LONDON – The BBC is reporting that several of its highest-paid male broadcasters have agreed to take a pay cut after revelations of a gender divide in salaries. Continue Reading Below The BBC said Friday that radio hosts Jeremy Vine and John Humphrys and TV news anchorman Huw Edwards had […]
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British economy picked up at end of 2017
LONDON – The British economy picked up some speed at the end of 2017, which was otherwise a year that saw it slow amid uncertainties over Brexit. Continue Reading Below The Office for National Statistics said Friday that the economy grew by 0.5 percent in the fourth quarter compared with […]
WEF co-chair says Trump has helped to unleash a ‘wave of misogyny’
President Donald Trump has created, along with other male leaders, a wave of misogyny around the world, one of the co-chairs at the World Economic Forum (WEF) told CNBC on Friday morning. Sharan Burrow, the general secretary of International Trade Union Confederation and one of the seven female co-chairs of […]
UK Brexit chief pledges host of new trade deals for Britain
LONDON – Britain’s top Brexit official says the U.K. will be able to strike new trade deals outside the European Union as soon as it leaves the bloc next year — even though it will remain bound to EU customs and market rules for some two years after 2019. Continue […]
Fire at hospital kills 39, injures scores in South Korea
A fire spread flames and smoke through a South Korean hospital Friday morning, killing at least 39 people, mainly from suffocation, and injuring nearly 130 others in one of the country’s deadliest blazes in years. The dead included three hospital staff and several people in an intensive-care unit for respiratory […]
Trump to tell Davos he won’t tolerate trade abuses, IP theft
U.S. President Donald Trump arrives. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse January 26, 2018 By Steve Holland DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump will urge a top-level gathering of political leaders and chief executives on Friday that his administration will not tolerate intellectual property theft and trade abuses, a senior U.S. official […]
Leaders promise swift end to Germany’s four-month limbo
Germany’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) leader Martin Schulz and SPD parliamentary group leader Andrea Nahles attend a parliamentary group meeting in Berlin, Germany, January 22, 2018. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke January 26, 2018 By Thomas Escritt BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives opened coalition talks with their Social Democrat (SPD) […]
Exclusive: Despite sanctions, North Korea exported coal to South and Japan via Russia – intelligence sources
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gives field guidance at the Pyongyang Pharmaceutical Factory, in this undated photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang January 25, 2018. KCNA / via REUTERS January 26, 2018 By Guy Faulconbridge, Jonathan Saul and Polina Nikolskaya PARIS/LONDON/MOSCOW (Reuters) – […]
Trump says he knows “nothing about” anti-Islam group he retweeted
DAVOS — U.S. President Donald Trump has apologized for the first time for retweeting a British far-right group’s videos apparently showing Islamist violence, in an ITV interview aired in Britain on Friday. “If you’re telling me they’re horrible racist people, I would certainly apologize if you’d like me to do […]
Trump is changing the mood on tax in Europe, says Ireland’s finance chief
Leaders of major economies like President Donald Trump are making the case for lower corporate taxes and Europe should pay attention, Irish Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe told CNBC at the World Economic Forum on Friday. Asked if he believed Trump was setting an example on tax policy, Donohoe was positive. […]