BUSINESS

Japan seeks 'sustainable world' in Africa aid forum

South Korea will seek cooperation with the European Union over the U.S.

British Museum showcases ancient vessels smashed in Beirut blast

Could Ukraine assassinate in Russia? Maybe, but doubtful

South Korea's central bank raised its key interest rate by a quarter-percentage point as expected on Thursday, in a bid to contain inflation and prevent capital outflows as the U.S.

The billionaire Daniel Och on Wednesday sued Sculptor Capital Management Inc, accusing the asset manager he helped found of letting its chief executive officer wield his power over its board to extract "ever-escalating" pay despite subpar performance.

Sephora has been ordered to pay $1.2 million in a settlement for breaking California's online privacy law.

Twitter Inc is facing more employee departures, company executives told staff on Wednesday, as leaders sought to address multiple challenges, including whistleblower allegations and a legal battle with billionaire Elon Musk.

Germany's government is concerned about possible problems with the coal supply for power plants in the autumn and winter due to low water levels on the river Rhine and the oil supply in eastern parts of the country, a document seen by Reuters said.

Google's Jigsaw subsidiary will next week launch a campaign aimed at tackling disinformation about Ukrainian refugees in Poland, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic based on research by psychologists at two British universities.

A U.S. bankruptcy judge on Wednesday declined to appoint an equity committee in Revlon Inc's bankruptcy, rejecting a minority shareholder demand for a greater say in the cosmetics company's restructuring.

Dell Technologies' focus on corporate clients is likely to shield the company from a slowdown in the personal computer market and help power upbeat quarterly earnings on Thursday, analysts and industry experts said.

Peloton Interactive Inc said it would start selling its exercise bike and other fitness accessories on e-commerce giant Amazon.com Inc in the United States in a bid to combat a slowdown in sales from pandemic highs.

US regulator queried Twitter on false accounts

Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) on Wednesday missed analyst estimates for third-quarter profit, while National Bank of Canada did slightly better than expected, as the former's capital markets business weighed on earnings while the latter's helped lift them.

Consumer prices in Russia declined for the seventh week running, as the rouble's appreciation in the past few months and a drop in consumer demand slow the pace of price growth, although households' expectations of future inflation increased.

TCS Group Holding's first-half net profit dropped to a five-year low, hit by higher funding costs and conservative provisioning, the owner of Russian online bank Tinkoff said on Wednesday.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will speak at the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium, as traders and investors get another chance to figure out if the central bank is hawkish or dovish in fighting inflation.

The Reserve Bank of India on Wednesday lifted curbs imposed on American Express last year that had prevented it from taking on new customers in India, saying the U.S.

More than 100 people may have become ill from the E. coli outbreak linked to romaine lettuce served at Wendy's.

Payments giant Visa Inc said on Wednesday it has issued over 4 billion network tokens worldwide through its security technology Visa Token Service (VTS), outpacing the total number of its physical cards in circulation.

UK port strike threatens to deepen supply chain and price woes

Bavarian Nordic, the maker of the only approved monkeypox vaccine, said on Wednesday it was exploring the viability of using technically expired doses to help bridge a growing gap between demand and supply due to the current outbreak.

South Georgia Pecan Co. has issued a recall for some of its nuts due to an allergy risk that could be life-threatening for some people.

Google has breached a European Union court ruling by sending unsolicited advertising emails directly to the inbox of Gmail users, Austrian advocacy group noyb.eu said on Wednesday in a complaint filed with France's data protection watchdog.

Wyoming cowboys open up about addiction and suicide

Goldman Sachs ranked as the top financial adviser to companies targeted by activist investors in the first six months of 2022, holding onto the same spot it held in the first half of 2021, according to Refinitiv data published on Tuesday.

Tomasz ?uksza, who took over his father's Polish confectionary business just over a decade ago, has a problem he's not unhappy about: European supermarkets want more gummy bears and chocolate-covered marshmallows than he can make.

Tinder-owner Match Group has filed an antitrust case against Apple with the competition regulator in India, accusing it of "monopolistic conduct" that forces developers to pay high commissions for in-app purchases, a legal filing seen by Reuters shows.