Bloomberg JD Sports Fashion Plc fell 12% in early London trading after announcing executive chairman Peter Cowgill is stepping down with immediate effect. The move comes just a few months after the British retailer was fined nearly $6.3 million by the country’s antitrust regulator. JD Sports said Helen Ashton, chair of the audit and risk committee, will become interim ...

Bloomberg German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called for more countries to join international efforts to isolate Russia, saying President Vladimir Putin must not be allowed a victory in Ukraine that could embolden other warmongers. Scholz’s plea came as the European Union struggles to maintain a united front in talks over further sanctions against Moscow, and many emerging powers in Asia, Africa ...

Bloomberg The US ambassador to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) warned Russia could use any Ukraine territory it holds onto as a “springboard” to capture more terrain. Germany’s chancellor said Russia wants to “bomb us back to a time when war was a common political tool.” Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told allies the war “may ...