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Russian central bank cuts key rate by 'symbolic' 50 bps after new US oil sanctions
Date: October 24, 2025
By Elena Fabrichnaya and Gleb Bryanski MOSCOW (Reuters) -The Russian central bank cut its interest rate by 50 basis points to 16.5% at a board meeting on Friday, its first since the government...
UK industry body finds AstraZeneca in breach of code over Symbicort marketing
Date: October 24, 2025
(Reuters) -AstraZeneca has breached the UK pharmaceutical industry's code of practice, an industry self-regulatory body ruled on Friday, after incorrect claims related to the drugmaker's asthma...

UK seizes record haul of illegal weight-loss drugs in factory raid
Date: October 24, 2025
LONDON (Reuters) -Britain's medicines regulator on Friday said it had made the largest single seizure of trafficked weight loss medicines recorded globally, dismantling a factory making thousands of...
Factbox-UK tax options for finance minister Reeves in November budget
Date: October 24, 2025
LONDON (Reuters) -British finance minister Rachel Reeves is expected to raise tens of billions of pounds in taxes in her budget on November 26 to stay on track to meet her fiscal targets and avoid a...

Azerbaijan moves Russian state journalist to house arrest from jail after freeing his colleague
Date: October 24, 2025
BAKU (Reuters) -A court in Azerbaijan said on Friday a senior Russian journalist could leave jail and be placed under house arrest for three months instead amid an ongoing investigation into his...

Israeli developer gets jail for north Cyprus land development
Date: October 24, 2025
NICOSIA (Reuters) -A Cyprus court on Friday sentenced an Israeli businessman to five years in jail for illegally developing Greek Cypriot property in the Turkish-held north of the island, in one of...
