India and Russia are holding discussions on a free trade deal to boost their growing economic ties, the countries’ foreign ministers announced on Monday at a business dialog meeting in New Delhi. According to Indian Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, New Delhi is in “advance agreement” on a trade deal, which Russian Trade and…

British banking giant Barclays will cut 900 jobs across its domestic business, trade union Unite revealed on Tuesday, calling the bank’s move “disgraceful” in the run-up to Christmas. According to Unite, the cuts would mostly target the bank’s back-office divisions such as compliance, finance, legal, policy, IT and risk.

Satellite imagery has shown construction work next to the Palestinian enclave as Israel prepares to launch a ground offensive The Egyptian government has reportedly started work on a wall near the country’s border with Gaza amid fears that a planned ground offensive by the Israeli military will push war refugees out of the Palestinian enclave.