Russian strategic bombers deal new strikes on IS
The Russian military says its strategic bombers have struck targets in Syria in a third straight day of a heavy bombing blitz.
The Russian military says its strategic bombers have struck targets in Syria in a third straight day of a heavy bombing blitz.
China cut interest rates Thursday on loans by small lenders that finance the country's entrepreneurs in a new move to shore up lackluster economic growth.
Euro zone bond yields fall as the prospect of an imminent U.S. rate hike failed to shake investor confidence that the ECB is just weeks away from announcing further stimulus. Minutes from the last ECB policy meeting offer indications on their next move. David Pollard reports
Euro zone bond yields fall as the prospect of an imminent U.S. rate hike failed to shake investor confidence that the ECB is just weeks away from announcing further stimulus. Minutes from the last ECB policy meeting offer indications on their next move. David Pollard reports
The U.S. largest retailer warns that revenue growth in the holiday quarter will fall. But one analyst sees this as a buying opportunity. Fred Katayama reports.
The U.S. largest retailer warns that revenue growth in the holiday quarter will fall. But one analyst sees this as a buying opportunity. Fred Katayama reports.
The U.S. largest retailer warns that revenue growth in the holiday quarter will fall. But one analyst sees this as a buying opportunity. Fred Katayama reports.
LONDON/FRANKFURT, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Dialog Semiconductor's shareholders on Thursday approved a $4.6 billion acquisition of U.S. chip-making peer Atmel, dealing a blow to hedge fund Elliott in its bid to derail the deal.
COLUMBIA, S.C. — A restaurant owner is the latest person to plead guilty in an immigration scheme that brought down South Carolina’s longest-serving sheriff.
BERLIN (Reuters) - Russia will need to prove its commitment to anti-doping according to a set of 'robust' verification criteria if its track and field athletes are to return to the competitions, world athletics (IAAF) chief Sebastian Coe said on Thursday.
CAIRO, Nov 19 (Reuters) - Moscow and Cairo signed an agreement on Thursday for Russia to build a nuclear power plant in Egypt, with Russia extending a loan to Egypt to cover the cost of construction.
Nov 19 (Reuters) - Shares of media mogul Barry Diller's Match Group Inc, the owner of popular dating site Match.com and mobile app Tinder, rose as much as 12.5 percent in their market debut on Thursday, valuing the company at about $3 billion.
Asia-Pacific leaders called Thursday for governments to urgently increase cooperation in the fight against terrorism as they wrapped up annual talks haunted by the Paris attacks.
LONDON (Reuters) - The French national anthem will be played before all of England's top-flight football matches this weekend, the Premier League said on Thursday.
(Reuters) - Pfizer Inc is negotiating a break-up fee in the range of 2 to 3 percent of the value of its roughly $150 billion (98 billion pounds) potential acquisition of Allergan Plc , proportionally in line with other deals, people familiar with the matter said.
Top officials at the European Central Bank debated expanding monetary stimulus for the eurozone economy at their last meeting - before deciding to hold off any changes until December.
Just a few miles from the gleaming venue hosting President Barack Obama and other world leaders sits Manila's slum of slums on a mountain of trash, a potent reminder to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation bloc that...
LONDON (Reuters) - British police said they had arrested a Libyan man on Thursday over his suspected role in the murder of unarmed policewoman Yvonne Fletcher, who was shot dead outside the Libyan embassy in London in 1984.
LONDON (Reuters) - British police said they had arrested a Libyan man on Thursday over his suspected role in the murder of unarmed policewoman Yvonne Fletcher, who was shot dead outside the Libyan embassy in London in 1984.
Romanian firefighting authorities have uncovered thousands of fire safety violations in a range of buildings following a nightclub blaze last month in which at least 57 people died.
SOFIA/WARSAW (Reuters) - A bomb threat that turned out to be a hoax, made by a "joking" Polish passenger, forced an airliner flying from Warsaw to Egypt to make an emergency landing in Bulgaria on Thursday.
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian police carried out a series of raids in Brussels on Thursday to find information related to one of the Paris suicide bombers and detained a total of nine people, federal prosecutors said.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Intel Corp could relocate its drone research and development operations overseas if the federal government adopts an "overly prescriptive" approach to unmanned aerial systems technology, an Intel executive told U.S. lawmakers on Thursday.
The Vatican says it's going ahead with plans for Pope Francis to visit the conflict-wracked Central African Republic next week, but that his top bodyguard is doing an unusual, last-minute on-site survey early in the week.
Europe's migrant crisis will be resolved at the EU's exterior border and beyond, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Austrian counterpart said Thursday.