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The Bank of England will not publish rules for implementing tougher global bank capital requirements until after the summer, it said this week, raising questions about whether a July 2025 start ...

Saudi Arabia’s real gross domestic product (GDP) shrank 0.4 per cent year-on-year in the second quarter, preliminary data by the government’s statistical authority showed on Wednesday, driven by a 8.5 ...

Turkey wants to complete negotiations for a free trade agreement with the Gulf Cooperation Council by the end of the year, the Turkish trade ministry said on Wednesday, after Ankara ...

Protesters clashed with police near Downing Street in London on Wednesday as Britain faced a second night of demonstrationsfollowing the deaths of three young girls in a frenzied knife attack ...

The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady on Wednesday but opened the door to reducing borrowing costs as soon as its next meeting in September as inflation continues coming into ...

Despite a spike in tensions in the Middle East, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Wednesday he did not currently expect Iran-backed militias to step up attacks against ...

Procter & Gamble (PG.N) missed Wall Street expectations for fourth-quarter sales on Tuesday, on weak demand for its skincare products in major market China and waning price benefits in ...

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in the Iranian capital Tehran early on Wednesday morning, an attack that drew threats of revenge on Israel and fuelled further concern that the ...

Benign inflation data and a cooling job market aside, US credit conditions featuring tepid loan demand and stiff terms may also be bolstering confidence among Federal Reserve officials that price ...

Britain’s Alex Yee ran a perfectly-paced 10km to snatch a dramatic Olympic triathlon gold on Wednesday, overhauling a fading Hayden Wilde of New Zealand in brutal conditions. The race ...

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Wednesday the bloc could not recognise Venezuela’s election result until all votes were counted and records provided, amid international concerns ...

Athletes dived into the Seine on Wednesday for the Olympic women’s triathlon after water tests showed lower levels of bacteria, ending days of uncertainty over whether the central Paris ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Wednesday he did not think a wider war in the Middle East was inevitable and that the United States was seeking to ...

Top-ranked Italy silenced a partisan crowd as they claimed the women’s epee gold medal by beating arch rivals France 30-29 in a high-octane, sudden-death contest at the Paris Olympics ...

French President Emmanuel Macron’s office racked up a multi-million euro budget overrun last year as it pulled out the stops on a lavish lobster dinner for Britain’s King ...

Russia launched several waves of drones on Kyiv in what was one of the war’s largest attacks of its kind targeting Ukraine, the military administration of the city said ...

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in the early hours of the morning in Iran, the Palestinian militant group Hamas said on Wednesday, describing the strike as a “severe escalation” ...

PayPal (PYPL.O) on Tuesday raised its forecast for full-year adjusted profit for the second time, betting on resilient consumer spending in the back-to-school and upcoming holiday shopping seasons, while ...

Tesla (TSLA.O) is recalling over 1.8 million vehicles in the United States due to risk of software failure to detect an unlatched hood, the national auto safety regulator said on ...

The British competition regulator’s ongoing review of supermarket loyalty prices is unlikely to identify widespread evidence of promotions that mislead shoppers, according to a statement by the watchdog. Loyalty ...

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris held a marginal one-percentage-point lead over Republican Donald Trump in a new Reuters/Ipsos poll, closing the gap that opened in the final weeks of ...

At least 85 sick and severely injured Palestinians from Gaza, including 35 children, were evacuated to Abu Dhabi for specialised care, the director general of the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on ...

An Israeli air strike targeted a senior Hezbollah commander in Beirut’s southern suburbs late on Tuesday in what the Israeli military said was retaliation for a cross-border rocket attack ...

Microsoft investors will have one big question after the tech giant reports earnings on Tuesday: has growth in its Azure cloud-computing business picked up enough to justify the billions of ...