LONDON (Reuters) - When fears of a Greek default are mounting, stock markets are jittery at multi-year highs, and the world's biggest economy is preparing to hike interest rates, the idea of taking refuge in bank stocks might appear to be a hard sell.
LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - European Union foreign ministers extended economic sanctions on Russia over its involvement in Ukraine by six months until the end of January 2016, an EU official said.
A new Jordanian think tank that focuses on Israel is tucked away on the seventh floor of a glass-fronted Amman office building, without a sign announcing the presence of the Center for Israel Studies.
A lawyer for a detained Al-Jazeera journalist says a court in Berlin will check the validity of the Egyptian arrest warrant that led Germany to hold his client for two days.
(Reuters) - Ferrero International SA, the Italian maker of Ferrero Rocher chocolates, offered to buy chocolate maker Thorntons Plc for about 111.9 million pounds to broaden its offerings in Britain.
COLOMBO, June 22 (Reuters) - The Sri Lankan spot rupee traded 0.15 percent firmer on Monday as a state bank, through which the central bank usually directs the market, raised its dollar selling rate by 20 cents to 133.90 in dull trade, dealers said.
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Читать дальше...SYDNEY, June 22 (Reuters) - Zijin Mining Group launched a bid for Australian gold explorer Phoenix Gold on Monday, the Chinese company's third planned acquisition of a foreign mining asset in less than a month.
LUXEMBOURG, June 22 (Reuters) - European Union foreign ministers extended economic sanctions on Russia over its involvement in Ukraine by six months until the end of January 2016, an EU official said.
June 22 (Reuters) - Ferrero International SA, the Italian maker of Ferrero Rocher chocolates, offered to buy chocolate maker Thorntons Plc for about 111.9 million pounds ($177.85 million) to broaden its offerings in Britain.
ATHENS, June 22 (Reuters) - Any deal Greece signs with its creditors to avoid default must be in line with the pledges the ruling party was elected on in January, the deputy labour minister said ahead of an emergency summit of European ministers on Monday.
The Independent can reveal that Manchester United are looking to sign Real Madrid defender Sergio Ramos in the deal that will see David De Gea move in the other direction. Follow the latest:
Читать дальше...LONDON (Reuters) - As the big global banks and investment houses see it, almost every outcome of Greece's stand-off with its creditors leads to a weaker euro. So why isn't the single currency falling?
Manchester United great Dwight Yorke has urged his former club to sign Gareth Bale this summer.
Congress' upheaval over trade has exposed turmoil within a House Democratic caucus that's grown smaller and more liberal in recent years as moderates have been ousted in successive election bloodlettings.
BEIJING (Reuters) - A county in the heavily Muslim southern part of China's unruly region of Xinjiang has held a beer festival in the run-up to the holy month of Ramadan, the government said, in what an exiled group called an open provocation.
LONDON/ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - A global group of government anti-money-laundering agencies said that financial institutions have not done enough to police suspicious financial activity by officials at football's global governing body FIFA, and cautioned banks to step up scrutiny.
LONDON/ST. LOUIS (Reuters) - A global group of government anti-money-laundering agencies said that financial institutions have not done enough to police suspicious financial activity by officials at football's global governing body FIFA, and cautioned banks to step up scrutiny.
The Glasgow student – who has not been heard from since he was ‘forcibly’ removed from the country by a non-commercial military flight – is said to have called his lecturer hours beforehand to tell her he was ‘scared’.
DHAKA, June 22 (Reuters) - Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortaza believes playing a fearless brand of one-day cricket has brought about a "significant change" in his team's fortunes.
TOKYO (Reuters) - Baseball and softball topped the shortlist of sports competing for a spots as additional attractions at the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics along with homegrown favourite karate, organisers said on Monday.
More than 600 new victims of female genital mutilation have been identified in the West Midlands in seven months.
