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WASHINGTON – Kansas City Fed president Esther George said she estimates a neutral rate of interest for the U.S. at about 2.5% “as a starting point” of what the Fed …

AMSTERDAM – Facebook owner Meta said on Tuesday it was suspending plans to build a giant data centre in the Netherlands, following political opposition. The move comes a week after …

(Reuters) – The potential for significant wildfires fueled by parched vegetation in parts of Texas and the U.S. Plains put the region on high alert on Tuesday as gusty winds …

ROME – Italy’s Pirelli said on Thursday it had halted investments in Russia, excluding those linked to security, and that the activity of its factories in the country would be …

By Patturaja Murugaboopathy and Simon Jessop LONDON – Demand for sustainable stock funds waned in February as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine hit investor sentiment and higher gas prices and energy …

By Valentina Za MILAN – Intesa Sanpaolo said on Wednesday that its loans to Russian and Ukrainian clients amounted to 5.1 billion euros net of guarantees from credit export agencies, …

By Gergely Szakacs and Alan Charlish BUDAPEST/WARSAW -Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is putting pressure on central banks along the European Union’s eastern flank to prop up their weakening currencies, forcing …

– Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn has drawn attention to the use of metal enclosures to house pregnant pigs in a dispute with McDonald’s Corp over its pork suppliers’ animal-welfare …

By Alexandra Ulmer – The leading photo on the website of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the annual get-together of American rightwing notables, is of a grinning Donald Trump. …

By Francois Murphy, Parisa Hafezi and John Irish VIENNA – A U.S.-Iranian deal taking shape to revive Iran’s 2015 nuclear agreement with world powers lays out phases of mutual steps …

By Aaron Ross BISSAU – In October, President Umaro Sissoco Embalo told French radio that drug trafficking and corruption were over in Guinea-Bissau, a country that has struggled to shake …

AMSTERDAM – The city of Amsterdam announced on Thursday a one-year freeze on the opening of new “dark stores” – small distribution centres in residential areas or nearby shopping streets …

MOSCOW – Russia has put the brother of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny on a wanted list, according to interior ministry records, as he faces a summons for a court …

A Virginia university professor, whose book and research attempted to destigmatize the attraction to underage children, has been placed on leave, the university said in a statement. On Tuesday, Old …

North Korean soldiers put on a series of martial arts stunts to accompany the country’s exhibition of nuclear missiles on Monday. Footage of the demonstration shows shirtless men performing a …