IBT Staff Reporter

Facebook did not add labels to half of posts pushing content from top climate change deniers, according to an analysis from the Center for Countering Digital Hate.

Russia will offer only new series of OFZ government bonds and stop offering existing series of debt, the finance ministry said on Wednesday, after the United States prohibited buying Russian government bonds issued after March 1.

Uncertainty over sunflower oil supplies due to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine is spurring demand for rivals palm oil and soyoil, fuelling a red-hot vegetable oil market.

From Luxembourg to New Zealand, global house prices have been surging as pandemic stimulus and a shift to work from home added fuel to a multi-year boom driven by historically low interest rates.

The International Monetary Fund told the Bank of England on Wednesday to be clear about its plans to withdraw stimulus for Britain's economy, following criticism of the central bank's communications in recent months.

France's Macron to kick off re-election bid in March

Lowe's Cos Inc on Wednesday raised its full-year sales and profit forecasts and offered an optimistic outlook for home improvement demand in the United States in the face of rising mortgage rates.

The Russian rouble weakened on Wednesday, reversing gains made the previous day and heading back towards 80 to the dollar as investors took stock of Western sanctions imposed on Russia for ordering troops into separatist regions of eastern Ukraine.

The Russian rouble weakened on Wednesday, sliding past 80 to the dollar and 90 to the euro as investors took stock of Western sanctions imposed on Russia for ordering troops into separatist regions of eastern Ukraine.

The Russian rouble slumped on Wednesday, hitting a near two-year low past 81 to the dollar as sanctions and invasion fears hammered Russian assets, with bonds and stocks feeling the force of investor jitters.

The Russian rouble slumped on Wednesday, diving around 3% to hit a near two-year low past 81 to the dollar as Ukraine declared a state of emergency, with sanctions and invasion fears hammering Russian bonds and stocks.

Taking a cue from demonstrations that paralyzed Canada's capital city, Ottawa, for weeks, U.S.

A group of American truckers began a cross-country drive from California to Washington on Wednesday to protest coronavirus restrictions, taking a cue from demonstrations that paralyzed Canada's capital city, Ottawa, for weeks.

It never gets completely dark in Colonia El Carmen, home to Mexico's largest natural gas processing center, in the poor southern state of Chiapas.

Protesting fishermen have blockaded Pakistan's busiest port, in the country's business capital Karachi, assembling trawlers across the main channel to halt all shipping in and out, officials said on Wednesday.

Fishermen protesting their lack of access to some waters ended a 34-hour-long blockade of Karachi port - Pakistan's busiest - on Wednesday night after talks with the government, Prime Minister Imran Khan's advisor on maritime affairs told Reuters.

Insurance agent Emily Kwong, 30, is struggling to home-school her five-year-old daughter and is worried she has learned nothing due to Hong Kong's strict COVID-19 restrictions that have forced toddlers and teens into online classes.

South Africa's labour department is negotiating a possible out-of-court settlement with a subsidiary of China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, which it accuses of failing to comply with local hiring quotas, Huawei and a government official told Reuters.

Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said on Wednesday a risk "very clearly" existed that inflation, which is running at a 30-year high, gets embedded in Britain's economy if a cycle of higher prices keeps pushing up wages.

Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said on Wednesday there were clear risks that inflation could again overshoot the central bank's forecasts but markets should not get carried away about the likely scale of interest rate rises.

Workers across Turkey go on strike as inflation bites

Spurred on by soaring demand for seafood, a Spanish company plans to open the first commercial octopus farm next year but as scientists discover more about the enigmatic animals some warn it could be an ethical and environmental disaster.

With a flick of his brush, Ghanaian painter Daniel Anum Jasper armed actor Paul Newman with a pair of revolvers.

Pope Francis said on Wednesday that the threat of war in Ukraine caused "great pain in my heart" and condemned actions "destabilising coexistence among nations and discrediting international law".

The United States and its allies unveiled more sanctions against Russia on Wednesday over its recognition of two separatist areas in eastern Ukraine, while making clear they were keeping tougher measures in reserve in case of a full-scale invasion by Moscow.

Ukraine declared a state of emergency on Wednesday and told its citizens in Russia to immediately come home, while Moscow began evacuating its Kyiv embassy, in the latest ominous signs for Ukrainians who fear an all-out Russian military onslaught.

Ukraine declared a state of emergency on Wednesday and Moscow said separatists in the east had asked for help to repel "aggression" as the United States stepped up efforts to deter an all-out invasion by imposing fresh sanctions.

Separatists in Ukraine asked for Russian help to repel "aggression" on Wednesday and Kyiv announced compulsory military service and a state of emergency as the West slapped more sanctions on Moscow in a bid to stop an all-out invasion.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he believes Russia will invade Ukraine within hours after separatists on Wednesday asked for Russian help to repel "aggression" and as explosions rocked the breakaway eastern city of Donetsk.