Global stocks inched up to a new record high on Tuesday, shrugging off weaker-than-expected Chinese trade data that clouded an otherwise bright outlook for global growth.

• August 8, 2017

Russia will speed up work on reducing dependency on U.S. payment systems and the dollar as a settling currency, RIA news agency cited Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying on Monday.

• August 7, 2017

Britain is prepared to pay up to 40 billion euros ($47 billion) as part of a deal to leave the European Union, the Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported, citing three unnamed sources familiar with Britain's negotiating strategy.

• August 6, 2017

The Russian central bank held its key interest rate unchanged at 9 percent on Friday, citing geopolitical risks and inflationary pressures, but it indicated rate cuts would follow in the coming months.

• July 28, 2017

There is no proposal to move the border between Ireland and Britain to the Irish Sea, Ireland's foreign minister said on Friday, after reports of such a post-Brexit solution stoked fury among pro-British Northern Ireland politicians.

• July 28, 2017

If Donald Trump's ditching of a U.S.-led trade alliance with Pacific Rim nations wasn't a gift to the European Union, then it must be the next best thing.

• July 27, 2017

European Union states have given initial backing to a German proposal to blacklist several more Russian nationals and companies over the delivery of Siemens (SIEGn.DE) gas turbines to Crimea, but made no final decision, diplomats said.

• July 27, 2017

The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted to impose new sanctions on Moscow, triggering an angry reaction from Russian officials, but analysts are playing down the impact.

• July 26, 2017