollar funding to allies during times of stress, the world could greatly
March 27, 2025
Geopolitical rivalries are intensifying in the Arctic but Russia is willing to cooperate with foreign partners, including from the West, in
March 27, 2025
Just Stop Oil says it will stop throwing soup at paintings and end disruptive protest
March 27, 2025
European leaders say now not the time to lift sanctions on Russia in clear message to Trump
March 27, 2025
French President Emmanuel Macron says that France and Britain will continue to forge ahead with plans to deploy troops in Ukraine to defend an eventual peace deal with Russia, but he says that only some other nations want to take part
March 27, 2025
Firms from Germany, South Korea, Turkey and France are bidding to create an ammunition manufacturing joint venture with Poland, to be signed
March 27, 2025
John Elkann, the chairman of Stellantis, voiced concerns on Thursday over the impact of 25% U.S. tariffs imposed on the carmaking sector on the cost of vehicles and demand.
March 27, 2025
(This March 27 story has been corrected to make clear that Tesla benefits indirectly from credit scheme and does not receive UK subsidies,
March 27, 2025
Russian forces are stepping up attacks along Ukraine's northeastern border in a bid to break into the Sumy region, Kyiv's top general said on Thursday.
March 27, 2025
European leaders vowed on Thursday to strengthen Kyiv's army to ensure it was the cornerstone of future security in Ukraine, while France and
March 27, 2025
Car-carrying ships have sent more cargo from Europe and China, Japan and Korea to the United States in the first months of the year than last year, shipping
March 27, 2025
Rescuers in Lithuania were digging on Thursday into a peat bog in a military training area to recover the vehicle of four U.S. soldiers missing for two days.
March 27, 2025
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday Russian artillery had damaged Ukraine's energy infrastructure in the front-line city of Kherson, two days after the U.S. announced that
March 27, 2025
French prosecutors have requested seven years in prison and a fine of 300,000 euros or around $325,000 for former President Nicolas Sarkozy
March 27, 2025
Attorneys for Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva are taking her doping case back to court
March 27, 2025
Paris’ public prosecutor has requested that French actor Gérard Depardieu be found guilty and given a 18-month suspended prison sentence on the last day of the four-day trial over accusations by two women of sexual assault on a film set
March 27, 2025
Italy is concerned but not "terrified" of any new tariffs the United States could impose on wine, the country's agriculture minister said on Thursday, adding he
March 27, 2025
Kateryna Bondarenko had little doubt that her boyfriend, a fighter with Ukraine's Azov regiment captured by the Russians in 2022, would
March 27, 2025
British Airways-owner IAG will consider selling its 20% stake in Air Europa as the Spanish airline's owner continues talks with Air France-KLM and Lufthansa to
March 27, 2025
Ryanair's boss is confident that commercial jets will not be sucked into trade tensions between the United States and other trade powers,
March 27, 2025
The European association of automotive suppliers (CLEPA) on Thursday called on policymakers in Europe to prioritise finding solutions over trade barriers after U.S.
March 27, 2025
Search underway for 4 US Army soldiers missing in Lithuania
March 26, 2025
When Greek police raided the apartment of a 49-year-old planning officer suspected of bribery on the tourist island of Rhodes last week, they
March 27, 2025
The European Commission is looking at ways to cut overlap in tech rules in response to complaints from business about the flood of new EU regulations in recent
March 27, 2025
British equities closed lower on Thursday, with mining stocks leading declines, after U.S. President Donald Trump announced new tariffs on all foreign-made vehicles and auto parts.
March 27, 2025
Finland's right-wing government has asked parliament to extend until the end of 2026 a law that allows it to reject asylum applications from
March 27, 2025
Britain's competition regulator said on Thursday that oilfield services company SLB's proposed $8 billion deal to buy smaller rival ChampionX could result in a substantial lessening of
March 27, 2025
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen was convicted of embezzlement on Monday and handed a five-year ban from public office, a verdict that
March 27, 2025
Washington has told the European Union it should not expect any trade negotiations before the United States has imposed more tariffs on the bloc next week, EU diplomats said on
March 27, 2025
Russia is stalling progress towards a peace deal in Ukraine, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Thursday after a meeting with Western allies in Paris, adding that now was
March 27, 2025
Ukraine's state-owned railway Ukrzaliznytsia, the country's largest carrier, has partially restored online services after a large-scale cyber attack hit passenger and freight
March 27, 2025
Turkey said on Thursday it rejected "prejudiced" foreign statements over the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and protests it
March 27, 2025
The United States reached separate deals on Tuesday with Ukraine and Russia to halt attacks at sea and against energy targets, with Washington agreeing to push to lift some sanctions
March 27, 2025
An Algerian court sentenced French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal to five years in jail on Thursday for undermining national unity, prompting a call for his freedom from French
March 27, 2025
A trade war with the United States could have a fleeting impact on euro zone inflation but a far more detrimental effect on economic growth, European Central Bank Vice President
March 27, 2025
The Czech-led ammunition initiative to supply Ukraine can deliver at least as many shells in 2025 as it did last year, Prime Minister Petr Fiala said on Thursday following a Paris
March 27, 2025
Ferrari plans to increase the prices of some of its cars sold in the United States in response to new tariffs, the luxury carmaker said on Thursday, adding it would stick largely to
March 27, 2025
$100 million coin collection, buried for decades, up for auction
March 27, 2025
British Steel says it is planning to close its two blast furnaces and steelmaking operations in the north England town of Scunthorpe, after its Chinese owner Jingye failed to agree a rescue package with the U.K. government
March 27, 2025
When he learned that U.S.
March 27, 2025
If your favourite coffee beans have vanished from the shelves, don't worry - they will return soon.
March 27, 2025
Russian prosecutors asked a judge on Thursday to put billionaire Vadim Moshkovich, founder of the country's top agriculture company Rusagro, in
March 27, 2025
The European Union is preparing its response to the new import tariffs on imported vehicles announced by U.S. President Donald Trump, the European Commission said on Thursday.
March 27, 2025
When a court sentenced Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik to jail last month for defying the order of an international peace envoy, Moscow rushed to his defence
March 27, 2025
Russian farming billionaire Vadim Moshkovich was remanded in custody for two months by a Moscow court on Thursday after his detention on suspicion of large-scale fraud, the highest-
March 27, 2025
The owner of London's landmark "Can of Ham" building has rejected a higher offer from Blackstone of about 330 million pounds ($426.92 million) for the property, with
March 27, 2025
China is willing to work with the European Union to resist protectionism, the country's economy tsar told the bloc's trade chief, in an
March 27, 2025
Serbian oil company NIS, majority-owned by Russia's Gazprom Neft and Gazprom, is likely to get a last-minute, 30-day extension to its waiver from U.S. sanctions, the CEO of state
March 27, 2025
German car parts supplier Bosch said it is still banking on the North American region with expansion plans there, while stressing that it was globally positioned in a statement
March 27, 2025
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday that the proposed Black Sea Initiative was a new deal - not an extension of an earlier agreement.
March 27, 2025
Turkey's justice minister said on Thursday the decision to arrest Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was based on criminal reports and not linked to the timing of the opposition CHP
March 27, 2025
Protectionist tendencies are complicating foreign business for German companies, particularly in the United States, and postponing a recovery in exports, a survey
March 27, 2025
Danish government ministers condemned what they called President Donald Trump's escalated rhetoric on Thursday and praised
March 27, 2025
NATO is clarifying comments that Secretary-General Mark Rutte made when he suggested that four U.S. soldiers who went missing while training in Lithuania had died, even though the U.S. Army said their fate was not yet confirmed
March 26, 2025
German carmaker BMW on Thursday urged the European Union and United States to strike a deal to prevent a spiralling trade conflict, in a statement issued in response to President
March 27, 2025
In the nuclear medicine department of London's University College Hospital, patients pass through polished corridors to airy rooms decorated with green-leaf
March 27, 2025
Flight chaos and lost profits: The real cost for airlines of the Heathrow shutdown
March 27, 2025
Meta Platforms' WhatsApp on Thursday got the backing of an adviser to Europe's top court in its fight against the EU privacy watchdog, which had ordered the Irish
March 27, 2025
North Korea has sent 3,000 more soldiers to bolster Russia’s war on Ukraine, South Korea says
March 27, 2025
Euro zone banks are resilient but need to be ready for geopolitical shocks and their consequences, including the risk liquidity could dry up amid jittery financial markets,
March 27, 2025
British clothing retailer Next joined the one billion-pound profit club on Thursday, but while investors celebrate, they are also starting to worry about the lack of
March 27, 2025
Norway's central bank kept interest rates on hold at a 17-year high of 4.50% on Thursday, in line with most forecasts, as an unexpected resurgence of inflation led policymakers to
March 27, 2025
Shares in ProSiebenSat.1 fell sharply after the TV group controlled by Italy's Berlusconi family made a low-ball bid to other investors in the
March 27, 2025
European shares fell to a two-week low on Thursday, led by auto stocks after U.S.
March 27, 2025
The global heads of German automakers BMW and Mercedes, as well as chip giant Qualcomm are among foreign business leaders due to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping this week,
March 27, 2025
Euro zone lending growth accelerated further last month, suggesting that credit growth bottomed out in late 2024 and a mild expansion is now underway as interest rates fall,
March 27, 2025
The French car lobby PFA said on Thursday that there can only be losers in the looming trade war between the United States and Europe "This emerging trade war will impact our
March 27, 2025
European Central Bank supervisors watch banks' liquidity "very closely" and continue to work well with their Federal Reserve colleagues, the ECB's chief regulator Claudia Buch
March 27, 2025
A court in Bosnia has issued an international arrest warrant for Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik who is accused of attacking the constitutional order and has gone abroad in
March 27, 2025
UK's Warehouse REIT said on Thursday it could recommend Blackstone's 489 million-pound ($631.5 million) final all-cash takeover proposal if the asset manager comes up with a firm offer.
March 27, 2025
U.S.
March 26, 2025
H&M's sales were up just 1% in March after a weaker than expected first quarter, the Swedish fast-fashion retailer reported on Thursday, in a sign of a slow start to
March 27, 2025
A Turkish court on Thursday freed Agence France-Presse journalist Yasin Akgul, detained this week while covering mass protests over the jailing of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the
March 27, 2025
Germany's economy minister and its autos association slammed Donald Trump's newly-announced 25% tariff on imported vehicles to the U.S. as bad for European and U.S. economies,
March 27, 2025
Spanish lenders Santander and BBVA are negotiating with the European Central Bank (ECB) to get a more favourable capital treatment for their holdings in insurance businesses,
March 27, 2025
Russian forces launched a massive drone attack overnight on Ukraine's Kharkiv region, injuring 21 people and damaging residential buildings and storage facilities, emergency services
March 26, 2025
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot has begun a two-day visit to China
March 27, 2025
The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom will on Tuesday hear arguments to overturn a judgment that could cost Britain's financial industry billions of pounds in
March 27, 2025
Britain's vehicle output, including those of electric and hybrid automobiles, fell in February, industry data showed on Thursday, underscoring the persistent challenges faced by the auto
March 26, 2025
France's public sector budget deficit widened last year but not quite as much as the government had expected, official data showed on Thursday.
March 27, 2025
The European Central Bank could lower borrowing costs further if the current economic trajectory is maintained, Governing Council member Martins Kazaks told Bloomberg News in an interview
March 27, 2025
Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims have been pouring into the medieval hilltop town of Assisi in Italy to venerate the Catholic Church’s newest saint
March 27, 2025
Thousands of Romanians gathered in the capital Bucharest on Wednesday to protest the December cancellation of a presidential election and the banning of its far-right frontrunner
March 26, 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that he wanted the United States and Kyiv's other Western allies to remain strong in countering Russia's demands and narrative in
March 27, 2025
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Ankur Banerjee Investors will be fixated on European auto stocks on Thursday after Trump's announcement of duties on imported cars and light
March 27, 2025
One of Switzerland's main political parties could soon propose capping UBS's investment banking activities as part of a regulatory overhaul aimed at making the sector
March 26, 2025
The European Union's top trade negotiator Maroš Šefčovič expects U.S. President Donald Trump to hit the bloc with tariffs of about 20% next week, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.
March 26, 2025
Coca Cola bottlers were raided by EU antitrust regulators earlier this month, a person with direct knowledge of the matter said.
March 26, 2025
Germany's government rejected on Wednesday calls for a boycott of U.S. goods despite disagreements over tariffs, saying Europe's biggest economy wanted to foster good trade
March 26, 2025
Italian wine and spirits exports to the United States are stalling due to the uncertainty over possible tariffs that President Donald Trump could impose in the coming weeks, trade
March 26, 2025
European efforts to create security arrangements for Ukraine are shifting from sending troops to other alternatives as they face
March 26, 2025
Microsoft has abandoned data center projects set to use 2 gigawatts of electricity in the U.S. and Europe in the last six months due to an oversupply relative to its current demand forecast
March 26, 2025
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte warned the United States and Europe on Wednesday against any temptation to "go it alone" on security,
March 26, 2025
France will provide some 2 billion euros ($2.15 billion) of extra military aid to Ukraine, President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday, accusing Russia of reinterpreting and rewriting
March 26, 2025
PAI Partners and Bain Capital are among the buyout firms considering bidding for Swiss food giant Nestle's water business, which could be valued at about 5 billion euros ($5.38 billion) or
March 26, 2025
The United States will evaluate demands made by Russia after Moscow had agreed "in principle" to a U.S.-brokered ceasefire with Ukraine in the Black Sea to allow
March 26, 2025
French President Emmanuel Macron says that a proposed European armed force for possible deployment in Ukraine in tandem with an eventual peace deal could “respond” to a Russian attack if Moscow launched one
March 26, 2025
A once-powerful former North Dakota lawmaker has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty last year to traveling to Europe with the intent to pay for sex with a minor
March 26, 2025
Russia may be ‘dragging feet’ on achieving peace in Ukraine, Trump says
March 26, 2025
A search for four U.S. soldiers continued in Lithuania after their vehicle was found submerged in a training area, the U.S. Army said on Wednesday.
March 26, 2025
EU urges citizens to stockpile 72 hours’ worth of supplies amid war risk
March 26, 2025
A woman accusing French actor Gérard Depardieu of sexual assault has told a landmark trial in Paris that he groped her buttocks and her breasts several times on a film set
March 26, 2025
Bulgaria's parliament on Wednesday approved an $82.7 million purchase of Javelin anti-tank guided missiles from the United States to modernise the country's army and protect its
March 26, 2025
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez suggested on Wednesday his government could roll over the budget for a second year and start working on a new bill for 2026, as the chances of
March 26, 2025
The withdrawal of all Russian forces from Ukraine would be one of the main conditions to lift or amend EU sanctions, the European Commission
March 26, 2025
Turkish inflation is expected to end the year a bit higher than previously expected, a Reuters poll showed on Wednesday, reflecting fallout from a currency selloff after
March 26, 2025
British equities closed higher on Wednesday, buoyed by rising energy stocks, after finance minister Rachel Reeves pushed back government spending plans in a long-anticipated budget update.
