Bill Ackman's first call before launching his $64 billion bid for Universal Music Group nL6N40Q0JZ this week was to French billionaire Vincent Bollore,
April 10, 2026
Any European Central Bank rate rise will depend on how a war-fuelled surge in the cost of crude oil and some chemicals impacts other prices, ECB Vice President Luis de
April 13, 2026
The rapper formerly known as Kanye West has postponed his upcoming show in Marseille
April 15, 2026
Volkswagen reported a 4% fall in global deliveries in the first three months of 2026, as weak demand in China and the U.S. weighed on the German automaker.
April 13, 2026
Fifteen years after far-right fanatic Anders Behring Breivik detonated a bomb damaging much of Norway's government quarters, the prime minister and his
April 13, 2026
Pope Leo https://www.reuters.com/world/pope/ blasted violations of international law by "neocolonial" world powers in a forceful speech on Monday during
April 13, 2026
The murders of three young girls nL5N3OJ0WI at a Taylor Swift-themed dance event in Britain in 2024 should have been prevented, but there was a "
April 13, 2026
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Monday said China should take on a more substantial role with issues including climate change, security, defense and the fight
April 13, 2026
April 13 - EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen hailed Hungary's election https://www.reuters.com/world/hungary/elections/ as "a victory for fundamental freedoms", and compared the ousting of
April 13, 2026
German truck manufacturer Traton reported a 6% drop in vehicle sales for the first quarter of 2026 on Monday, driven by a 21% decline in its U.S.-based International Motors brand.
April 13, 2026
European Union's foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Monday that the situation in the Strait of Hormuz is a clear point in favour of a "strong international
April 13, 2026
Budapest turned into a party zone well into the early hours on Monday with people dancing outside pubs and cars honking as supporters of the opposition Tisza party
April 13, 2026
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April 13, 2026
Hungary’s election-winner Peter Magyar said on Wednesday he would need to hold talks with the leadership of oil company MOL, adding that ensuring fuel security would be
April 15, 2026
Shares in French luxury group Hermes sank 14% at the open on Wednesday after it said the Iran war hit sales in the Middle East as well as in Europe, with fewer
April 15, 2026
Kering shares plunged as much as 10% on Wednesday after first-quarter sales at its Italian flagship brand Gucci dropped more than expected, underlining the challenges
April 15, 2026
Two U.S. families have gone to Italy's highest court to challenge a law limiting citizenship claims to Italian descendants removed by more than two generations
April 14, 2026
Ukraine welcomed with relief on Monday the defeat
April 13, 2026
Euro zone government bond yields edged up towards recent peaks on Monday after the U.S. and Iran failed to secure a deal to end the war https:/
April 13, 2026
Hungarian election winner nL8N40W0GT Peter Magyar vowed on Monday to change the constitution in a drive to restore democratic standards, following a landslide victory
April 13, 2026
European shares dipped on Monday as expectations of a swift resolution to the Middle East conflict dimmed following the breakdown nL6N40V09S of
April 13, 2026
Russian hardliners cast Viktor Orban's defeat in Hungary as a serious blow that would unlock EU funds for Ukraine to fight
April 13, 2026
NATO allies said on Monday they would not get involved in U.S.
