BREXIT
WORLD / POLITICS | ANALYSISOCT 30, 2018
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is starting her retreat at home just as she's needed more than ever by her allies abroad. As Europe prepares for life without the leader whose clout underwrote its global standing and solutions to its crises over the past decade, the ...
NATIONAL / POLITICSOCT 27, 2018
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is considering visiting Britain in December, government sources have said. During the stay, Abe is expected to hold a meeting with U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May for talks on measures to avoid the impact from Brexit on Japanese firms operating in ...
BUSINESSOCT 26, 2018
Belgium said Thursday it had chosen to buy US-made F-35 stealth warplanes over the Eurofighter Typhoon, which critics call a blow to the EU's bid to build its own defenses. In a multi-billion-euro deal with Lockheed Martin, the Belgian government said it would buy 34 ...
BUSINESSOCT 22, 2018
London's powerhouse financial district fretted over a brain drain when the country voted for Brexit, but its leading players are now convinced of one thing: the City will win. Christopher Hayward is one of the nearly 500,000 Londoners who work in the City, Europe's largest ...
WORLD / POLITICSOCT 20, 2018
Tens of thousands of supporters of the European Union began marching through London on Saturday as part of what organizers say will be the biggest-ever demonstration to demand that the British government hold a public vote on the terms of Brexit. The protesters waved the ...
BUSINESSOCT 19, 2018
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker on Thursday vowed utmost efforts to conclude their domestic procedures so a bilateral free trade agreement can be put into force at an early date, with the end of the year given as a ...
BUSINESS OCT 18, 2018
Asked for his Brexit solution to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland, a leading
member of the U.K.'s main opposition party dropped a bombshell. "Oh, what a
temptation," said Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer John McDonnell, who would
BUSINESSOCT 17, 2018
In May, U.S. President Trump ordered the Commerce Department to investigate the possibility of imposing tariffs of up to 25 percent on foreign autos and auto parts.
WORLD / SCIENCE & HEALTHOCT 16, 2018
Stephen Hawking spoke from beyond the grave Monday to warn the world that science and education are under threat around the world. The words of the scientist, who died in March at 76, were broadcast at a London launch event for his final book, "Brief ...
BUSINESS / ECONOMYOCT 15, 2018
Woken one night by a 6.4 magnitude earthquake at the IMF annual meetings in Bali, global finance chiefs spent the week assessing the tremors now rippling through the world economy. The quake "was symbolic for the widespread feeling among participants that the ground under the ...
BUSINESSOCT 11, 2018
As thousands of jobs look set to move to the continent due to Brexit, the U.K.'s financial services minister said Wednesday he would do all he could to ensure the City of London remains a major financial center. John Glen told lawmakers that he agreed ...
WORLDOCT 9, 2018
Japan opposes any withdrawal of U.S. forces from the Korean Peninsula in exchange for North Korea's denuclearization, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said in an interview with the Financial Times published Monday. "It is my understanding that there is no such idea in the minds of ...
WORLD / POLITICSOCT 6, 2018
The European Union will reach a deal with Britain on Brexit in November if it does not do so this month, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker told Austrian newspapers. Juncker, whose optimism was echoed in comments Saturday by European Council President Donald Tusk, said that ...
BUSINESSOCT 3, 2018
After a February meeting between U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May and 19 Japanese business chiefs, Tokyo's ambassador to Britain warned what might happen if Brexit took an unfavorable turn for foreign investors. "No private company can continue operations" in the U.K. if it becomes unprofitable, ...
WORLD / POLITICSOCT 3, 2018
British Prime Minister Theresa May will tell her Conservative Party on Wednesday that the impending divorce from the European Union is an opportunity that opens up a future full of promise, assuring the faithful: "We have everything we need to succeed." In a speech on ...
BUSINESSOCT 2, 2018
Britain will end preferential access for European Union workers after Brexit, Prime Minister Theresa May announced Tuesday, saying she wants to attract highly skilled immigrants wherever they are from. In an announcement at her Conservative Party conference, May said she will publish plans for a ...
