U.S. tariffs to stay on Turkey, Qatar offers Ankara aid
ISTANBUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States on Wednesday ruled out removing steel tariffs that have contributed to a currency crisis…
Tribune Media files suit, terminates Sinclair merger deal
(Reuters) – Tribune Media Co (TRCO.N) said on Thursday it had terminated a $3.9 billion deal to be acquired by…
U.S. built Mercedes-Benz SUV’s held up by Chinese customs
FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Mercedes-Benz sports utility vehicles built in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, are being checked for potential problems by Shanghai customs…
U.S. sanctions whack Russia’s rouble, Turkey’s lira free-falls
LONDON (Reuters) – Alarm bells were ringing on Thursday as harsh new U.S. sanctions drove drove down Russia’s rouble Turkey’s…
U.S. argues judge failed to take its arguments into account in AT&T trial
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government said on Monday the judge in the trial to stop AT&T Inc’s (T.N) purchase…
Chinese state media slams Trump for ‘extortion’ in trade dispute
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese state media on Monday lashed out at U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade policies in an unusually…
Indonesia lobbies U.S. to maintain special tariff treatment
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia lobbied visiting U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to keep the Southeast Asian nation on a…
Huawei in British spotlight over use of U.S. firm’s software
LONDON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Huawei Technologies is facing increased scrutiny in Britain because it is using an aging software component…
Facebook fakers get better at covering tracks, security experts say
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Creators of fake accounts and news pages on Facebook (FB.O) are learning from their past mistakes and…
Indonesia to hand over yacht linked to 1MDB to Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Indonesia has agreed to hand over to Malaysia a $250 million luxury yacht it impounded in…
China won’t accept U.S. trade ‘blackmail’: state media
BEIJING/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – China’s state media said on Saturday the government’s retaliatory tariffs on $60 billion of U.S. goods showed…
GM seeks to exclude China-made Buick SUV from tariff
(Reuters) – General Motors Co (GM.N) is seeking an exemption to a 25 percent U.S. tariff on its Chinese-made Buick…
Allergan sues Pfizer over costs of opioid litigation
(Reuters) – Allergan Plc (AGN.N) on Thursday sued Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) to force its larger rival to cover any damages…
Four U.S. cities sue over Trump ‘sabotage’ of Obamacare
(Reuters) – Four major U.S. cities filed a lawsuit on Thursday contending that President Donald Trump’s administration is unconstitutionally seeking…
Congo declares new Ebola outbreak in eastern province
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – Four people have tested positive for Ebola in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo…
More drugmakers build Brexit stockpiles as EU agency faces exodus
PARIS/ZURICH/LONDON (Reuters) – Sanofi (SASY.PA) and Novartis (NOVN.S) said on Wednesday they planned to increase stockpiles of medicines in Britain…
Iran’s parliament summons Rouhani as economy falters under U.S. pressures
LONDON (Reuters) – Iranian lawmakers have given President Hassan Rouhani one month to appear before parliament to answer questions on…
Global auto powers plotting response to Trump auto tariff threats
MEXICO CITY/OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada, the European Union, Japan, Mexico and South Korea will meet in Geneva next week to…
Factbox: Tributes paid to former Fiat Chrysler CEO Marchionne
(Reuters) – Former Fiat Chrysler Chief Executive Sergio Marchionne, one of the auto industry’s most tenacious and respected auto chiefs,…
Trump eases car tariff threat as U.S., EU launch talks to quell trade tensions
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – In what the EU chief called a “major concession,” U.S. President Donald Trump agreed on Wednesday to…
Papa John’s shares fall as board adopts ‘poison pill’
(Reuters) – Shares of Papa John’s International Inc (PZZA.O) fell 8 percent on Monday after the pizza chain said it…
China says threats, intimidation on trade will never work
BEIJING (Reuters) – Threats and intimidation on trade will never work on China, its foreign ministry said on Monday, after…
Bitter pill: China vaccine scandal sparks online fury, roils markets
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – A vaccine scandal in China, which has prompted angry reactions from leaders and citizens fed up with…
Amazon, Toyota, Alcoa and others working to counter Trump’s tariff plans
SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Big companies in the United States from Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) to Toyota Motor Corp (7203.T) and…
Bulgaria reports another case of ovine rinderpest
SOFIA (Reuters) – Bulgaria reported on Thursday another case of the highly contagious Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) close to…
Ryanair says biggest-ever strike to ground 600 flights next week
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ryanair is to cancel more than 12 percent of its flights for two days next week in…
Boeing in talks with Airbus, others for German helicopter bid
LONDON (Reuters) – Boeing Co (BA.N) is in talks with Airbus (AIR.PA) and other companies about joining its bid for…
France needs ‘food safety police’ to avoid new Lactalis crisis: report
PARIS (Reuters) – France should appoint a “food safety police” and increase fines on those who sell contaminated products to…
News – Missiles from Syria struck the border town of Turkey-Anadolu
