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The British economy unexpectedly shrank during January, piling pressure on Treasury chief Rachel Reeves before a key statement about the state of the public finances later this month. The Office of National Statistics said the weak performance was largely due to bad weather affecting the manufacturing and construction sectors, despite a solid performance by the services sector, which accounts for around 80% of the British economy. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said raising the U.K.'s economic growth is his government’s number one priority over the next five years.
Safe-haven gold surpassed $3,000 for the first time Friday, boosted by uncertainty over US President Donald Trump's tariffs, while stock markets gained on hopes US lawmakers will avert a government shutdown.Stocks gained support from "hopes that the US government would avoid a shutdown of non-essential services", said Derren Nathan, head of equity research at Hargreaves Lansdown.
Dozens of Syrian Druze clerics crossed the armistice line on the Golan Heights into Israel on Friday for their community's first pilgrimage to a revered shrine in decades.On board three buses escorted by Israeli military vehicles, the clerics crossed at Majdal Shams in the Golan, and headed to northern Israel.
Former central banker Mark Carney will be sworn in as Canada's next prime minister on Friday with the country rattled by a breakdown in relations with the United States.But he steps into office as US President Donald Trump imposes sweeping import tariffs and repeatedly taunts to annex the country as the 51st state of the United States.
Russian President Vladimir Putin met with U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff to discuss details of the American proposal for a 30-day ceasefire in the war with Ukraine, asking him to convey Moscow's thoughts to Washington, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Friday. Putin asked Witkoff late Thursday to give additional messages to U.S. President Donald Trump, Peskov told reporters, after the Russian leader said at a news conference that he supported a truce in principle but set out a host of details that need to be clarified before it is agreed. Ukraine, under severe military pressure on parts of the front line three years after Russia’s full-scale invasion, has already endorsed the proposal.
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian consumer electronics retailer M.Video-Eldorado said on Friday it would spend an extra $350 million on store openings, expanding into new cities and growing online sales in the first half of 2025 as it implements its three-year strategy. Sanctioned state-owned defence sector lender Promsvyazbank is in talks to buy M.Video, the Kommersant and Vedomosti newspapers reported in January, citing sources who said a sale could help M.Video solve growing debt problems and draw a major listed company closer to the Russian state. Felix Lib, general director of M.Video-Eldorado Group, said the company would undergo changes at all levels of corporate governance, in the board of directors and top management.
President Donald Trump is set to visit the Justice Department on Friday to rally support for his administration's tough-on-crime agenda, an appearance expected to double as a victory lap after he emerged legally and politically unscathed from two federal prosecutions that were dismissed after his election win last fall. “I’m going to set out my vision,” the Republican president said Thursday about the purpose for a visit the White House is billing as “historic." The venue selection for the speech underscores Trump's keen interest in the department and desire to exert influence over it following criminal investigations that shadowed his first four years in office and subsequent campaign.
NASA will livestream the launch Friday night of Crew-10, which will in part replace the Starliner astronauts at the International Space Station.
President Trump spent the week unleashing wide-ranging tariff threats against America's trading partners.
Britain's energy and net zero secretary will head to China this weekend to drum up support for climate commitments, in the first Beijing visit by a UK energy minister since 2017.Ed Miliband, who will be the third minister in Prime Minister Keir Starmer's cabinet to visit China, is set to take part in a weekend of meetings wrapping up on Monday.
Serbia's capital Belgrade was on edge on Friday ahead of a major anti-government rally this weekend with populist authorities of President Aleksandar Vucic ramping up efforts to dissuade people from attending. The autocratic Serbian president has repeatedly warned that violence is planned at the rally while also threatening arrests over any incidents. Despite mounting tensions, tens of thousands of students and other protesters are expected to converge on Belgrade from all over Serbia.
China urged an end to "illegal" sanctions on Iran as it hosted Iranian and Russian diplomats on Friday for talks Beijing hopes will restart long-stalled negotiations on Tehran's nuclear programme.Beijing hosted Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov for talks on Friday it said it hoped would help "resume dialogue and negotiation at an early time".
A cross-country storm will explode in strength as it moves over the central United States Friday, delivering extreme weather to millions through the weekend, including the chance of multiple strong tornadoes.
A top Democrat will support a Republican funding bill. Here is the news to know on Friday.
GENEVA (Reuters) -United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres is hosting talks next week in Geneva to discuss the future of Cyprus, with Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders, and representatives from Greece, Turkey and Britain, a U.N. spokesperson said on Friday. "The informal meeting ... will provide an opportunity for a meaningful discussion on the way forward on the Cyprus issue," said U.N. spokesperson Michele Zaccheo at a Geneva press briefing. The talks are seen as a way to try to break a deadlock in negotiations that stalled in 2017.
Dozens of passengers were forced to stand on the wing of an American Airlines plane at Denver International Airport as they evacuated the aircraft after one of its engines caught fire Thursday evening.
Pope Francis on Friday marked one month in the hospital where he is being treated for double pneumonia, with signs in recent days that indicate he is gradually recovering. Associated Press photographers have been capturing the hope and the anguish that have accompanied Francis’s health journey as the faithful arrive in higher-than-usual numbers in Rome for Holy Year celebrations, which come once every quarter-century. Pilgrims arriving in Rome for the Catholic Church’s Jubilee Year have added a stop at the Gemelli Hospital where Francis is being treated to pray for his recovery.
The Trump administration is expected on Friday to move ahead with a second wave of mass firings and budget cuts across the U.S. federal government after agencies were told to submit large-scale downsizing plans. The new round of layoffs comes amid President Donald Trump’s push to radically remake the federal bureaucracy, a task he has largely left to Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. Federal agencies faced a Thursday deadline to submit reorganization blueprints for what Trump last month termed “large-scale reductions in force.”
The U.S. Senate on Friday was poised to pass a stopgap spending bill and avert a partial government shutdown, after Democrats backed down in a standoff driven by anger over President Donald Trump's campaign to slash the federal workforce. The Republican-controlled House of Representatives earlier this week passed the measure, which largely leaves spending steady at about $6.75 trillion in the fiscal year that ends September 30. Democrats expressed anger over the bill, which would cut spending by about $7 billion and they said does nothing to stop Trump's campaign, spearheaded by Elon Musk, to halt congressionally mandated spending and slash tens of thousands of jobs.
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