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Britain’s biggest homebuilder Barratt (BDEV.L) will buy Redrow (RDW.L) in an all-stock deal valuing its smaller rival at about 2.52 billion pounds ($3.18 billion), they said on Wednesday, aiming ...

Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), the largest sovereign wealth fund in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), is setting up a $4-5 billion fund to invest in India through a tax-neutral ...

Decentralized finance – DeFi – is getting a second wind. The amount of money deposited in this breed of crypto projects has leapt in recent months, swept up by a rally in ...

Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev was on course for a landslide re-election win, initial results showed on Wednesday, in a vote he called early after recapturing the breakaway region of ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday total victory in Gaza was within reach, rejecting the latest offer from Hamas for a ceasefire to ensure the return of hostages ...

Hosts and defending champions Qatar beat Iran 3-2 in a thrilling Asian Cup semi-final on Wednesday at Al Thumama Stadium where striker Almoez Ali scored the winner to set up ...

Tighter army mobilisation rules targeting would-be Ukrainian soldiers and proposing asset freezes for those who are trying to dodge the draft came a step closer on Wednesday when parliament passed ...

Two explosions near electoral candidates’ offices in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan killed 26 people and wounded dozens on Wednesday, officials said, raising concerns over security on the eve of ...

Hamas proposed a ceasefire to quiet the guns in Gaza for four-and-a-half months, during which all hostages would go free, Israel would withdraw its troops from the Gaza Strip and ...

Britain’s Prince William returned to public duty on Wednesday following his wife Kate’s surgery and the revelation King Charles had cancer, with the heir to the throne set ...

President Vladimir Putin granted an interview to U.S. television host Tucker Carlson on Tuesday, the Kremlin said, his first to an American journalist since before Russia’s invasion of ...

A Michigan jury on Tuesday convicted the mother of a teenager who fatally shot four classmates at a high school near Detroit of manslaughter after prosecutors argued she bore responsibility ...

Donald Trump does not have immunity from charges he plotted to overturn his 2020 election defeat, a federal appeals court ruled, bringing the former U.S. president a step closer to ...

Greece will allow its top league football matches to be played with fans from Feb. 13, two months after top clubs were ordered to play behind closed doors following the severe ...

World champion Oleksandr Usyk revealed on Tuesday he missed the birth of his daughter while training for a heavyweight title unification bout with Tyson Fury that was postponed after the ...

South Korea’s late comebacks at the Asian Cup had earned them the tag of playing ‘zombie football’ after they always came back to life when they appeared dead, but ...

Diageo’s (DGE.L) attempt to reassure investors about its strategy in Latin America has boosted confidence among some that the world’s top spirits maker can revive its performance ...

Oil prices rose for a third day on Wednesday after US crude inventories grew less than expected and a cut in the forecast for output growth in the US, the ...

Global shares hit their highest in over a year on Wednesday, supported by relatively robust earnings and a retreat in the dollar, although trouble among US regional banks and scepticism ...

Australia will introduce laws giving workers the right to ignore unreasonable calls and messages from their bosses outside of work hours without penalty, with potential fines for employers that breach ...

The European Parliament stripped its former vice-president Eva Kaili of her immunity, clearing the way for an investigation of Kaili’s alleged involvement in a 150,000 euro ($161,355) EU budget fraud case ...

Successive Premier League defeats in which eight goals have hit the back of the Chelsea net have raised the volume in the debate about Mauricio Pochettino’s job prospects at ...

Russia launched a missile strike on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities during Wednesday morning rush hours, Ukraine’s Air Force said, with several blasts heard in the country’s capital ...

Britain on Tuesday said it would spend more than 100 million pounds ($125 million) to launch nine new research hubs in artificial intelligence (AI) and train regulators about the technology. “AI is ...