LONDON (Reuters) -Fast-rising inflation is pushing up the British government's debt interest bill sharply and limiting finance minister Rishi Sunak's options to ease a cost-of-living squeeze in a tax and spending announcement next month.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -European Union sanctions on Russia could including putting hundreds of politicians and officials on black lists, a ban on trading in Russian state bonds and an import and export ban on separatist entities, EU diplomats and officials said on Tuesday.

The leading photo on the website of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), the annual get-together of American rightwing notables, is of a grinning Donald Trump.

Investors are reviving one of the most unprofitable wagers of the past two decades and betting that a combination of politics and price pressures would prompt the unthinkable: a hawkish shift at the Bank of Japan, perhaps as soon as the summertime.

(Reuters) -AstraZeneca said on Tuesday its non-executive chairman Leif Johansson would retire next year following the Anglo-Swedish drugmaker's annual general meeting, after having served 11 years in the role.

COVID-19 vaccine maker AstraZeneca said on Tuesday its non-executive chairman Leif Johansson will retire following the annual general meeting next year, and that the search for a successor has begun.