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Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer will suggest a successor for her role as leader of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) on Feb. 24, German magazine Focus said on its website.

Most Southeast Asian stock markets closed lower on Friday after wavering between small gains and losses for most parts of the day, as investors assessed the impact of the coronavirus outbreak after an updated diagnostic method continued to reveal more cases. China's National Health Commission said...

A new coronavirus has taken a growing toll of Chinese health workers on the front line of the fight to stop it, a top official said on Friday, as authorities reported more than 5,000 new cases, including more than 120 deaths.

The UK suffers from its opaque and deeply dysfunctional land market

Royal Bank of Scotland's new Chief Executive Alison Rose unveiled a new strategy for the taxpayer-backed bank on Friday, including radically cutting back the size of its loss-making investment bank and renaming the company NatWest.

Latin America's largest investment bank, Banco BTG Pactual SA, posted a 42% rise in fourth-quarter net income on the back of rising revenue across all business units.

An Indian antitrust investigation of Amazon.com Inc and Walmart's Flipkart has been put on hold by a court, three lawyers involved in the proceedings told Reuters on Friday.

The London Metal Exchange (LME) has cancelled its LME Asia Week dinner in Hong Kong and postponed the seminar that would have taken place during the same week because of the coronavirus, the exchange said in a notice on Friday.

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NMC Health said on Friday Executive Vice Chairman Khalifa Butti Omeir Bin Yousef had resigned from its board, the latest sign of turbulence at the United Arab Emirates largest private healthcare provider as it eyes a sale to one of two private equity groups.