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Britain’s financial markets watchdog on Tuesday confirmed that it will stop publishing the identity of stock market short sellers, as it set out details of a revised framework aimed ...

Hurricane Melissa churned toward Cuba’s second-largest city with the force of a powerful Category 4 storm on Tuesday, hours after making landfall in neighboring Jamaica as the strongest-ever cyclone on ...

Israeli planes launched strikes in Gaza on Tuesday after Israel accused the militant group Hamas of violating a ceasefire in the Palestinian territory, the latest test of a fragile deal ...

Hamas said it would hand over to Israel on Tuesday the body of a missing hostage found in a tunnel in Gaza, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the militant ...

U.S. President Donald Trump lavished praise on Japan’s first female leader Sanae Takaichi in Tokyo on Tuesday, welcoming the new prime minister’s pledge to accelerate a military ...

British retailers cut their prices in October, led by the biggest drop for food in almost five years, industry figures showed, offering a bit of relief to households before Halloween ...

Ten Hungarian and German tourists were killed along with a Kenyan pilot when a light aircraft crashed in Kenya on Tuesday. The plane was travelling from the resort town of ...

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) warned on Tuesday of catastrophic conditions in Jamaica as Hurricane Melissa makes landfall, bringing winds gusts exceeding 300 kilometres per hour, flash floods, and landslides, marking ...

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said on Tuesday that air traffic controller absences were continuing to snarl flights as they missed their first full paycheck and a government shutdown ...

Ukraine targeted Moscow with drone attacks for the second night in row, the Russian defence ministry and Moscow’s mayor said on Tuesday. The Russian defence ministry said in a ...

President Donald Trump lavished praise on Japan’s first female leader Sanae Takaichi in Tokyo on Tuesday, welcoming her pledge to accelerate a military buildup and signing deals on trade ...

Piraeus Bank has been upgraded to the investment-grade rating of ‘BBB-‘ by Fitch Ratings, marking a significant development as the bank is now assessed at investment grade by three of ...

Hurricane Melissa was packing sustained winds of up to 175 mph (282 kph) on Monday afternoon, as the slow-moving Category 5 storm was on course to barrel into Jamaica, in what could be ...

Russia’s second-largest oil producer, Lukoil LKOH.MM, said on Monday it would sell its international assets following sanctions over Ukraine announced last week by the United States. The planned ...

Amazon is planning to cut as many as 30,000 corporate jobs beginning on Tuesday, as the company works to pare expenses and compensate for overhiring during the peak demand of the ...

Leaders of Catalonia’s regional pro-independence party Junts agreed on Monday to withdraw support from Spain’s leftist government, further complicating its ability to pass the budget and other legislation. ...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer signed a deal on Monday in which Turkey bought 20 Eurofighter Typhoon jets for 8 billion pounds ($10.7 billion), his office said, deepening the NATO allies’ defence ties ...

Montenegro temporarily suspended a visa-free regime for Turkish nationals on Monday following a weekend of violence triggered by the stabbing of a Montenegrin man in the capital Podgorica by a ...

Ukraine is rushing to strengthen its positions in the strategic eastern transport hub of Pokrovsk as about 200 Russian troops have infiltrated the city in small groups, Kyiv’s military said ...

Italy’s chronic tax evasion started to rise again four years ago after years of declines, and has been worse than thought, the latest government data showed on Monday. Tax ...

British manufacturers are investing the least in new equipment relative to their sales since 2017, according to a report from trade body Make UK, which urged the government to streamline tax ...

Israel won’t accept the presence of Turkish armed forces in Gaza under a U.S. plan to end war in the Palestinian territory for good, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon ...

U.S. President Donald Trump received a royal welcome on Monday in Japan, the latest leg of a five-day Asia trip which he hopes to cap with an agreement on ...

Four migrants died when their boat sank off the Greek island of Lesbos, Greece’s coastguard said on Monday, adding seven had been rescued from the sea. “We recovered four ...