LONDON (Reuters) – Britain unexpectedly posted its smallest budget deficit for any August since 2007, helped by record sales tax revenues that could give Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond room to relax his grip on spending in an upcoming budge…
TAIPEI/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google said it would pay $1.1 billion (816 million pounds) for the division at Taiwan’s HTC Corp that develops the U.S. firm’s Pixel smartphones – its second major foray into phone hardware after an earli…
PARIS (Reuters) – The right-hand man of French National Front chief Marine Le Pen quit the party on Thursday, a split that opens the way for policy changes in the far-right party and shows the depth of internal feuding after Le Pen’s presidential elect…
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia said on Thursday it had warned the United States it would target areas in Syria where U.S. special forces and U.S.-backed militia were operating if its own forces came under fire from them, something it said had already happen…
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) – Hurricane Maria thrashed parts of the Dominican Republic with heavy rain and high winds as it passed near its east and north coasts on Thursday after making a direct hit on Puerto Rico that caused severe flooding and c…
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Rescuers laboured against long odds into the dawn on Thursday to save a 12-year-old schoolgirl and untold other survivors who may be trapped beneath crumpled buildings in central Mexico following the country’s deadliest earthqua…
SITTWE, Myanmar (Reuters) – Buddhist protesters in Myanmar threw petrol bombs to try to block a shipment of aid to Muslims in Rakhine state, where the United Nations has accused the military of ethnic cleansing, before police fired in the air to dispe…
LONDON (Reuters) – British detectives have arrested a 17-year-old youth in connection with a bomb attack on an underground train in London last week that injured 30 people, bringing the total number of arrests to six, police said on Thursday.
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s embattled Toshiba Corp has selected a group led by U.S. private equity firm Bain Capital to buy its prized memory chip unit, three people with knowledge of the talks said on Wednesday.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – At least 149 people were killed by a powerful earthquake that struck central Mexico on Tuesday, the nation’s civil protection agency said.