Sao Paulo: Brazil is planning to award contracts for as much as 9 gigawatts (GW) of new generating capacity in a pair of...
Sao Paulo: Brazil is planning to award contracts for as much as 9 gigawatts (GW) of new generating capacity in a pair of...
Berlin: German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced plans yesterday to double to €1bn ($1.19bn) a fund aimed at cleaning up urban transport, in an...
Dhaka: Bangladesh’s central bank will send a team of officials to the Philippines today to push for the recovery of more of the...
WASHINGTON: U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said relief funding for hurricane-ravaged areas of Texas might be delayed if the U.S. Congress does not...
MEXICO CITY: The current front-runner for Mexico’s 2018 presidential election on Sunday rejected comparisons of his leftist party to Venezuela’s socialist government, saying...
Xiamen, China: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday opens an annual summit of BRICS leaders that already has been upstaged by North Korea's...
European Union chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said the British people need to be "educated" about the price they will be pay for...
London: Three former senior executives of Tesco accused of fraud and false accounting at Britain’s biggest retailer are due to go on trial...
Luxembourg: Intel Corp’s eight-year clash with the European Union over chip pricing has dragged on so long that the $1.26bn antitrust fine, a...
Houston: It might seem like Houston’s historic flood would make America’s fourth-largest city a less desirable place to live, but it’s going to...
Tokyo: Hundreds of chief executives and business leaders in the US have signed a letter urging President Donald Trump not to scrap a...
The man who predicted the 2008 global financial crisis also presaged the damage Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s unprecedented cash ban would cause to...
CERNOBBIO, Italy: A referendum on Italy’s membership of the euro currency would be held only as a “last resort” if Rome does not...
Brussels: EU chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier (pictured) warned yesterday that the European Union and Britain had made no substantial breakthroughs in talks...
Visitors inspect caravans during the Dusseldorf Caravan Salon 2017, international mobile vacationing fair, in Dusseldorf, Germany on August 30, 2017. ( Mesut Zeyrek...
NEW YORK: General Electric Co is making plans to significantly reduce corporate staff in an effort to cut spending and boost profits under...
Paris: French President Emmanuel Macron’s government unveiled a major overhaul of the labour code yesterday, a signature reform that will test his ability...
London: Gold prices rose yesterday as the dollar retreated after data showed subdued price pressures in the United States, while rising security concerns...