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In 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…

The International Monetary Fund is urging the world’s two largest economies to resolve the escalating trade war quickly and fairly. In a new report published by the executive board at the IMF,…

HSBC 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…

EU 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…

China 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…

UK 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…

European 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…

Boris Johnson has been elected leader of the United Kingdom's Conservative Party and, by default, the country's next prime minister. The Brexit hardliner, a former London mayor, on Tuesday won…

UN 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…

Philip Hammond has told the BBC he intends to resign as chancellor if Boris Johnson becomes the UK's next prime minister. He said a no-deal Brexit, something Johnson has left open as an option…

Ursula von der Leyen will be the next president of the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, after lawmakers approved her nomination on Tuesday. Surpassing the 374 votes needed to…

Britain’s ambassador to Washington quit on Wednesday after days of stinging criticism from US President Donald Trump.

Labour 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. After a Shadow Cabinet…

Greece'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…

China will end ownership limits for foreign investors in its financial sector in 2020, a year earlier than scheduled, Premier Li Keqiang said on Tuesday.

Roughly 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…

Japan’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…

Bitcoin leapt across the $9,000 mark on Sunday, boosted by reports that Facebook is soon set to launch its own cryptocurrency. The world’s largest digital coin traveled as high as $9,381.82 in…

European 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…

Fighting back tears, Theresa May said on Friday she would quit, setting up a contest that will install a new British prime minister who could pursue a cleaner break with the European Union.

Everything in Washington comes down to this: It's House Speaker Nancy Pelosi vs. President Donald Trump. America's two most powerful leaders will come face-to-face again Wednesday in the latest…

Britain’s tumultuous divorce from the European Union was again in disarray on Friday as the opposition Labour Party declared last-ditch cross-party talks were dead in the twilight of Prime…

European Council President Donald Tusk said he sees the chances of Britain staying in the European Union after all at 20-30%, as Britons had begun a genuine debate whether to leave or to remain…

British Prime Minister Theresa May has carried out "scenario planning" for a second Brexit referendum in case she is forced by parliament to hold one, the Daily Telegraph newspaper reported on…

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde said on Monday she expects the United States and China to reach a deal to end their trade dispute, which has unnerved financial…