Gabon blocked internet access during elections held Saturday that is likely to see President Ali Bongo extend the 56-year stranglehold his family has had on political power in the oil-producing central African nation.
Former Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries savaged Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in an excoriating resignation letter, as she finally quit her parliamentary seat weeks after first saying she would do so.
Credit investors have decided that they’re more than willing to fight the Federal Reserve as the central bank vows to keep rates high.
Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said price growth remains slower than the central bank’s goal, explaining why officials are continuing with their current monetary-policy strategy.
The Bank of England will have to keep interest rates high for longer because inflation will not fade as quickly as it blew up despite recent drops in gas and producer prices, Deputy Governor Ben Broadbent said.
The Federal Trade Commission said it would pause its in-house proceedings to block Amgen Inc.’s $27.8 billion takeover of Horizon Therapeutics Plc, opening the door to settlement talks that could resolve the agency’s challenge to the deal.
Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda said price growth remains slower than the central bank’s goal, explaining why officials are continuing with their current monetary-policy strategy.
FIFA provisionally suspended Luis Rubiales, the head of Spain’s football association, following a week of controversy over his behavior at the Women’s World Cup final, including kissing one of the team’s star players on the lips.
Bob Barker, the silver-haired TV personality who spent 35 years presiding with courtly reserve over the showcase of American consumerism known as The Price Is Right, the longest-running game show in US television history, has died. He was 99.
Three Ukrainian military pilots were killed after a midair collision of two L-39 jets on Friday, the defense ministry said. Russia’s navy has shifted some of its missile carriers to the Azov Sea and is shelling targets in Odesa and Mykolaiv from there, Ukraine’s military said. The UK defense ministry foreshadowed the move in July, saying warships, including three that could launch Kalibr cruise missiles, may be part of a fleet headquartered in occupied Mariupol. While Russia shot down drones nea
