Erdogan visits Ukraine hoping to play mediator with Russia
Tayyip Erdogan is set to visit his counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky in Ukraine on Thursday after pitching Turkey as a mediator to ease tensions with Russia, and an official said he ...
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Greek tech fund PJ Catalyst sells Pollfish unit to US-based Prodege
Greek technology fund PJ Tech Catalyst, backed by Piraeus Bank (BOPr.AT) and the European Investment Fund, has agreed to sell its market research unit Pollfish to U.S.-based ...
US sending nearly 3,000 troops to Eastern Europe in coming days
President Joe Biden’s administration announced on Wednesday the deployment of nearly 3,000 American troops to eastern Europe in the coming days amid a standoff with Russia over Ukraine, moving to ...
CNN president resigns for not disclosing relationship with colleague
CNN President Jeff Zucker, whom industry insiders speculated would play a larger role when the network becomes part of Discovery, resigned on Wednesday, telling staff he failed to disclose a ...
Curling kicks off Beijing Games ahead of Putin-Xi main event
Mixed doubles curling opened competition at the Beijing Winter Olympics on Wednesday as the shadow of war in Ukraine, and the impending arrival of Russian President Vladimir Putin, loomed over ...
Alphabet inches closer to $2 trln market value after blowout results
Google parent Alphabet Inc moved closer to joining peers Apple and Microsoft in the elite $2 trillion market valuation club as the search giant’s shares surged 8% on Wednesday after another ...
Turkey condemns referring Kavala case to ECHR as interfering in judiciary
A European human rights watchdog will refer the Turkish case against philanthropist Osman Kavala back to a top European court, Turkey’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday, adding that the ...
EU proposes rules to label some gas and nuclear investments as green
Investments in some gas and nuclear power plants would be labelled as sustainable under rules proposed by European Commission on Wednesday, a plan that has split countries and investors, and ...
Man United star Greenwood released on bail
Manchester United forward Mason Greenwood has been released on bail after being questioned over the alleged rape and assault of a young woman.
The 20-year-old was arrested on Sunday after ...
Kremlin mocks Britain’s ‘utterly confused’ Johnson before Putin talks
Russia mocked British Prime Minister Boris Johnson as “utterly confused” and ridiculed British politicians for their “stupidity and ignorance” on Wednesday, hurling more scorn at the West after President Vladimir ...
Turkey blames Greece after 12 migrants freeze to death near border
Turkish authorities have found the bodies of 12 migrants who froze to death near Greece, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said on Wednesday, accusing Greek guards of sending them back across the ...
Come on you Greens! Spurs and Liverpool top eco-friendly table
Tottenham Hotspur will join the UN Race to Zero and have committed to halve their carbon emissions by 2030, the club said after they and Liverpool were named the Premier League’...
British trial deliberately infecting young adults with Covid safe
The world’s first human challenge trial in which volunteers were deliberately exposed to COVID-19 to advance research into the disease was found to be safe in healthy young adults, ...
At least 60 people killed in militia attack in DR Congo
At least 60 people were killed in a militia attack early on Wednesday at a displaced persons’ camp in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the head of a local ...
Whoopi Goldberg suspended from talk show over Holocaust remarks
Whoopi Goldberg was suspended from ABC’s The View talk show on Tuesday for asserting a day earlier that the Holocaust was “not about race,” the network’s news division ...
European shares rise as investor sentiment steadies
Shares rose in Europe on Wednesday as investor sentiment continued to steady after a rout last month, but the advance was capped by concerns over how fast central banks will ...
Sony lifts forecast as ‘Spider-Man’ propels quarterly profit
Japan’s Sony Group Corp (6758.T) raised its full-year profit forecast by 15 per cent on Wednesday after posting estimate-smashing quarterly earnings, propelled by the success of “Spider-Man: No Way Home” ...
How to invest for inflationary times
Low inflation had spoiled US investors for so long that last year’s sudden surge came as a shock.
As those who lived through the late 1970s and early 1980s ...
Beijing torch begins Covid-shortened relay
Beijing’s COVID-shortened Olympic torch relay began on Wednesday with basketball great Yao Ming and a Chinese soldier wounded in a bloody 2020 border clash with India among the first to ...
Amazon to create 1,500 apprenticeships in UK in 2022
Amazon will create 1,500 new apprenticeships in the United Kingdom in 2022, it said on Wednesday.
The internet giant said it was offering 40 entry to degree-level apprenticeship schemes, including new schemes in ...
Afghanistan’s Taliban told they can’t take their guns to the funfair
Taliban fighters will no longer be allowed to carry their weapons in amusement parks in Afghanistan, the group’s spokesman said on Wednesday, in what appeared to be another effort ...
Leaving Arsenal without a real good-bye ‘hurts’, says Aubameyang
Striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang said on Tuesday that he regretted the circumstances of his departure from Arsenal and was sad at being unable to say good-bye to his team mates ahead ...
Researchers achieve milestone on path toward nuclear fusion energy
US government scientists said on Wednesday they have taken an important step in the long trek toward making nuclear fusion – the very process that powers stars – a viable energy source ...
Turkish warplanes hit Kurdish militant targets in Iraq, Syria – ministry
Turkish warplanes hit Kurdish militants targets, including training camps, shelters and ammunition storage areas in Iraq and northern Syria, the Turkish Defence Ministry said on Wednesday.
All the planes taking ...