US Senator Tim Scott formally entered the 2024 presidential race on Monday, launching a long-shot bid with Wall Street support to move Republicans away from the grievance-laced politics of Donald Trump.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak held talks with his ethics adviser Monday on whether Home Secretary Suella Braverman violated the ministerial code over her handling of a speeding ticket last year, a scandal that threatens to exacerbate fast-growing splits in the governing Conservative Party.
The UK’s fraud prosecutor settled an employment dispute with a senior investigator who was fired after leading a sprawling bribery probe.
France and Germany are showing no sign of nearing a compromise on the role of nuclear energy in the European Union’s transition to cleaner energy, highlighting the challenge faced in reaching a deal in the coming weeks to push ahead with the bloc’s Green Deal package.
Nigeria is banking on the operations of a giant new refinery, built by Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote, to help it eliminate a $26 billion foreign-exchange bill on the import of petroleum products and fertilizer.
President Joe Biden is threatening to veto a House resolution that aims to dismantle his student-debt relief plan, which is currently ensnared in legal challenges.
Applied Materials Inc. is planning to spend as much as $4 billion on a new research-and-development center near its California headquarters, embarking on a now-rare building project in the heart of Silicon Valley.
One of Brazil’s wealthiest families is looking to increase its stake in Alpargatas SA, the maker of the iconic Havaianas flip flops, in an offering that would make it the biggest holder of the firm.
A prosecutor in Germany has indicted former executives of surveillance technology company FinFisher GmbH, accusing them of unlawfully supplying the Turkish secret services with spyware that could be used to hack into phones and computers.
Chevron Corp. Chief Executive Officer Mike Wirth says he’s open to more deals after agreeing to buy PDC Energy Inc. for $6.3 billion, but will stay disciplined on price.
