UK’s Hunt says his budget will get more people into work
By William Schomberg and Sarah Young
British finance minister Jeremy Hunt said he would use this week’s budget plan to remove barriers, including high childcare costs, that are stopping ...
Champagne carpet and crisis team ready for Oscars celebration
Hollywood stars will walk a champagne-colored carpet at the Oscars on Sunday when organizers aim to keep the spotlight on “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” “Top Gun: Maverick” and other ...
UK races to minimise damage from Silicon Valley Bank collapse
British finance minister Jeremy Hunt said on Sunday he was working with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey to “avoid or minimise damage” resulting from ...
Finding Covid-19’s origins is a moral imperative: WHO’s Tedros
Discovering the origins of COVID-19 is a moral imperative and all hypotheses must be explored, the head of the World Health Organization said, in his strongest comments yet that the ...
China chooses continuity, retaining central bank chief, finance minister
China unexpectedly kept its central bank governor and finance minister in their posts at the annual session of the rubber-stamp parliament on Sunday, prioritising continuity as economic challenges loom at ...
More than 1,300 migrants brought ashore in Italy after multiple rescues
More than 1,300 migrants have been rescued in three separate operations off the southern tip of Italy, the coastguard said on Saturday, two weeks after at least 74 people died when their ...
France faces another day of nationwide protests against Macron’s pension plans
France faced a seventh day of demonstrations on Saturday against President Emmanuel Macron’s unpopular pension reform plans amid ongoing rolling strikes which have affected refineries, public transport and garbage ...
Li Qiang becomes China’s premier, tasked with reviving economy
Li Qiang, the former Communist Party chief of Shanghai, took office on Saturday as China’s premier, the country’s No.2 post, putting the close ally of President Xi Jinping ...
Silicon Valley Bank is largest failure since 2008 crisis, billions stranded (update1)
Startup-focused lender SVB Financial Group SIVB.O became the largest bank to fail since the 2008 financial crisis on Friday, in a sudden collapse that roiled global markets, left billions of ...
Blast in Afghanistan’s northern Balkh province kills one, injures five
A blast hit the capital of Afghanistan’s northern Balkh province on Saturday, police said, killing one person and wounding five a few days after the death of the province’...
Varoufakis attacked in Athens restaurant, suffers broken nose
Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis was attacked outside a restaurant in Athens on Friday night, suffering a broken nose, cuts and bruises.
According to the Greek Reporter website, the ...
Indian police arrest three after man killed for possessing beef
Police in India have arrested three men in eastern Bihar state in connection with the death of a Muslim man who was attacked because he was suspected of carrying beef, ...
Lineker pulled from BBC presenting after migration row
Former England soccer captain Gary Lineker has been taken off air by the BBC after his comments on Britain’s migration policy sparked a furious row between the government and ...
German police say “multiple” hostages held at Karlsruhe pharmacy
German police said “multiple” hostages were being held in an ongoing hostage situation at a pharmacy in the southwestern German city of Karlsruhe on Friday but that there was no ...
Iran and Saudi Arabia agree to resume ties in talks brokered by China
Iran and Saudi Arabia agreed on Friday to re-establish relations after years of hostility that had threatened stability and security in the Gulf and helped fuel conflicts in the Middle ...
British unions lose legal challenge over $23 bln pension reform bill
Two British trade unions on Friday lost a legal challenge to changes to public sector pensions they argue allows the government to unlawfully pass the 19-billion-pound ($23 billion) cost of discriminatory ...
Eight Larnaca to Piraeus ferry trips in August and September
A total of eight ferry trips will run in August and September from the port of Larnaca to Piraeus, it was announced on Friday during a press conference for the ...
Banking regulators shutter SVB, collapse unnerves investors
California banking regulators on Friday moved quickly to close startup-focused lender SVB Financial Group SIVB.O, the largest bank failure since the financial crisis, a sudden collapse that prompted the ...
Trump cannot exclude ‘Access Hollywood’ tape from rape accuser’s trial
A U.S. judge on Friday rejected Donald Trump’s effort to exclude an “Access Hollywood” tape of him making vulgar comments about women from a defamation lawsuit by the ...
Offshore workers to strike at UK continental shelf, says Unite
British union Unite on Friday said several Sparrows offshore services workers have voted to strike at dozens of platforms on the UK continental shelf including those of BP BP.L ...
Anonymous tip-off, German gun laws failed to stop slaughter at Jehovah’s Witnesses hall
A deadly rampage at a Jehovah’s Witnesses hall in Hamburg has put scrutiny on how the gunman was in legal possession of a semi-automatic pistol despite Germany’s tightened ...
German gunman kills six, unborn child, at Jehovah’s Witness hall – police
A gunman in Germany shot dead six people before killing himself at a Jehovah’s Witness worship hall in Hamburg, authorities said on Friday, in an attack that is bound ...
Guardiola warns players to be careful in public as police investigate Walker
Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola warned his players to be more careful when out in public after defender Kyle Walker became the subject of a police investigation for allegedly exposing ...
Zelenskiy leads tributes to revered Ukrainian fighter killed in Bakhmut
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy led tributes on Friday to Dmytro Kotsiubailo, a renowned commander known as “Da Vinci” who won public affection for committing his entire adult life to fighting ...