April 13, 2026
Dutch vehicle authority RDW has notified the European Commission of its plan to seek European Union-wide approval for Tesla's full self-driving
April 13, 2026
French luxury giant LVMH said the Iran war shaved at least 1% off its total group sales in the last quarter due to lower spending in the Gulf region, and
April 13, 2026
ASML, the world's largest supplier of chipmaking tools, on Wednesday reported stronger-than-expected first-quarter earnings and
April 15, 2026
Russia attacked Ukraine overnight with hundreds of drones and three ballistic missiles, targeting port infrastructure in the south and wounding at least seven people, Ukrainian
April 15, 2026
Consumer prices in France rose 2.0% year-on-year in March, statistics office INSEE said on Wednesday, slightly above analysts' expectations and a preliminary reading of a 1.9%
April 15, 2026
France's economy grew marginally faster in the first quarter as some businesses rushed to place orders ahead of expected price rises following the outbreak of war in the
April 14, 2026
French President Emmanuel Macron hosted talks on Monday in Paris with Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/nobel-peace-
April 13, 2026
Spain's Cellnex is in talks to sell its stake in its Swiss unit to Toronto-listed Manulife Financial Corporation's investment
April 13, 2026
(Corrects 14th paragraph to make clear that damage to the Burj Al Arab hotel was caused by debris after an interception; changes headline to clarify that story is about UAE malls, not just Dubai Mall)
April 13, 2026
Russia-linked hackers broke into more than 170 email accounts belonging to prosecutors and investigators across Ukraine during the last several
April 15, 2026
Swiss food giant Nestle must grow its sales volumes again, Chairman Pablo Isla was quoted as saying in an interview on Wednesday, referring to an adjusted product
April 15, 2026
Germany will provide a further 20 million euros ($23.6 million) to Sudan this year, the development ministry said on Wednesday, ahead of an international
April 15, 2026
Hungary's election winner Peter Magyar said on Wednesday his government will suspend state media broadcasts, pass a new media law and
April 15, 2026
When anti-government protests began in Georgia in late 2024, Luka Mishveladze started sleeping on the floor at his university building to be closer
April 15, 2026
British drugmaker GSK's experimental targeted cancer drug Mo-rez has blockbuster potential, its head of oncology research has told reporters, after early
April 12, 2026
U.S. officials who met leaders of France's far-right National Rally were underwhelmed by their economic plans, two diplomatic sources said, in a blow
April 14, 2026
Seven months into the job, Luca de Meo has bought himself time as CEO of Gucci owner Kering. This week he has to prove he knows how to use it.
April 14, 2026
(Corrects April 6 story, paragraph 2, to show Otroshchenko was commander of the Mixed Air Force Corps of the Northern Fleet, not commander of the 45th Army of the Northern Fleet's Air Force and Air
April 06, 2026
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in China on Tuesday for talks on the wars in Ukraine and Iran as well as bilateral ties.
April 14, 2026
The European Central Bank urged European lawmakers on Tuesday to give it a bigger say on banks' overall capital requirements, including those set by national
April 14, 2026
HSBC's head of banking in Europe and the Americas Gerry Keefe has resigned, becoming the latest senior banker to depart since the bank's global overhaul
April 14, 2026
Hungarian election https://www.reuters.com/world/hungary/elections/ winner Peter Magyar nL8N40V06U promised on
April 13, 2026
The Kremlin said on Tuesday that it was pleased that Hungarian Prime Minister-elect Peter Magyar seemed ready for pragmatic dialogue with Russia and would base its own
April 14, 2026
Italy was the only major EU country whose exports to the United States grew last year despite Donald Trump's tariffs.
April 14, 2026
Russian drones attacked Ukraine's Izmail port in the southern Odesa region and struck two civilian foreign-flagged vessels overnight and early on Tuesday, Ukrainian officials said
April 14, 2026
Investors are banking on a positive new chapter for Hungary as incoming Prime Minister Peter Magyar insists there is no time to waste following his
April 14, 2026
Diplomatic meetings led by France and Britain this week to discuss a potential future multinational mission will be structured around a series of working groups, ranging
April 14, 2026
BMW reported a 3.5% drop in global deliveries for the first three months of 2026 on Tuesday, as weak demand in China and the U.S. weighed on the German premium carmaker's sales.
April 14, 2026
Euro zone growth will slow this year and inflation surge, forcing the European Central Bank to lift interest rates, even if the economic disruptions caused by the Iran
April 14, 2026
The Kremlin told Russians on Tuesday that mobile internet shutdowns that have disrupted the lives of millions are
April 14, 2026
U.S. rapper Kanye West said on Tuesday he was postponing his show in Marseille, France's second-biggest city, until further notice.
April 15, 2026
Greenland's prime minister said on Tuesday he had appointed his predecessor Mute Egede as foreign minister
April 14, 2026
The International Monetary Fund cut Germany's growth forecasts for this year and next on Tuesday, in its largest downgrade among big euro zone economies,
April 14, 2026
The International Monetary Fund cut its economic growth forecast for Turkey to 3.4% from 4.2% for this year, citing weaker-than-expected activity in 2025 and the drag from
April 14, 2026
A Parisian art enthusiast has won a Pablo Picasso painting with a $117 raffle ticket
April 14, 2026
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told Hungarian election winner Peter Magyar in a phone call on Tuesday that he believed Turkey-Hungary ties would progress further as he
April 14, 2026
Portugal may incur a budget deficit due to support measures after devastating winter storms and the energy price shock from the Iran war, its finance
April 14, 2026
The European Central Bank has not made its mind up on whether to raise interest rates as the fallout of the Iran war on the euro zone's economy is still unclear, ECB
April 14, 2026
The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday raised its forecast for Russia's economic growth this year to 1.1%, from 0.8% previously, due to higher oil and other commodity
April 14, 2026
A Milan court on Tuesday accepted a class action brought by a consumer group against Meta Platforms over the theft of personal data suffered by Facebook Italy.
