LONDON (Reuters) – The location of TikTok owner ByteDance’s headquarters is a commercial decision for the company to make, a spokesman for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday, responding to a report that the firm could move to London. “It would... More »
HONG KONG (Reuters) – China has appointed a slate of new officials to head the world’s top gambling hub of Macau, changing key roles including the city’s economy and justice secretaries. The appointments in Macau, a special administrative region of China, come... More »
PARIS (Reuters) – The French finance minister on Sunday raised the pressure on Air France managers and unions to resolve a stand-off over wages, saying the government would not ride to the carrier’s rescue as it grapples with worker strikes and a leadership va... More »
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Friday named Interior Minister Sandor Pinter and Economy Minister Mihaly Varga as deputy prime ministers in his new government. Orban, re-elected in an April landslide that gave his ruling Fidesz pa... More »
WASHINGTON, Michigan (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday threatened to shut down the federal government in September if Congress did not provide more funding to build a wall on the border with Mexico. “That wall has started, we have 1.6 billion... More »
SEOUL (Reuters) – The South Korean government said on Monday it would join forces to help normalize General Motors Co’s South Korean unit. The government said in a statement that it respected a tentative wage deal struck between the company and the union. Sour... More »
HELSINKI (Reuters) – Finnish police reprimanded a man for traveling in a car boot to hide his meeting with Prime Minister Juha Sipila during a government crisis last summer, saying this was breach of the traffic code. A police statement did not name the man in... More »
HELSINKI (Reuters) – Finnish police reprimanded a man for traveling in a car boot to hide his meeting with Prime Minister Juha Sipila during a government crisis last summer, saying this was breach of the traffic code. A police statement did not name the man in... More »
Newley-elected chairman of the Finns Party and Member of the European Parliament Jussi Halla-aho delivers his speech at the Finns Party congress in Jyvaskyla, Finland June 11, 2017. LEHTIKUVA/Jussi Nukari via REUTERS Heads of the three co-ruling Finnish partie... More »
The Finns candidate Jussi Halla-aho speaks at the European Parliament election event in Helsinki, May 25, 2014. REUTERS/Jussi Nukari/Lehtikuva A front-runner in the race to lead Finland’s second-biggest political party told national media on Tuesday that he wo... More »
The Syrian government has called on the United Nations to force Turkey to pull “its invasion forces” out of Syria, state media said on Friday. More »
Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong speaks at the International Conference on The Future of Asia in Tokyo, Japan, September 29, 2016. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon The United States’ pull-out from the Trans Pacific Partnership hurt confidence in American polic... More »
Libya’s U.N.-backed government has appointed a finance minister and deputy finance minister in a move it hopes will unlock crucial funding from the central bank and revive its flagging fortunes. More »
The Deutsche Bank headquarters are seen in Frankfurt, Germany October 29, 2015. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach/File Photo There is no reason for speculation about possible German state aid for Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE), a spokesman for Angela Merkel said on Monday, co... More »
LISBON Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho, whose government faces a vote that may topple it in the opposition-dominated parliament, warned on Monday that leaving the path of reforms and meeting euro zone commitments would be ruinous for Portugal. “The choice w... More »
WARSAWPolish election winner, the conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party, plans to present the composition of the new cabinet at about 1230 GMT (0730 ET), the party’s spokeswoman Elzbieta Witek said on Monday. The party called earlier on Monday a news confer... More »
Even if U.S. lawmakers avoid the so-called fiscal cliff, higher taxes and brinksmanship in Washington are likely to continue damaging the fragile economy well into 2013. In the early hours of the new year, the Senate passed emergency legislation to prevent dee... More »
