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The chief executive of British telecoms company BT, Ian Livingston, has agreed to switch jobs to join the coalition government as trade minister, Prime Minister David Cameron announced on Wednesday.Cameron told lawmakers in his weekly question-and-answer session that Livingston would replace former HSBC chairman Stephen Green, and BT said he would become Lord Livingston."At the end of the year Stephen Green, the former chair and chief executive of HSBC will be standing down as trade minister after doing a superb job refocusing the government's efforts in key export markets," Cameron said."I can announce today that Ian Livingston, for the past five years chief executive of BT, one of Britain's most successful businesses, will take on this vital role. I believe he will bring huge talent to a vital national effort," he added.BT added in a separate statement that Livingston would leave BT in September after deciding to take up the front-bench job.He will be replaced by Gavin Patterson, who...
The European Union and the United States will open negotiations next month on a long-sought deal to create free trade between the world's two mightiest economic regi...
Group of Eight summit participants are powerful people: the leaders of the U.S., Russia, Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Canada and Japan, plus top officials from t...
G8 leaders on Tuesday threw their weight behind calls for a peace conference on Syria to be held in Geneva "as soon as possible", after a summit dominated by the cou...
A car bomb targeting a checkpoint near a military airport in an upscale neighborhood of the Syrian capital killed 10 soldiers, activists said Monday as President Bas...
Syria's president warned that Europe "will pay a price" if it delivers weapons to rebels fighting to topple him, saying in an interview published Monday that arming ...
The leaders of major industrial nations including the U.S. and Russia said in a Group of Eight declaration that they are united in wanting a negotiated and peaceful ...
CMC Markets analyst Michael Hewson on how the topic of trans-Atlantic trade will be discussed at the G8 summit.
A top European Union official says talks on a sweeping new free trade agreement between the EU and the US will begin next month.Jose Manuel Barroso, head of the EU's...
FBN’s Diane Macedo reports that June’s Empire Manufacturing Index beat expectations.
Leaders of the G-8 wealthy nations are spending the final day of their summit focused on how to deter kidnappings of foreign workers in North Africa and how to corne...
"One should hardly back those who kill their enemies and eat their organs."-- Russian President Vladimir Putin , speaking through a translator, at a joint press conf...
FBN’s Diane Macedo reports that Asian markets had a mixed performance.
British Prime Minister David Cameron said the United States was doing the right thing by meeting with Taliban representatives after the Afghan militants opened an of...
A dip in the icy waters of a Northern Irish lake proved the ideal tonic before a day of tough talks with G8 leaders on tax evasion and the Syria crisis, British Prim...
British Prime Minister David Cameron says Russia, like all G-8 governments, has a responsibility to push opposed factions in Syria's civil war to the negotiating tab...
G8 leaders have agreed to curb the payment of ransoms for hostages kidnapped by "terrorists", British Prime Minister David Cameron's office said Tuesday.Downing Stre...
President Barack Obama declared peace in Northern Ireland a "blueprint" for those living amid conflict around the world, while acknowledging that the calm between Ca...
Western nations will push Russian President Vladimir Putin to sign up to action on Syria at the G8 summit or risk being left out in the cold, British officials said ...
Leaders of the G-8 wealthy countries were spending the final hours of their summit Tuesday focusing on how to deter kidnappings of foreign workers in Africa and how ...