WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. job openings increased further in July and more workers quit their jobs in the retail as well as professional and business services industries likely because of fears of exposure to COVID-19 and problems with child care.

Job openings, a measure of labor demand,

WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland’s planned criteria for assessing the risk of telecoms equipment providers are political and may be aimed at excluding Huawei [HWT.UL] from developing the country’s 5G network, the Chinese company said on Wednesday.

The United

LONDON (Reuters) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is wanted by the United States because he is a “political enemy” of President Donald Trump, his London extradition hearing was told on Wednesday.

Australian-born Assange, 49, is fighting against being sent to

OTTAWA (Reuters) - The Bank of Canada on Wednesday held its key overnight interest rate steady at 0.25%, as expected, and said the bounce-back in economic activity in the third quarter was looking to be faster than previously anticipated.

Despite that slight optimism, the central bank noted in a statement with

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A group of mostly male executives from Australia’s top companies said in a report on Thursday that boards should be tougher in tackling sexual harassment at a time when the country is facing a number of corporate scandals.

The Male Champions of Change (MCC) group, which has members from the country’s biggest pension funds, banks and miners, said firms should work to ensure sexual harassment never takes place rather than just respond to cases when they happen.

The group, which also has some

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund on Wednesday warned that the coronavirus crisis was “far from over” and underscored the need for multilateral cooperation to ensure adequate supplies once a vaccine is developed.

In an essay published in Foreign Policy magazine, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva and chief economist Gita Gopinath said the ongoing economic

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Britain agreed to meet the EU over the implementation of their divorce deal, a UK government spokesperson said, after Brussels called on such a meeting swiftly to clarify “strong concerns” over London’s latest domestic Brexit bill that could undercut the earilier agreement.

“We’ve been engaging constructively with the EU through the Joint Committee process, and hope that this meeting will help intensify discussions so that we can reach a negotiated outcome,” the spokesperson said.