Qatar held crisis talks this week with energy majors after Israeli strikes on Iran’s huge gas field, which it shares with Qatar, an industry source and a diplomat in the region told Reuters.

The European Union is accelerating free trade talks with Asia following hefty tariffs by US President Donald Trump, the bloc’s trade chief said Wednesday.

Apple was fined 500 million euros ($570 million) on Wednesday and Meta 200 million euros, as European Union antitrust regulators handed out the first sanctions under landmark legislation aimed at curbing the power of Big Tech.

The EU’s retaliatory tariffs on US goods worth 21 billion euros will be on hold until July 14, Brussels said on Monday, to give time for negotiations with Washington.

Why do investors flock to gold when economic times turn tough? As the precious metal reaches record highs AFP explains why it remains such a trusted lifeline.

Euro zone economic growth could fall much more from the impact of US trade tariffs than initially estimated by the European Central Bank and the turmoil could also drag inflation down in the near term, four sources told Reuters.

As President Donald Trump launches his tariff war against both friends and foes of the United States, concerns are once again surfacing about the US dollar’s future as the global reserve currency.

The European Union will impose counter tariffs on 26 billion euros ($28 billion) worth of US goods from next month, the European Commission said on Wednesday, ramping up a global trade war in response to blanket US tariffs on steel and aluminium.

It was another roller-coaster week in US President Donald Trump’s trade war as tariffs against China came into force while Mexico and Canada were given a temporary reprieve.

Solar overtook coal in the European Union’s electricity production in 2024, with the share of renewables rising to almost half the bloc’s power sector, according to a report released Thursday.

A fire at a ski resort hotel in Turkey’s Bolu mountains killed 66 people yesterday and forced panicked guests to jump out of windows in the middle of the night.

The International Monetary Fund will forecast steady global growth and continuing disinflation when it releases an updated World Economic Outlook on Jan. 17, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva told reporters on Friday.

Russia’s manufacturing sector continued to expand in December, but at a slower pace than the previous month, as inflationary pressures remained high and business confidence weakened, S&P Global reported on Friday.

Major European energy companies doubled down on oil and gas in 2024 to focus on near-term profits, slowing down - and at times reversing - climate commitments in a shift that they are likely to stick with in 2025.

Russian companies have begun using bitcoin and other digital currencies in international payments following legislative changes that allowed such use in order to counter Western sanctions, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said on Wednesday.

The revenue generated from Bangladesh’s garment sales to the European Union (EU) in the January-October period was 1.43 percent higher than that in the same period last year.

Inflation in the eurozone rebounded further in November, new data showed Friday, but the longer-term outlook remained in line with European Central Bank targets -- with a new rate cut still expected next month.

Canada is considering retaliatory measures against the United States, a government source said Friday, as the country was urged to take seriously Donald Trump’s threats to impose tariffs on Canadian imports.

Britain and India will resume stalled talks to agree a free-trade deal, the two countries said after their leaders met at the G20 summit in Brazil.

Russia said yesterday that it had swapped 95 Ukrainian soldiers held captive for an equal number of Russian troops in an exchange deal brokered by the United Arab Emirates.