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Donald Trump is returning to the White House after one of the most remarkable political comebacks in US history. His side hustle as the frontman for a fledgling high-end watch brand, however, is less of a success so far.

Scott Bessent, the veteran hedge fund manager who Donald Trump picked to become the next Treasury secretary, wants tariffs, a shadow chair for the Federal Reserve and maybe a weaker dollar.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte met President-elect Donald Trump in Florida as Europe waits apprehensively to see how the next administration will approach the war in Ukraine.

Poland’s ruling party chose Warsaw’s mayor as its candidate in next year’s presidential election, as Prime Minister Donald Tusk seeks an ally to help deliver on his legislative agenda.

Business activity in the euro area unexpectedly shrank this month, fueling concerns about the prospects for Europe’s economy and suggesting the European Central Bank will need to be more aggressive with interest-rate cuts.

Nearly 200 nations were still negotiating a new climate finance deal behind closed doors at United Nations talks in Baku, Azerbaijan on Saturday afternoon, as the fraught talks have gone far into overtime.

With winter still approaching, storage is being emptied faster than usual and gas prices have surged, raising echoes of the 2022 shock.

The Adani Group will respond to bribery allegations leveled by the US after a detailed legal review and once it has secured approvals from its counsel to speak on sub-judice issues.

In October, ETH Zurich, Switzerland’s top technical university, tightened its admissions criteria for masters and PhD programs in certain science and technology fields. It justified the move as complying with Swiss laws to counter international espionage.

A few days after Labour’s landslide election victory in July, politicians gathered with aides and journalists at one of British politics’ glitzy annual summer parties. But amid the celebrating and free-flowing champagne, some senior ministers and staff were already worrying about a looming political headache — the promise Prime Minister Keir Starmer had made to allow a vote on legalizing assisted dying “early” in his administration.

Youth activists see the next four years as their “last shot” to make the future planet habitable. 

Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang called for preserving global cooperation amid growing anticipation of renewed tensions between the US and China once President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House next year.

Grant Thornton laid off around 150 staff in the US, or about 1.5% of its roughly 9,700 employees there, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

ESG fund managers have once again found themselves on the wrong side of a market meltdown.

One of Malaysia’s wealthiest states is trying to seize control of the nation’s biggest gas reserves, complicating relations in the ruling coalition and threatening a blow to federal revenues.