MOSCOW (AP) — Before he was killed by a sniper in Syria at age 23, Ivan Slyshkin wrote a poignant message on social media to his fiancee: “We will see each other soon — and I will hold you as tight as I possibly can.” But Slyshkin’s name won’t be found among the Russian Defense […]
PARIS (Reuters) – All French children under the age of 16 will have to seek parental approval to open an account on Facebook or any other social network under draft legislation presented on Wednesday. The requirement is part of a French bill that seeks to adapt data privacy regulations and improve access to the information […]
Ryanair Holdings Plc’s winter of discontent is coming. Unhappy with their working conditions and the budget airline’s refusal to recognize collective bargaining, pilots are set to strike for the first time in Europe in the run-up to Christmas. A reckoning with Ryanair’s much-imitated strain of uncompromising capitalism was overdue — but it’s unlikely to be […]
YANGON (Reuters) – Myanmar’s government said on Wednesday that police had arrested two Reuters journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo. The reporters had been working on stories about a military crackdown on the Rohingya Muslim minority in Rahkine State that has caused almost 650,000 people to flee to neighboring Bangladesh. The Ministry of Information […]
LONDON (Reuters) – Some building companies that installed dangerous cladding on social housing blocks across Britain are now winning new contracts following the Grenfell Tower blaze to remove their original work and install panels that can pass safety tests, a Reuters review shows. The safety of high-rise buildings has come under scrutiny since the Grenfell […]
SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea said on Wednesday it may tax capital gains from cryptocurrency trading as global regulators worried about a bubble, with Australia’s central bank chief warning of a ‘speculative mania” that has seen the digital asset making rip-roaring gains. As bitcoin futures made their world debut on a U.S. stock exchange this […]
Luke Harding, journalist and author of “Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win,” explains what it was like to live in Moscow under FSB surveillance. Following is a transcript of the video. Luke Harding: My name is Luke Harding. I’m a journalist and a writer, and my new book is called “Collusion,” […]
REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — For nine years in a row, the World Economic Forum has ranked Iceland as having the world’s smallest gender-equality gap, and for about as long gender studies professor Gyda Margret Petursdottir has been asked how the Nordic island nation became such a paradise for women. Her reply: “It isn’t.” Iceland has […]
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Tweets by U.S. President Donald Trump are viewed in Moscow as his official position and read by his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin said on Tuesday. A prolific user of Twitter before he was elected late last year, Trump has continued to use the social media platform to voice his views […]
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Tweets by U.S. President Donald Trump are viewed in Moscow as his official position and read by his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin said on Tuesday. A prolific user of Twitter before he was elected late last year, Trump has continued to use the social media platform to voice his views […]
Unibail-Rodamco SE, Europe’s largest commercial landlord, agreed to buy Australia’s Westfield Corp. for about A$21 billion ($15.8 billion) in the biggest property acquisition since 2013 as declining store sales push mall operators worldwide to merge. The Paris-based company offered a combination of cash and stock that values Westfield at A$10.01 per share, or about 18 […]
PARIS (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron delivered a bleak assessment on the global fight against climate change to dozens of world leaders and company executives on Tuesday, telling them: “We are losing the battle”. “We’re not moving quickly enough. We all need to act,” Macron said, seeking to breathe new life into a collective […]
Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander Qassem Soleimani says his nation is ready to support Palestinian forces in the Gaza Strip, days after the U.S. recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. Soleimani, commander of the Al Quds force, made the offer in a phone call late Monday with leaders of groups in Gaza, according to the Revolutionary Guard […]
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore launched on Tuesday its first large-scale electric car-sharing program through which the land-scarce city-state hopes to provide commuters with more transport options and steer them away from the need to buy their own cars. The service, which will be run for a decade by BlueSG, a unit of France’s Bollore Group […]
PARDUBICE, Czech Republic — As dusk settled over the rambling Czech countryside, a group of haggard workers emerged from a dank three-story concrete dormitory and jammed into buses. The evening shift was about to begin at two nearby factories owned by Foxconn and Panasonic. Most of the workers had been recruited from Romania, Bulgaria and […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A company promoting a plan for the United States and Russia to jointly build nuclear reactors in the Middle East denied in a letter made public on Monday that its director received an Inauguration Day text message from incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn saying the project was “good to go.” Citing […]
Walt Disney Co. may announce a deal as soon as this week to acquire a large piece of 21st Century Fox Inc., according to a person familiar with the matter, transferring legendary Hollywood properties to new owners. Comcast Corp., the other major contender for the Fox assets, said Monday it’s no longer in the running. […]
The bond market thinks creditors to troubled South African retailer Steinhoff International Holdings NV could get around half their money back. Yet the stock market sees value in the equity — about 2.3 billion euros ($2.7 billion) worth. It’s common in distressed situations for the equity and debt to trade inconsistently, but the disconnect is stark. […]
The Pe a Corsica nationalist party candidates celebrate celebrate after the announcement of the results in the territorial elections in Bastia on the French Mediterranean Island of Corsica. A coalition of movements pushing for greater autonomy for Corsica will dominate a newly constituted assembly on the French Mediterranean island, giving it the legitimacy to push Paris […]
