Bloomberg Former Mayor of London Boris Johnson, a campaigner for Britain to leave the European Union in next month’s referendum, needs to be re-educated about the way the 28-nation bloc works, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said on Thursday at the Group of Seven summit in central Japan. Asked about Johnson’s comments linking the bloc to Adolf Hitler and …

  Budapest / AFP Hungary’s central bank said on Thursday it was now ready to leave interest rates alone after cutting a key rate to a record level. The bank, the MNB, cut the benchmark rate to a fresh record low of 0.9 percent Tuesday, in what it says is now the end of its third interest rate easing cycle since …

  Paris / AFP The global financial crisis may have caused an additional 500,000 cancer deaths from 2008-2010, a new study said on Thursday, with patients locked out of treatment because of unemployment and healthcare cuts. The figures were extrapolated from an observed rise in cancer deaths for every percentage increase in unemployment, and every drop in public healthcare spending. “From …