The run-up to next week's tariff deadline will likely deliver another dose of volatility to the market.
Germany's top prosecutor has charged a suspected Islamic extremist with murder, attempted murder and membership in a terrorist organization abroad in connection with a deadly knife attack last year at a festival in the western German city of Solingen. Prosecutors previously said the alleged perpetrator shared the radical ideology of the Islamic State extremist group — and was acting on those beliefs when he stabbed his victims repeatedly from behind in the head and upper body. IS later claimed responsibility for the attack, without providing evidence.
A Food and Drug Administration vaccine advisory committee meeting scheduled for March to select the strains to be included in next season’s flu shot has been canceled, a panel member said Wednesday.
Andrew Tate, a right-wing influencer facing charges of human trafficking and rape in Romania, left for the United States on Thursday, the first time he has been out of the eastern European country since his 2022 arrest.Starmer is currently visiting the United States for a meeting with Trump.
France and Britain are unlikely to include European allies in their nuclear deterrence, analysts said after future German leader Friedrich Merz called for European defence "independence" and a possible "nuclear sharing".Germany's election winner Merz said last week he wanted a discussion on "nuclear sharing" with France and Britain, western Europe's only nuclear powers.
President Donald Trump said tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico will go into effect March 4 and intends to double tariffs on goods from China.
Jeffrey Epstein's private island Little St. James is the site of a number of alleged crimes.
The high debt saddling the world's poorest countries needs an urgent reset to avoid multiple crises, African leaders said Thursday as they launched an initiative for debt relief and fairer borrowing terms. The African Leaders Debt Relief Initiative, signed on the sidelines of a G20 finance meeting in South Africa, will push for a revamp of the global lending system to unlock debt relief and favourable borrowing terms for developing countries.
China has a very important role to play in tackling climate change and others may look to the Asian country for additional leadership in the field, COP30 President-Designate Andre Aranha Correa do Lago said on Thursday. Asked about China’s potential role as the United States steps back from climate change efforts, Correa do Lago said China has been playing a big part in providing solutions for a significant number of years.
A Senate committee voted Thursday to advance the nomination of President Donald Trump's choice to head the Department of Labor, one of the agencies named in lawsuits over moves by Elon Musk's cost-cutting team to access federal data systems. Members of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions voted 13-9 to recommend Lori Chavez-DeRemer 's confirmation by the full Senate. Although the former Republican congresswoman from Oregon is widely viewed as comparatively pro-labor, some Democratic senators have said they would oppose all of Trump’s remaining Cabinet picks as a way to protest his administration's far-reaching efforts to reshape the U.S. government.
The grassroots effort was feeding civilians, but 500 soup kitchens shut down when aid ceased, an activist writes.
French Finance Minister Eric Lombard told AFP on Thursday that the European Union would "do the same" if the United States follows through with 25 percent tariffs announced by President Donald Trump.Trump threatened Wednesday to impose 25 percent tariffs on goods imported from the European Union.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer meets Donald Trump Thursday to plead for a US "backstop" to any Ukraine ceasefire, insisting it would be the only way to deter Russia's Vladimir Putin from invading again."The security guarantee has to be sufficient to deter Putin," Starmer told reporters on the plane to Washington.
Nvidia stock rose 2% early Thursday as investor enthusiasm over Blackwell AI sales was dampened by Nvidia's lower-than-expected guidance for first quarter gross margins.
Home contract signings dropped to the lowest level on record in January as buyers were stymied by cold weather and unaffordable prices.
Contracts to buy U.S. previously owned homes plunged to a record low in January as higher mortgage rates and house prices reduced affordability for prospective buyers. The National Association of Realtors (NAR) said on Thursday its Pending Home Sales Index, based on signed contracts, dropped 4.6% last month to 70.6, an all-time low. Pending home sales decreased 5.2% from a year earlier.
A move by the European Commission to pare back its flagship sustainability reporting rules risks making it harder for investors to decide where to put their money to help the bloc reach its climate goals. Since the 2015 global deal on limiting climate change was reached, Europe has set the pace in figuring out how to move the real economy towards net-zero emissions by 2050, including by beginning to define what a "green" investment looks like and by having companies disclose their environmental footprint. That regulatory backdrop had led to a sharp rise in new European financial products aligned with the bloc's climate goals, which include a near-term aim to cut net emissions 55% by 2030.
Elon Musk, the billionaire behind President Donald Trump's efforts to shrink the U.S. government, threw his support behind a bill that would consolidate antitrust enforcement at the U.S. Department of Justice, stripping that authority from the Federal Trade Commission. "Sounds logical," Musk posted on X late on Wednesday night in response to U.S. Senator Mike Lee's post on the social media site expressing hope that Trump and Musk's government efficiency effort would examine consolidating the two antitrust enforcers.
The Pentagon will allow transgender servicemembers only if they serve in their birth-assigned sex. Critics called it a "purge."
European stock markets struggled Thursday after US President Donald Trump's latest tariffs salvo, this time against the European Union, while earnings from chip titan Nvidia failed to impress despite another record performance.Only London stocks managed to stay out of the red in afternoon trading after Trump warned Wednesday that he would hit the European Union with 25 percent tariffs.
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