April 14, 2026
French President Emmanuel Macron will host a video call with other EU leaders and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to push for a coordinated approach on
April 14, 2026
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Tuesday that she spoke with Hungary's election winner Peter Magyar and
April 14, 2026
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni lacks courage and has let Washington down, U.S.
April 14, 2026
France's Finance Ministry trimmed its 2026 growth forecast slightly on Tuesday and hiked its inflation estimate to reflect the fallout from the conflict in the Middle East.
April 14, 2026
European shares closed at their highest level in over a month on Tuesday, with investors welcoming signs of a resumption of Middle East peace
April 14, 2026
Norway and Ukraine will strengthen their bilateral defence cooperation, including by producing Ukrainian drones in the Nordic country, the Norwegian government
April 15, 2026
King Charles will have tea and a private meeting with President Donald Trump during his U.S. state visit later this month, as the
April 15, 2026
Europe's far right has lost one of its biggest champions with the defeat of Hungary's nationalist leader Viktor Orban in Sunday's election.
April 14, 2026
Sales at Kering's Italian flagship brand Gucci dropped by 8% in the first quarter from the previous year, the luxury fashion group said on Tuesday, as the
April 14, 2026
Two lawmakers backing the Irish government withdrew their support on Tuesday in protest over its response to a wave of public demonstrations against
April 14, 2026
The European Union plans to reduce electricity taxes and expand clean technologies faster to cut consumers' exposure to soaring oil and gas prices, as
April 15, 2026
The Lebanese government made it clear during U.S.-brokered talks with Israel that they no longer want to be "occupied" by Hezbollah and that there were conversations
April 15, 2026
Food giants Nestle and Mondelez said in separate statements on Tuesday they were not the target of European Commission antitrust raids carried out on Monday as part of a
April 14, 2026
A former NATO chief and grandee of Keir Starmer's Labour Party criticised the British prime minister on Tuesday for failing to adequately fund defence,
April 14, 2026
Volkswagen is expected to take a hit to first-quarter earnings from the decision to end production of its ID.4 electric SUV at the German carmaker's Tennessee plant,
April 15, 2026
Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Tuesday her government had suspended a defence
April 14, 2026
Young Hungarians have played a crucial role in ending Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's 16-year rule
April 14, 2026
Visitors to the Vatican have criticized U.S. President Donald Trump for his harsh remarks about Pope Leo XIV
April 14, 2026
Clerk says girl mouthed 'help' to him after kidnapping
April 14, 2026
The Irish government has survived a confidence vote over how it handled a week of disruptive fuel protests that cut off oil supplies and caused massive traffic jams
April 14, 2026
Antisemitic violence worldwide in 2025 killed highest number of Jews in 30 years, study finds
April 14, 2026
Spain's government has finalized a migrant amnesty measure that paves the way for potentially hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants to apply for legal status in the country
April 14, 2026
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez have pledged to safeguard multilateralism amid global conflicts
April 14, 2026
Trump and Putin just lost their ‘poster boy’ in Europe. What now for Hungary?
April 14, 2026
The annual luxury watch fair “Watches and Wonders” opens this week in Switzerland, with the Iran war casting new doubt over an industry that had hoped to rebound from tariff turmoil and a contracting market over the last two years
April 14, 2026
British leader’s complacency on defense puts country ‘in peril,’ former NATO chief warns
April 14, 2026
Ukraine and Germany say they are starting work on plans for the joint production of advanced drones and other battle-tested defense systems
April 14, 2026
Pope Leo XIV responded to criticism from President Trump and defended his position of seeking peace and opposing violence amid the war in Iran.