March 26, 2025
Actor Gerard Depardieu, on the third day of a sexual assault trial, told a Paris court on Wednesday that he did not consider placing a hand on a person's
March 26, 2025
A Russian military court on Wednesday handed down long prison sentences to 12 members of Ukraine's Azov regiment, which led the defence of the city of Mariupol in the
March 26, 2025
A team of butchers representing Spain are competing for the first time in what has been dubbed the World Cup of butchery, a tournament pitting
March 26, 2025
Denmark on Wednesday welcomed a U.S. decision to confine a planned visit to Greenland to a military base after the
March 26, 2025
Irish opposition parties called on the speaker of the lower house of parliament to resign on Wednesday, just three months into her term, over a dispute about speaking rights that
March 26, 2025
Lithuanian prosecutors said on Wednesday they believe that human error was the likely cause of the crash of a DHL cargo airplane in Vilnius in November and have
March 26, 2025
Britain's Royal Society has decided the scientific academy will not take any action against a famous member, U.S. tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, after fellows met to discuss potential
March 26, 2025
The Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine could come back online within months of a ceasefire, but it would probably take more than a year to
March 26, 2025
Italian sports car maker Maserati, one of the worst performing brands within the Stellantis group, said on Wednesday it was boosting lucrative customisation services while working on
March 26, 2025
Istanbul's opposition-run municipal council on Wednesday elected an interim mayor to run the city, after mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was jailed pending trial over graft charges that he and
March 26, 2025
Kenya has recognised Kosovo as an independent state, the first country to do so after nearly five years of stalled efforts to gain further international recognition.
March 26, 2025
Ukraine and Russia accused one another on Wednesday of flouting a truce on energy strikes brokered by the United States, and the European Union
March 26, 2025
Ukraine accused Moscow on Wednesday of being incapable of managing safety at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant after what it said were reports of a huge spillage of
March 26, 2025
Kosovo plans to boost its defence spending by 60% over the next four years and to focus on acquiring Black Hawk helicopters and building plants to produce ammunition and drones,
March 26, 2025
The top procurement official at one of Europe's largest airlines urged GE Aerospace and other engine makers on Wednesday not to overlook durability when it comes to designing the
March 26, 2025
British finance minister Rachel Reeves, facing a weak economy, trimmed her spending plans in a budget update on Wednesday that
March 25, 2025
In the Russian region of Kursk, where Ukraine has been fighting for more than seven months, people say they want peace but fear there will be more war.
March 26, 2025
Italy has handed tax demands to Meta, X and LinkedIn in an unprecedented VAT claim against the U.S. tech giants that could have repercussions across the European
March 26, 2025
An agreement on freedom of navigation in the Black Sea to ensure the protection of civilian vessels and port infrastructure "will be a crucial
March 26, 2025
Russia and Ukraine have accused each other of breaking the terms of a tentative U
March 26, 2025
Cyprus says it will make money available to subsidize construction of private desalination plants at hotels on the tourism-reliant island nation as dwindling fresh water reserves in 108 dams are reaching alarmingly low levels
March 26, 2025
Environmental groups and residents are suing the Spanish state and the region of Galicia in a landmark case over alleged decades-long mismanagement of pollution caused by intensive
March 26, 2025
Flanked by a gaggle of smartphone-wielding onlookers, Irish farmer Joe Phelan ushered two alpacas down the corridor of a local nursing home
March 26, 2025
The U.K. Treasury chief says the economy will only grow by 1% this year, half the rate previously anticipated
March 26, 2025
Balancing France's budget for the 2026 calendar year will be a tough challenge due to needing to both cut the deficit and make room for higher military spending, government
March 26, 2025
China will continue to invest more in new computer chipmaking equipment than any other geographical region in 2025, despite a significant year-over-year decline, industry group
March 26, 2025
The Trump administration is unsettling the multilateral economic system, harming the U.S. economy in the process and to a lesser extent Europe as well, the head of France's central
March 26, 2025
The Kremlin said on Wednesday that Moscow was continuing its intensive contacts with the U.S. and was pleased with how talks with Washington had gone so far after the United States
March 26, 2025
Russia on Wednesday condemned the arrest of the leader of Moldova's pro-Russian Gagauz ethnic minority, saying it was a blatant example of trying to use the methods of a police
March 26, 2025
London-listed miner Glencore has declared force majeure on copper shipments from its Chilean Altonorte smelter, where production has been suspended, two industry sources said.
March 26, 2025
The Kremlin said on Wednesday that a number of conditions must be met before a Black Sea maritime security deal negotiated with the United States can be activated, pointing to an
March 26, 2025
A German international trade lobby on Wednesday warned against calls to boycott U.S. products amid tensions between European governments and President Donald Trump's administration,
March 26, 2025
Relatively wet and mild weather has kept Norway's hydropower reservoirs well-filled over the winter but also limits the risk of a large spring flood that could see water
March 26, 2025
European shares closed lower on Wednesday, dragged by technology and healthcare stocks, while investors remained concerned about impending U.S. tariffs set to take effect
March 26, 2025
Sanctions-hit Belarusian flag carrier Belavia is on the cusp of adding three Airbus planes to its depleted fleet after repurposing aircraft that had previously belonged to Gambian
March 26, 2025
Russia said on Tuesday the U.S. had agreed to help it lift restrictions on food, fertilizer and shipping companies in exchange for agreeing to a maritime
March 25, 2025
ATHENS -Chevron has expressed an interest in hydrocarbon exploration off the island of Crete in the Mediterranean Sea, the second such expression for Greek energy by the U.S. oil producer this year,
March 26, 2025
The United States says it has reached a tentative agreement for Ukraine and Russia to stop fighting and ensure safe navigation in the Black Sea
March 25, 2025
Accelerated climate action could boost global GDP by 0.2% by 2040 compared with current policies, a study showed on Tuesday, as delegates from 40 countries meet in
March 25, 2025
The British public's expectations for inflation over the longer term have risen this month to their highest since October 2022, when surging energy prices had pushed headline
March 26, 2025
Russia has attacked at least eight Ukrainian energy facilities since March 18 when Moscow says it halted such attacks, a senior Ukrainian presidential official said on Wednesday.
March 26, 2025
The German government is not aware of any planned changes to European Union sanctions against Russia, a spokesperson said on Wednesday, commenting on Moscow's demand that Russian
March 26, 2025
The commitment of NATO to defend Poland in any situation is crucial, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk told reporters in Warsaw after meeting the head of the pact Mark Rutte.
March 26, 2025
Chinese electric truck startup Windrose is increasing its final round of funding to $300 million, a person with direct knowledge of the matter said, as it plans more assembly
March 26, 2025
What matters in U.S. and global markets today By Mike Dolan, Editor-At-Large, Financial Industry and Financial Markets The darkest U.S. consumer confidence outlook in
March 26, 2025
Sweden provisionally aims to raise defence spending to 3.5% of GDP by 2030, a bigger and faster ramp-up than previously planned as part of its
March 26, 2025
Russia has convicted 23 captured Ukrainians on terrorism charges stemming from the war in Ukraine in a trial that Kyiv denounced as a sham and a violation of international law
March 26, 2025
Britain's economy is forecast to grow by 1.0% this year, the Office for Budget Responsibility said on Wednesday, halving its estimate made in October.
March 26, 2025
Relations between Kyiv and Washington are "back on track", the chief of staff to Ukraine's president told Reuters, after a fraught Oval Office
March 26, 2025
Germany's conservatives and Social Democrats (SPD) agreed on Wednesday to go into the next round of negotiations on forming a coalition government
March 26, 2025
Last year was Ukraine's worst year for wildfires in more than three decades of record-keeping, as shelling along front lines in the war with Russia triggered an
March 26, 2025
Europe should enhance stockpiling of critical equipment and encourage the public to maintain sufficient supplies for at least 72 hours in case of emergencies, the European
March 26, 2025
British inflation is set to average 3.2% in 2025, British finance minister Rachel Reeves said on Wednesday, citing forecasts from the Office for Budget Responsibility.
March 26, 2025
Timeline of how Trump’s pledge to end the war in Ukraine hit reality
March 26, 2025
The moon will appear to take bites out of the sun during a partial solar eclipse in the Northern Hemisphere
March 26, 2025
Russian court hands long jail terms to Ukrainian fighters who defended Mariupol
March 26, 2025
Israel embraces France’s far-right, turning a blind eye to its Nazi past
March 26, 2025
Police raids in six German states have targeted a group alleged to be “part of an international network whose aim is to overthrow the government in Eritrea.”
March 26, 2025
Pope Francis made his first public appearance in more than five weeks at the hospital where he was being treated for double pneumonia. The pope’s hospitalization has been the 88-year-old's longest stay in Gemelli since his election 12 years ago.
March 25, 2025
Pope Francis is now recovering in the Vatican, but what’s next for his papacy?
March 26, 2025
Greenland and Denmark appear cautiously relieved by the news that U.S. Vice President JD Vance and his wife are changing their itinerary for their visit to Greenland Friday
March 26, 2025
JD Vance will visit Greenland, but a controversial US trip just got a lot more low-profile
March 26, 2025
Britain's Prince Harry has quit as a patron of Sentebale, a British charity he set up to help young people with HIV and AIDS in Lesotho and Botswana, following a dispute between
March 26, 2025
Spain, which has NATO's lowest defence spending as a share of its economy, will outline and start implementing a plan to boost the defence sector before the summer, Prime Minister
March 26, 2025
British house prices rose at their fastest pace in two years in the 12 months to January, according to official data published on Wednesday.
March 26, 2025
Allies of the United States see a group chat about attack plans by top U.S. officials that accidentally included a journalist as a jaw-dropping security breach
March 25, 2025
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet in Jerusalem on Sunday, two Greek sources told Reuters on Wednesday.
March 26, 2025
A moving memoir by Swedish singer Neneh Cherry and the gripping story of a heart transplant by British doctor Rachel Clarke are among finalists for the Women’s Prize for Nonfiction
March 26, 2025
Sweden's central bank is set to hold the interest rate steady for the foreseeable future, but rate-setters are ready to act if inflation deviates too much from the target,
March 26, 2025
MFE-MediaForEurope, the TV group controlled by Italy's Berlusconi family, has called a board meeting on Wednesday to review a
March 25, 2025
Tests are underway at Cortina’s controversial Olympic sliding track
March 25, 2025
Porsche SE, Volkswagen's largest shareholder, is eyeing defence and infrastructure as possible new long-term investment areas, it said on Wednesday, adding
March 26, 2025
British inflation slowed more than expected in February, bringing some relief to consumers ahead of a likely new pick-up in price growth and to
March 26, 2025
Two years since it acquired Credit Suisse to create a Swiss banking giant, UBS is trying to head off tougher regulations by offering to limit the
March 26, 2025
The European Central Bank must be pragmatic and data-driven in setting its interest rates, governing council member Fabio Panetta said on Wednesday in a letter to the Financial Times.
March 26, 2025
The Warsaw Stock Exchange reported a more than 2% year-on-year increase in full-year core profit late on Tuesday, primarily driven by higher sales revenue from strong growth in the
March 26, 2025
European companies that are spending big on generative artificial intelligence need to start showing returns on their massive outlays by next year, or risk investors
March 26, 2025
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Kevin Buckland The relief rally in global stocks was still in place on Wednesday in Asia, but with dwindling conviction.
March 26, 2025
The United States reached deals on Tuesday with Ukraine and Russia to pause their attacks at sea and against energy targets,
March 25, 2025
Serbia's populist government is facing increased public scrutiny over reports that it used a sonic weapon against a peaceful crowd during a massive anti-corruption rally in the capital, Belgrade, on March 15
March 26, 2025
The head of Turkey’s main opposition party has visited jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu after six nights of massive protests calling for his release
March 25, 2025
Police in ex-Soviet Moldova detained the leader of the country's pro-Russian Gagauz ethnic minority at Chisinau's international airport late on Tuesday,
March 25, 2025
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan will ask U.S. officials in Washington this week to remove U.S. sanctions on Turkey and let the
March 25, 2025
The Black Sea maritime security deal aims to bring Moscow back to predictable grain and fertiliser markets that would allow for profit and ensure global food security, Russian Foreign
March 25, 2025
Britain urged Russia on Tuesday to agree to the "full, immediate and unconditional ceasefire" proposed by Ukraine after both countries reached a truce covering the Black Sea and
March 25, 2025
Oil refineries, oil and gas pipelines and nuclear power stations are among the targets on which Russia and Ukraine agreed to temporarily suspend strikes, the Kremlin said on Tuesday
March 25, 2025
Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant was a Russian facility and transferring control of it to Ukraine or any other country was impossible.
March 25, 2025
Gérard Depardieu reigned over French cinema for half a century, a national icon as familiar as the baguette
March 25, 2025
Lisa Sólrun Christiansen gets up at 4 a.m. most days and gets to work knitting thick wool sweaters coveted by buyers around the world for their warmth and colorful patterns celebrating Greenland’s traditional Inuit culture
March 25, 2025
King Charles and his wife Queen Camilla's state visit to the Vatican has been postponed because of medical advice that suggested Pope Francis would benefit from an extended period of
March 25, 2025
Beset by weak growth and rising borrowing costs, Britain will bump up its issuance of government bonds in the coming financial year, and some primary
March 25, 2025
The European Union's trade commissioner Maros Sefcovic met with U.S.
March 25, 2025
Two British service members have admitted they broke and stole half of a statue of Paddington Bear
March 25, 2025
Russia, the world's top wheat and fertiliser exporter, said on Tuesday that Western sanctions against companies involved in food and fertiliser exports and shipping
March 25, 2025
Any lifting of sanctions on Russian energy is likely to be slow and patchy, meaning a return of its oil and gas to markets beyond Asia would
March 25, 2025
Anti-government protesters in Turkey said they planned to keep up a campaign of demonstrations triggered by the jailing of Istanbul's
March 25, 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said a truce with Russia covering the Black Sea and energy strikes was effective immediately on Tuesday,
March 25, 2025
Actor Gérard Depardieu has testified on Day 2 of his trial in Paris on sexual assault charges
March 25, 2025
Turkey detains more than 1,400 protesters and multiple journalists after jailing of leading opposition figure
March 25, 2025
Pope Francis’ medical team briefly considered suspending treatment after a Feb. 28 breathing crisis but instead decided on an aggressive treatment course
March 25, 2025
Ukrainian state railways Ukrzaliznytsia, the country's largest cargo carrier, said on Tuesday that a large-scale cyber attack had also hit its online freight services.
