Britain’s Finance Minister Philip Hammond prepares his 2017 budget speech in his office in Downing Street, London, November 21, 2017. REUTERS/Christopher Furlong/Pool November 22, 2017 By William Schomberg and David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) – Britain slashed its official forecasts for economic growth and expects to borrow sharply more going into […]
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North Korea: Terror relisting ‘disgraceful behavior’ by Trump
November 22, 2017 SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korea responded on Wednesday to U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to relist the county as a state sponsor of terrorism, calling it a “grave provocation and aggressive violation”, North Korean state media reported. Trump put North Korea back on a list of state […]
EU fines five car airbag, seatbelt suppliers over cartel
FILE PHOTO: A woman stands next to a logo of Takata Corp at a showroom for vehicles in Tokyo, Japan, November 6, 2015. REUTERS/Toru Hanai/File Photo November 22, 2017 BRUSSELS (Reuters) – EU antitrust regulators fined five car safety equipment makers a total of 34 million euros ($40.0 million) on […]
Sechin not able to appear in court in Ulyukayev’s trial this year: judge
Rosneft Chief Executive Igor Sechin delivers a speech at the Zvezda shipyard in the far eastern town of Bolshoy Kamen, Russia September 8, 2017. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin November 22, 2017 MOSCOW (Reuters) – Igor Sechin, the chief executive of Russian oil major Rosneft, will not be able to appear in court […]
Turkey expects S-400 defense system from Russia in 2019: minister
FILE PHOTO: Russian S-400 air defence mobile missile launching systems drive during a rehearsal for the Victory Day parade in Red Square in central Moscow, Russia, May 7, 2015. REUTERS/Grigory Dukor November 22, 2017 ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey expects to receive the first Russian S-400 surface-to-air missiles in 2019, Defence […]
Ex-Bosnian Serb commander Mladic faces verdict in genocide trial
Fikret Alic, one of the survivors of concentration camps shows his photo on the cover of Time before the trial of former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic before a court at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in the Hague, Netherlands, November 22, 2017. REUTERS/Michael Kooren […]
Kuwait’s Emir in hospital for medical checks after cold: agency
FILE PHOTO: Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah addresses a plenary meeting of the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit 2015 at the United Nations headquarters in Manhattan, New York September 26, 2015. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri November 22, 2017 KUWAIT (Reuters) – Kuwait’s elderly ruler, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber al-Sabah, was […]
Uniper to cut 2,000 jobs in cost-cutting drive: paper
FILE PHOTO: The flag of Uniper SE flutters in front of the utility’s firm headquarters previously used by German utility giant E.ON in Duesseldorf, Germany, June 8, 2016. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay/File Photo November 22, 2017 FRANKFURT (Reuters) – German energy group Uniper <UN01.DE> is cutting a total of around 2,000 jobs, […]
Hariri, back in Beirut, attends national day parade
Saad al-Hariri, who announced his resignation as Lebanon’s prime minister from Saudi Arabia, is seen at the grave of his father, assassinated former Lebanese prime minister Rafik al-Hariri, in downtown Beirut November 21, 2017. REUTERS/Jamal Saidi November 22, 2017 BEIRUT (Reuters) – Saad al-Hariri attended independence day celebrations in Beirut […]
World Bank sees no slowing in Cambodia’s strong growth
Labourers work on a new building at a construction site in Phnom Penh, Cambodia October 25, 2017. REUTERS/Samrang Pring November 22, 2017 PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – Cambodia’s economy is forecast to grow 6.9 percent next year, compared with a projected 6.8 percent pace in 2017, despite risks including uncertainties over […]