BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat said Friday he saw progress toward reaching a peace deal with Greek Cypriots at ...
European regulators announced a probe on Monday into Anglo-Australian mining giants Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton, adding to pressure on the pair from ...
Europe wants to police spiralling debt levels in member states, officials said, as the finance minister in crisis-stricken Greece issued a desperate plea for "faith" from the markets. The drive for new powers to snoop in national accounts came as European ministers ...
Software giant Microsoft said it would slash by two thirds the time it holds Internet users' personal data gathered from search queries. The US giant, behind the Bing search engine, called on market leader Google to do likewise during a Brussels press ...
UN: US-run airport in Haiti to give aid planes, not US military, priority landing rights The U.N. food agency reached an agreement Monday with the U.S.-run airport in the Haitian capital to give aid flights priority in landing — a deal that ...
EU competition regulators announced Friday that they have launched a probe into an arrangement between shipowners which they suspect is driving up charter rates for certain kinds of vessels. "The European Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation concerning the 'Baltic Max ...
By Beth Mellor and Steven Rothwell [Bloomberg] -- Eurostar Group Ltd. will operate a reduced service for the next three days after a train broke down yesterday and three others turned back from the Channel Tunnel because of cold weather in Britain ...
France's Michel Barnier, nominated as Europe's new financial services overlord, pushed a new regulatory reform agenda on Wednesday all the while seeking to reassure London financial circles. "We have to learn the lesson of the crisis, and we are going to learn ...
BRUSSELS/MADRID (Reuters) - European Union environment ministers will seek a strategy for reviving global climate talks at a meeting in Spain this week, after a U.N. meeting in Copenhagen last month ended in failure. A U.N. deadline is looming for countries to ...
Incoming European Union trade chief Karel De Gucht on Tuesday ruled out pursuing French-led calls to impose a carbon tax at the EU's borders, warning that such ideas risk triggering trade wars. "In terms of border adjustments, I'm against it," De Gucht ...
The European Union's competition regulator demanded Tuesday to see a "selected number" of patent deals reached by pharmaceutical companies as part of a sector-wide probe into generic medicines. The European Commission said that "on the basis of EU antitrust rules, it addressed ...
President Barack Obama's national security advisor James Jones will head to the Middle East this week, as the administration opens a fresh bid to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. Jones will meet meet key leaders of Saudi Arabia, Israel and the Palestinian territories ...