March 25, 2025
Executives from the world's top commodity trading houses expect a well-supplied oil market this year, with concerns remaining over global
March 25, 2025
In a messaging group that mistakenly disclosed plans by the U.S. to attack Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis to a journalist, senior Trump administration officials including persons
March 25, 2025
The United States is exerting "unacceptable pressure" on Greenland, Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said on Tuesday, ahead of
March 25, 2025
Yevheniia Stepanets fled to Poland with her family after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 but her children begged her to return home to the city of Sumy.
March 25, 2025
Portuguese oil company Galp Energia's gasoline exports to the United States could be curtailed if U.S.
March 25, 2025
Thousands of people protested in Budapest on Tuesday against a new law that aims to ban the annual Pride march by LGBTQ+ communities and allows the use of facial recognition
March 25, 2025
European shares ended higher on Tuesday in conjunction with global markets as investors grew optimistic about U.S.
March 25, 2025
British stocks closed higher on Tuesday amid optimism that U.S. tariffs might be less onerous than feared, with gains in the commodities and construction sectors leading the way.
March 25, 2025
French movie star Gerard Depardieu admitted in court on Tuesday that he had grabbed by the hips a woman who has accused him of sexual assault, but denied it was
March 25, 2025
Energy costs lifted Spanish industrial prices in February to their highest level in two years, the National Statistics Institute (INE) said on Tuesday.
March 25, 2025
Volkswagen Group said on Tuesday it would collaborate with Valeo and Mobileye as it deepens its network of suppliers to develop assisted and autonomous driving.
March 25, 2025
Norway's defence minister said he believes the United States remains committed to Europe's defence but the continent must take a bigger share of the costs of
March 25, 2025
Europe's largest tour operator TUI aims to raise the profit margin for its markets and airline unit to more than 3% in the medium term, it
March 25, 2025
The wildfires that used to burn each summer in the woods above the Spanish village of Barro have diminished to almost none since Lucia Perez
March 25, 2025
German business morale rose in March, a survey showed on Tuesday, as companies expect a recovery after two years of contraction in Europe's largest economy.
March 25, 2025
Australia's Qantas will start Project Sunrise ultra-long-haul flights in early 2027 after receiving the first of 12 dedicated Airbus A350-1000 aircraft at the end of next
March 25, 2025
Support for the European Union among citizens is at a record high, with three quarters saying membership of the bloc is beneficial because of its role in
March 25, 2025
Swiss logistics group Kuehne und Nagel on Tuesday said it has been capitalizing on increasingly complex global trade issues - from U.S.
March 25, 2025
Ukraine's SBU security service said on Tuesday it had detained a serviceman it accused of helping Moscow attack Ukrainian troops fighting in Russia's Kursk region by giving away their
March 25, 2025
As talks aimed at ending the war in Ukraine continue, a potential relief in sanctions imposed on Russia, including its vast energy sector, is one of the issues on the agenda.
March 25, 2025
One of the last surviving alleged members of the Red Army Faction group that carried out murders and kidnappings in Germany from the 1970s went on trial on Tuesday after she
March 25, 2025
Europe must acquire all means to defend itself against military aggression, European Council President Antonio Costa said on Tuesday, adding that peace without defence is an
March 25, 2025
BlackRock has launched its first bitcoin exchange-traded product in Europe, in a bid to tap growing demand for cryptocurrency exposure in new markets after attracting more than $50
March 25, 2025
British security ties with the United States are as strong as ever, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner said on Tuesday in response to the mistaken disclosure to a journalist of a
March 25, 2025
Former FIFA President Sepp Blatter and France soccer great Michel Platini were both cleared of corruption charges by a Swiss court on Tuesday, two and a
March 25, 2025
Austria's top court on Tuesday sentenced former Austrian Finance Minister Karl-Heinz Grasser to four years in prison, dismissing his appeal against his 2020 conviction on corruption
March 25, 2025
A fire at an oil depot in southern Russia's Krasnodar region after a suspected Ukrainian drone attack has been extinguished nearly a week after it started, region governor Veniamin
March 25, 2025
British police said a fire which caused Heathrow Airport to close for 18 hours last week was no longer being treated as a potentially criminal matter.
March 25, 2025
The United States said on Tuesday it has made separate agreements with Ukraine and Russia to ensure safe navigation in the Black Sea and to implement a ban strikes against
March 25, 2025
Airbus on Tuesday gave a glimpse of technologies for its next airplane, a replacement for its best-selling A320neo family due to enter service between 10 and
March 25, 2025
Apple is set to stave off a possible fine and an EU order over its browser options on iPhones after it made changes to comply with landmark EU rules aimed at
March 25, 2025
Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko has been sworn in for a seventh term, and he mocked those who derided him as “Europe’s last dictator” by saying his country has more democracy “than those who cast themselves as its models.”
March 25, 2025
Chinese and Italian shareholders in Pirelli are at odds over the group's governance, two sources said, with the Chinese investor potentially a hurdle for the
March 25, 2025
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) took up its largest-ever share of the seats as Germany's new parliament met for its first session on Tuesday, demanding
March 24, 2025
Pope Francis came so close to death at one point during his 38-day fight in hospital against pneumonia that his doctors considered ending treatment so he
March 25, 2025
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March 23, 2025
Pope Francis came so close to death that his medical team considered stopping treatment
March 25, 2025
French carmaker Renault said Josep Maria Recasens would become the new CEO of Renault's electrical vehicles unit Ampere on April 1, replacing group CEO Luca de Meo in that role.
March 25, 2025
German residential property prices rose in the fourth quarter, halting a decline in place since 2022 by gaining 1.9% year-on-year, federal statistics
March 25, 2025
Chinese foreign minister met with his Portuguese counterpart in Beijing on Tuesday, calling for closer ties with Europe as Chinese and European leaders navigate intensifying global
March 25, 2025
Tesla's market share in Europe continued to shrink in February as sales of the all-electric car maker dropped for a second month even as EV
March 25, 2025
A Russian missile attack hit a densely-populated district of Ukraine's northeastern city of Sumy, wounding 88 people, including 17 children, on Monday as ceasefire talks ploughed on,
March 24, 2025
Shell on Tuesday pledged to return more cash to shareholders on the back of higher LNG sales, mainly via buybacks, trimmed its investments
March 25, 2025
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March 25, 2025
European sales of Tesla electric vehicles tumbled 49% in the first two months of the year even as overall sales of EVs grew
March 25, 2025
‘Exceptional’ Iron Age hoard unlocks secrets of life in Britain 2,000 years ago
March 25, 2025
Grandparents arrested for murder of French toddler who disappeared from their garden
March 25, 2025
Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini have won again in court and now lead 2-0 in trial verdicts against Swiss federal prosecutors
March 25, 2025
Five traumatized lions rescued from the war zone in Ukraine who are settling into a new home in England after an international effort to bring them to safety
March 25, 2025
Highly pathogenic avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, has increasingly spread to mammals and infected hundreds of people, raising concerns that it may lead to human-to-human
March 24, 2025
Ukrainian and U.S. delegations are scheduled to meet on Tuesday in Saudi Arabia following Russia-U.S. talks there a day earlier on a limited Black Sea ceasefire proposal that
March 25, 2025
One of Japan's largest property developers has struck a deal with Legal & General to build more than 1,000 homes in Britain's rental housing market, where demand for
March 25, 2025
Talks between Russia and the United States were challenging but useful and the United Nations and other countries will be involved in additional discussions, a member of the Russian
March 25, 2025
Thousands gathered in Belgrade on Monday to remember a NATO bombing campaign in 1999 and protest against the development of a luxury compound by an investment company set up by
March 24, 2025
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Ankur Banerjee The prospect of narrower-than-feared U.S. tariffs rekindled some investor optimism in recent days but the relief rally in
March 25, 2025
A media workers' union says Turkish authorities have arrested several journalists at their homes
March 24, 2025
U.S. negotiators are working with Russian representatives on a proposed partial ceasefire in Ukraine
March 24, 2025
Tesla EV sales in Europe have fallen in February behind legacy brand Volkswagen and the BMW group, as well as rivals from China, data by research platform JATO
March 24, 2025
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that protests over the jailing of Istanbul's mayor had become a "
March 24, 2025
U.S. and Russian officials wrapped up day-long talks on Monday focused on a narrow proposal for a ceasefire at sea between Kyiv and Moscow, part of a diplomatic effort that
March 23, 2025
French actor Gérard Depardieu went on trial at a Paris courthouse on sexual assault charges
March 24, 2025
Airbus is in discussions with European nations on new defence and space orders as the continent increases spending and is seeing an improvement in supply chains for its
March 24, 2025
Tuberculosis (TB) infections among children in the European region rose 10% in 2023, indicating ongoing transmission and the need for immediate public
March 24, 2025
Thousands of protesters have marched in North Macedonia's capital Skopje demanding accountability for a nightclub fire in Kocani on March 16 that killed 59 people and injured over 100
March 24, 2025
Some U.S. embassies in European nations are taking to social media with pointed warnings to would-be visitors: Watch your step
March 24, 2025
A powerful cyberattack knocked out the online ticketing system for Ukraine's state railway service, causing long queues at stations on Monday in what
March 24, 2025
Greenland's people are bracing for another visit from U.S. President Donald Trump’s inner circle
March 24, 2025
Danish traveller Kennet Brask loved his fishing trip to Florida two years ago and was planning to return this
March 24, 2025
Second lady Usha Vance is set to travel to Greenland this week as President Donald Trump continues to suggest the U.S. could take control of the mineral-rich Artic island
March 23, 2025
President Donald Trump on Monday doubled down on his suggestion that the U.S. should take over Greenland
March 23, 2025
Answering for America has become an increasingly delicate experience under Trump 2.0, a dozen U.S. citizens in other countries have told The Associated Press in recent weeks
March 24, 2025
Greenland’s leader says US officials’ visit is ‘highly aggressive.’ Trump says it’s ‘friendliness, not provocation’
March 24, 2025
A group of Republican and Democratic U.S. senators is pushing President Donald Trump's administration to transfer - and push allies to transfer - more than $
March 24, 2025
HSBC is considering outsourcing some of its fixed income trading order flow to a third-party firm, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing sources familiar with the matter.
March 24, 2025
Turkey detains more than 1,000 protesters after jailing of Istanbul mayor
March 24, 2025
Victims’ relatives have traveled to the scene in the French Alps of the crash of Germanwings Flight 9525 10 years ago while hundreds of people marked the anniversary in a German town that was home to an 18-strong school group on board the plane
March 24, 2025
A court has formally arrested the mayor of Istanbul and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's key rival and ordered him jailed pending trial on corruption charges
March 23, 2025
Major rival to Turkey’s Erdogan vows to fight on as court jails him on corruption charges ahead of trial
March 21, 2025
German beauty retailer Douglas said on Monday it had been surprised by the speed at which the market had deteriorated in the last three months, which caused it to cut its guidance for 2025
March 24, 2025
Marex Group has bought warehousing and logistics company Edgemere Terminals, which did not have the money to meet the London Metal Exchange's new capital adequacy
March 24, 2025
Britain on Monday imposed sanctions on three former senior Sri Lankan military commanders and one former Tamil Tiger rebel commander over human rights violations during a civil war
March 24, 2025
Members of the European Parliament on Monday urged the European Commission to launch a new support programme for the region's semiconductor
March 24, 2025
Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury said on Tuesday the planemaker's next single-aisle jet would be "evolutionary rather than revolutionary", but that this could
March 24, 2025
Here are some of the issues that Russia, the U.S. and Ukraine are discussing in talks aimed at paving the way for an end to the war in Ukraine: ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE President Vladimir
March 23, 2025
After 38 days in hospital battling double pneumonia almost entirely out of sight, Pope Francis made his first public appearance on Sunday since February 14
March 24, 2025
European shares ended flat on Monday as caution prevailed, even as hopes grew that U.S.
March 24, 2025
Britain's benchmark stock index edged lower on Monday, though gains in mining stocks kept losses in check, as investors awaited details of U.S. reciprocal levies.
March 24, 2025
Heathrow executives are defending their response to a fire that shut down Europe’s busiest air hub for almost a day
March 24, 2025
A bold move by Germany’s prime minister-in-waiting Friedrich Merz to ease longstanding caps on government spending has won praise internationally but signs are
March 24, 2025
Credit rating firm S&P Global warned on Monday that the troubles triggered by the arrest of President Tayyip Erdogan's main political rival could be a setback for
March 24, 2025
Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk has bought global rights to China-based United Laboratories International's so-called "triple-G" weight-loss drug candidate in a deal worth up
March 24, 2025
Actor Gerard Depardieu went on trial on Monday over alleged sexual assaults on a film set, in a case that placed one of France's best-known
March 24, 2025
A fire at a drone-hit oil depot in southern Russia raged for a fifth day on Monday, the regional administration said, as firefighters tried to contain the blaze at the facility that
March 24, 2025
Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez, the celebrated design duo behind Proenza Schouler, will take over as creative directors at Loewe
March 24, 2025
A private European aerospace company has scrubbed the first test flight of its orbital launch vehicle
March 24, 2025
Portugal's Foreign Minister Paulo Rangel and Chinese counterpart Wang Yi will hold talks in Beijing on Tuesday, as EU member states fret over the prospect of a
March 24, 2025
Aircraft lessor Air Lease Corp said on Monday it has received $328.5 million in cash, as part of certain insurance settlements related to its aircraft which were blocked from leaving
March 24, 2025
Working groups for Germany's election-winning conservatives and the centre-left Social Democrats will submit findings on a possible coalition on Monday, a step
March 24, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke to United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan about OPEC+ cooperation and Russia-U.S. talks on Ukraine, the Kremlin
March 24, 2025
Businesses in Britain's huge services sector reported a pickup this month, according to a survey that offered some comfort to finance minister Rachel Reeves ahead of a
March 24, 2025
The European Commissioner for trade, Maros Sefcovic, is heading to Washington to meet U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on Tuesday, a Commission spokesperson said on Monday.
