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Simon Dawson | Bloomberg | Getty Images A lock screen from a cyber attack warns that data files have been encrypted on a laptop computer in this arranged photo. Britain blamed Russia on Thursday for a cyber-attack last year, publicly pointing the finger at Moscow for spreading a virus which …

Luke MacGregor | Bloomberg | Getty Images Arlene Foster, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), left, waves as Nigel Dodds, deputy leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), looks on as they pose for photographers on the steps of number 10 Downing Street, during their arrival for a meeting …

Peter Macdiarmid | Getty Images A British Airways passenger plane takes off from from London City Airport on August 6, 2015 in London, England. The London City Airport was closed on Sunday night after an unexploded World War Two bomb was discovered in the River Thames at George V Dock, …

Athanasios Gioumpasis | Getty Images The drillship Pacific Khamsin on November 04, 2016 in Limassol, Cyprus. Total will likely commence exploring for gas in their offshore Block 11 concession in early 2017. Turkey’s foreign ministry has criticized Cyprus for a “unilateral” offshore hydrocarbons search after Turkish warships prevented a rig …

Mikhail Klimentyev | Sputnik/Kremlin | Reuters Russian President Vladimir Putin meets Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, March 14, 2016. Moscow is seriously concerned by the latest developments in Syria and calls on sides to exercise restraint and avoid an escalation of the situation, the Russian …

OLIVIER HOSLET | AFP | Getty Images George Soros, founder and chairman of the Open Society Foundations, arrives for a meeting in Brussels, on April 27, 2017. Billionaire investor George Soros has given hundreds of thousands of pounds to a pro-European Union campaign aimed at stopping the U.K. leaving the …

Jessica Rinaldi | Boston Globe | Getty Images Steve Wynn during a press conference in Medford, Mass., on March 15, 2016. That’s nothing new, according to Ossolinski, who said that Wynn Resorts “has always been a takeover target, as is Las Vegas Sands.” But the chances of a deal may …

Eric Piermont | AFP | Getty Images French drugmaker Sanofi CEO Olivier Brandicourt addresses the pharmaceutical group’s general meeting in Paris on May 4, 2016. Sanofi expects 2018 to mark a return to growth on the back of two recently announced acquisitions and a revamped pipeline, after it posted fourth-quarter …

Jeff J Mitchell I Getty Images A Tesco supermarket in Glasgow, Scotland. Tesco is facing Britain’s largest ever equal pay claim from women and a possible bill of up to 4 billion pounds ($5.6 billion), the BBC reported. The BBC said that thousands of female workers in Tesco stores could …

Luke MacGregor | Bloomberg | Getty Images Postcards showing the British Union flag, also known as Union Jack, sit on display at a souvenir store near to the Elizabeth Tower, also known as ‘Big Ben’, in London, U.K. The U.K.’s looming separation from the European Union will have zero effect …