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Qatar Airways CEO Akbar Al Baker and Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez in Miami recently. DOHA: Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez and senior...

A 2014 Chevrolet Camaro in Thurmont, Maryland. DETROIT: General Motors Co recalled 511,528 Chevrolet Camaros on Friday for an ignition switch problem similar...

Officials at the signing ceremony. DOHA: Thermal management solutions provider Klondike Technologies has signed a memorandum of understanding with Dyarco International Group as...

Outgoing Infosys Chairman N R Narayana Murthy addresses AGM yesterday. BANGALORE: Infosys has enough senior managers to run the business even if more...

Officials after signing the agreement. DOHA: Stork Oryx Turbo Machinery Services LLC has been awarded a seven-year contract by Qatar Shell for the...

MILAN: The board of struggling Italian airline Alitalia has approved a tie-up proposal with the Emirati carrier Etihad Airways, a company statement said...

DOHA: Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Development Company ‘Enterprise Qatar’ is now offering a new SME Rating & Accreditation Programme to assist entrepreneurs...

BRUSSELS: The European Union and Russia agreed to hold high level talks, including Ukraine, on Kiev’s expected signing of an EU free trade...

Doha: The European Central Bank (ECB) monetary stimulus may avoid eurozone deflation, said Qatar National Bank (QNB) in its weekly analysis yesterday. The...

DOHA: Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation (Kahramaa) is set to launch to giant desalination plants. The first plant, with a production capacity...

DOHA: Qatar National Broadband Network (Qnbn) has signed a strategic partnership agreement with MEEZA, a Qatar Foundation joint venture and leading provider of...

MUNICH/PARIS: Germany’s Siemens and Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries are putting the finishing touches on a joint offer for Alstom’s turbine businesses that includes...

NEW YORK: The Justice Department has asked Citigroup for more than $10bn to settle claims the bank misled investors on mortgage-backed bonds sold...

MADRID: Spain announced it will sell a 49-percent stake in state-owned airport operator AENA, taking advantage of a renewed optimism on financial markets...

DUBAI: Yemen’s annual inflation rose to 7.6 percent in March, the highest this year, while central bank reserves continued to erode in April,...

Emilio Lozoya, CEO of Mexican state-run oil company Pemex, addresses members of the House of Representatives in Mexico City. A committee of the...

FROM LEFT: US Secretary of the Treasury Jack Lew, Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellen and Australia’s Prime Minister Tony Abbott at a...

SANTA CRUZ DE LA SIERRA: China, whose presence in Latin America until now was largely based on an appetite for raw materials, is...