Bloomberg UK retail sales unexpectedly fell in February as an end to coronavirus restrictions saw Britons change their spending patterns as they socialised more and returned to the office. The volume of goods sold in stores and online dropped 0.3%, after rising 1.9% in January, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said. Economists had expected growth of 0.7%. Spending ...

Bloomberg Chinese President Xi Jinping has an opportunity to make history in pushing for a resolution to the war in Ukraine, the United Nations’ most senior official in China said, encouraging Beijing to take a more active part in ending the bloodshed. “I see China as a country which can play an important role in mediating the crisis,” Siddharth Chatterjee, ...

Bloomberg After a month of fighting that’s yielded limited territorial gains, the Russian military said it’s focusing efforts on taking full control of Ukraine’s Donbas region, potentially a sign it’s backing away from hopes of taking larger swathes of the country. “Our forces will focus on the main thing – the complete liberation of Donbas,” Sergei Rudskoi, first deputy chief ...