* Slovakia's Fico says ready to negotiate guarantees * EU foreign policy chief says ball in Slovakia's court (Updates with Fico and Kallas comments, background, in paragraphs 1-6, 9-10) By Kate Abnett and Jan Lopatka BRUSSELS/PRAGUE, July 15 (Reuters) - The European Union failed to approve a new package of sanctions against Russia on Tuesday, as Slovakia demanded more guarantees...

01:11 PM EDT, 07/15/2025 (MT Newswires) -- (Updates with stock move in the headline and first paragraph and buyback plan in the first and second paragraphs.) Citigroup ( C ) shares were up 3% in recent Tuesday trading after the company reported higher Q2 results and said it expects to buy back at least $4 billion of shares in Q3....

SYDNEY, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Google agreed on Monday to pay a A$55 million ($35.8 million) fine in Australia after the consumer watchdog found it had hurt competition by paying the country's two largest telcos to pre-install its search application on Android phones, excluding rival search engines. The fine extends a bumpy period for the Alphabet-owned internet giant in Australia,...

(Reuters) -Roblox launched a licensing feature on its videogame platform on Tuesday, allowing intellectual property holders to integrate their characters and worlds into its games. It has signed licensing partnerships with companies such as Netflix, which would allow developers to use characters and names from the streaming giant's popular shows Stranger Things and Squid Game in their games. Other licensing...