NatWest has confirmed it is closing 43 bank branches across the UK in the latest move to transition its banking services online. Just six jobs are expected to be put at risk as part of the closures and vulnerable customers ...
JAKARTA — Indonesian President Joko Widodo said he will order his administration to run a stress test to determine whether Southeast Asia’s largest economy could withstand significant economic shocks amid fears of a global recession. The comments came after the ...
RIGHT-WING conspiracy theorist Alex Jones must pay at least $965 million in damages to numerous families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook mass shooting for falsely claiming they were actors who faked the tragedy, a Connecticut jury said on ...
KYIV/BRUSSELS — Russian missiles pounded more than 40 Ukrainian cities and towns, officials said on Thursday, after a U.N. General Assembly resolution called Moscow’s annexation of Ukrainian territory “illegal” and Ukraine’s allies committed more military aid. Russia repeated its position ...
Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said the Government is focused on getting economic growth despite the market turbulence. Allies of Liz Truss have rallied round the Prime Minister after she came under intense pressure from her own MPs to abandon her ...
Signs of stress are growing in the global financial system, sparking worries over everything from contagion between markets to ruptures in financial products. The concerns come as central banks around the world furiously tighten monetary policy in their fight to ...
TAOYUAN, Taiwan — Taiwan began welcoming back visitors on Thursday after finally ending mandatory quarantines to control the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), with gifts of cuddly toy black bears for the first tour group that stepped off the ...
LONDON — The world’s wildlife populations have declined by more than two-thirds since 1970 as forests have been cleared and oceans polluted, according to an assessment released on Thursday. This “serious drop … tells us that nature is unraveling and ...
SINGAPORE/LONDON — China’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) importers will stay out of the spot market this winter as demand growth has skidded to the slowest since 2002, meaning the world’s top importer of the fuel will likely avoid competing with ...
WASHINGTON — The International Monetary Fund (IMF) backs moves by governments to tax companies’ excess profits, but believes such changes must be clearly communicated and cannot apply to already realized profits, the IMF’s top fiscal expert told Reuters. Vitor Gaspar, ...