March 24, 2025
Global hedge funds sold European stocks for the second straight week in a row with a focus on the region's financial, materials, energy and industrial companies,
March 24, 2025
Self-proclaimed misogynist Andrew Tate and his brother appear at police station in Romania
March 24, 2025
Turkey's opposition, galvanized by widescale protests over the jailing of Istanbul's mayor, is hoping to keep the momentum going in part
March 24, 2025
It was around six years ago, when newcomer Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu called election board officials "idiots" for cancelling his initial victory at the polls,
March 24, 2025
The case for another European Central Bank interest rate cut is strengthening, ECB board member Piero Cipollone said on Monday, even if others on the rate-setting Governing
March 24, 2025
Online services of Ukraine's state-owned railway Ukrzaliznytsia are not working due to a technical failure, the company said on Sunday, providing no additional details.
March 23, 2025
The people of the frontline Ukrainian city of Kherson have more reason than most to want an end to the three-year-old fight with Russia.
March 24, 2025
Influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate checked in at a police station near Romania's capital on Monday, complying with judicial requirements in the case in which they are charged with human trafficking and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women
March 24, 2025
Trump wants Ukraine to repay the US for the military aid it sent Kyiv. Once upon a time, the US was more generous: It rebuilt Western Europe after World War II.
March 24, 2025
French actor Gérard Depardieu arrives in court for sexual assault trial
March 24, 2025
Blind Bulgarian ultramarathon runner Victor Asenov defied sleeplessness and exhaustion to repeatedly scale Vitosha mountain near Sofia non-stop for nearly two
March 24, 2025
The Kremlin said on Monday that a Russian moratorium on striking energy infrastructure in Ukraine remained in place despite reports of continued Ukrainian attacks on Russian energy
March 24, 2025
Russia and the United States will discuss resuming a deal to ensure the safety of merchant shipping in the Black Sea, the Kremlin said on Monday, noting that what Moscow saw as key
March 24, 2025
Elliott Associates is considering further action against the London Metal Exchange (LME) following a fine on the exchange by a watchdog last week for allowing nickel
March 24, 2025
What matters in U.S. and global markets today By Mike Dolan, Editor-At-Large, Financial Industry and Financial Markets The final week of a bruising quarter for U.S.
March 24, 2025
A former Russian deputy defence minister went on trial in Moscow on Monday in the first of a series of cases that signal a drive by President Vladimir Putin to punish corruption in
March 24, 2025
German software company SAP overtook Danish healthcare company Novo Nordisk as Europe's largest company by market capitalisation on Monday.
March 24, 2025
17-year-old Lamine Yamal scores wonder goal, misses penalty and mocks pundit in dramatic Spain win
March 24, 2025
France's private sector activity contracted for a seventh consecutive month in March as business confidence in the euro zone's second-biggest economy fell to its
March 24, 2025
Business activity in Germany's private sector rose at the quickest rate for ten months in March, amid a first increase in manufacturing production for almost two
March 24, 2025
Greece's tourism jewel, Santorini, welcomed its first cruise ship of the year on Sunday after thousands of small earthquakes in
March 24, 2025
A veteran of Russia's FSB security service and a former long-serving diplomat are representing Russia at the latest round of talks with the United States over Ukraine, taking place on
March 24, 2025
Britain's Heathrow defended its decision to shut down operations at Europe's busiest airport last Friday as the blame game intensified over an 18-hour closure which
March 24, 2025
Germany's issuance plan for the second quarter of 2025 remains unchanged on its December forecast, the Federal Finance Agency said on Monday, ahead of an anticipated sea change in
March 24, 2025
Trump’s foreign envoy touts Kremlin talking points, in interview that will alarm Europe
March 22, 2025
Airbus and Boeing are preparing the aerospace industry for sharp increases in output of the next generation of workhorse jets to some 100 a month each, as they explore
March 24, 2025
Euro zone business growth remained weak in March despite expanding at its fastest pace in seven months supported by an easing in the long-running manufacturing downturn
March 24, 2025
Large fund managers expect the bulk of Russia's assets to remain closed to Western investors, despite a flurry of "exotic"
March 24, 2025
Klarna's upcoming U.S. initial public offering could help unlock a pipeline of British fintech flotations after a barren period for new technology listings,
March 24, 2025
Some European central banking and supervisory officials are questioning whether they can still rely on
March 22, 2025
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Vidya Ranganathan It's too soon to say "Salud" but the week begins with somewhat conciliatory messages from U.S.
March 24, 2025
Russia launched its third consecutive overnight air attack on Kyiv, wounding one person and damaging several houses in the region surrounding the Ukrainian capital, a Kyiv's regional
March 24, 2025
Pope Francis will be discharged from hospital on Sunday and will need two months of rest at the Vatican, one of the doctors treating him said on Saturday.
March 22, 2025
China's embassy in Spain said Stellantis and its
March 21, 2025
The Swiss town of Neuchâtel is offering residents a novel form of preventative or preparatory medicine
March 23, 2025
At least seven people were killed when Russia launched a barrage of drones across Ukraine overnight, according to local Ukrainian officials and emergency services
March 23, 2025
Parisians voted in a referendum on Sunday to pedestrianise a further 500 of the city's streets, giving fresh momentum to efforts by the French capital's left-leaning town hall to
March 23, 2025
Defending champion Spain and France have needed penalty shootouts to reach the Nations League semifinals and join Germany and Portugal
March 23, 2025
A Turkish court on Sunday jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, President Tayyip Erdogan's main political rival, pending trial on
March 22, 2025
A weak and frail Pope Francis has returned home to the Vatican from the hospital after a five-week, life-threatening bout of pneumonia
March 23, 2025
U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff expressed optimism on Sunday ahead of high-stakes talks in Saudi Arabia over the war in Ukraine and said he believed Russian
March 23, 2025
Ukrainian and U.S. delegations discussed on Sunday proposals to protect energy facilities and critical infrastructure, Ukraine's defence
March 23, 2025
Pope Francis returned to the Vatican on Sunday after surviving a five-week battle in hospital against double pneumonia that became the most serious health
March 23, 2025
Germany is unlocking billions to supercharge its military at a seismic moment for Europe
March 23, 2025
‘We don’t believe the volcano will erupt’: Quake-hit tourism island of Santorini prepares for a different summer
March 23, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S.
March 23, 2025
‘We will fight’: Activists are unbowed after Hungary bans Pride events as part of wider LGBTQ+ crackdown
March 23, 2025
A large-scale Russian drone attack on Kyiv killed at least three people, including a 5-year-old child, causing fires in high-rise apartment
March 22, 2025
Turkish opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) members and others head to polling stations on Sunday for a primary election to endorse detained Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu
March 23, 2025
Teenage boys are in crisis. The creators of Netflix’s ‘Adolescence’ want adults to pay attention
March 22, 2025
Pope Francis appears frail as he’s discharged from hospital to continue recovery at Vatican
March 23, 2025
Pope Francis has returned home to the Vatican after he was hospitalized for five weeks with a life-threatening bout of pneumonia
March 22, 2025
Pope Francis will be released from the hospital on Sunday, his doctors have said, after 38 days battling a life-threatening case of pneumonia in both lungs
March 22, 2025
Switzerland has highlighted the country's contribution to the U.S. economy as it seeks to avoid tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump, Swiss economic affairs minister Guy
March 23, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that efforts to stop further escalation of the Russia-Ukraine war are "somewhat under control."
March 23, 2025
Three European allies have been pressing the Trump administration to get back money they sent to the United States to help low-income countries
March 23, 2025
An oil products spill occurred at the oil depot that caught fire in southern Russia's Krasnodar region after a drone attack last week, regional officials said on Sunday.
March 22, 2025
Iceland’s minister for children resigns over relationship with teen when she was 22
March 22, 2025
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said U.S.
March 23, 2025
Prosecutors have requested that detained Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the top challenger to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, be formally arrested over allegations of corruption and terror links
March 22, 2025
After weeks in the U.S., influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate have arrived back in Romania, where they face charges of human trafficking and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women
March 21, 2025
British finance minister Rachel Reeves is eyeing spending cuts for government officials who work in departments to the value of over 2 billion pounds ($2.58 billion) a year by 2029-
March 22, 2025
Britain will invest 600 million pounds ($775 million) to train construction workers and help tackle severe skills shortages that could undermine its plan to build 1.5 million homes
March 22, 2025
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that he had met top military commanders in the country's northeast to discuss the frontline in Ukraine's war with Russia and meetings
March 22, 2025
London's Heathrow Airport resumed full operations on Saturday and ordered a probe into how it dealt with a power outage that shut Europe's busiest air
March 21, 2025
The British government has ordered an investigation into the country's “energy resilience” after an electrical substation fire shut Heathrow Airport for almost a day
March 22, 2025
Pope Francis to be discharged from hospital on Sunday
March 22, 2025
Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, a potential challenger to longtime President Tayyip Erdogan, appeared in a Turkish court on Saturday for the first time since his
March 22, 2025
Heathrow boss defends response as airport resumes flights after fire brought facility to standstill
March 22, 2025
Ukrainian officials say Russian drones have struck the city of Zaporizhzhia, killing three people and wounding 14
March 22, 2025
Pope Francis, who has been battling pneumonia for more than five weeks, will be discharged from hospital on Sunday but will need a further two months of rest
March 22, 2025
Over 12 years, Francis has sought to normalize the papacy with his informal style and disdain for pomp while still wielding the awesome power of the papacy
March 22, 2025
Germany has temporarily closed its embassy in South Sudan's capital Juba because of rising tensions that have brought the East African country to the verge of civil war, the German
March 22, 2025
Russia and Ukraine trade blame over attack on Russian gas metering station
March 21, 2025
Former KGB officer Oleg Gordievsky has died aged 86 in England
March 22, 2025
Barcelona finally turned on its crowds of tourists. Now the city faces a major problem
March 22, 2025
Bayer was ordered by a jury in the U.S. state of Georgia to pay about $2.1 billion to a plaintiff who claimed the company's Roundup weed killer caused his cancer, the plaintiff's law
March 22, 2025
‘We’re here to clear our names’: Tate brothers, sexist online celebrities, back in Romania to face trafficking charges
March 22, 2025
Turkish authorities have detained 343 people during overnight protests in several cities against the detention of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the Interior Ministry said on
March 22, 2025
Sergei Shoigu, the secretary of Russia's Security Council, has met Serbia's outgoing deputy prime minister Alexandar Vulin in Moscow and discussed anti-government protests in his
March 22, 2025
Two of Pope Francis’ closest advisers are predicting that he will recover from pneumonia and that a “new stage” in his pontificate will open after he is released
March 21, 2025
Russian attacks killed a family of three late on Friday in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia and four more people in the country's north and east, officials said.
March 21, 2025
Hundreds of flights to and from London’s Heathrow Airport were canceled after a fire at a nearby substation knocked out power to Europe’s busiest airport
March 21, 2025
When Mariia Pankova last exchanged messages with her close friend Pavlo in December, she had no idea that he was among the Ukrainian troops
March 22, 2025
Global travel is disrupted by Heathrow’s closure. Here’s what we know
March 21, 2025
The closure of Britain's Heathrow is set to affect the global aviation system for days and cost tens of millions of dollars, experts say,
March 21, 2025
Pope Francis is slowly regaining his strength in hospital but must "relearn to speak" after prolonged use of high-flow oxygen therapy, Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez said on Friday.
March 21, 2025
The governments of Germany, France and Britain called for an immediate return to a ceasefire in Gaza in a joint statement on Friday that also called on Israel to restore humanitarian access
March 21, 2025
Ukraine accused Russia on Friday of illegally pressuring Ukrainians in occupied territory to change their legal status or leave, and said it would report the practice to the International
March 21, 2025
Germany's budget committee cleared the way on Friday for another 3 billion euros ($3.25 billion) in military aid for Ukraine, after chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich
March 21, 2025
Flights at Britain's Heathrow resumed late on Friday after a fire knocked out its power supply and shut Europe's busiest airport for
March 21, 2025
Online influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan left the United States for Romania on a private flight on Friday to fulfil legal obligations related to a criminal
March 21, 2025
British factories have reported a downturn this month with April's increases in tax and wages weighing on the mood but some firms are seeing a boost from an expected rise in defence
March 21, 2025
Nine European Union countries are working to speed up plans to boost the bloc's computer chip industry and aim to present their proposals by the summer, one of
March 21, 2025
The detention of Istanbul's popular mayor risks undermining Turkey's move to end the PKK militant group's 40-year-old insurgency - a plan relying heavily
March 21, 2025
Britain will accelerate plans next week for a potential peacekeeping force in Ukraine, including a discussion about how it can operate and the structure, a spokesman for Prime
March 21, 2025
European Union leaders are now in agreement that the EU must be fully capable of defending itself against a Russian attack by 2030, despite earlier resistance
March 21, 2025
Thirteen people including a former government minister were remanded in custody for 30 days in North Macedonia on Friday over a nightclub blaze, believed to have been caused by
March 21, 2025
A teenager injured in the November roof collapse at a railway station in Serbia's Novi Sad died on Friday, becoming the 16th fatality linked to a disaster that has triggered a
March 21, 2025
The International Olympic Committee on Friday declined to comment on Russian President Vladimir Putin's congratulatory note to newly-elected IOC president
March 21, 2025
Britain's National Grid said on Friday the network of the North Hyde substation, in west London, has been reconfigured to restore power to the parts of Heathrow Airport connected to
March 21, 2025
Ukraine is continuing to hold talks with the United States about a minerals deal, a foreign ministry spokesman said on Friday.
March 21, 2025
The share of Portuguese voters who remain undecided ahead of a May general election hit 39% in the first opinion poll conducted since the government's collapse this month,
March 21, 2025
Last year was the deadliest on record for migrants, with nearly 9,000 people dying on perilous routes and one in 10 of those killed violently in incidents such as shootings, the U.N.
March 21, 2025
Serbia's deputy prime minister said on Friday Russia's spy services had helped the Belgrade authorities respond to months of anti-government protests, remarks which critics said
March 21, 2025
Italy's Constitutional Court ruled on Friday that single people can adopt foreign children, overturning a 40-year-old law limiting adoption to married couples in a country
March 21, 2025
Italy's education ministry on Friday instructed schools to ban the growing use of gender-neutral symbols, saying they were unclear and flouted the rules of Italian grammar.
