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Oil demand is set to hit a record high this year and the market is tightening but economic headwinds and interest rate hikes have deflated growth expectations slightly, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Thursday.

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said he and his Polish counterpart had agreed at a summit in Warsaw on Thursday on a plan for Poland to buy additional South Korean weapons.

A look at the day ahead in U.S. and global markets from Mike Dolan

The European Central Bank is "not very far" from a peak in interest rates following a series of increases, Bank of Italy governor Ignazio Visco said on Thursday.

Many Indian ministers view bets on online gaming platforms as a "social evil", and the government believes a social as well as economic purpose will be served if revenues fall due to a new 28% tax, the revenue secretary said on Thursday.

Spain's Margarita Delgado has come out ahead of Germany's Claudia Buch at informal parliamentary hearings for the job of top supervisor at the European Central Bank, two sources at the hearings told Reuters.

U.S. online sales during Amazon.com's Prime Day shopping event rose 6.1% to $12.7 billion from last year, as inflation-hit Americans hunted for discounts on the e-commerce platform, Adobe Analytics data on Thursday showed.

Germany on Thursday passed its long-awaited China strategy after months of wrangling within Chancellor Olaf Scholz's three-way coalition over how much to toughen Berlin's stance.

Britain on Thursday set out pay rises of at least 6% for millions of public sector staff, including teachers and some healthcare workers, accepting the recommendations of the independent pay review bodies.

The International Monetary Fund's executive board has approved an immediate $189 million disbursement to Zambia following its first review of a $1.3 billion loan programme, the IMF said on Thursday.