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Reuters poll - Chance of hard Brexit holds at 25 percent, economists say
There is a one chance in four that Britain will leave the European Union in March without a deal, a Reuters poll found, while the Bank of England will wait until after Brexit before raising borrowing costs again.
Storm Gordon to hit U.S. Gulf Coast as a hurricane: NHC
Tropical Storm Gordon whipped the southern tip of Florida with high winds and rain on Monday, and was expected to have strengthened into a hurricane by the time it makes landfall along the central U.S. Gulf Coast on Tuesday night, the National Hurric...
Trump warns Syria not to 'recklessly attack' Idlib province
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his allies Iran and Russia not to "recklessly attack" Syria's rebel-held Idlib province, saying hundreds of thousands of people could be killed.
Brazil Uber driver accused of kicking out blind woman
A blind woman said an Uber [UBER.UL] driver abruptly left her on the side of a Rio de Janeiro street last week after loudly berating her over her request that he turn down the car's air conditioning, the latest safety incident involving the ride...
Trump accuses Sessions of hurting Republican congressional races
U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday launched a fresh attack on Attorney General Jeff Sessions accusing him of jeopardizing the chances of re-election for two Republican congressmen by bringing criminal charges against them soon before the midterm e...
Florida spared as tropical storm heads toward U.S. Gulf Coast
Tropical Storm Gordon whipped the southern tip of Florida with high winds and rain on Monday and was forecast to grow to nearly hurricane strength as it passes over the Gulf of Mexico toward Louisiana, officials said.
Critics 'chuck rocks from both sides' at May's Brexit plans
Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit strategy means disaster for Britain, her former foreign secretary Boris Johnson said, as critics at home and officials in Brussels stepped up their opposition to her plans for how to leave the European Union.
Philippines' Duterte says 'never again' at Israel's Holocaust memorial
Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, who once likened his crime-fighting policy to Hitler's mass murders and then apologized for the comparison, on Monday laid a wreath to commemorate the Holocaust dead in Jerusalem.
SocGen expects around $1.4 billion in U.S. sanctions penalties
France's Societe Generale expects penalties relating to its dispute with U.S. authorities over international sanctions violations to be close to 1.2 billion euros ($1.4 billion) which would almost entirely be covered by provisions.
Willem Dafoe plays tormented genius Van Gogh in Venice biopic
With his ginger beard, straw hat and a sad, wounded expression, Willem Dafoe looks uncannily like a Vincent Van Gogh self-portrait, as he plays the artist in a biopic that premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Monday.
Former UBS trader jailed for Britain's biggest fraud faces deportation
British authorities are preparing to deport a former UBS trader jailed for the country's biggest fraud which cost the Swiss bank $2.25 billion (£1.75 billion), his spokesman said on Monday.
Woman found dead, three people missing in Arizona boat crash
Divers searching the Colorado River in Arizona on Monday found the body of a woman who died after two boats slammed head-on into each other, with three other people still missing from the collision, officials said.
Jeff Goldblum wants to pick your brains in lobotomy movie 'The Mountain'
Jeff Goldblum is charismatic as ever in "The Mountain", where he plays a smooth-talking doctor with an effective way of rendering people with psychiatric problems "innocuous" - a term he uses as a euphemism for his devastating medical procedure.
Trump could push Germany toward Russia and China, veteran diplomat says
The longer Donald Trump stays in office, the higher the risk that anti-American forces will gain the upper hand in Germany and push it into the arms of Russia and China, veteran German diplomat Wolfgang Ischinger said in an interview.
World Court weighs Britain's claim to Chagos Islands
Mauritius tried to persuade judges at the World Court on Monday to find that it was illegally stripped by Britain of another Indian Ocean archipelago, the Chagos Islands, now home to a major U.S. air base.
Abu Dhabi postpones unveiling of $450 million da Vinci painting
Leonardo da Vinci’s "Salvator Mundi", a painting that courted controversy after Saudi Arabia's crown prince was named as its alleged secret buyer, will not be unveiled on schedule, Abu Dhabi's Department of Culture and Tourism said on Monda...
On Labor Day, Trump hits back at largest union leader
U.S. President Donald Trump on Labor Day hit back at Richard Trumka, president of the United States' largest federation of labor unions, after Trumka said on Sunday that the president's policies had hurt American workers.
TSB hit by another IT glitch, angering some customers
TSB was hit by another technology glitch on Monday, the latest since a botched IT upgrade in April resulted in one of the country's worst banking outages.
Myanmar court jails Reuters reporters for seven years in landmark secrets case
A Myanmar judge on Monday found two Reuters journalists guilty of breaching a law on state secrets and jailed them for seven years, in a landmark case seen as a test of progress toward democracy in the Southeast Asian country.
Potential cyclone spins toward U.S. Gulf Coast, heavy rain and wind expected
A storm spinning toward the U.S. Gulf of Mexico Coast is expected to turn into a tropical storm late Monday, bringing heavy rains, strong winds and dangerous tides, the National Hurricane Center said.