March 21, 2025
A European Central Bank rate cut in April is increasingly likely since inflation is slowing, wage growth is moderating and service price pressures are easing, Greek central bank
March 21, 2025
Protests against the detention of Istanbul's mayor grew on Friday and turned increasingly tense, Turkey's
March 21, 2025
London firefighters are working with police to investigate the cause of a huge fire at an electrical sub-station which shut down Heathrow Airport on Friday, a fire-fighting chief
March 21, 2025
A fire at an electrical substation knocked out power to Heathrow Airport for most of Friday, forcing Europe’s busiest hub to shut down for roughly 18 hours, causing widespread cancellations and rerouting headaches, and stranding roughly 200,000 passengers
March 21, 2025
A fire that closed London’s Heathrow Airport has sparked one of the most serious disruptions to air travel in years
March 21, 2025
Heathrow Airport is stirring back to life, with flights slowly resuming about 18 hours after an inferno at an electrical substation caused a power outage that shuttered Europe’s busiest air travel hub and left 200,00 passengers stranded
March 21, 2025
U.S. authorities have arrested and detained Canadian and European travelers at U.S. borders in recent weeks
March 21, 2025
Airline staff ‘were as shocked as we were.’ The passengers caught up in the flight chaos
March 21, 2025
A new exhibition in Paris celebrates the history of fashion, as worn by Snoopy and the Peanuts gang
March 21, 2025
Ireland's domestic economy could be up to 1.8% smaller than it otherwise would be by 2032 if permanent 'tit-for-tat' tariffs are introduced between the United
March 20, 2025
Russian forces launched a mass drone attack on Ukraine's Black Sea port of Odesa late on Thursday, injuring three people and damaging a high-rise apartment building and a shopping centre,
March 20, 2025
Russia pounded Ukraine's Black Sea city of Odesa with one of its biggest drone attacks, injuring three teenagers, damaging residential
March 21, 2025
Prince William donned battle gear to visit British troops in Estonia on Friday on a trip aimed at underlining his country's support for NATO operations in Eastern Europe.
March 21, 2025
European shares fell alongside other major global stock markets on Friday on uncertainty over trade tensions and geopolitical conflicts, while travel and
March 21, 2025
British stocks closed lower on Friday on continued worries about the economic impact of U.S. tariff policy, while a shutdown of Heathrow Airport pressured travel stocks.
March 21, 2025
Denmark said on Thursday it has begun advising transgender people to contact the U.S. embassy in Copenhagen before visiting the United States, amid concerns that President Donald
March 21, 2025
Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu has denied corruption charges brought against him, according to a court document seen by Reuters on Friday, after he was detained on Wednesday for
March 21, 2025
Britain's Heathrow Airport said on Friday that it had begun reopening after a massive fire at a nearby electrical substation knocked out power, forcing a shutdown at Europe's busiest
March 21, 2025
An ancient bronze griffin head, stolen nearly a century ago, has been returned to the Archaeological Museum of Olympia
March 21, 2025
Dozens of flights originating between London’s Heathrow Airport and LAX have been cancelled as the British airport turns away all incoming air traffic Friday due to a fire nearby. Heathrow Airport is closed most of Friday after a fire at an electrical substation cut power to the entire facility. More than 600 flights were scheduled to land, carrying as many as 145,000 people. The disruption has raised questions about the resiliency of Britain’s infrastructure. “I know the situation in Heathrow is causing distress and disruption, especially for those travelling or without power in their homes,” said British Prime Minister Keir
March 21, 2025
‘It’s not what he expected’: Rubio has competition for the role of America’s top diplomat
March 21, 2025
World’s longest-standing Michelin-starred restaurant loses a star
March 21, 2025
How long will global air chaos last? Here’s what we know
March 21, 2025
Global air travel chaos caused by Heathrow closure may last days and cost hundreds of millions in losses
March 21, 2025
Thousands of travellers stranded by a huge fire near London's Heathrow, Europe's busiest airport, scrambled to find ways to get home and reunite with their
March 21, 2025
Britain has in recent weeks revised its advice for citizens travelling to the United States to include a warning that anyone found breaking its entry rules could face arrest or
March 20, 2025
Angry friars plan to barricade themselves in historic Florence monastery destined for sale to developer
March 21, 2025
The Swedish government will increase spending by 5.8 billion crowns ($573 million) this year to boost the economy, with the bulk of the money spent on supporting the construction
March 21, 2025
Spanish airport operator Aena said that 54 flights to and from its terminals were affected by the Heathrow power outage on Friday and 20 of them were already cancelled as of 0900
March 21, 2025
The U.S. administration suggested this week the United States could help run and possibly own Ukraine's power plants and energy infrastructure as part of a
March 21, 2025
Germany's upper house of parliament on Friday passed a reform of the country's borrowing rules and a 500-billion-euro ($542 billion) fund to revamp its infrastructure and revive
March 21, 2025
Germany gave the final green light on Friday to a massive surge in borrowing seen as boosting the country's anaemic economy and
March 21, 2025
British anti-Muslim activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, who counts U.S. billionaire Elon Musk among his supporters, was on Friday refused permission to bring a legal challenge over the
March 21, 2025
French actor Gerard Depardieu faces trial on Monday over alleged sexual assaults of two women on a film set, a case placing one of the world's best known movie
March 21, 2025
Automated systems splutter as raw materials are fed into the machines to begin the process of creating highly-explosive pellets ready to be harnessed for use
March 21, 2025
Britain's statistics office, already under fire for its unreliable labour market data, paused publication of industrial inflation figures on
March 21, 2025
Britain's Heathrow Airport, a major global travel hub, said it would be closed for all of Friday after a huge fire at a nearby electrical substation wiped out its power, disrupting flight
March 21, 2025
Germany's Bundesrat upper house of parliament on Friday approved plans for a spending splurge that aims to revive growth in Europe's largest economy
March 21, 2025
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni finds herself playing a political balancing act as Europe moves to bolster its defences.
March 21, 2025
Russian drones have pummeled the Ukrainian Black Sea port city of Odesa, injuring three people and sparking fires
March 21, 2025
Turkish stocks were set for their worst week since the aftermath of 2008's Lehman Brothers collapse on Friday as concerns about this week's
March 21, 2025
The Russian central bank kept its key interest rate on hold at 21%, its highest level in more than 20 years, despite President Vladimir Putin's
March 21, 2025
Russia and Ukraine accused each other on Friday of blowing up a Russian gas pumping station in a border area where Ukrainian troops have been
March 21, 2025
A mountainous region in Italy is offering €100,000 to move there. But there’s a catch
March 21, 2025
Western officials have accused Russia and its proxies of staging dozens of attacks and other incidents across Europe since the invasion of Ukraine three years ago
March 21, 2025
‘A roller coaster in pain and pleasure’: Why this American couple say moving to Spain was like ‘leaving a bad relationship’
March 21, 2025
Kosovo ex-President Hashim Thaci has been released from a court based in the Netherlands to visit the tomb of his father who died last weekend
March 21, 2025
Novak Djokovic says he agrees and disagrees with parts of legal action launched by his players’ association
March 21, 2025
Carlos Alcaraz says he doesn’t agree with the legal action launched by Novak Djokovic’s players’ association
March 20, 2025
Ukraine port city ‘on fire’ after ‘massive’ Russian attack as Trump projects optimism ahead of peace talks
March 21, 2025
The Netherlands wants to increase its army personnel from 74,000 to 200,000, with a special focus on enlarging the reservist capacity, Dutch public broadcaster NOS said, citing
March 21, 2025
Russia inflicted unimaginable suffering on millions of Ukrainian children and violated their rights since its full scale invasion of Ukraine begun in 2022, a
March 21, 2025
Britain's BT has approached telecommunication companies AT&T and Orange over possible partnerships to help turn around its international business, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing
March 21, 2025
BP has agreed to sell a stake in a firm invested in the TANAP gas pipeline linking Azerbaijan and Turkey for $1 billion to Apollo Global Management, the two firms said
March 21, 2025
Residents of the Tuscan beach enclave of Orbetello are seeking a state of emergency declaration to help combat an invasion of midges that are keeping people indoors and threatening businesses catering to tourists
March 20, 2025
Conor McGregor announces run for Irish presidency on anti-immigration platform
March 21, 2025
German steel group Salzgitter said on Friday there was no end in sight to the stagnation of the German economy, and that uncertainty is on the rise when
March 21, 2025
Greece has extended by a year a visa scheme for Turkish nationals wishing to visit 12 islands in the Aegean Sea for up to a week, diplomatic sources said, continuing a programme
March 21, 2025
Pasqal, a fast-growing French quantum computer start-up company, announced on Friday a partnership with chip giant Nvidia whereby Pasqal's customers would gain access to more tools
March 21, 2025
UK-based gas producer Energean said on Friday it was terminating a deal with private equity fund Carlyle for the sale of some of its assets due to
March 21, 2025
A slump in luxury fashion is prompting designer reshuffles at top houses Gucci, Chanel and
March 20, 2025
Austrian manufacturer RHI Magnesita spends about 1 million euros of its roughly 400 million euros earnings a year ensuring it complies with EU rules on corporate
March 21, 2025
Hedge funds have crowded into debt-fuelled bets on UK government bonds, increasing the potential for instability in the gilts market, a benchmark
March 21, 2025
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Vidya Ranganathan Britain's government gets another report card on its efforts to curtail spending while Germany, in contrast, goes for a
March 21, 2025
Russia's foreign ministry said on Thursday that Ukraine had already violated a proposed ceasefire on energy sites in the three-year-old war by attacking a Russian oil depot.
March 20, 2025
US denies French claims a space researcher was expelled over messages about Trump
March 20, 2025
Kirsty Coventry has been elected president of the International Olympic Committee
March 20, 2025
Senior military officers from countries across Europe and beyond are meeting outside London to flesh out plans for an international peacekeeping force for Ukraine as details of a partial ceasefire are worked out
March 20, 2025
British consumer morale ticked higher for a second month running in March as people turned a little more optimistic about the economic outlook, although less so over their own finances, a
March 20, 2025
The Kremlin said on Wednesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S.
March 19, 2025
During a call between U.S. President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart, the U.S. leader apparently suggested Volodymyr Zelenskyy consider transferring ownership of Ukraine’s power plants to the U.S. for long-term security, according to a U.S. statement
March 20, 2025
German media group ProSiebenSat.1 said on Thursday it has approved an agreement with U.S. private equity firm General Atlantic on the acquisition of the
March 20, 2025
European Union leaders said on Thursday that they will continue to support Ukraine, but they did not immediately endorse a call by
March 20, 2025
Cyprus and the United Nations agency for refugees are clashing over allegations that the east Mediterranean island nation continues to engage in so-called pushbacks against migrant boats departing from neighboring Syria or Lebanon
March 20, 2025
A new global report says that people in Finland are the happiest in the world
March 19, 2025
Russia's key peace demand that Western allies stop providing military aid and intelligence to Ukraine is quietly being ignored by the European Union
March 20, 2025
Europe's biggest military powers are drawing up plans to take on greater responsibilities for the continent's defence from the U.S., including a pitch to the Trump administration for a
March 20, 2025
President Donald Trump said on Thursday the United States will sign a minerals and natural resources deal with Ukraine shortly and
March 20, 2025
Thousands of Turks ramped up protests on Thursday despite a ban on street gatherings over what they called the undemocratic
March 20, 2025
International Olympic Committee's newly-elected President Kirsty Coventry wants to sit down with United States President Donald Trump to make sure the Los
March 20, 2025
The British public's expectations for inflation in the short term hit their highest level in more than a year in February, according to a Citi/YouGov survey on Thursday that
March 20, 2025
Thousands of people have gathered outside Istanbul’s city hall for a second consecutive night to rally against the arrest of the city’s popular mayor
March 20, 2025
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday the main opposition party was seeking to cover up its own mistakes and deceive people with "theatrics", in his first comments on
March 20, 2025
A French scientist has been denied entry into the United States, apparently because the scientist had expressed a personal opinion on the Trump administration's research policy, the
March 20, 2025
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez will travel to China in April to meet with President Xi Jinping, a government spokesperson said.
March 20, 2025
Detained Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu appeared to address Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in a social media post on Thursday, accusing him of corruption and calling on members of his
March 20, 2025
Kirsty Coventry smashed through the International Olympic Committee’s glass ceiling on Thursday to become the
March 20, 2025
Europe delays tariffs on US goods, including whiskey
March 20, 2025
Spain's parliament voted to remove wolves' protected status on Thursday, four years after their inclusion, opening the way for the predators to be hunted again in the country's
March 20, 2025
The Bank of England kept interest rates on hold and warned investors against assuming they would be cut quickly as it grappled with deep
March 20, 2025
The chairman of Spain's Sabadell urged the government to be transparent about any conditions it may put on the hostile takeover bid the bank faces from bigger
March 20, 2025
UBS Group AG is exploring options to relocate its headquarters if Switzerland enforces a requirement for the bank to hold an extra $25 billion in capital, Bloomberg News reported on
March 20, 2025
The FTSE 100 closed little changed on Thursday, after the Bank of England kept interest rates unchanged and warned against expectations of future cuts given an increasingly uncertain
March 20, 2025
Potential U.S. tariffs on European-made products could hit revenue at Lamborghini, its CEO said, as the sports carmaker posted strong results for last year, despite a contraction in
March 20, 2025
Nuclear experts pour cold water on US idea to restore and run Ukrainian power plant
March 20, 2025
Nestle will divest two factories in Germany, the world's largest packaged food company said on Thursday, citing overcapacity due to rising costs and consumer price sensitivity.
March 20, 2025
ABB is evaluating the impact of U.S.
