Britain’s Sunak shuffles cabinet to bolster pledges on economy
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak reshuffled his cabinet on Tuesday, breaking up two departments to better suit his pledges to spur the economy and turn around his party’s fortunes ...
Italy wants more money for Africa to curb arrivals in Europe
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will ask European Union peers this week to give more money to Africa and create “European humanitarian corridors” to curb irregular immigration, a document showed.
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Ukraine says Russians endure deadliest day as fighting intensifies
Ukraine said on Tuesday the last 24 hours were the deadliest of the war so far for Russian troops, as Moscow pressed on with an intensifying winter assault in the east ...
BP profit soars to record $28 bln, dividend increased
BP (BP.L) on Tuesday reported a record profit of $28 billion for 2022, lifted by the surge in energy prices since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, while boosting its dividend in ...
UK energy support schemes’ cost halved as mild winter tames prices
Britain is likely to spend 69 billion pounds ($82.95 billion) on schemes to protect households and business from soaring electricity costs, half of the original estimate, a UK spending watchdog said, as ...
Three drown, many feared missing in migrant shipwreck off Greece
Three people drowned and more than a dozen were believed to be missing in the second migrant shipwreck off Greece this week, authorities said on Tuesday.
The coast guard said 19 ...
Former Newcastle winger Atsu pulled alive from Turkey earthquake rubble
Ghana international winger Christian Atsu has been found alive after being buried under rubble in the earthquake that hit Turkey, the vice president of his club Hatayspor told media on ...
Israeli forces kill Palestinian teen in West Bank gunfight
Israeli forces killed a 17-year-old Palestinian on Tuesday during a raid in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said, and the army described him as a gunman who ...
Russian reinforcements pour into eastern Ukraine, says governor
Russia was pouring reinforcements into eastern Ukraine ahead of a possible new offensive, said a Ukrainian governor, but British intelligence said on Tuesday it was unlikely that Russia would have ...
Hundreds still under earthquake rubble in rebel-held Syria – rescue workers (Update 2)
Time is running out to save hundreds of families trapped under the rubble of buildings brought down by Monday’s earthquake, the head of the Syrian opposition-run civil defence service ...
Turkey declares emergency as quake death toll passes 7,200 (Update 4)
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday declared a state of emergency in 10 provinces devastated by two earthquakes that killed more than 7,200 people and left a trail of destruction across a ...
Like Musk, nickel-rich Indonesia has high electric vehicle ambitions
Armed with the world’s largest reserves of nickel and a ban on the export of nickel ore, Indonesia is making itself indispensable for the electric vehicle industry, which uses ...
Doing too little is still bigger risk for ECB than doing too much: Holzmann
Inflation in the euro area remains far too high so the risk of the European Central Bank not raising interest rates high enough is still a bigger than that of ...
FBI charges neo-Nazi leader in plot to attack Baltimore power grid
The U.S. Justice Department has charged a neo-Nazi leader and his associate with plotting to attack Baltimore’s power grid, a plan the FBI thwarted with the help of ...
Turkey’s Ceyhan oil terminal, Iraq’s KRG pipeline halted after quake
A massive earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on Monday halted operations at Turkey’s major oil export hub in Ceyhan and stopped key crude oil flows from Iraq and ...
India’s Adani crisis spills over into protests, losses top $110bn
The crisis engulfing the Adani Group intensified on Monday as hundreds of members of India’s opposition parties took to the streets to press for a probe into allegations by ...
Dollar’s gyrations raise hedging costs for US companies
Wild swings in global currencies hammered corporate earnings in the past year, and while forex markets have gotten less choppy, some companies are seeking ways to guard profits and lower ...
How China’s balloon over America steered its way into spying history
When China’s suspected surveillance balloon first passed into U.S. airspace north of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands on Jan. 28, American officials believed there was a good chance it would ...
Ukraine’s defence ministry in turmoil at key point in war
Ukraine sent mixed messages over the fate of its defence minister on Monday, leaving a key post in its war effort in doubt even as it braces for a new ...
Huge earthquake kills 2,600 in Turkey and Syria, bad weather worsens plight
A huge earthquake killed more than 2,600 people across a swathe of Turkey and northwest Syria on Monday, with freezing winter weather adding to the plight of the many thousands left ...
Nissan to buy up to 15 per cent stake in Renault EV unit under reshaped alliance
Nissan (7201.T) and Renault (RENA.PA) on Monday unveiled details of their redesigned alliance, with the Japanese car maker committing to buy a stake of up to 15 per cent in ...
Man City accused of breaching financial rules
Manchester City have been referred to an independent commission over alleged breaches of Premier League finance rules, England’s top-flight soccer league said on Monday.
The breaches stretch from the 2009...
UK plans to reimburse scam victims ‘fundamentally flawed,’ lawmakers say
Proposals to reimburse hundreds of millions of pounds to scam victims in Britain are “fundamentally flawed” and are taking too long to come into force, lawmakers said in a report ...
British workers stage largest strike in history of health service
Health workers in Britain began their largest strike on Monday, as tens of thousands of nurses and ambulance workers walk out in an escalating pay dispute, putting further strain on ...