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KYIV, UKRAINE – JANUARY 16: British Prime Minister Keir Starmer (R) and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky pose ahead of their bilateral talks in front of Mariinskyi Palace on January 16, 2025 in Kyiv, Ukraine. The British Prime Minister’s visit to Ukraine comes at a pivotal moment for Ukraine’s allies in the conflict against Russia, ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday. Trump had made campaign promises to end the war on Day One of his term, but has since walked back his ambitious timeline. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

‘We are never going to be the big world power that we once were’ but Keir Starmer’s diplomacy gives Britain hope, as PM steps up to unite Europe and U.S. on Ukraine

By Peter Hutchison and AFP

US President Donald Trump during an executive order signing in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025. Trump signed an executive action directing the Commerce Department to examine possible copper tariffs, the latest in a string of measures aimed at imposing sector-specific levies that offer to reshape global supply chains. Photographer: Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images

European stocks drop at open as Trump’s tariffs kickstart—amid fears of looming levies on Europe

By Blockchain Reporter

Military delegates arrive for a preparatory meetings for the third session of the 14th National People’s Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 4, 2025. (Photo by WANG Zhao / AFP) (Photo by WANG ZHAO/AFP via Getty Images)

China to start its largest political event of the year after Trump reignites trade war with new tariffs

By Staff Writer

Sunil Bharti Mittal, Founder and Chairman of Bharti Enterprises, delivers a speech during Keynote 1 at the MWC (Mobile World Congress), the world’s biggest mobile fair, in Barcelona on March 3, 2025. Surrounded by investment and innovation projects, the Mobile World Congress (MWC) kicks off today in Barcelona amid a context of euphoria but also tensions over artificial intelligence (AI), whose rapid advancement is shaking up the tech sector. (Photo by LLUIS GENE / AFP) (Photo by LLUIS GENE/AFP via Getty Images)

AI optimism and Trump trade tensions will be the trending topics at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona

By Mona Guichard, Valentin Bontemps, and others

LONDON, ENGLAND – MARCH 2: (L-R) Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer and France’s President Emmanuel Macron hold a meeting during a summit at Lancaster House on March 2, 2025 in London, England. Following this week’s meetings between Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron, and US President Donald Trump, a meeting convenes in London with European leaders to discuss future peace in Ukraine. (Photo by Justin Tallis – WPA Pool/Getty Images)

‘Europe must do the heavy lifting’ says U.K. PM as European allies cement cooperation with Zelensky after Trump row

By Research Team

Ryuichi Isaka, chief executive officer of Seven & i Holdings Co., speaks during a news conference in Tokyo, Japan, on Wednesday, April 10, 2024. Seven & i is considering a listing of Ito-Yokado, the historic supermarket retail core of the company, and eventually split it off from the more profitable and faster-growing 7-Eleven franchise to focus its efforts on making convenience stores a global business. Photographer: Soichiro Koriyama/Bloomberg via Getty Images

7-Eleven’s Japanese owner reportedly set to appoint its first foreign CEO as it battles a takeover bid from Canada’s Alimentation Couche-Tard

By Staff Writer

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – JUNE 15: (EMBARGOED FOR PUBLICATION IN UK NEWSPAPERS UNTIL 24 HOURS AFTER CREATE DATE AND TIME) King Charles III, wearing his Irish Guards uniform, takes the salute from a dais outside Buckingham Palace after Trooping the Colour on June 15, 2024 in London, England. Trooping the Colour, also known as The King’s Birthday Parade, is a military ceremony to mark the official birthday of the British Sovereign. The ceremony takes place at Horse Guards Parade followed by a flypast over Buckingham Palace and was first performed in the mid-17th century during the reign of King Charles II. The parade features all seven regiments of the Household Division with Number 9 Company, Irish Guards being the regiment this year having their Colour Trooped. (Photo by Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images)

Trudeau to talk with King Charles on defending Canadian sovereignty amid Trump’s calls to make it the 51st US state

By Financial Writer

United States Marine Corps troops patrol the US-Mexico border area as seen from San Diego, California, as the Defense Department deploys 1,600 active-duty troops to the border during US President Donald Trump’s second week in office. US Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Michael Cederholm, commander of the I Marine Expeditionary Force, talks to US Marines deployed near the San Ysidro Port of Entry with Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico in the background, in San Diego, California, on February 7, 2025. (Photo by Carlos Moreno/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

US to deploy nearly 3,000 additional troops to southern border

By News Correspondent

KYIV, UKRAINE – FEBRUARY 23: Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks during a press conference on February 23, 2025 in Kyiv, Ukraine. The 24th February marks the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In recent days President Donald Trump has engaged President Putin in negotiations to end the war, however, Ukraine and Europe have been left out of the discussions so far. (Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)

Trump-Zelensky shouting match stuns world leaders as Germany warns a ‘new age of infamy has begun’

By Research Team

BERLIN, GERMANY – FEBRUARY 25: Friedrich Merz, Chairman of the CDU (Christian Democratic Union) and chancellor candidate, is pictured before the Constituent Parliamentary Group Meeting of the CDU/CSU after the federal election on February 25, 2025 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Florian Gaertner/Photothek via Getty Images)

Germany’s winning conservatives push for ‘speedy’ grand coalition talks with Social Democrats

By Sebastien Ash and AFP

MADRID, SPAIN – FEBRUARY 27: Marc Murtra, Chairman of Telefonica gestures during a press conference on February 27, 2025 in Madrid, Spain. The Spanish telecommunications company Telefonica has reported the company’s yearly results for 2024. (Photo by Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)

Spanish telecoms giant Telefonica signals strategic shift to key markets after second consecutive annual loss

By Valentin Bontemps and AFP

Passenger aircraft, operated by British Airways Plc, at Heathrow Airport Terminal 5, in London, UK, on Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves said she wants construction work to begin on a third runway at Heathrow Airport before the next election is due in 2029, a day after giving the green light to a controversial project that’s divided her governing Labour Party. Photographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg via Getty Images

IAG’s profits take off as British Airways owner announces €1 billion share buyback

By Investment Desk

Alleged scam centre workers and victims rest during a crackdown operation by the Karen Border Guard Force (BGF) on illicit activity in Shwe Kokko in Myanmar’s eastern Myawaddy township on February 14, 2025. A Myanmar ethnic militia said on February 15 that it was preparing to deport 10,000 people linked to cyber-scam operations in the area it controls as part of an ongoing crackdown on the illicit activity. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)

Myanmar scam center workers plead to ‘escape this hell’ and go home: ‘Help me, help me, help me’

By Staff Writer

Tufan Erginbilgic, chief executive officer of Rolls-Royce Holdings Plc, during a Bloomberg Television interview in London, UK, on Friday, Nov. 22, 2024. “By the end of next year, we will have a very competitive product and then we are going to push that product because it’s a very good product. But durability has been the issue,” Erginbilgic said. Photographer: Jose Sarmento Matos/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Rolls-Royce turnaround ‘so impressive’, hitting its 2027 goals two years early amid soaring shares and rising profits

By Investment Desk

Thomas Buberl, chief executive officer of AXA SA, during an interview for an episode of “The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations” in New York, US, on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024. Buberl has shifted the Paris based firm’s focus to property and casualty insurance in recent years, and has also made health a key area of growth. Photographer: Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg via Getty Images

French insurance giant Axa posts record profits—vows to return billions to shareholders

By Emmanuelle Trecolle and AFP

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