March 20, 2025
British anti-Muslim activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, who counts U.S. billionaire Elon Musk among his supporters, on Thursday challenged a decision to hold him in segregation in
March 20, 2025
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said on Thursday that the central bank would have be careful about cutting interest rates because the fall in inflation pressures has been
March 20, 2025
Munich Re is buying the 71% of Next Insurance that it doesn't already own, strengthening its foothold in the United States and valuing the
March 20, 2025
European shares closed lower on Thursday, after four sessions of gains, as investors booked some profits and assessed interest rate decisions by major
March 20, 2025
Kirsty Coventry smashed through the International Olympic Committee’s glass ceiling on Thursday to become the
March 20, 2025
Turkey's main opposition leader said on Thursday any move to legally bar Istanbul's detained mayor from running for president would only strengthen support for
March 20, 2025
Europe's dependence on American payment providers leaves it open to economic coercion, European Central Bank chief economist Philip Lane said on Thursday, outlining a key risk in
March 20, 2025
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Thursday it was important Britain and its allies were able to react immediately should there be a peace deal struck between Russia and
March 20, 2025
A bid by French munitions maker Europlasma for a former Renault foundry is being closely watched by struggling auto suppliers, eager to tap a surge in defence
March 20, 2025
Donald Trump's idea of U.S. interests taking control of Ukraine's biggest nuclear power station has a catch for the man who coined the art of the
March 20, 2025
Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said on Thursday that he did not consider buying U.S. weapons a security risk, though he added that it might be good for Europe to become
March 20, 2025
Kirsty Coventry elected new IOC president, becomes first woman and African in the role
March 20, 2025
The European Commission is looking to cut Ukrainian sugar imports sharply after EU producers complained that large shipments have
March 20, 2025
Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez pledged on Thursday to boost Spain's defence spending along with the rest of the EU, though a parliamentary vote
March 20, 2025
Germany reopened its embassy in Syria on Thursday, establishing official diplomatic ties with the new leadership in Damascus as it faces deep humanitarian and security problems in
March 20, 2025
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday Ukrainian experts would be present at upcoming talks involving the United States and
March 20, 2025
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Western military talks on Thursday would focus on the details of a support plan for Ukraine, a
March 20, 2025
A guard protecting ancient sites in northern Greece has been charged with involvement in a crime ring smuggling out artefacts and selling them abroad, police officials said on
March 20, 2025
Germany’s foreign minister has reopened its embassy in Damascus, 13 years after it was shut in the early days of Syria’s civil war
March 20, 2025
Thousands of mourners have flocked to funerals in North Macedonia for the dozens of victims of last weekend’s devastating nightclub fire, bringing flowers and photographs and some of them collapsing in grief
March 20, 2025
NatWest and OpenAI have joined forces to enhance the lender's digital assistants and customer support processes using artificial intelligence, in the first
March 20, 2025
Europe is justified in increasing defence spending but this will boost debt and make inflation or monetary policy direction more difficult to predict, Dutch central bank chief
March 20, 2025
Swedish police should be allowed to use real-time, AI-powered face-recognition to combat crime, Sweden's government proposed on Thursday, as it seeks new tools to stop sometimes
March 20, 2025
Big developed market central banks are turning cautious after a series of interest rate cuts and as uncertainty in global economics and politics grows.
March 20, 2025
The Bank of England held interest rates at 4.5% on Thursday and warned against assumptions that they would fall over its next few meetings, as policymakers grapple with deep
March 20, 2025
First-time applications from people seeking asylum in European Union countries fell by 13% last year, the first such decline since 2020,
March 20, 2025
Thousands of mourners gathered at cemeteries across North Macedonia on Thursday for the funerals of dozens of people killed in a
March 20, 2025
Around 3,000 workers at Tesla's German plant signed a union petition for longer breaks and more staff, even as the company said most workers were satisfied with their jobs, in a
March 20, 2025
Russian and U.S. experts will discuss ways to ensure the safety of shipping in the Black Sea at talks on a possible Ukrainian peace settlement in Riyadh on Monday, the Kremlin said.
March 20, 2025
Ukraine struck a major Russian strategic bomber airfield on Thursday with drones, triggering a huge blast and fire about 700 km (435 miles) from the front lines of the war, Russian
March 20, 2025
Millions of lives are at risk from "brutal funding cuts" from donors, the U.N. refugee chief said on Thursday, warning that women refugees are already at greater risk
March 20, 2025
The following candidates will stand for election to replace Thomas Bach as the president of the
March 17, 2025
A French citizen imprisoned in Iran for over 880 days has been freed
March 20, 2025
For the second time in a month, all European Union nations but Hungary signed a joint statement Thursday backing Ukraine
March 20, 2025
In 2020, British Conservatives cited cost-cutting to force the UK’s foreign aid office into a merger. Five years later, it hasn’t recovered its budget or expertise.
March 19, 2025
European Union leaders must pay more attention to increased instability in the Western Balkans, specifically in Bosnia and Serbia, Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said on Thursday
March 20, 2025
President Vladimir Putin sent a message to Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa backing efforts to ensure Syria's territorial integrity and offering Russia's "practical cooperation" on a
March 20, 2025
Sweden's central bank kept its policy rate unchanged at 2.25% as expected on Thursday, predicting rates would remain steady in the near term, but said it was
March 20, 2025
Container shipping firm Hapag-Lloyd said on Thursday net profit fell nearly 19% in 2024 and is expected to decline further this year, with U.S. tariffs and Houthi
March 20, 2025
Poland is ready to start work on resuming the production of anti-personnel mines, its defence minister said on Thursday, after Warsaw joined the Baltic states this week in announcing a plan
March 20, 2025
The Swiss National Bank cut its main interest rate to just above zero on Thursday and flagged increased uncertainty over the global impact of U.S.
March 20, 2025
The European Union has delayed its first counter-measures against the United States over President Donald Trump's metals tariffs until mid-April, allowing it
March 20, 2025
Ex-Formula 1 team owner and media personality Eddie Jordan has died
March 20, 2025
The Bank of England has kept its main U.K. interest rate unchanged at 4.50% even though the economy is barely growing and the nation faces more uncertainty in light of the tariff policies being enacted by the Trump administration in the U.S. The decision by the nine-member Monetary Policy Committee on Thursday was widely expected, and comes a day after the U.S. Federal Reserve also kept interest rates unchanged
March 20, 2025
As one of the European Union's top negotiators, Sabine Weyand has battled Britain over Brexit and driven tough trade talks around the world.
March 19, 2025
When do state investments in arms factories, or the wages of tank crews and pilots not count as defence spending? Answer: When the EU rules say they don't.
March 20, 2025
The Swiss National Bank will continue to use foreign currency market interventions if necessary, Chairman Martin Schlegel said on Thursday, adding the central bank was not a
March 20, 2025
Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov inspected navy training in the Caspian Sea and ordered the rapid completion of work on new facilities there, his ministry said on Thursday.
March 20, 2025
Ukrainian soldiers in Kursk have lost ground in recent days but are not encircled by Russian forces, contrary to recent comments by U.S.
March 20, 2025
Europe must continue to give strong backing to Ukraine regardless of any talks between Washington and Moscow to ensure Kyiv is in a position of strength and that any ceasefire is
March 20, 2025
Boxing was included on Thursday in the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics programme after a unanimous vote from the International Olympic Committee, ending years
March 20, 2025
Sodexo lowered its yearly outlook on Thursday, bringing it below analysts' estimates, saying organic revenue growth in North America was slower than it had initially
March 20, 2025
Germany's Commerzbank hasn't had talks with UniCredit since the Italian lender last week got approval from the European Central Bank for taking a stake of just under
March 20, 2025
German speciality chemicals maker Lanxess on Thursday said U.S. customers had rushed to stockpile its products, joining consumers and companies hoping to get ahead
March 20, 2025
Eddie Jordan, former F1 team owner who gave Michael Schumacher his debut, dies aged 76
March 20, 2025
Famous artist couples: What happens when one is better known than the other?
March 20, 2025
ATHENS - Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday that illegal migrants denied asylum by Greece should be returned to their country of origin, and he urged the European Union to
March 20, 2025
French banking group Credit Mutuel Alliance Federale is buying German lender Oldenburgische Landesbank (OLB), a surprise move after the
March 20, 2025
Russia launched a new barrage of drones at Ukraine in an overnight attack, wounding at least 10 people, including four children, and damaging residential houses in the city of
March 20, 2025
Evi Tsapari is slowly healing from the trauma of escaping bloodied through the window of a burning passenger train after a collision that left dozens dead in
March 20, 2025
London is gaining ground on New York in a closely-watched index of the world's leading financial centres, in a first sign that efforts by policymakers to reboot
March 20, 2025
The European Central Bank will bring in a major auditing firm to investigate an outage that hit its payment system last month and caused delays in payments and financial trades
March 20, 2025
European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde spelled out the cost of a trade war with the United States for the euro zone's economy for the first time on Thursday and
March 20, 2025
London’s mayor: ‘Clearly a link’ between Trump and Americans wanting to become Brits
March 20, 2025
Germany's federal and state government tax revenue rose again strongly in February, by 8.1% on the previous year, the finance ministry said in its monthly report on Thursday.
March 19, 2025
Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that Moldovan police had violated diplomatic protocol by blocking entrances to its embassy in the capital of Moldova.
March 19, 2025
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday he spoke with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and the two leaders condemned the resumption of Israeli strikes on Gaza.
March 19, 2025
The top two Republican lawmakers who lead the Pentagon's oversight committees in the U.S.
March 19, 2025
The Bank of England looks set to keep interest rates on hold on Thursday as it awaits the impact on the economy of U.S.
March 19, 2025
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Rae Wee With the Federal Reserve's policy meeting out of the way, the central bank spotlight now turns to some of its European counterparts
March 20, 2025
BlackRock is betting on an expanded range of retail-focused products, including more exchange-traded funds, to attract a new generation of Europeans into investing,
March 20, 2025
China has not shipped any antimony to European Union countries since October, customs data showed on Thursday, after the dominant supplier imposed export controls
March 20, 2025
Sanofi on Thursday announced an agreement with biopharmaceutical company Dren Bio for the acquisition of its autoimmune disease treatment DR-0201.
March 20, 2025
Norway's sovereign wealth fund said on Thursday it had bought stakes in two real estate portfolios from Shaftesbury Capital and AXA Lifestyle housing for a total amount of $1
March 20, 2025
German speciality chemicals maker Lanxess said on Thursday it expected full-year 2025 earnings to be impacted by slow economic growth and a high likelihood of
March 20, 2025
European Central Bank (ECB) member Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Thursday that while a ramp-up in defence spending was needed in France, spending on this could not be limitless
March 20, 2025
The pace of British pay growth was little changed and there were others signs of stability in the jobs market, according to official data that
March 20, 2025
Berlin's borrow-to-spend splurge is driving up borrowing costs, further choking embattled property companies seeking fresh loans and
March 20, 2025
Ukrainian and U.S. teams could meet in Saudi Arabia in the coming days to discuss technicalities of partial ceasefire, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said after what he described as "very
March 19, 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that a halt on energy strikes in the war with Russia could be established quickly, but warned
March 19, 2025
Turkish police have arrested Istanbul’s mayor — a popular opposition leader and key rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan — and several other prominent figures as part of investigations into alleged corruption and terror links
March 19, 2025
Turkey detains Istanbul’s mayor, a key rival of President Erdogan
March 19, 2025
Researchers have lost access to evidence of alleged Russian war crimes following Trump admin funding cut
March 19, 2025
Ukraine and Russia agreed in principle to a limited ceasefire after President Donald Trump spoke with the countries’ leaders this week, though it remains to be seen when it might take effect and what possible targets would be off limits to attack
March 19, 2025
Russia and Ukraine say they have each swapped 175 prisoners in one of the largest exchanges of the war began
March 19, 2025
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March 20, 2025
Christo Grozev, an investigative journalist on Russia's "wanted list", joins CNN's Erin Burnett to discuss the call between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin where they negotiated a month-long mutual pause on attacks against “energy infrastructure,” which Putin has already violated.
March 19, 2025
Zelensky agrees to pause attacks on energy in call with Trump, but questions remain about what Trump and Putin hammered out
March 19, 2025
Campaigner wants everyone to stop groping Dublin’s famous Molly Malone statue
March 19, 2025
George Simion, the leader of Romania's second-largest party, became the hard right's candidate in a May presidential election re-run after an ally withdrew from the race on
March 19, 2025
Amazon lost its fight against a record 746 million euro ($812.4 million) fine handed out by Luxembourg's privacy regulator four years ago as a court sided with the
March 19, 2025
UBS CEO Sergio Ermotti on Wednesday urged authorities to improve their ability to detect problems at banks as he sought to find common ground over efforts to overhaul the Swiss
March 19, 2025
French engine and aircraft equipment maker Safran has offered the sale of a business in North America which it agreed in December, as a remedy to address EU
March 19, 2025
The U.S.
March 19, 2025
U.S.
March 19, 2025
Several U.S. national security agencies have halted work on a coordinated effort to counter Russian sabotage, disinformation and cyberattacks,
March 19, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump talked about the fighting in Ukraine, of course
March 19, 2025
Italy will ask the European Union to prepare compensatory measures for sectors that could be impacted by U.S tariffs, Industry Minister Adolfo Urso said on Wednesday, adding that he
March 19, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he discussed Russian and Ukrainian requests and needs for a peace deal in an hour-long call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
March 19, 2025
The chair of British public inquiry examining how Lucy Letby was able to murder seven babies in her care on Wednesday rejected calls for her investigation to be paused until a
March 19, 2025
HSBC Holdings is in advanced talks to sell its German fund administration business to private-equity firm BlackFin Capital Partners, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people
March 19, 2025
Britain will urgently look at how to tighten regulations on the private sales of firearms, interior minister Yvette Cooper said on Wednesday, reacting after a 19-year-old was
March 19, 2025
The European Union will take "a bit of time" before it responds to the new reciprocal tariff rates U.S.
March 19, 2025
Russia has now transferred property worth 2.4 trillion roubles ($28.7 billion) to the state, Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov said on Wednesday.
March 19, 2025
The United Nations' Secretary-General condemned on Wednesday attacks on UN personnel and added in a statement from his spokesperson that all parties in Israel's attack on Gaza knew
March 19, 2025
Russian stocks are likely to need more time to reenter the widely followed MSCI global equity indexes that the most optimistic scenario of two years from June, JPMorgan analysts
March 19, 2025
Ukraine's international government bonds pared steep losses on Wednesday after a "positive" call between Ukrainian President Volodymyr
March 19, 2025
Pope Francis is no longer using mechanical ventilation for help breathing at night and his doctors believe he will continue to improve, the Vatican said on
March 19, 2025
Europe should further boost military spending, pool resources on joint defence projects and buy more European arms, according to an EU blueprint
March 19, 2025
Google was hit with two charges of breaching landmark EU rules on Wednesday, while Apple was ordered to help rivals connect with its iPhones and iPads, as Europe's
March 19, 2025
Serbia's parliament formally accepted the resignation of the Prime Minister Milos Vucevic on Wednesday, triggering a 30-day deadline for the formation of a new government or the
March 19, 2025
The Italian postal service has seen a huge increase in mail addressed to Pope Francis since his Feb. 14 hospitalization
March 19, 2025
The central Dutch city of Utrecht has installed a “fish doorbell” that lets viewers of an online livestream help fish in their springtime swim to shallow spawning grounds
March 19, 2025
Ukraine and Russia exchange attacks, hours after Trump-Putin call
March 19, 2025
Pope Francis’s condition has continued to improve and he no longer needs to use noninvasive mechanical ventilation to help him breathe at night
March 19, 2025
The European Commission announced on Wednesday an action plan to make Europe's ailing steel sector more competitive and to shield it from the impact of
March 19, 2025
A planned 3-billion-euro ($3.3 billion) site Thyssenkrupp is building in Duisburg to make carbon-neutral steel could be stranded unless Germany ensures there's sufficient green
March 19, 2025
Apple was ordered by EU antitrust regulators on Wednesday to open up its closed ecosystem to rivals, with the latter spelling out details on how to go about it in
March 19, 2025
Russia and Ukraine have exchanged 175 prisoners of war each, both sides said on Wednesday, following a phone call between U.S.
