A firefighter works at the site of a Russia drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kharkiv, Ukraine November 23, 2025. REUTERS/Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy |
- The United States and Ukraine pressed on with talks in Switzerland to come up with a mutually acceptable peace plan, after agreeing to modify a US proposal that Kyiv and its European allies saw as a Kremlin wish list. Follow live.
- Spain's chief prosecutor said he was resigning after the Supreme Court last week found him guilty of leaking confidential information in a case involving a leading opposition figure's partner.
- The Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate, ending an initiative launched with fanfare as a symbol of President Trump's pledge to slash the government's size but which critics say delivered few measurable savings.
- Trump isn't on the ballot in next November's midterm elections, but he's plunging into them with his own presidency at stake. Tim Reid tells the Reuters World News podcast how he's stepping up his efforts to secure Republican majorities in both chambers of Congress.
- Israel killed militant group Hezbollah's top military official in an airstrike on a southern suburb of Beirut, the Israeli military said, despite a US-brokered truce a year ago.
- India's Supreme Court has agreed to drop criminal charges against fugitive billionaire brothers Nitin and Chetan Sandesara if they pay a third of their dues in a $1.6-billion bank fraud, a step that could prompt other offenders to seek similar settlements.
- Born of crisis but torn by years of tensions among its members, the Group of 20 major economies scored a rare victory this weekend for multilateralism after overcoming the boycott and objections of its most powerful member, the US.
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French police outside the Le BHV Marais department store, the first physical space of Chinese online fast-fashion retailer Shein. Paris. REUTERS/Sarah Meyssonnier |
- Shein's move into the flagship BHV in Paris has added political heat to the troubles of department stores, which are facing an existential threat from shoppers' shift to online retailers offering ultra-fast fashion.
- Unprecedented numbers of Americans are expected to hit stores this Black Friday, but they are likely to curtail their spending as they find fewer bargains from tariff-hit retailers.
- The crash of India's Tejas fighter in front of global arms buyers at the Dubai Airshow is the latest blow to a key national trophy, leaving the jet reliant on Indian military orders to sustain its role as a showcase of home-built defense technology.
- European Union ministers are set to urge top US trade officials to apply more of the July EU-US trade deal, such as by cutting US tariffs on EU steel and removing them for EU goods such as wine and spirits.
- The rollout of AI is raising hopes that Britain's economy can escape the productivity problem that has dogged it for two decades, even as slow growth pushes finance minister Rachel Reeves towards tax hikes in her upcoming budget.
- Novo Nordisk said an older oral version of its semaglutide drug failed to meet its main goal in late-stage trials testing whether the medicine can slow cognitive decline in Alzheimer's patients, sending its share price down 10%.
- BHP abandoned a last-ditch effort to buy rival Anglo American and bolster its dominance in copper, just two weeks before Anglo and Teck Resources' shareholders were set to vote on a $60 billion merger.
- Despite the US government souring on the global climate agenda ahead of the COP30 summit, American companies did not shy away. A Reuters analysis of attendance lists shows there were 60 representatives of Fortune 100 companies at the Brazil event, compared with 50 at last year's in Azerbaijan.
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Jernbanetorget, Oslo, Rodrigo Freitas /NTB/via REUTERS /File Photo |
Sitting in his lakeside villa in the Swiss city of Lucerne, Borger Borgenhaug misses his grandchildren and the smell of the Nordic sea on a clear summer night. The carpenter turned real-estate tycoon says that is the price he pays to escape Norway's beefed-up wealth tax – an annual levy that has driven hundreds of millionaires abroad while underpinning one of the world's most equal societies. With a wealth tax dating back to 1892 and a culture of openness that allows citizens to view the tax returns of others, Norway has more experience than most in squeezing the rich. Its model offers lessons for countries debating similar moves, from Britain to France and Italy, or even a city like New York. |
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Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande attend the premiere of the film "Wicked: For Good" in New York City. REUTERS/Kylie Cooper/File Photo |
"Wicked: For Good" brought in $150 million in the US and Canada in its opening weekend, setting a record for a film adaptation of a Broadway musical and ranking among the best-performing movie musicals of all time, according to the studio. |
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