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July 15, 2023 19:31
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September 18,2019The risk of Britain leaving the European Union without a divorce deal remains “very real,” European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker declared Wednesday as EU lawmakers debated the ramifications... -
September 15,2019Former British prime minister David Cameron launched a blistering attack on the UK's current leader Boris Johnson in extracts of his memoirs published Sunday, accusing him of only backing Brexit to...
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September 14,2019Ahmet Davutoglu, a one-time prime minister and chairman of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling AK Party, announced he was resigning from the governing bloc and plans to form a new...
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September 03,2019British Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned members of his own party that if they did not vote with the government when the country’s parliament returns on Tuesday from a summer break, they would...
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August 23,2019A possible trade deal with the US will do little to mitigate the impact of Britain leaving the EU without a deal in place, economists have told CNBC.
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August 21,2019China, Japan and South Korea sought to find common ground on Wednesday amid an escalating trade dispute between Tokyo and Seoul that has further soured relations between the two countries.
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August 12,2019In an apparent tit-for-tat move, South Korea said Monday it will remove Japan from its "whitelist" of trusted trade partners, an act that risks further exacerbating tensions between the two US...
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August 10,2019The International Monetary Fund is urging the world’s two largest economies to resolve the escalating trade war quickly and fairly.
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August 05,2019HSBC ousted John Flint as chief executive after just 18 months in a shock move the chairman of Europe’s biggest bank said was needed to speed up progress on priority areas such as the turnaround of...
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August 03,2019EU ministers on Friday chose the Bulgarian number two of the World Bank Kristalina Georgieva as the bloc's candidate to become IMF chief, in a fractious vote that failed to heal bitter divisions...
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August 02,2019China on Friday said it would not be blackmailed and warned of retaliation after US President Donald Trump vowed to slap a 10% tariff on $300 billion of Chinese imports from next month, sharply...
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July 28,2019UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson formed a war cabinet of six senior ministers to plan for exiting the European Union by Oct. 31, as a key adviser said leaving without a deal had become a very real...
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July 24,2019European officials are still scratching their heads over Christine Lagarde’s successor at the International Monetary Fund, according to several people with knowledge of the discussions, with no...
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July 23,2019Boris Johnson has been elected leader of the United Kingdom's Conservative Party and, by default, the country's next prime minister.
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July 22,2019UN nuclear watchdog chief Yukiya Amano has died, the International Atomic Energy Agency said on Monday, the day he had been expected to announce he would step down early because of an illness that...
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July 21,2019Philip Hammond has told the BBC he intends to resign as chancellor if Boris Johnson becomes the UK's next prime minister.
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July 17,2019Ursula von der Leyen will be the next president of the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, after lawmakers approved her nomination on Tuesday.
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July 10,2019Britain’s ambassador to Washington quit on Wednesday after days of stinging criticism from US President Donald Trump.
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July 09,2019Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn announced on Tuesday that his party would back Remain in any referendum on a Conservative Brexit deal, heralding a major shift in policy.
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July 08,2019Greece's new conservative Prime Minister Mitsotakis was sworn in Monday after a sweeping election victory put him in charge of the EU's most indebted member with promises to end a decade of...
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July 02,2019China will end ownership limits for foreign investors in its financial sector in 2020, a year earlier than scheduled, Premier Li Keqiang said on Tuesday.
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June 29,2019Roughly a decade after the global financial crisis, central banks around the world may not have much left in their toolkit to boost the economy, according to the head of the Organization for...
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June 18,2019Japan’s government left its assessment of the economy unchanged in June, after revising it down twice in the past three months, even as the escalating US-China trade war threatens to take a heavier...
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June 17,2019Bitcoin leapt across the $9,000 mark on Sunday, boosted by reports that Facebook is soon set to launch its own cryptocurrency.
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June 09,2019European Central Bank policymakers are open to cutting the ECB’s policy rate again if economic growth weakens in the remainder of the year and a strong euro hurts a bloc already bearing the brunt...
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