BRUSSELS – Apple was fined 500 million euros ($570 million) on Wednesday and Meta 200 million euros, as European Union antitrust regulators handed out the first sanctions under landmark legislation aimed at curbing the power of Big Tech. The EU…

LONDON/PARIS – U.S., Ukrainian and European officials meet in London on Wednesday about ending Russia’s war in Ukraine after warnings by U.S. President Donald Trump that Washington could walk away if there is no progress on a deal soon. Trump’s…

NEW DELHI -Tesla sees India’s 100% import tariffs on cars making customers anxious, and the carmaker is still assessing when to enter the “very hot” market even as those concerns linger, its chief financial officer said on Tuesday. Tesla has…

DUBAI -New U.S. sanctions against Iran’s energy sector point to Washington’s “lack of goodwill and seriousness” over dialogue with Tehran, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Wednesday ahead of Iran-U.S. nuclear talks this weekend. On Tuesday, Washington targeted an Iranian…

NEW YORK -A federal judge ordered U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday to halt its efforts to shut down government-funded radio broadcasts of Voice of America, Radio Free Asia and Middle East Broadcasting Networks. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth,…

KYIV -President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday that Ukraine would be ready to hold talks with Russia in any format once a ceasefire deal is in place and the fighting has stopped. The Ukrainian leader also told reporters at a…

SEOUL -Beijing recently asked South Korean companies not to ship products containing China’s rare earth minerals to U.S. defence firms, the Korea Economic Daily reported on Tuesday, citing government and company sources. The report had initially said China’s Ministry of…

SEOUL -In late March, as investors kept hammering Hyundai Steel shares after the South Korean steelmaker announced a $6 billion investment in the U.S., the company organised a call with a dozen investors to calm nerves over the project that…

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump signed on Wednesday an order to improve job training for skilled trades, an initiative twinned with tariffs in his gambit to revive U.S. manufacturing. The Labor, Education and Commerce departments will focus on job needs…

LONDON -Global aid funding cuts, led by the United States, are disrupting efforts to vaccinate children against deadly diseases almost as much as the COVID-19 pandemic did, the United Nations said on Thursday. Outbreaks of infectious diseases, including measles, meningitis…

WASHINGTON -In his latest step pressuring U.S. universities, President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an order intended to toughen standards for college accreditation, a requirement for accessing billions of dollars in federal student financial aid. The order was one of…

BERLIN -The German economy could suffer “a slight recession” in 2025, Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel told Reuters on Wednesday, contracting for a third consecutive year for the first time. The German government has cut its economic forecast for this year…

The United States will aim for Britain to reduce its automotive tariff from 10% to 2.5%, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people with knowledge of a draft document circulated by the administration of President Donald Trump. British…

Intel is set to unveil plans this week to slash more than 20% of its workforce, in a move to streamline operations and reduce bureaucratic inefficiencies, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing a person familiar with the matter. The layoffs…

Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, rose 5.01% to $91,713.49, after earlier breaking through the $90,000 for the first time since March as U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade policies have rocked global markets.

WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will not attend talks in London aimed at ending the war in Ukraine, State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said on Tuesday, after earlier saying he planned to travel to London. After speaking…

Costa Rica granted 85 migrants, who were deported in February by the Trump administration, a special status that will allow them to freely move within the country, the country’s immigration director, Omar Badilla, said on Wednesday. President Rodrigo Chaves’ government…

U.S. President Donald Trump’s social media firm, Trump Media & Technology Group, said on Tuesday it had reached a binding agreement to roll out an array of retail investment products, including crypto, in its latest bid to diversify into financial…

WASHINGTON – Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and FDA Commissioner Marty Makary said on Tuesday that the agency plans to remove petroleum-based synthetic food dyes from the U.S. food supply by revoking authorizations of some and working with industry…

NEW YORK -A U.S. federal court on Tuesday allowed President Donald Trump’s tariffs against a group of small businesses to remain in force for now, saying the businesses had not shown they would immediately be harmed by new taxes on…

The World Economic Forum announced on Tuesday that it has launched an investigation into its founder, Klaus Schwab, following a whistleblower letter alleging misconduct by the former chairman. The announcement came a day after the 87-year-old Schwab said he was…

JP Morgan sees gold prices crossing the $4,000 per ounce milestone next year, following increased recession probabilities amid boosted U.S. tariffs and an ongoing U.S.-China trade war, the bank said in a note on Tuesday. The bank now expects gold…

BERLIN – The German government cut its economic forecast for this year and now foresees stagnation instead of 0.3% growth, a source told Reuters on Tuesday, confirming a report by the Handelsblatt newspaper. For 2026, the government now expects growth…

TROIS-RIVIERES, Quebec – Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney on Tuesday said if his Liberals won an April 28 election and all went to plan, it would be realistic to expect the budget to return to surplus in four or five…

SAO PAULO – Brazil’s 2025/26 coffee crop is forecast to decline by between 3% to 6.4% versus the previous cycle, mostly due to dry weather in 2024, according to two estimates published by different banks on Tuesday. Following a crop…

China’s state-backed funds are pulling back from investing in the funds of U.S.-headquartered private capital firms amid an escalating trade war between the world’s two biggest economies, the Financial Times reported on Monday. Some of the Chinese funds are also…

NEW YORK -Major U.S. stock indexes were down more than 3% each and the dollar index slid to a three-year low on Monday as U.S. President Donald Trump’s continued attacks on the Federal Reserve chair and the bank’s monetary policy…

BEIJING -When 25-year-old biology student Yao’s PhD program enrollment was deferred due to funding cuts at her U.S. university, she joined a growing list of Chinese students exploring other destinations. Visa revocations and university funding cuts by the administration of…

NEW YORK -U.S. stocks climbed more than 2% on Tuesday after the previous day’s selloff, while the dollar edged higher even as investors continued to assess U.S. President Donald Trump’s criticism of the Federal Reserve chair. U.S. Treasury long-term yields…

A federal judge in Colorado directed President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday to give Venezuelan migrants detained in that state notice 21 days in advance before any deportations under a law historically used only in wartime, and to inform them…