Credit Suisse unveils details of $4 bln capital raising plan
Credit Suisse (CSGN.S) on Monday unveiled details of its plan to raise 4 billion Swiss francs ($4.01 billion) from investors to support the embattled bank’s bid to tackle the biggest ...
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Elon Musk reached out to EU industry chief to pledge content policing compliance
Elon Musk has assured the European Commission that Twitter will abide by tough European rules on illegal online content policing now that the social network has passed under his ownership, ...
Europe-listed Brazil stocks, Petrobras slip after Lula election win
German-listed shares in Brazil’s state-run oil company Petrobras (PETR4.SA) slipped more than 7 per cent in early European trade after leftist leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva narrowly defeated ...
Italy’s Meloni picks Nazi-armband lawmaker as junior minister
Galeazzo Bignami, a lawmaker of the rightist Brothers of Italy party who sparked outrage in 2016 after a newspaper published a picture of him wearing a Nazi swastika on his left ...
UK home secretary complains of asylum seeker ‘invasion’
British Home Secretary Suella Braverman said the country faces an “invasion” from people travelling in small boats crossing the English Channel as she fought back against mounting pressure over her ...
North Korea demands the U.S., South Korea halt joint military drills
North Korea on Monday demanded that the United States and South Korea stop large-scale military exercises, calling them a provocation that may draw “more powerful follow-up measures” from Pyongyang.
“The ...
Gambia says it has not yet confirmed cough syrup as cause of child deaths
Gambia has not yet confirmed that toxic cough syrup was the cause of the deaths of 70 children from acute kidney injury, a representative of the country’s Medicines Control Agency ...
Ukraine says it will press on with Black Sea grain deal
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that his country would continue exporting grain from its Black Sea ports under a UN programme despite Russia’s pullout because the shipments ...
Trump’s company ‘cheated’ tax authorities, prosecutor says at trial
Former President Donald Trump’s real estate company cheated tax authorities for 15 years, a prosecutor said on Monday in her opening statement in the Trump Organization’s criminal tax fraud ...
US Supreme Court conservatives lean against race-conscious student admissions
Conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices signaled skepticism on Monday toward the legality of race-conscious admissions policies in cases involving Harvard University and the University of North Carolina that could ...
Belgium striker Lukaku injured again three weeks before World Cup
Inter Milan striker Romelu Lukaku has injured his hamstring again after making a comeback from two months on the sidelines, the Serie A club said on Monday, three weeks before ...
Oil slips on COVID curbs, weak factory activity data
Oil prices fell on Monday following weaker-than-expected factory activity data out of China and on concerns its widening COVID-19 curbs will curtail demand.
Brent crude futures dropped 63 cents, or 0.7 per ...
Klopp plays down talk of Liverpool decline
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp played down suggestions that his team are in decline, saying it is “not 100% fair” to judge the squad because they have had a number of injury ...
After weeks of chaos, Russia says partial mobilisation is complete
Russia has completed the partial military mobilisation announced by President Vladimir Putin in September, the Defence Ministry said on Monday.
“All activities related to the conscription … of citizens in the ...
Gap says Russia deliveries stopped in March. But its clothing kept coming.
In March, clothing retailer Gap Inc (GPS.N) joined numerous Western companies in announcing that it was halting deliveries to Russia to protest its invasion of Ukraine.
“As a values-led ...
Rebel LIV Golf vows next year will be bigger and better
LIV Golf crowned a first team champion to bring the controversial Saudi-backed series to a close at Trump National Doral on Sunday, declaring the inaugural season a huge success and ...
Suspect in attack on Pelosi’s husband to be formally charged
Criminal charges were expected to be filed on Monday against a man accused of attacking U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul with a hammer after forcing his ...
Iran charges 1,000 over unrest in Tehran
Iran will hold public trials of about 1,000 people charged in Tehran over unrest, a semi-official news agency said on Monday, as authorities step up efforts to crush more than six ...
Did Russia hack Truss’s phone? Kremlin dismisses media reports
The Kremlin on Monday dismissed a British media report that Liz Truss’s mobile telephone was hacked by Russian agents.
The Daily Mail reported on Saturday that Russian spies gained ...
In Australia, a hacking frenzy spurred by an undersized cybersecurity workforce
A swathe of hacks on some of Australia’s biggest companies has made the country a target for copycat attacks just as a skills shortage leaves an understaffed, overworked cybersecurity ...
Stocks rally wobbles as Fed hike draws near
Asian stock markets wobbled higher on Monday as hopes waned that the US Federal Reserve might take a less aggressive approach on rate hikes, while wheat leapt on Russia’s ...
Netanyahu pushes comeback bid in tight Israeli election race
Israelis vote for the fifth time in four years on Tuesday in an election in which former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s comeback bid may depend on a far-right party ...
Apple workers in Australia gear up for more strike action
Hundreds of Apple (AAPL.O) workers in Australia are set to strike again after almost two-thirds of employees rejected a pay and benefits deal, the latest escalation of a fight ...
Wimbledon win was huge confidence boost in tough year: Djokovic
Novak Djokovic said his Wimbledon triumph gave him a much-needed boost of confidence during a tough season and that it laid the platform for a strong finish to the year.
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