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Britain’s payments regulator will be abolished and its remit absorbed by another financial regulator, the government said this week, as it aims to cut red tape in favour of ...

The Bank of England (BoE) said on Wednesday it appointed Sarah John, the central bank’s current Chief Cashier, as its new Chief Operating Officer. John will be replaced by ...

The European Union’s “white paper on the future of European defence”, which aims to forge a plan for the bloc and the continent at large to bolster its defensive ...

The leader of a Turkish nationalist party has said he was arrested and detained on political grounds as part of an opposition crackdown that contradicts the government’s purported effort ...

Fears of an environmental disaster eased on Wednesday, two days after a container ship ploughed into a stationary U.S. fuel tanker off northeast England, as the vessel’s owner ...

Ukrainian troops appeared on the point of losing their hard-won foothold inside Russia’s Kursk region on Wednesday as Moscow claimed further advances there and military bloggers on both sides ...

President Donald Trump’s increased tariffs on all U.S. steel and aluminum imports took effect on Wednesday, ratcheting up a global trade war and drawing swift retaliation from Canada ...

Separatist militants said on Wednesday they have killed 50 passengers from a train hijacking in southwestern Pakistan as security forces worked to rescue the hostages. Reuters was not able to verify ...

Greece will spend more than 25 billion euros in arms procurements by 2036, including new submarines, drones, satellites and fighter jets, under a 12-year plan to be submitted to parliament in the ...

The Kremlin said on Wednesday it was awaiting details from Washington about a proposal for a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine, while senior Moscow sources said a deal would have to ...

President Masoud Pezeshkian said Iran would not negotiate with the U.S. while being threatened, telling President Donald Trump to “do whatever the hell you want”, Iranian state media reported. “...

There is about a 40 per cent chance of a US recession this year and a risk of lasting damage to the country’s standing as an investment destination if the ...

A trilateral meeting between the foreign ministers of Greece, Cyprus and Israel will take place on Thursday in Athens. According to a statement from the Greek foreign ministry, Greek Foreign ...

The Girl Scouts have been sued by consumers over the alleged presence of “heavy metals” and pesticides in its popular Thin Mints and other cookies. A proposed class action lawsuit ...

Greenland’s pro-business opposition Demokraatit party won Tuesday’s closely watched parliamentary election, beating the incumbent left-wing coalition in a vote dominated by U.S. President Donald Trump’s pledge ...

The Bank of England said it allotted 2.127 billion pounds ($2.75 billion) of six-month funds to banks at an indexed long-term repo operation on Tuesday, the most since April 2020 during the early ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan welcomed an agreement between the Kurdish-led and U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and Syria’s new government, saying its full implementation would contribute ...

The United States agreed on Tuesday to resume military aid and intelligence sharing with Ukraine after talks where Kyiv said it would accept a U.S. proposal for a 30-day ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar on Tuesday said he does not see the United Kingdom to be a neutral guarantor power of Cyprus. “I wanted the motherlands present at the ...

Cypriot members of the European Parliament on Tuesday called for Turkey to be excluded from the European Union’s plans to bolster its defence capabilities, with one MEP describing the ...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s bulked-up tariffs on steel and aluminum due to launch within hours will hit nearly $150 billion worth of derivative products made from the metals for ...

An Israeli air strike killed four Palestinians in Gaza on Tuesday, the territory’s civil emergency service said, as Arab mediators and the United States tried to hammer out differences ...

Ukrainian and U.S. officials held crunch talks in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to find a path towards ending the war with Russia, hours after Kyiv’s forces launched their ...

Entire families including women and children were killed in Syria’s coastal region as part of a series of sectarian killings by the army against an insurgency by Bashar al-Assad ...