International

The City of London’s ‘Golden Age’ as Europe’s financial capital is over following Brexit, but it will remain a major and profitable centre, NatWest bank chairman Howard Davies ...

Royal Dutch Shell shareholders overwhelmingly backed the company’s energy transition strategy on Tuesday, but increased support for a second climate resolution filed by an activist group pointed to growing ...

Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Matthew Hancock said on Monday that UK residents “should certainly not” travel to destinations in the Amber list of the country’s ...

Goldman Sachs (GS.N) will launch an app for UK users of its digital bank Marcus over the following weeks and plans to offer automated investment management to clients in ...

The European Commission wants to propose in 2023 a more unified way of taxing companies in the European Union, hoping that such rules, which have failed to win support in the ...

The Cyprus business and professional climate, which had deteriorated in March 2021, has strengthened significantly in April of this year, according to a report by the University of Cyprus Economic Research ...

“Our business has survived many wars, but this crisis is different,” says Hani Bohsali. Businesses that have been operating in Lebanon for more than 100 years, are today struggling to survive, ...

AT&T, owner of HBO and Warner Bros studios, and Discovery, home to lifestyle TV networks such as HGTV and TLC, said on Monday they will combine their content ...

Bitcoin rallied from a three-month low on Monday in a volatile session that saw investors initially selling and then buying cryptocurrencies in the wake of Tesla boss Elon Musk’s ...

The European Commission, which oversees EU trade policy, said on Monday it would suspend a planned hike of retaliatory tariffs for up to six months. These would have added US ...

The German Green party’s candidate for chancellor, Annalena Baerbock, plans to cut jet fuel subsidies and abolish short-haul flights if she comes to power, she told weekly Bild am ...

Covid-19 infections in adults of all ages fell by 80 per cent five weeks after a first dose of Pfizer (PFE.N), Moderna (MRNA.O) or AstraZeneca (AZN.L) vaccine, according ...

China-Turkey solar firm HT Solar Energy was established in 2016 to produce solar modules in the Tuzla Free Zone in Turkey’s biggest city, Istanbul. Since then, the manufacturer has been ...

An unexpected rise in inflation in the US has pundits yapping across the globe about the dangers of inflation. Consumer prices in the US rose 4 per cent on an annualised ...

The classic ransom is a suitcase full of unmarked U.S. dollar bills. Bitcoin’s role in the Colonial Pipeline hack shows the global currency of crime has a rival. ...

Britain’s financial watchdog on Friday proposed new “consumer duty” rules for financial services to protect people from scams and mis-selling, which have tarnished the industry for decades. Retail investors ...

Ireland’s data regulator can resume a probe that may trigger a ban on Facebook’s transatlantic data transfers, the High Court ruled on Friday, raising the prospect of a ...

Global ratings agency S&P on Friday affirmed its long-term sovereign credit rating on Israel at “AA-/A-1+” and maintained its outlook at “stable”. Despite security and political risks ...

Canadian-owned Malta-based pharmaceutical company Materia has just won European Union certification for its Malta-based production facility, allowing it to distribute medical cannabis flower across the continent. Cyprus is beginning to ...

The EU Commission’s attempt to harmonise tax rules and to limit advantages enjoyed by large companies in low-tax jurisdictions has suffered severe setbacks. On Wednesday, the General Court by ...

China on Saturday landed its Mars probe, Tianwen-1, on the red planet, ushering in a new chapter of China’s deep space exploration and marking another contribution to humanity’s ...

Last month, a ghostly grey business jet took off from central Sweden and headed across the Baltic on a routine spying mission. The converted Gulfstream, caught on a tracking website, ...

Bitcoin was heading on Friday for its worst week since February, while dogecoin leapt by a quarter, as the latest tweets on cryptocurrencies from Tesla boss Elon Musk sent the ...

The Fifth Silk Road International Exposition opened Tuesday in Xi’an, capital of northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, with deeper Belt and Road economic cooperation one of the hot topics ...