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The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday trimmed its forecast for 2016 to 3.2 percent, citing a slowdown in China, low oil prices and weakness in advanced economies.

Up to 70 traders and salespeople could be let go from the U.S. bank's London operation, according to a Bloomberg report. The bank expects that key revenue streams declined in the first quarter of 2016.

Beijing struck back at Tokyo, saying the country has become a “regional wave-maker keen on rocking the boat” in the contested region.

NATO has said it will not return to business as usual until Russia respects international law.

Prime Minister David Cameron defended his tax returns and fielded questions from Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn on Monday.

The British tabloid is reportedly looking to join up with private equity partners to buy the troubled internet giant.

The attackers reportedly had first planned to hit the soccer tournament scheduled to take place in France this summer but shifted after they felt the police closing in.

However, more than half of the Muslims polled in a survey don't agree with the broader population's approval of homosexuality as legal.

The U.K.’s surveillance agency GCHQ warned the publisher of “Harry Potter And The Half Blood-Prince” of copies of the book that may have leaked online.

The Panama Papers leak suggested clients of Mossack Fonseca used New Zealand's lax laws to create nontaxed foreign trusts in the South Pacific nation.

The steel giant, whose British business has been badly hurt by the influx of cheap Chinese imports, began the formal sale process Monday.

"Persistent misbehavior” by British banks cost them about 1 pound in every 4 pounds of pretax profits earned over the past 15 years, a study showed.

The U.K. newspaper is reportedly considering a bid for Yahoo as the media company hears proposals from several international corporations.

Japan kicked off a gathering of foreign ministers from the Group of Seven advanced economies in a city destroyed by a U.S. atom bomb more than 70 years ago.

Hans-Georg Maassen, the head of the domestic intelligence agency, said authorities are still unaware of any concrete terrorist attack plans in the country.

The British prime minister has faced scrutiny over whether his family tried to avoid the amount of inheritance tax that would eventually be due on their estate.

Britain’s prime minister, facing calls to resign over links to the Panama Papers, also announced a task force to probe money laundering and tax evasion.

Prime Minister David Cameron earlier said that he once had a stake in his father’s offshore trust and had profited from it.

Justin Welby said Friday that his biological father is not Gavin Welby but Winston Churchill's last private secretary.

Authorities seized about 20 computers from the local office of a Panama-based law firm at the center of a massive data leak.

A man accused of fixing a global financial lending benchmark had little financial incentive to do so, his lawyer claims.