International

by Caleb Davies Sometimes it can seem like we’ve uploaded our whole lives to the internet: bank accounts, social media posts, dating profiles, work emails – it’s all out ...

Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N) is exploring a plan to offload liabilities from widespread Baby Powder litigation into a newly created business that would then seek bankruptcy protection, according to ...

Britain will set out a plan on Monday to stimulate trade with 70 developing economies by lowering tariffs and simplifying rules, its latest push to promote freer global commerce after regaining ...

Binance said on Friday it had stopped selling digital tokens linked to shares, as Hong Kong’s financial watchdog became the latest in a string of regulators to crack down ...

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and non-OPEC countries, known as OPEC+, agreed in an online meeting on Sunday to boost oil production by 400,000 barrels a day as ...

It’s Freedom Day in the UK, meaning that pandemic-related restrictions are gone, but Covid-19 cases in England are now the third-highest number in the world behind only Indonesia and ...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Saturday the main impediment to investment in the country was money stuck in ailing Lebanese banks. In a speech after being sworn in as ...

Once a week Ghulam Ahmed, 38, takes time out from his cryptocurrency consulting business to log into a WhatsApp group with hundreds of members eager to learn how to mine and ...

China’s foreign trade in the first half of the year posted the best performance in history, underpinned by the country’s sustainable economic recovery and strong global demand. The ...

The Cyprus real estate market is finding its legs again, just as, across the globe, the housing market is booming – real estate investment is starting to make sense again. The ...

Burberry (BRBY.L), the British brand seeking to replace departing boss Marco Gobbetti, said its like-for-like sales had risen above pre-pandemic levels, driven by new, younger customers and demand for ...

Britain said on Friday that it was scrapping a planned easing of coronavirus rules for travellers from France, which had been due to take effect on Monday, because of the ...

LearnWorlds, a company based in Cyprus, has procured a $32 million minority investment from global venture capital and private equity firm Insight Partners. This comes off the back of an impressive ...

Cyprus-flagged ships violate US sanctions at their own risk, as this country is not legally obliged to enforce those of the US. This is in reply to a Lloyds List ...

Britain’s GlaxoSmithKline (GSK.L) on Friday laid out plans to set up a new life sciences campus within its R&D site in Stevenage, England, raising up to 400 ...

Two top Bank of England officials surprised investors this week by saying the time might be nearing for the British central bank to rein in the huge stimulus programme it ...

The Biden administration on Friday issued an advisory to warn US businesses about risks to their operations and activities in Hong Kong after China’s imposition of a new national ...

The United Arab Emirate’s Abu Dhabi Emergency, Crisis and Disasters Committee announced on Thursday a partial lockdown and new entry requirements in the emirate starting July 19, from midnight until 5 ...

An Israeli group sold a tool to hack into Microsoft Windows, Microsoft and technology human rights group Citizen Lab said on Thursday, shedding light on the growing business of finding ...

British-based banking app Revolut’s latest $33 billion valuation, achieved after a fresh funding round, has likely made its cofounder and Chief Executive Nik Storonsky a billionaire several times over. Russia-born ...

A decree by the Cypriot government dictating that all businesses give their employees additional annual leave for vaccinations increases costs for businesses, but many are willing to accept these expenses ...

Singapore unveiled on Wednesday one of the world’s largest floating solar panel farms, spanning an area equivalent to 45 football fields and producing enough electricity to power the island’s ...

The number of employees on British company payrolls surged in June by the most since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, according to data which painted a picture of a ...

Five years after President Tayyip Erdogan saw off a coup, his chances of extending his rule into a third decade may depend on whether he can reverse an economic decline ...