April 13, 2026
‘Colossal’ pressure: How Russia is targeting university students for military recruitment
April 14, 2026
Orbán’s defeat is also a blow to his ally Netanyahu
April 14, 2026
Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell’s abrupt exit from the race for California governor left his rivals scrambling to lock down his former supporters in a crowded contest with no clear leader
April 13, 2026
The big election over the weekend was in a small European country nearly half a world away from Washington, but the defeat of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has significant reverberations in the United States
April 13, 2026
Fiorentina has taken a big step towards allaying its relegation fears after beating Lazio at home 1-0 in Serie A
April 14, 2026
President Donald Trump is refusing to apologize to Pope Leo XIV after criticizing the pontiff's opposition to the war in Iran
April 13, 2026
Sure Jannik Sinner is pleased to have the No. 1 ranking back
April 13, 2026
Cycling is experiencing a golden age with champions like Tadej Pogačar, Mathieu van der Poel, and Jonas Vingegaard
April 13, 2026
The world’s oldest gorilla living in captivity has celebrated her 69th birthday
April 13, 2026
An inquiry has found that a mass killing by a British teenager in 2024 could have been prevented if his parents and state agencies had acted on his violence fixation
April 13, 2026
Hungarian election winner Péter Magyar says he would talk to Russian President Vladimir Putin but won't initiate contact
April 13, 2026
After three years as Iran’s hostage, the taxman came knocking
April 13, 2026
Péter Magyar has called on Hungary’s president to convene parliament to form a new government quickly
April 13, 2026
Pope Leo XIV reacted to President Trump's remarks about himself enroute to Algeria.
April 13, 2026
A new study says that 2025 saw the highest number of deaths from antisemitic attacks in over 30 years around the world
April 13, 2026
Who is Péter Magyar, the candidate who ousted Hungary’s Orbán?
April 13, 2026
Hungarian voters have ousted long-serving Prime Minister Viktor Orbán after 16 years in power, rejecting the authoritarian policies and global far-right movement that he embodied in favor of a pro-European challenger in a bombshell election result with global repercussions
April 12, 2026
"Paddington The Musical” has won big at London's Olivier Awards, winning seven trophies including best new musical
April 12, 2026
Manchester City issues a huge statement of intent in the race for the Premier League title with a 3-0 win at Chelsea
April 12, 2026
Jannik Sinner beats defending champion Carlos Alcaraz 7-6 (5), 6-3 to win the Monte Carlo Masters for the first time and reclaim the No. 1 ranking from his biggest tennis rival
April 12, 2026
Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin says his government will offer new fuel tax cuts to address protests over soaring fuel costs
April 12, 2026
Russia and Ukraine have accused each other of violating a Kremlin-declared Easter ceasefire as Orthodox Christians gathered to celebrate the holiday
April 12, 2026
20 classic French dishes everyone needs to try
April 12, 2026
Trump’s closest ally in Europe faces toughest test yet as Hungary votes. Here’s what to know
April 12, 2026
Rory McIlroy started the third round of the Masters with a record six-shot lead through 36 holes
April 11, 2026
Shane Lowry aced the sixth hole during the third round of the Masters, making him the first player to ever record two holes-in-one during the year's first major
April 12, 2026
Arsenal’s Premier League title bid has been hit by a stunning 2-1 home loss to Bournemouth
April 11, 2026
A $1.5 million roundabout from nowhere to nowhere shows the ‘Orbánist economy’
April 11, 2026
UK forced to halt Chagos Islands deal after Trump criticism
April 11, 2026
A $1 million Picasso is due to be sold for just $116
April 11, 2026
A 9-year-old boy has been rescued from his father's utility van in eastern France, where he was locked up for a year and a half
April 11, 2026
Britain has put its plan to transfer the Chagos Islands to Mauritius on hold after the U.S. administration withdrew support for the deal
April 11, 2026
Valentín Castellanos and Konstantinos Mavropanos have scored twice each and West Ham has hammered Wolves 4-0 to bolster its hopes of Premier League survival
April 11, 2026
11-year-old golfer takes shot at Augusta stage
MLB celebrates Jackie Robinson Day as every player wears No. 42 on anniversary of his historic debut
Popular NYC SantaCon charity fundraiser was more con than Kris Kringle, authorities say
US and Hamas hold first direct talks since Gaza truce as ceasefire process stalls
Oil tumbles below $100 after Trump announces two-week ceasefire
World Bank trims Latin America growth estimate for 2026