Bloomberg Lidl is raising wages for its UK staff to overtake Aldi and become the highest-paying supermarket in Britain. Starting next month Lidl will pay employees £10.90 ($12.38) an hour outside London, up from £10.10, and £11.95 within the capital, up from £11.30 previously, the company said. That compares with its rival discounter Aldi which pays at least £10.50 ...

Bloomberg Ukraine handed over a key ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin in exchange for hundreds of prisoners of war including many captured in a landmark battle, a swap that outraged pro-Kremlin propagandists. Viktor Medvedchuk was one of 55 people turned over to Russia in return for 215 prisoners, including 188 who held out for months against Russian assault at ...

Bloomberg North Korea denied it sold weapons to Russia in an unusually direct statement, and blasted the US over “rumors” that Kim Jong Un’s regime was aiding Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine. “We have never exported weapons or ammunition to Russia before and we will not plan to export them,” the state’s official Korean Central News Agency reported Thursday, citing ...