Roskomnadzor, a communications regulator of Russia, have blocked an access to the news website MBK media, sponsored by Kremlin critic and former Russian tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
The government of the French President Emmanuel Macron is planning to toughen asylum and immigration laws in spite of the sharp criticism by human rights activists and refugee supporters.
Nabeel Rajab, a human rights activist in Bahrain, was imprisoned for 5 years after criticising air strikes of Saudi Arabia in Yemen and accusing Bahraini prison authorities of torturing prisoners.
The British government would like to discuss the length of Brexit transition period with the EU, believing that two years will be enough to finalise all agreements.
The Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari stated on Wednesday that the Federal Reserve could not make policy decisions on market overreactions.
On Wednesday, travel fare aggregators and metasearch engines' owner Priceline Group said it was changing its official name to Booking Holdings starting from today.
According to the data released by the US National Association of Realtors, home resales in the country plummeted 3.2% in January, registering the second straight slump.
The US Office for National Statistics said on Wednesday that the country's public sector net borrowing dropped by £7.2B to £37.7B in the current financial year-to-date.
The UK unemployment rate came in at 4.4%, rising at the fastest rate in nearly five years on the back of a surge in unemployment among those under the age of 24.
Data released by the US Office for National Statistics revealed that average weekly earnings in the country were up 2.5% in December, hitting the forecast.
According to the data released by Markit today, the French flash manufacturing PMI for February now stands at 56.1, 2 points lower than the forecast.
Markit reported on Wednesday that its February flash services PMI for Germany dropped to 55.3 points, missing analysts' expectations for a 56.9-point reading.
The public transit app Moovit announced on Wednesday it had raised $50M in Intel's investment round, bringing its total lifted to $133M.
On Wednesday, Broadcom has cut the Qualcomm takeover offer to $117B from the previous $121B, the next day after the US chipmaker had lifted its own bid for NXP Semiconductors.
Trade Unions at VW's Skoda Auto rejected the Czech carmaker's latest offer on wage increase, according to the unions' statement on Wednesday.
The US Intel Corp was planning $5B investment into the Kiryat Gat factory, aiming to expand its production in the Southern Israel, the country's Economy Minister Eli Cohen stated on Wednesday.
Volkswagen has finally agreed on the German deal to lift the wages of about 120K workers by 4.3% starting from May and improved its corporate pension scheme.
On Wednesday, the Lebanon arrested a man, who the country's authorities believed was a former Islamic State financial official in Syria, according to a security source.
The German Robert Bosch started a new division on Wednesday, as it seeks expansion in the markets for connected cars and ride services, following an acquisition of a small US ride services firm.
On Wednesday, Daimler stated it sought launching serial production of the electric heavy truck eActros with a 200 km range in 2021.
After Qatar had a fall out with the rest of the Arab countries, the Middle Eastern state has restored its diplomatic ties with Chad.
The final version of the long discussed Trans-Pacific trade deal has been published. The pact has been moving forward even after the US leaving the group of countries, which are developing it.
The South African Parliament is planning to launch an inquiry into the influence-peddling allegations against the mines minister Mosebenzi Zwane.
On Wednesday, the EU Commission appointed Martin Selmayr, the chief of the President Jean-Claude Juncker's Cabinet, as a new Commission's Secretary General.