March 19, 2025
Computer chip makers and semiconductor supply chain firms called on the European Commission to launch a follow up to the 2023 Chips Act on
March 19, 2025
President Emmanuel Macron said France would order
March 18, 2025
European shares closed slightly higher on Wednesday, after logging gains in the previous session when Germany inched closer to plans for a massive
March 19, 2025
Two years of hard work to build international investor confidence in Turkey's economic turnaround story has been dealt a major setback by a long-feared detention of
March 19, 2025
The chairman of Stellantis said on Wednesday that Europe's automotive industry does not need to convert to defence production, while confirming
March 19, 2025
The European Union on Wednesday outlined that steps that Apple must take to open up its iPhone and iPad operating systems to work better with competing technologies
March 19, 2025
Germany updated its travel advisory for the United States to emphasise that a visa or entry waiver does not guarantee entry for its citizens after several Germans were detained at
March 19, 2025
The European Union has announced a new drive to break its security dependency on the United States
March 19, 2025
This week's European Union summit will discuss ways of strengthening Europe's ability to defend itself alone but try to avoid creating the impression Europe is distancing itself
March 19, 2025
Serbian oil company NIS, majority-owned by Russian Gazprom Neft and Gazprom, has submitted a second request to the U.S. for a waiver of sanctions, the CEO of state gas company
March 19, 2025
By Ossian Shine PYLOS, Greece - The slow-burn race for the most powerful job in world sport roared into life on Wednesday, set against the dazzling backdrop of the Ionian Sea, where the seven
March 19, 2025
Siemens is seeing some hesitancy among customers in the United States due to political uncertainties, Chief Financial Officer Ralf Thomas said on Wednesday, although he does not
March 19, 2025
France's central bank reported on Wednesday a fresh loss for 2024, but said the worst was behind it and a return to profit in the coming years was in sight.
March 19, 2025
Swiss drugmaker Novartis is ending its use of diverse panels for all of its hiring in the United States, the company told Reuters on Wednesday, citing
March 19, 2025
Around 400 teachers and students from EU schools in Brussels went on strike for half a day on Wednesday to protest against employment conditions for locally
March 19, 2025
Sweden's right-wing government on Wednesday hiked its forecast for inflation this year and said it would monitor the development of price pressures as the economy slowly
March 19, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump will hold a call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy at 10:00 a.m. ET (1400 GMT) on Wednesday, a White House official confirmed.
March 19, 2025
The European Union should fund Ukraine's access to space services that can be provided by EU-based commercial providers, the European Commission said in its white
March 19, 2025
President Vladimir Putin wants U.S.
March 19, 2025
Prominent Russian philosopher and political theorist Alexander Dugin has told CNN that he believes President Trump is closer ideologically to President Putin than to Washington’s Western allies. The Russian scholar has often been referred to as "Putin's brain" or "Putin's philosopher" and is considered by many to be the ideological architect of the Kremlin chief’s invasion of Ukraine. CNN’s Fred Pleitgen spoke to him in Moscow.
March 18, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed on Tuesday to stop attacking Ukrainian energy facilities temporarily but declined to endorse a full 30-day
March 18, 2025
The European Union will tighten steel import quotas to reduce inflows by a further 15% from April, a senior EU official said on Wednesday, in a
March 19, 2025
Vladimir Putin has edged closer to his goal of repairing Russia's relations with the United States and driving a wedge between the U.S. and Europe, while offering
March 19, 2025
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico strengthened his hold over parliament on Wednesday, winning back more rebel lawmakers to fully restore a lost majority after disputes and defections had
March 19, 2025
Russia’s illegal seizure of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine exactly 11 years ago on March 18, 2014, was quick and bloodless
March 18, 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said that Russian leader Vladimir Putin had effectively rejected a U.S. proposal for a full ceasefire on
March 18, 2025
France to distribute ‘survival manual’ to prepare households for emergencies – including armed conflict
March 19, 2025
A resumption of fighting in the war between Israel and Hamas threatens the peace efforts of Arab states, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Wednesday ahead of her
March 19, 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he would speak to President Donald Trump on Wednesday and urged the United States to monitor a ceasefire between Ukraine and
March 19, 2025
Deutsche Bank will cut the headcount of its retail bank by almost 2,000 people in 2025 with a "significant" reduction in the number of branches, Chief Executive Officer Christian
March 19, 2025
A European space telescope launched to explore the dark universe has released a trove of new data on distant galaxies
March 19, 2025
A long-lost Klimt painting of an African prince goes on show
March 19, 2025
Questions are mounting in Canada and in Europe over whether big-ticket purchases of high-end U.S. weaponry are still a wise strategic choice
March 19, 2025
France's foreign minister is planning a two-day visit to China on March 27 and 28, the head of cognac lobby group BNIC said on Wednesday, repeating calls for an easing of trade
March 19, 2025
The European Space Agency has released its first tranche of data from the Euclid space telescope's mission to map the universe's large-scale structure in order to better
March 19, 2025
A deadline for German antitrust authorities to give possible initial approval for Italy's UniCredit in taking a substantial stake in Germany's Commerzbank expires on April 14,
March 19, 2025
What matters in U.S. and global markets today By Mike Dolan, Editor-At-Large, Financial Industry and Financial Markets Like most of its central banking peers, the
March 19, 2025
Protesters near Istanbul's main police headquarters on Wednesday said the detention of President Tayyip Erdogan's main political rival and the city's mayor
March 19, 2025
Ukraine's gross domestic product grew up 0.7% in February year on year, the country's economy ministry said on Wednesday.
March 19, 2025
A consortium that includes Allianz, BlackRock and T&D Holdings are investing in Viridium Group in a 3.5 billion euro ($3.82 billion) deal that will see the private equity company
March 19, 2025
Russia's "widespread and systematic" use of enforced disappearances and torture of Ukrainians during its full-scale invasion of Ukraine amount to crimes
March 19, 2025
UniCredit's CEO Andrea Orcel said on Wednesday he may need to wait until 2027 before deciding whether to try and take over Commerzbank, as Germany's fiscal
March 19, 2025
Swiss drugmaker Roche has abandoned global diverse workforce targets and compatriot Novartis is ending its use of diverse panels for U.S. hiring, the
March 19, 2025
Britain's Prudential Regulation Authority on Wednesday proposed reforms to rules governing recognised exchanges, with a view to ensuring the continued safety and soundness of
March 19, 2025
Hungary's president has signed a law proposed by Prime Minister Viktor Orban's ruling party that will ban LGBTQ+ communities from holding their annual Pride march, defying
March 19, 2025
Euro zone inflation was lower last month than first estimated, mostly because of a revision in Germany, Eurostat said on Wednesday, easing concerns that unexpectedly strong price
March 19, 2025
Exor NV, the investment arm of Italy's Agnelli family, has increased its stake in health technology company Philips to 18.7%, a filing at the U.S.
March 19, 2025
German media group Axel Springer is considering a sale of its affiliate marketing unit Awin, according to three people familiar with the matter
March 19, 2025
Pope Francis says in a letter to an Italian newspaper that his lengthy illness has made clearer to him the absurdity of war and the power of words to shape the truth and facts
March 18, 2025
European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Wednesday that Moscow cannot be trusted, after a phone call between U.S.
March 19, 2025
Danish lender Nykredit said on Wednesday it has secured a stake of more than 80% in Spar Nord Bank following a $3.6 billion bid for its domestic rival last year, and aims to
March 19, 2025
The International Olympic Committee kicked of its session in Olympia, site of the ancient Games, on Tuesday that will culminate with the election of a new president
March 18, 2025
Germany's outgoing government has agreed to release additional 3 billion euros ($3.3 billion) in military aid for Ukraine this year after lawmakers passed plans for
March 19, 2025
North Macedonia has shut down dozens of nightclubs following a fire in the eastern town of Kocani that killed 59 people
March 19, 2025
Euro zone economic growth is already taking a hit from the Trump administration's trade war but the expected surge in defence spending at home could prop up growth, European
March 18, 2025
Turkey detained Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu on Wednesday on charges such as graft and aiding a terrorist group, a step the main opposition party criticised as a "
March 19, 2025
Volkswagen said on Wednesday it sold a 2.2% stake in Traton for 360 million euros ($393 million) or 32.75 euros per share for better trading in shares of the commercial-vehicles
March 19, 2025
Drugmaker Pfizer has sold its entire stake in Haleon for about 2.5 billion pounds ($3.24 billion) to institutional investors and the consumer healthcare firm at 385 pence per share, a
March 19, 2025
Human Rights Watch Turkey Director Emma Sinclair-Webb condemned the detention of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and others from the Istanbul municipality on Wednesday, calling it a "
March 19, 2025
Germany's largest real estate group Vonovia on Wednesday posted a third consecutive annual loss for 2024, reporting further writedowns of its
March 19, 2025
Barclays raised its year-end target for Europe's benchmark STOXX 600 index on Wednesday, as Germany's fiscal reform will raise long-term growth prospects for the region.
March 19, 2025
Russia and Ukraine accused each other on Wednesday of launching air attacks that sparked fires and damaged infrastructure just hours after their leaders agreed to a
March 17, 2025
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Tom Westbrook Investors' attention looks set to switch, briefly, to monetary policy for the rest of the week, from its usual recent fixation
March 19, 2025
Democratic U.S. lawmakers will call on President Donald Trump's administration to restore a program that helps track thousands of Ukrainian children abducted
March 18, 2025
Hungary has passed a new anti-LGBTQ+ law that bans Pride events and allows authorities to use facial recognition software to identify those attending the festivities
March 18, 2025
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said on Tuesday that Kyiv was not the obstacle for a peace deal with Russia and believes it can achieve just and lasting
March 18, 2025
After call with Trump, Putin agrees to pause attacks on Ukraine’s energy and infrastructure targets
March 18, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff policy has made the European Central Bank's monetary policy decisions more difficult, its Vice President Luis de Guindos said on Monday.
March 17, 2025
John “Paddy” Hemingway, the last surviving pilot who flew during the Battle of Britain, has died at the age of 105
March 18, 2025
A bellowing deer and a roadside swan: British photo award shows surprising city wildlife
March 19, 2025
Pay increases granted by British employers have fallen back in line with inflation for the first time since October 2023, according to data from human resources data firm Brightmine
March 18, 2025
Bentley on Wednesday posted its lowest annual revenue since the COVID pandemic struck in 2020 as the British luxury automaker faced a tough global market in 2024, but
March 18, 2025
Ireland's economy is set to grow a little slower this year due to an "unprecedented" rise in global risks that may have a much larger impact on the foreign multinational-focused
March 18, 2025
Chinese EV maker Leapmotor has started selling two electric vehicle models at Stellantis dealerships in Britain via its joint venture with the world's No. 4 automaker,
March 18, 2025
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty - the U.S.-funded news outlet set up to reach people under Communism during the Cold War - said on Tuesday it sued the
March 18, 2025
Authorities in North Macedonia are appealing for calm as protests have again been held across the country over the nightclub fire in the eastern town of Kocani that killed 59 people over the weekend
March 18, 2025
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Tuesday evening, discussing progress U.S.
March 18, 2025
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer spoke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Tuesday evening, a spokeswoman for Downing Street said.
March 18, 2025
The Professional Tennis Players' Association (PTPA) has filed a lawsuit against the sport's governing bodies, accusing them of anti-competitive practices and a
March 18, 2025
Deutsche Bank will give its asset management arm preferred access to private credit deals it originates, the companies said on Tuesday, as the German institutions look for an edge
March 18, 2025
The White House says President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin have agreed to an immediate pause in strikes against energy infrastructure in the Ukraine war
March 18, 2025
Pfizer will sell its remaining stake in British consumer healthcare group Haleon, the companies said on Tuesday.
March 18, 2025
Defying Trump, several US-funded international broadcasters are still reporting the news
March 18, 2025
Emergency services in southern Spain are searching for a married couple after flash floods swept away their vehicle as rising waters prompted the evacuation of hundreds of homes
March 18, 2025
Why everyone is talking about ‘Adolescence,’ the Netflix limited series that’s every parent’s nightmare
March 18, 2025
Germany's outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz called a ceasefire on attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure agreed by U.S.
March 18, 2025
The Belgian prosecutor's office said on Tuesday that it has charged five people in connection with a bribery investigation in the European Parliament allegedly linked to China's
March 18, 2025
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday talks on the future of Cyprus had made progress for the first time in years, with both sides agreeing a series of
March 18, 2025
Volkswagen intends to sell up to 11 million shares in commercial vehicle manufacturer Traton, the German carmaker said on Tuesday, representing up to a 2.2% stake worth about 391
March 18, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to a proposal by U.S.
March 18, 2025
A ceasefire in Russia’s 3-year-old war in Ukraine hinges on Moscow accepting the U.S. proposal of a 30-day pause in fighting as a confidence-building measure for both sides to hammer out a longer-term peace plan
March 17, 2025
A thief who swiped a golden toilet from an English palace has been convicted along with an accomplice who helped cash in on the spoils of the 18-carat work of art valued at more than $6 million
March 18, 2025
German pharmaceuticals company Stada has postponed a planned initial public offering (IPO) in Frankfurt because of market volatility, two people familiar
March 18, 2025
Air France-KLM is in talks to take a stake in Spanish airline Air Europa and is looking to boost its existing holding in Scandinavian carrier SAS to
March 18, 2025
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni cautioned European partners on Tuesday against escalating a trade dispute with the United States through
March 18, 2025
France's economy will barely grow in the first half of the year as consumer spending struggles to offset the impact of weak business activity and government belt tightening, the
March 18, 2025
A Polish presidential candidate faced accusations on Tuesday he took self-promotion too far, after local media reported he praised his own work as a historian in a 2018 interview in
March 18, 2025
The Dutch parliament on Tuesday approved a law criminalizing digital espionage and diaspora espionage, which refers to foreign powers attempting to influence communities in the
March 18, 2025
Widely used prescription medicines could get caught up in the Trump administration's tariff trade wars and EU retaliation.
March 18, 2025
Heavy rains hit Spain for a third week in a row on Tuesday, with at least two people missing and hundreds evacuated in the southern region of Andalusia, where several rivers had
March 18, 2025
German equities closed higher on Tuesday, after the parliament approved plans for a massive spending surge, while investors awaited details from a call
March 18, 2025
Europe should be included in Ukraine peace talks, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on his arrival in Helsinki on Tuesday, as U.S.
