LONDON (Reuters) – The Bank of England might need to raise interest rates in the coming months, according to the rate-setter who was previously most strongly in favour of keeping borrowing costs at their record low.
KABUL (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s plans to step up air strikes on Islamist militants in Afghanistan risk increasing civilian casualties and stirring resentment, despite an initial welcome by Afghan officials and international allies.
MADRID (Reuters) – Catalonia’s governor and the mayor of its biggest city Barcelona have appealed to Spain’s premier and king for dialogue to resolve an increasingly bitter tussle over a planned vote on regional independence, a letter showed on Friday….
LONDON (Reuters) – The UK’s top share index fell to a four-month low on Friday, continuing to feel the pressure from a rise in sterling on its largely dollar-earning constituents with financials and commodities firms the biggest drags.
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s markets watchdog has rejected calls to publish a report into allegations Royal Bank of Scotland bankrupted small companies to pick up their assets on the cheap, saying it would instead release a detailed summary soon.
PARIS/FRANKFURT (Reuters) – The battle over how and where Europeans charge their electric cars is expanding from the continent’s cities to its motorways.
LONDON (Reuters) – Nurses, midwives and cleaners working in Britain’s publicly-funded National Health Service (NHS) called on ministers to boost their salaries by 3.9 percent, in the latest push against a government-imposed cap on pay rises.
YANGON (Reuters) – Myanmar insisted on Friday it was not barring aid workers from Rakhine State, where a counter-insurgency campaign has sparked an exodus of Muslim Rohingya refugees, but said authorities on the ground might restrict access for securit…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States extended sanctions relief for Iran under the 2015 nuclear deal on Thursday, the State Department said, but no decision on whether to preserve the deal itself has yet been made.
BERLIN (Reuters) – Later this year, Angela Merkel may form a new government with a party whose leader says Greece should leave the euro, Russia can keep Crimea and refugees will have to go home.