Talks

By Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO – Every March, management of Japan’s blue-chip firms meet with unions for wage talks across industries that set the tone for employees’ pay in the new …

LVIV – Talks between Ukraine and Russia have started at the Belarussian border, Ukrainian presidential advisor Mykhailo Podolyak told Reuters via text message on Monday. Earlier the Ukrainian president’s office …

MOSCOW – The Kremlin on Monday said it hoped talks with the Ukrainian side would start imminently, but declined to comment on Moscow’s aim in negotiations, as Russian invasion forces …

LVIV – A Ukrainian delegation has arrived at the border with Belarus for talks on Monday with Russian representatives that will focus on achieving an immediate ceasefire and the withdrawal …

MOSCOW – Russia is interested in coming to an agreement that is in the interests of both sides at talks with Ukraine, Russian negotiator Vladimir Medinsky said on Monday, as …

-Ukraine wants only “real” negotiations with Russia over its military offensive, without ultimatums, an adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told Reuters on Sunday, calling Moscow’s decision to send a delegation …

KYIV – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy rejected a Russian offer of talks in Belarus on Sunday, saying Minsk itself was complicit in the Russian invasion, but leaving the door open …

MOSCOW – A Russian delegation has arrived in Belarus for talks with Ukraine, a Kremlin spokesperson was quoted by the Ifax news agency as saying on Sunday, the first negotiations …

MOSCOW – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will hold talks with officials from the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk republics of eastern Ukraine on Friday on their plans to open embassies …

By Rory Carroll – Major League Baseball will cancel games if a labor agreement being negotiated with its players is not finalized by Monday, a league source said. “The deadline …

By Parisa Hafezi and Francois Murphy VIENNA -Talks on restoring a deal to curb Iran’s nuclear programme and ease sanctions are near conclusion, a Russian envoy said on Tuesday, and …

– Canada’s Brookfield Asset Management Inc is in talks to buy the payments business of UAE’s biggest lender First Abu Dhabi Bank PJSC, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday. The unit, …

By Natalia Zinets KYIV – Ukraine wants to launch talks with the International Monetary Fund on a new programme in April to reassure markets that have been rattled by tensions …

MILAN -Italian payments group Nexi is in exclusive talks to buy the retailers’ payment business of BPER Banca, a person close to the matter said, confirming a report by Bloomberg …

MILAN – Italy’s biggest bad loan firm doValue is discussing a possible extension of its contract with UniCredit but in the meantime has made prudent estimates on future problem debts …

By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON – A majority of U.S. Senate Republicans introduced on Tuesday their own legislation to support Ukraine and impose sanctions on Russia over a military build-up near …

By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI -Iran unveiled a new domestically-made missile with a range of 1,450 kilometers on Wednesday, state TV reported, a day after Tehran and Washington resumed indirect talks …

By Francois Murphy VIENNA – Indirect talks between Iran and the United States on salvaging Tehran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers resumed on Tuesday after a 10-day break, but …

MADRID – French telecom operator Orange is exploring merging its Spanish unit, the country’s second largest, with local rival MasMovil, Expansion newspaper reported on Tuesday, citing unidentified market sources. The …

By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI -Iran said on Monday that Washington had to make a “political decision” regarding lifting sanctions on the Islamic Republic as Tehran’s demand for their full removal …

By Alexandra Valencia QUITO – Ecuador expects to pull together a trade deal with China at the end of this year and will begin formal debt re-negotiations with the Asian …

By Chibuike Oguh – Buyout firm Carlyle Group Inc is in talks to acquire CBAM Partners in a bid to grow its credit investment platform and take on peers such …

By Helen Coster and Sheila Dang -During the opening ceremony of the 2022 Beijing Olympics on Friday, hosts and experts on U.S. network NBC spoke in stark terms about China’s …

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki is upset because Fox News is more concerned about Americans being shot and killed in cities across the country, innocent lives being lost, carjackings, …

By Josh Smith SEOUL – North Korea confirmed on Monday it had launched a Hwasong-12 ballistic missile, the same weapon it had once threatened to target the U.S. territory of …