BERLIN (Reuters) – Troubled international retail conglomerate Steinhoff (SNHJ.J) (SNHG.DE), whose shares plunged last week after disclosing accounting problems, said on Sunday it had appointed two advisory firms ahead of a meeting with lenders on Dec. 19. The South African company said it has appointed U.S. investment bank Moelis & Co (MC.N) to advise the […]
Europe has sought to combat such practices by adoptingnet neutrality rules aimed at ensuring that I.S.P.s in the bloc’s 28 member states can’t pick the web’s winners and losers. The regulations are binding and enforced by each country’s national telecom regulators. For the European Union’s sprawling market of over 500 million citizens, the rules have […]
LONDON (Reuters) – Uber [UBER.UL] will defend its right to operate in London in court next year after the app was deemed unfit to run a taxi service and stripped of its license in its most important European market. Regulator Transport for London (TfL) shocked the Silicon Valley firm by rejecting its license renewal bid […]
PARIS (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron told Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday that he needed to make gestures to the Palestinians to enable to break the impasse between the two sides. Netanyayu was in Paris ahead of a meeting with EU foreign ministers on Monday when they will try present a unified […]
HELSINKI (AP) — In a story Dec. 10, The Associated Press reported that the fire-bombing of a synagogue in Goteborg was the second anti-Jewish attack in Sweden in as many days. The
Britain wants a trade deal with the European Union that includes the best parts of the bloc’s agreements with Japan, Canada and South Korea, along with financial services, Brexit Secretary David Davis said, showing optimism a pact can be struck within a year. The chances of the U.K. leaving the EU without a deal, defaulting […]
BERLIN (Reuters) – Germany’s intelligence service has published the details of social network profiles which it says are fronts faked by Chinese intelligence to gather personal information about German officials and politicians. The BfV domestic intelligence service took the unusual step of naming individual profiles it says are fake and fake organizations to warn public […]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two minor tremors were detected on Saturday from near North Korea’s nuclear test site and were probably aftershocks from the country’s massive nuclear test in early September, a U.S. Geological Survey official said. The aftershocks, of magnitude 2.9 and 2.4, were detected at 0613 and 0640 GMT (1:13 a.m. and 1:40 a.m. […]
PARIS (AP) — France bid farewell to its biggest rock star Saturday, honoring Johnny Hallyday with an extravagant funeral procession down Paris’ Champs-Elysees Avenue, a presidential speech and a televised church ceremony filled with the country’s most famous faces. Few figures in French history have earned a send-off with as much pomp as the man […]
If David Tran were a more conventional CEO, he would be a fixture at conferences, a darling of magazine profiles, and a subject of case studies in the Harvard Business Review. Sriracha hot sauce, made by Huy Fong Foods, which Tran founded 33 years ago in Los Angeles, is one of the coolest brands in […]
PRAGUE (Reuters) – The designated Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis said that the European Union should not push Czechs over their refusal to shelter asylum-seekers, because it could strengthen extremist parties in the country. The European Union’s executive will sue Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic in the bloc’s top court for their refusal to […]
When you’re dreaming up the best places and hotels to visit in the year ahead, a luxurious Parisian suite with gilded ceilings and gigantic bathtub or a sandy beach-side resort in Bali might come to mind. But it’s the stripped back, industrial Rooms Hotel in Tbilisi, Georgia that has been voted the one hotel in the world […]
It looks like Spotify AB really is going to go public by doing a direct listing on a U.S. stock exchange, and I am starting to get excited. The idea of a direct listing is that, instead of doing an underwritten initial public offering in which sellers (Spotify and its founders and early investors) decide how much they want […]
A chief executive officer quits amid a probe of accounting irregularities; the stock falls 72 percent in a day; a results announcement is delayed by criminal and tax investigations. You wouldn’t think there’s much in the experience of the acquisitive retail conglomerate Steinhoff International Holdings NV that would be of use to its deal-hungry Chinese peer HNA […]
Follow @Brexit for all the latest news, and sign up to our daily Brexit Bulletin newsletter. U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May managed to kick the Irish border question far enough down the road to allow Brexit talks to move on. But Arlene Foster, who keeps her in power, hasn’t gone away. In the deal agreed […]
EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker speaks to reporters on reaching a deal with the U.K. on the Irish border. Follow @Brexit for all the latest news, and sign up to our daily Brexit Bulletin newsletter. The U.K. and the European Union struck a deal to unlock divorce negotiations, opening the way for talks on what […]
The country is expected to have over 10 gigawatts of photovoltaic installations by 2020
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House is confident it can craft a deal to avoid a government shutdown and foresees a compromise with lawmakers that will include increases in defense and non-defense spending, White House legislative affairs director Marc Short said on Thursday. In an interview with Reuters, Short also said Trump wanted a corporate […]
What would dampen a buyer’s enthusiasm for Bitcoin, the cryptocurrency whose uncharted, speculative price bubble has eclipsed history’s tulip manias and gold rushes? Three things come to mind: a security breach or theft, a major retailer warning against its patchy record as a method of payment, and a cooling of Wall Street’s already frosty view […]
MEXICO CITY/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Didi Chuxing, China’s ride-hailing behemoth, plans to expand into Mexico next year, intensifying its global rivalry with Uber, according to two sources familiar with the plans. Didi has spoken before of global ambitions, but has not formally announced where or when it would expand. The Chinese company is the second-most […]
Nearly $64m in bitcoin has been stolen by hackers who broke into Slovenian-based bitcoin mining marketplace NiceHash. The marketplace suspended operations on Thursday while it investigated the breach, saying it was working with law enforcement as “a matter of urgency” while urging users to change their passwords. The hack was “a highly professional attack with […]