News – Missiles from Syria struck the border town of Turkey-Anadolu ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Four rockets fired from Syria hit…
Boeing gets $3.9 billion contract for new Air Force One jets
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Boeing Co (BA.N) has received a $3.9 billion contract to build two 747-8 aircraft for use as…
Fast-growing e-cigarette maker Juul to launch in UK
LONDON (Reuters) – Silicon Valley e-cigarette start-up Juul Labs is bringing its small flash drive-sized vaping device to the United…
Britain to unveil model of planned new fighter jet: source
FARNBOROUGH, England (Reuters) – Britain’s Defence Minister Gavin Williamson will unveil a model of the country’s proposed new fighter jet…
Boeing concerned about tariff talk, but no business impact yet
LONDON (Reuters) – Boeing Co (BA.N) is concerned about the impact of possible trade tariffs on the cost of running…
Planemakers plot course through trade, Brexit worries to air show deals
FARNBOROUGH, England (Reuters) – Aerospace firms are setting out wares from luxury jets to lethal drones at back-to-back British air…
Facebook, Twitter, Alphabet to testify at U.S. House hearing
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on Tuesday to take testimony from Facebook Inc,…
U.S. lifts ban on suppliers selling to China’s ZTE
(Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Commerce on Friday lifted a ban on U.S. companies selling goods to ZTE Corp,…
China says ‘bully’ United States started a trade war
GENEVA (Reuters) – The United States has started a trade war and China will defend itself, Chinese Vice Minister of…
House Speaker casts doubt on Congress acting to stop trade tariffs
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan said on Thursday that while he does not support President Donald Trump’s…
Beijing urges U.S. firms in China to lobby Washington over trade war
BEIJING/SEOUL (Reuters) – China on Thursday said foreign firms operating in China would suffer in a trade war, urging U.S.…
WHO seeks access to Syrians dying from heat, disease in south
GENEVA (Reuters) – The World Health Organization (WHO) called on Thursday for access to 210,000 displaced people who have fled…
Democrats refocus fight against Trump’s Supreme Court nominee on healthcare
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democrats on Wednesday were reorienting their uphill push to block U.S. Senate confirmation of President Donald Trump’s…
China’s ZTE clears hurdle to lifting U.S. ban
(Reuters) – The United States said on Wednesday that it signed an agreement with ZTE Corp (000063.SZ) that paves the…
China says will hit back after U.S. proposes fresh tariffs on $200 billion in goods
BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China accused the United States of bullying and warned it would hit back after the Trump administration…
U.S. ratchets up China trade war, threatens tariffs on $200 bln of goods
WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) – The Trump administration raised the stakes in its trade dispute with China on Tuesday, saying it would…
Insurers warn of rising premiums after Trump axes Obamacare payments again
WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – Health insurers warned that a move by the Trump administration on Saturday to temporarily suspend a…
Sterling slides as foreign minister’s resignation heaps pressure on May
LONDON (Reuters) – Sterling slid on Monday after the resignation of the British foreign minister heaped pressure on Prime Minister…
Air France KLM’s traffic rises, transport boss touted as new CEO
PARIS (Reuters) – Air France KLM (AIRF.PA), hit by strikes and without a CEO since May, reported higher passenger traffic…
Huawei says does not expect U.S. sanctions: press
PARIS (Reuters) – China’s Huawei, the world’s largest maker of telecommunication network equipment, does not see itself becoming the target…
China to keep on path of reform, opening markets: Li
SOFIA (Reuters) – China will stick to the path of opening its markets and other reforms that has lifted its…
Dueling tariffs raise fears of long U.S.-China trade battle
BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S.-China trade fight resulting in duties on $34 billion worth of each other’s imports was seen…
Investigators may use files seized from VW law firm: court
KARLSRUHE, Germany (Reuters) – Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) has lost a legal challenge to prevent prosecutors from examining unpublished documents about its…
U.S. ‘opening fire’ on world with tariff threats, says China
BEIJING (Reuters) – The United States is “opening fire” on the world with its threatened tariffs, China warned on Thursday,…
Exclusive: China presses Europe for anti-U.S. alliance on trade
BRUSSELS/BERLIN (Reuters) – China is putting pressure on the European Union to issue a strong joint statement against President Donald…
Trump administration names new U.S. drug enforcement chief
(Refiles this July 2 story to correct typo in name of former President George W. Bush in paragraph 7.) (Reuters)…
Oil falls as Saudi output rises to compensate for disruptions
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Oil prices fell by more than one percent on Monday as investors eyed rising supplies in Saudi…
Trump says OPEC manipulating oil market, warns Europe on Iran
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump accused OPEC of manipulating world oil markets and warned it to stop, while also…
Saudi king said will boost oil output if needed: White House
WASHINGTON/RIYADH (Reuters) – The leader of Saudi Arabia promised President Donald Trump that he can raise oil production if needed…
Trump says Saudi king agreed to raise oil output by up to 2 million barrels
WASHINGTON/RIYADH (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that Saudi Arabia’s King Salman had agreed to his request…