March 18, 2025
Germany's outgoing parliament on Tuesday passed a massive increase in government borrowing, including a sweeping change to the country's debt rules.
March 18, 2025
Istanbul University said on Tuesday it had annulled the degree of President Tayyip Erdogan's main political rival over irregularities, dealing a blow to the opposition days before
March 18, 2025
The Turkish Cypriot leader said on Tuesday that talks in Geneva on Cyprus were positive, and that he hopes to open a new page on a sustainable future for the island.
March 18, 2025
Hungary's parliament passed a law on Tuesday to ban the Pride march by LGBTQ+ communities, triggering the blockade of a bridge in central Budapest in protest against the changes
March 18, 2025
Air France on Tuesday unveiled a new first-class suite as it expands efforts to lure wealthy travellers from business jets and lend a 'French touch
March 18, 2025
French politician suggests US should give back Statue of Liberty for taking ‘the side of the tyrants’
March 18, 2025
The European Union is debating ways to keep Radio Free Europe afloat after the Trump administration stopped grants to the pro-democracy media outlet over the weekend
March 18, 2025
A judge looking into the murder of newborn babies by British nurse Lucy Letby said on Monday she would hear arguments why the inquiry should be paused, after requests from hospital
March 17, 2025
Russia is preparing itself for a confrontation with European democracies as the United States shifts its focus towards the Indo-Pacific region, European Commission head Ursula von
March 18, 2025
Mercedes-Benz is trialling using humanoid robots made by U.S.-based company Apptronik for tasks such as moving components to the production line or carrying
March 18, 2025
Germany's top AAA credit rating could face pressure in the longer run if a vast spending effort is not offset by consolidation measures, or doesn't lead to a lasting improvement in
March 18, 2025
German premium carmakers exposed to U.S. import tariffs are weighing long-term strategies from
March 18, 2025
French police raided a theatre in central Paris at dawn on Tuesday, briefly using tear gas to evict more than 400 migrants who had been squatting
March 18, 2025
Apple lost its challenge at Germany's top civil court on Tuesday against its classification as a significant market power, a label which gives antitrust
March 18, 2025
Siemens will cut 5,600 jobs at its Digital Industries business, the engineering company said on Tuesday, in the latest blow for German industry shaken by weak demand
March 18, 2025
Germany's parliament approved plans for a massive spending surge on Tuesday, throwing off decades of fiscal conservatism in hopes of reviving
March 18, 2025
Drugmakers are urging the Trump administration and European Union officials to exclude medical goods from expanding tariff wars, hoping to avert price spikes on top-
March 18, 2025
Germany’s Merz wins vote to massively expand borrowing and super-charge military spending
March 18, 2025
Western companies that "slammed the door defiantly" when they left Russia will not be allowed to buy back the businesses they quit for small
March 18, 2025
German 10-year borrowing costs could rise to 4%, their highest since 2008, in coming years as it massively increases its spending on defence and
March 18, 2025
Police cells will temporarily be used to hold prisoners in a stop-gap measure to cope with overcrowding in jails, the British government said on Tuesday.
March 18, 2025
The U.N. migration agency said on Tuesday that unprecedented cuts in donor funding this year will force it to scale back or shut down projects around the world,
March 18, 2025
Russia's finance ministry on Tuesday said it intends to revive plans for privatisations of state assets and hopes to sell stakes in seven large
March 18, 2025
The European Union needs to be pragmatic and seek common ground on tariffs with the United States to avert a trade war, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni told parliament on
March 18, 2025
Three people are believed to have died when a plane originally from Denmark crashed on Monday evening in Switzerland, police from the eastern Swiss canton of Graubuenden said on
March 18, 2025
NATO members Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia plan to withdraw from the Ottawa convention banning anti-personnel landmines due to the
March 18, 2025
Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump will hold a phone call between 1300 and 1500 GMT on Tuesday to talk about settling the Ukraine conflict and normalising relations between
March 18, 2025
Germany’s would-be next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, won lawmakers’ approval Tuesday for ambitious plans to loosen the nation’s strict debt rules for higher defense spending as doubts mount about the strength of the trans-Atlantic alliance, and to set up an enormous fund for investment in its creaking infrastructure
March 18, 2025
Trump suggests Ukraine’s largest nuclear plant is on the line in talks with Putin. What’s next for Zaporizhzhia?
March 18, 2025
The European Union’s law enforcement agency is warning that artificial intelligence is turbocharging organized crime that is eroding the foundations of societies across the 27-nation bloc as it becomes intertwined with state-sponsored destabilization efforts
March 18, 2025
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March 18, 2025
Organised crime gangs are turning to AI-powered scams and payment systems to target victims, allowing them to rapidly and more cheaply scale up operations globally and making them harder
March 18, 2025
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has updated U.S.
March 18, 2025
A leading assessor of company climate goals on Tuesday proposed new rules to better help companies set high-quality emissions-reduction plans,
March 18, 2025
Iron Maiden’s plane has been cut into pieces and put up for sale
March 18, 2025
A public inquiry examining how British nurse Lucy Letby was able to murder babies in her care should be suspended because new evidence casts real doubt on her
March 18, 2025
Financial markets operator CME Group said on Tuesday that it plans to launch cash-settled futures for European rapeseed oil next month, using an Argus Media index for Dutch prices.
March 18, 2025
President Vladimir Putin told Russian business leaders on Tuesday not to count on fully free trade or movement of capital being restored in the event of Western sanctions on Russia
March 18, 2025
Graphic artist Victoria Lomasko’s journey highlights how censorship has intensified in Russia.
March 18, 2025
Kenya is hosting the Netherlands king and queen for a state visit against the backdrop of allegations of human rights abuses in the East African country
March 18, 2025
German investor morale improved more than expected in March, the ZEW economic research institute said on Tuesday, reporting an increase in its economic sentiment
March 18, 2025
The administration of U.S.
March 18, 2025
Ukraine's leading mobile operator Kyivstar is moving ahead with its planned U.S. listing, its parent VEON said on Tuesday, even as President Donald Trump's chaotic
March 18, 2025
Chinese electric vehicle maker XPeng on Tuesday forecast first-quarter revenue above estimates, betting on the launch of its lower-priced G6 and G9 SUV models as well as its foray into
March 18, 2025
Nicolai Tangen has been appointed to a second term as CEO of Norway's vast sovereign wealth fund, Norges Bank Investment Management, the central bank said on Tuesday.
March 18, 2025
The Swiss government trimmed its economic growth forecasts for 2025 and 2026 on Tuesday, citing global trade tensions, although it expects the country to avoid a
March 18, 2025
Audi to cut 7,500 jobs as Germany’s auto industry struggles
March 18, 2025
The Swiss National Bank bought foreign currency worth 1.2 billion Swiss francs ($1.36 billion) in 2024, the central bank said on Tuesday, dramatically reducing its interventions
March 18, 2025
Conor McGregor draws Irish leader’s ire after anti-immigration comments at White House
March 18, 2025
France unveils ‘incredible’ new high-speed TGV trains with double-decker dining car
March 18, 2025
Magnus Carlsen rules out classical World Chess Championship return, shifting focus to new era
March 18, 2025
SARAJEVO - The chairperson of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Elina Valtonen, on Tuesday urged rival leaders in Bosnia to respect constitutional order and engage in talks to
March 18, 2025
The Kremlin confirmed on Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin would talk to U.S. President Donald Trump by phone on Tuesday.
March 17, 2025
Weaknesses in the capital regime for the Swiss banking sector still need to be addressed after the 2023 collapse of Credit Suisse, the Swiss National Bank said on Tuesday, backing
March 18, 2025
Building permits for apartments in Germany rose 6.9% in January from a year earlier, statistics office data showed on Tuesday, a second consecutive month of increases after three
March 18, 2025
Euro zone banks need to get into the habit of tapping the European Central Banks for cash, preparing for the continued decline in excess liquidity in the banking system, two top
March 18, 2025
Allocation to U.S. stocks saw the biggest drop ever in March with concerns over stagflation, trade wars and end of U.S. exceptionalism driving a "bull crash" in sentiment, a survey
March 18, 2025
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen, who in two weeks will learn her fate in an embezzlement trial, says prosecutors demanding she face an instant five-year
March 18, 2025
Only one Englishman who had a great Olympic career ever stood for the IOC presidency before Sebastian Coe
March 18, 2025
A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Tom Westbrook A phone call between Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin is on markets' radar this morning as the U.S.
March 18, 2025
Irish mixed martial arts fighter Conor McGregor used a St.
March 17, 2025
With U.S. support for Ukraine in doubt, Kyiv’s European allies are weighing whether to seize $300 billion in frozen Russian assets
March 18, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump will speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday as efforts continue to end the war in Ukraine, a move that could represent a possible pivot point in the conflict and an opportunity for Trump to continue reorienting American foreign policy
March 17, 2025
Britain's King Charles is still hoping to see Pope Francis during a state visit to the Vatican and Italy next month, a Buckingham Palace source said on Tuesday, more than a month
March 17, 2025
Britain and the European Union will ramp up pressure on Russia and boost defence initiatives, as the EU's foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, meets British foreign minister David Lammy and
March 17, 2025
Britain's business and trade secretary Jonathan Reynolds travels to Washington on Tuesday to meet his U.S. counterparts in the hope of strengthening economic ties, as President Donald
March 17, 2025
King Charles III is scheduled to have an audience with Pope Francis during a state visit next month to the Vatican, suggesting the Holy See is optimistic the pontiff will be back at work by then
March 17, 2025
UK business minister Jonathan Reynolds will meet with U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and U.S.
March 17, 2025
Britain’s King Charles and Queen Camilla to visit Pope Francis next month
March 18, 2025
The European Union and its partners have pledged 5.8 billion euros ($6.3 billion) for Syria and its neighbours, said the EU's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas on Monday.
March 17, 2025
U.S.
March 17, 2025
Italy and Spain made clear on Monday they were not ready to back a European Union proposal to pledge up to 40 billion euros ($43.67 billion) in
March 17, 2025
Russia's state-controlled gas giant Gazprom recorded a net loss of 1.076 trillion roubles ($12.89 billion) in 2024 under Russian accounting standards (RAS), Interfax news agency reported.
March 17, 2025
Bosnian Serb separatist leader Milorad Dodik announced a law on Monday to establish a border police force for his Serb-dominated region, after a top Bosnian court sought his
March 17, 2025
Honda and Suzuki will pool carbon emissions with U.S. electric vehicle maker Tesla in 2025 to comply with European Union rules, an EU filing showed on Monday.
March 17, 2025
The bodies of seven people were recovered off Cyprus on Monday after authorities mounted a search and rescue operation following the capsize of a boat carrying migrants, Cyprus's
March 17, 2025
The Belgian actor who won a top Cannes prize for her breakout role in “Rosetta,” Émilie Dequenne has died at 43
March 17, 2025
China is willing to work with the United Kingdom to deepen cooperation in financial services, trade and investment, as well as green and low-carbon development, Ding Xuexiang,
March 17, 2025
Volkswagen's Audi will cut up to 7,500 jobs in Germany by 2029 in areas like administration and development, the premium carmaker said on Monday, the latest German auto industry
March 17, 2025
The German insurer Allianz said on Monday that it was selling its 26% stake in two joint ventures with India's Bajaj Finserv to the Bajaj Group for around 2.6 billion euros ($2.84
March 17, 2025
European shares closed higher for a second day on Monday, supported by energy and healthcare stocks, with the focus on Germany's debt reform plans and the
March 17, 2025
EU powers said on Monday they would try to save Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty - the U.S.-funded news outlet set up to reach people under communism during the
March 17, 2025
The Russian central bank will keep its benchmark interest rate on hold at a board meeting on March 21, all 29 analysts who took part in a Reuters poll predicted
March 17, 2025
Hundreds of thousands of people have packed the streets of Dublin to watch Ireland’s national St. Patrick’s Day parade
March 17, 2025
French engine and aircraft equipment maker Safran has offered remedies in an attempt to secure EU antitrust approval for its $1.8 billion bid for Collins
March 17, 2025
Sporadic violence broke out in North Macedonia on Monday as thousands of people demanded justice for 59 people killed in a nightclub blaze and called
March 17, 2025
Concerns that the Trump administration’s metals tariffs could divert a wave of aluminium to Europe have prompted the European Commission to consider possible curbs
March 17, 2025
Automaker Stellantis is investing 38 million euros ($41 million) in its Verrone plant in Northern Italy to manufacture parts for electric engines for its upcoming small-size models,
March 17, 2025
A "significant number" of countries are willing to provide peacekeeping troops in Ukraine in the event of a peace deal with Russia, a spokesperson for British Prime Minister Keir
March 17, 2025
Lithuanian prosecutors accused Russia's military intelligence on Monday of orchestrating an arson attack on an IKEA store in Vilnius in May, and suggested it may
March 17, 2025
British defence and security company QinetiQ warned on Monday of delays in short-term contracts being awarded in the U.S. and UK, where new policies are being implemented after changes in
March 17, 2025
A court in Georgia has handed another prison sentence to imprisoned former President Mikheil Saakashvili
March 17, 2025
Soccer match in France postponed after fans throw flares and start fire in stands
March 17, 2025
A transformation of women’s soccer in Europe is well under way
March 17, 2025
Former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili was sentenced on Monday to four-and-a-half more years in jail after being found guilty of illegally crossing the state border, Georgian
March 17, 2025
Britain's economy will grow more slowly than previously expected in 2025 and 2026 as global growth is hit by uncertainty, the OECD said on Monday, underscoring the challenge facing
March 17, 2025
A decision by U.S.
March 17, 2025
UBS CEO Sergio Ermotti's total pay was 14.9 million Swiss francs ($16.9 million) last year, with the bank keeping his remuneration in check as it navigates a tense
March 17, 2025
UBS's auditors have expressed an "adverse opinion" on the bank's internal controls over its financial reporting for 2024 after it
March 17, 2025
The euro zone housing market has already recovered from its recent slump and prices are likely to rise further, challenging affordability in a potentially unhealthy development,
March 17, 2025
U.S.
March 17, 2025
LVMH label Loewe said on Monday that creative director Jonathan Anderson was leaving the Spanish luxury house after 11 years in the role.
March 17, 2025
The U.S.-European tariff conflict is jeopardising transatlantic business worth $9.5 trillion annually, the American Chamber of Commerce to the EU warned on
March 17, 2025
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